He say's in the article “I think the players we sign will dictate the system that we play and see what the next few weeks bring.” Surely you can see that is ridiculous. You should sign players to fit your system not sign players and then decide what system you are going to play. A club that Mowbray has liked to hold up as an example in recent years is Brentford they are a club who have a system and long term vision in place and sign players to fit that. Sadly despite he words about Brentford Mowbray has always had a scatter gun approach to transfers.

You talk about 28-29 year old's as though they are ancient and on their last legs. Tugay was 31 when we signed him, McCarthy was 29, Savage was 30, Nelsen was approaching 28, Dunn was 28 when he resigned, Salgado was 33, Givet was approaching 29 and Ooijer was 32. I don't worry about their age I worry more about what they are going to bring to the team.

We won't go up with him be we could quite possibly go down without him. We'd have been in real trouble last season without his goals.

Are they?

Some might say that is what they have been doing for the last decade.

What gives you that idea? In looking at what he did at Barnsley the bloke is clearly very competent. In nearly 11 years with Venky's we have had one competent CEO (who they inherited) and he resigned after 3 months of them. No competent CEO is going to want to work at a football club that is so dysfunctional and chaotically run as ours.

Is that the same Watford who have spent 6 of the last 7 seasons in the Premier League, their one season out of it got automatic promotion from the Championship and also made the FA Cup final just a few years ago. Yeah we are just like them. Also if we were anything like Watford Mowbray would have been gone 2 and a half years ago.

But we aren't most Championship teams we are a dysfunctional mess. You talk of realism and realistically you must know that there is no chance of us making the top 6. The best we can hope for this season season is to avoid getting sucked into a relegation battle.

Says the poster who thinks we should be top 6 this season.

It's beneficial to City, Liverpool and the players as the players develop a step further in their career but for us it offers little benefit as a year later we are back to square one looking for another kid to develop for someone else for the next season.

That's a new one on me. 😆 In all seriousness though he takes a risky single hesitates and slips. The way he was rolling around on the pitch was something you expect these days to see on the football pitch but certainly not on a cricket pitch. It was a Lazarus like recovery as one minute he was rolling around as though his leg was falling off and a few minutes latter he was sprinting a 2. It was typical Root captaincy weak and non confrontational.

He certainly had a Lazarus like recovery. Weak captaincy from Root, Croft conned him. There was no upholding the spirit of the game from Croft.

Croft has obviously been watching too much of the Euro's. He should be thoroughly embarrassed with his antics which were certainly against the spirit of the game.

If the 11 that I responded to starts week in week out we will go down, I'm pretty certain we would go down. However I highly doubt that, that 11 will start week in week out and certainly not in the shape that was posted.

You will also struggle to find any manager in the country who get's to bring his mate in as CEO. That is extremely unusual.

No never watched a match.

I'm not a bookmaker.

League 1 here we come.

He's been here 3 seasons and 'shown bit's'. Not exactly a ringing endorsement. That fact the stand out game you pick out for him is a 25 minute sub appearance says it all.

Actually that was Buckley I said that about and I still think that is his level. I think that Brereton based on his performances for Rovers looks a League 1 player.

'Didn't look too shabby' that is setting the bar rather low. In the few games I've seen him involved in he's never shown anything to suggest that at the moment he is of the required standard. Also given his injury record I have concerns about whether he could physically cope with the rigours of Championship football. The best thing for us and him would be to loan him out let him try to stay fit, play some regular first team football then re-examine the situation either in January or in the summer. He's coming up 22 he needs to start playing regular first team football if he is to have any hope of developing instead of staying at Rovers being on the fringes of a squad just getting some minutes here and there.

I also remember some poster's on here who were adamant that Mowbray was the right man for us and said that we would be challenging for the playoffs. We never got close and ended up closer to relegation.

That's your opinion but I don't think they are good enough and I would be in some cases loaning out in other cases looking to move on permanently in order to make space to bring some Championship experience and quality into the squad. You think we should be top 6 this season do you seriously think that those 3 players are good enough for that? I wouldn't have re signed him and let's be honest we all know that Mowbray isn't his biggest fan and that he is barely going to feature this season. Again I'll ask the same question do you think Chapman is good enough for a side aiming for top 6? In fact can you seriously look at that list of 20 players that you listed and think that looks a good Championship squad and with a 4 additions it should be top 6?

Firstly there is only 20 names there. You make one space by loaning out either Pears and the Greek lad so that they can play competitive first team football. Then you have the likes of Davenport, Buckley, Chapman and Butterworth who are not up to standard for the Championship and should be in some cases loaned out and in other cases sold. Do that and then you have 10 spaces left and if Armstrong goes then you have 11.

Mowbray worked with him at Hibs took him to Celtic with him and he tried to take him to West Brom with him. So I think we are on pretty safe ground to assume that they get on well. Is his record that good? He made a couple very good signings for Celtic 8 and 10 years ago. After leaving Celtic in 2016 he didn't work for a club as far as I can tell until January this year when he joined might of Legia Warsaw. So he hasn't exactly been a man in demand over the past 5 years. A bit of a difference in ability between the likes of Bjornebye and Friedel compared to the likes of Ayala and Pears. And they came in a made an immediate impact as did Sourness, Mowbray and the ex Boro boys he has signed have done nothing to improve the club. Also remember when he gave his mate Smallwood a extra 6 week contract even though he had not and did not play a single minute all season. Also I can't remember Souness ever appointing his mate as CEO.