Tyrone Shoelaces

I think Wilder will stay at Sheffield. If they were going to sack him they'd have done it by now.

We are the least well equipped side to enter a relegation battle. Everywhere you look at the club it's wrong. We need to become hard to score against yet Mowbray hasn't signed the players to do that. Two kids at centre half ! The man's an idiot.

My thoughts exactly, he's tarred with the Mowbray brush now.

It's a worrying time. From a current form point of view we must be bottom of the pile. Unless we can get our act together we're in real trouble. I can't escape the feeling that things have gone badly wrong behind the scenes. Why are we prepared to let Williams leave when we're really stuck for experienced centre halves ? Are the " injured " highly paid experienced players really badly injured ?

It's not as bad as the sickness outbreak on this board. We're all sick !

I think you're right. I said the other day he only stumbled across the Graham/Dack combination almost by accident.

You can't knock anybody who's still a fan after the last ten years. The " fickle " ones have left years ago.

He knew a replacement for Graham would be needed at least 12 months before he left. I would argue 18 months to be honest. By no stretch of the imagination could you say either of Brererton or Gallagher were capable of playing that role, not now, not ever.

I think I am Stuart. We've had so many shit managers I get confused.

Hard one to call Jim. There are days when I wish I'd never got interested in sport as a lad. My drinking chum is blissfully unaware of anything sporting at all.

If we going to become hard to beat keeping the ball down the far end is the first requirement. Didn't Big Sam bring in Diouf to do that out wide ?

Appointing Coyle was the tipping point for me also. Not because he was an ex Dingle, but because his subsequent career had been an un mitigated disaster. One failure after another. I walked away from a club I had supported since 1960. I didn't come on here, I didn't watch football on TV, I didn't read about us in the paper. I just looked at the scores at 4-55 on Saturday afternoons and that was it. It did wonders for my mental health, Rovers were seriously getting me down. I only came back when Lambert was appointed. I thought that was the only sensible thing they've ever done. Especially when you consider the backroom team he had. I know it didn't work out but you could see some logic in the appointment.

He could always point out what was going wrong as well.

Part of the problem is where we're playing Armstrong. He's not a " hold the ball "type of striker. We're crying out for somebody who can keep the ball down the other end.

Never !

Yeah, getting rid of Mowbray and then finding out that either of Venus or Lowe are appointed as a caretaker manager would be a real nightmare.

Or on loan at Shrewsbury.

That's what young lads do.

He wasn't on his own either. Those of us who pointed out things might not be that simple, especially in Dack's case, came in for a bit of stick on here.

Spare a thought for those who've given up drinking. We can't even drown our sorrows !

Mm. well all know what that means then. If I was a gambling man.

Have ever worked there ? I have as a contractor, lots of times. Normally the customer's maintenance guys were glad to see you because you were going to do a job they either couldn't do or didn't want to do. Liverpool is the only place I ever went to were they didn't want to do the job and they didn't want you to do it either !

Steve Cotterill at Shrewsbury has also had it bad. He's been taken back into hospital.

We need all the room we can get - we've had a team's worth of players in there recently. Bennett, Ayala, Wharton, Williams Holtby, Davenport, Johnson, JRC Butterworth, Gallagher,

Yeah, nasty bastards.