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I don't even see the point. At best he might be rushed into one first team game that doesn't matter in the slightest. Why let him stand in the way of one of our young players, either/both at u23 or first team level? Why risk him getting his injury again? Just try to get him fit for next season because that in itself appears to be a Herculean task.

Personally I think it's obvious Ryan isn't fully focussed at the moment as he is due for the exit door.

Although ideally we would have brought a new manager in several games ago. Which would have given them time to properly understand existing personnel and get a grasp of what we need. Every day we persist with Mowbray is just delaying the inevitable and squandering more opportunity to rebuild properly. It also appears he will get to lead the rebuild altogether, minus the head of recruitment of course. Weird the one season we supposedly start earlier is the one where our head of recruitment just left. Mowbray leading this could hold us back for years to come.

Thing about relying on Wharton for a slot is his injury. We don't know that it will continue to go to plan for his return date. We don't know if it will recur, or whether the time out might reduce his conditioning enough that something else gets injured. And then we don't know how much difficulty he will have regaining his pre-injury form, or even whether that pre-injury form was just a blip. I'm not saying any of this is actually the case, just that there are a lot of unknowns.

He didn't, although that presumably had a fair bit to do with him vanishing off to the Middle East for the money. Doesn't exactly raise your profile.

We didn't get the best out of any of those three, I agree. I still think they were a bit more effective than most give them credit for though (albeit none pulled up trees). Vukcevic (sp?) too. But game of opinions, I know most don't agree with me on them.

Personally, I liked Villanueva and thought he deserved more game time than he got. He was never going to get that once Sam showed up though, not his style. He was a shit manager though yes. (Ince obviously, not Sam)

Carlos Villanueva

Apart from the ropey English from a man who isn't a native speaker, seems fine to me. The way you said it I expected to read him saying they bossed the game and should have won. Like Ewood Ace said, he also took personal responsibility which I can't remember Tony ever doing, at least not this clearly.

Yep. I didn't say that to downplay Chile or Brereton. Chile are a decent side. They're generally recognised as not being as good as England though (not that we couldn't lose to them on an off day), so I just feel the fact one looks nailed on for England and the other will have done very well if he plays for Chile emphasises the difference.

I was going to post the stats whatever I found them to show, as a point of debate. I wasn't making a point for or against your point. But since we're here now. The stats show Brereton needs an additional half a game (47.57 minutes) for each goal contribution. I consider that quite a bit. It takes him 29.75% longer for each contribution, I make it. For comparison, Armstrong has a goal contribution every 113.41 minutes. A similar difference in minutes per contribution between him and Elliott compared to between Elliott and Brereton. I don't think it means Brereton is trash or anything, but it's a fair difference to me. Especially when BB is 22, in his third season at the club and Harvey Elliott is 18 and in his first ever season of regular senior football. Elliott will play for England one day, most of us are sure of that. Brereton will be lucky if Chile decide to fit him in.

Brereton: 2,282 minutes, 11 goal contributions, a goal contribution every 207.45 minutes Elliott: 2,718 minutes, 17 goal contributions, a goal contribution every 159.88 minutes

And nobody would pay 7 million for Brereton again right now.

Buckley has been very poor since coming on. In fact he hasn't been very good since he got inexplicably dropped when he finally started playing well. It's almost as if dropping in form players to play with your tombola demoralises them.....

He has this tendency to pull out of a save if he judges it to be going wide. He has done it all season and been excellent at judging it correctly for the most part, preventing a lot of corners. But that's the second time it has resulted in a goal. Think I'd rather he just tries to save it if there's any doubt. He might not have stopped that anyway but I like to see keepers at least try.

I don't think he cares. He is a 'performance' manager and would rather we enjoy the spectacular performance of having 65% possession and losing 1-0 than having 41% and winning 5-1.

Thing is Rev, doesn't sound like it will be a rethink. According to the LT the club had already decided to stick with him this summer. Madness.

If I didn't want the manager gone and the season wasn't over, I'd be euphoric now. Nice to be pasting someone though. Hudds defence the worst we have seen this season?

Huddersfield goalie the worst I've seen since Walton.

Another counter-attacking goal. I'm sure there is a lesson in this somewhere. Hmmm....

If 2 wins in 17 didn't end Mowbray, I can't see 2 wins in the last 5 finishing the job. Winning today probably cements his job for the start of next season at least. Sadly.

Seemed like a spell of us controlling the ball when Huddersfield scored on a counter attack. Will Tony learn? Will he buggery.

I've just seen that on the google score just before I saw yours. I'm gonna have to watch it again when they show it.

It wasn't an own goal. He should have done better though.

'We apologise for accidentally showing you a dominant Rovers side racing into an early 2-0 lead including scoring from a set piece. This was archive footage. Your normal programme is now resumed.'