Imagine if we had a Chapman.....................................

Unlike most of the teams in the Championship (all of them actually, except Derby), our u-23s play against them. So you would think so, if he's good enough. Correction - sorry, thought they played the same level as ours but they got relegated last season.

And yet, my point is that despite all that, and Mowbray's selections being frequently awful, we are pretty close to the playoffs. All managers confuse with their decisions to some degree, but I can't envision a scenario where a decent manager who can play people in their actual positions, based on form, without rotating them for the fuck of it, wouldn't have us at least 6 points better off. Regardless of what this team looks like on paper. This league isn't that high a standard. Consistency is everything, and that's exactly what TM robs us of.

Would you not agree he is managing the squad awfully? You dont think we would be at least 6 points better off this season with a good manager instead?

Was that not when we were in League One and they were in the Championship?

Problem is that, as I've said before when I think we were about 12-15 games in and ran the stats, we seem to do better in games where we have LESS possession. We are not a good possession team, as we can't find ways to break down opposition that sit off and cluster tightly. We are better when we play counter attacking, as a general rule. The more possession we have, it seems the worse we do. I can't be arsed to go over the stats again but it doesn't seem like too much has changed. And THAT you can blame the manager for. He seems to think keeping the ball is more important than being effective with it. He also signed our shocking goalkeeper. Astonished to hear that we have the second most clean sheets though, that's an achievement. I'm thinking nearly all of that came during our good run where we tightened up. Problem is, last couple of games the cracks are creeping in there again, with 2 and 3 conceded. We shouldn't be scoring 2 away and coming home with nothing. New keeper, priority number one.

Brereton is, as things stand, definitely in the Grabbi, Davies camp for most disastrous recentish era signings. He is more mind boggling than either of those, in terms of what we spent for what he had done.

Yep, not sure he has the confidence to deal with any level of pressure though.

Ah, that would actually be worse.

Rothwell isn't playing well, so keeps his place. When he has done well in the past, can't get in. Makes sense. Sow playing for Forest, back from injury. Forest fans seemed to think their game might hinge on him.

So 4-4-2 with Arma and Brereton up front presumably.

Yeh it's frustrating. We would be paying even more for Mulgrew if we brought him back though. Then I'd also have to see him amble around even more casually and lost than our current crop of defenders. Also see him whip great free kicks in, mind, but defenders simply have to defend. I'd be very curious to know how much of Mulgrew's wages are being paid by Wigan. I wish football would stop this thing where almost all aspects of all deals are secret. Fans are stakeholders and deserve to know.

I should think we are tied into the Cunningham loan for the season, or even Goodwill Tony would have cancelled it (or been told to). Mulgrew, I don't want back. Defence is porous enough as it is.

Oh I quite agree - in fact I am more worried about a defeat now it has been pointed out we haven't lost there for nearly 5 years. We love changing records. I was just pointing it out, not gaining any confidence from it. Huddersfield also hadn't come from behind to win for two and a half years I believe the LT said.

Forest fans' views (looking mostly a bit pessimistic as they haven't beaten us there since 2014)

I doubt we will charge a fee, so I shouldn't imagine waiting for his contract to run down will change the signing on fee. His stock and bargaining position will also be six-months-of-not-playing weaker.

Here is one https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-blackburn-rovers-hunt-in-form-enforcer/amp/

Looking at the losses declared today, extrapolated over a 3-year period and with easily our most valuable playing asset out for a year, and our playoff hopes hitting the rocks, it's hard to see how the money men will sanction more spending without outgoings. Beyond loans, freebies and maybe very-cheapies.

We were linked, yeh. Dunno how true it was. I remember someone saying he hadn't been anything special when he was in the Championship, but think he would only have been 21 then.

I'd say it's fairer to say he is a poor striker BECAUSE he doesn't get into the right positions. He is sufficient in other attributes to be at least an ok striker in this league. If he had the nous to sniff out chances. It's hard to think that will come. He isn't going to learn it playing on the wing. This is TM's problem, he wants his players to be 'flexible' by playing in multiple positions. But as a result they can never settle into the full rhythm of playing their one, actual position properly. I think the wing and up front are sufficiently different that all this constant moving back and forth between them is almost 'unlearning' each position (to a degree). It's different to if you spend 6 months continually in one position then 6 in another. It has to stop.

Last I checked, which was before picking up 2 points at home and 0 away recently, we were lower in the away league table than the home one.

In fairness, he is never going to play a blinder from the wing. But as many suspected even during the good run, Tony doesn't learn.

Problem is, the alternative is that Buckley is wide, on one flank or the other...

Nyambe is injured. What did you expect at RB?

Well thank god Tosin is back