Dave Artell would go exactly the same way as Nathan Jones at Stoke.

Even worse than usual it will be at around 1430 ? I think this will be a draw, a slow, plodding, bore of one too. 0-0 or 1-1.

Me too. I fear he wont though with Mowbrays chopping and changing on a weekly basis. Thing with Dack is though, he knows he he is playing every week along with Bennett & Downing regardless of form so he can probably do what he likes.

Not a bad life is it, plod about in a lower mid table second division side, score the odd goal, win a few, lose a few without any urgency, jet off to Dubai (or wherever) for a jolly every four weeks. Theres only Williams and Evans away for international duty, in my mind they should have had two intensive weeks training getting themselves ready for the next batch of fixtures. I could half excuse it if we were sat top of the league, but from what I have seen so far this season we could probably fill two months worth of training with things to do never mind two weeks. Still, nobody is that bothered at the club so it does make you wonder why we should be.

With Cunningham out, I think I would be half tempted to go 3 at the back, with Bennett & Downing as wing backs.

He wants to be there is my guess. We're just a pay day for him, I don't think I have ever seen a player go through the motions as much as this guy.

Think Nyambe would be ahead of Grayson, but yeah what a horrible situation, and one everybody could see coming apart from big tone.

I'll take that bet. He'll definitely still be here.

Hughes has fallen into the same category as Steve Bruce now. Like Chaddy says he's only going to manage in the top flight again if he gets promoted there with someone. I'd swap him for Mowbray in a heartbeat though.

This thread has took a strange turn.

Yeah I think so. But like you say, theres pretty much zero chance of that happening.

I'd be half tempted to throw Sam Hart in there than trying to watch Bell or Williams plod about there again, I have seen enough of them at left back.

Are Burnley "big enough" to survive in the Premier League? Or Bournemouth, Watford etc? What an odd comment.

From who?

I think Hull do something similar don't they?

He'll win one before then.

Strange one this signing. I can see why we have snapped him up because players of this quality don't come around every day, but I don't think Mowbray has the first clue what to do with him, and I would put my mortgage on him being shunted out wide when he finally does get to start.

There always has been a strange bunch that would clap the team off even if we lost 7-0, then go mental if a player dares not acknowledge them.

It's a nice idea, but there's no way our current crop of millionaires are going to listen to someone like Ainsworth who had a pretty average playing career, and only a lower league managerial career do far. It would go the same way as Jones as Stoke.

I just want a manager, who will set up the team properly, play everyone in there correct positions, look organised, and have a sense of urgency about them that looks like they want to win the game they are playing in. Everything at the minute just looks like everyone is going through the motions, playing such slow, predictable football, and then a shrug of inevitability when we go behind. Burnley are 5th in the top flight, Preston are 3rd in our league. Nothing is going to change any time soon either, it will be talk of "regrouping and coming out strong after the international break" and no doubt a tweet from captain fantastic stating how "today was disappointing but we'll learn from it and bounce back". No we bloody wont! I usually despise international breaks but I'm glad we are not playing next weekend.

Theres Belushis (sp?) Right outside Shepherds Bush tube station which is the designated away pub. Anything else is home fans only though where you have to show your ticket to get in.

Yeah i'd say so, although Luton haven't been to Ewood for years so I imagine a lot were "ticking off the ground". If we play them for the next 5/6 years at this level I doubt they will bring half that. Our away supports holds up pretty well for me. Draw seems the favourite result here, would leave us with W4, L4, D3, Exactly where I thought we would be going into the October international break.

I think someone else might have mentioned it, but I don't think it helps Dack that the personnel around him is constantly changing. He's still our key man for me, and I think if you got Rothwell & Holtby in the side around him on a regular basis, not for one game every five then it would help him out tremendously.

Out of interest, would you have Rowett here over Mowbray? I don't really have an opinion of Rowett either way, think he's pretty average who will probably always get a championship job. Can't say I would be overjoyed or disappointed if he rocks up here one day.

Can't be long until another club takes a punt on Rowett. I think him and Monk will have managed every club in the championship between them by 2022.