Mattyblue

No it isn’t a top 6 side. However, a lot of that is down the wrong priorities - £12 million on two young forwards when we have one of the worst defences being the main one, another going into a season with two out and out senior centre halves (one who’s injury prone and is out already, the other a young loanee).

Don’t go to West Bromwich itself for pubs, stay in Birmingham city centre and jump on the tram that stops right outside The Hawthorns

Do well to get 10,000 at Leyland!

Indeed. That’s why we are a million miles from promotion. Yes we had quality players in 2001, but the side was full of captains or ‘men’ as TM would put it. Friedel, Bjornebye, Short, Berg, Hignett, Flitcroft, Hughes. Even the young lads like Dunn and Johnson had some balls about them. Compare it to where we are now.

He obviously ‘runs the dressing room’ and I suppose with another one of the shop stewards gone he’ll need to keep the others onside.

Captain is a non-job in football. Make him Club president for all its worth, however it should not in anyway keep him in the side if his performances do not merit it.

Confirmed https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17831629.rovers-confirm-new-captain-charlie-mulgrews-departure/

They’ll be paying £28 (Cat A), all games are priced up already. Any side expected to fetch c2000 and upwards will be A (or A+) https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/july/matchday-prices-2019-20/

£20 for West Brom. Shame they’ll be paying £28 when they come here. This ‘reciprocal policy’ only seems to come into being when it is to rip off Leeds and Sheff Wed fans.

Chapman is playing for the U23s tonight, Christ knows when he’ll be with the first team again.

That was one of Mowbray’s tales over the summer, Another was that he needed to be sold to buy Gallagher. Who knows what really went on.

Armstrong’s not a winger, he’s a front 2 striker. A poor man’s Michael Owen. He’s unfortunate to come through In an era where front 2s and in particular the big/little man strikerforce has largely disappeared out of the game.

Because of relegation and subsequent promotion. If we’d had stayed up in 2017, and plodded along in the Championship since he’d have been given plenty by now (if not already potted).

Do we play ‘good football’, chaddy?

The fact he openly lamented that not buying a big, ugly centre half cost him his job at Coventry, yet what we’ve just witnessed in the last window says he has alarming blind spots that could well cost him another.

Of course they do, we ground out a load of wins in our title winning season. You don’t get 90+ points just playing sparkling football.

No budget? We’ve spent £12 million on two young strikers, we’ve a Category A Academy. Of course the club is big enough and it’s the way the Championship is going. Forest, Brentford, West Brom, QPR, Huddersfield, Stoke, Reading, Wigan have them at least from a quick google search.

Him and Waggott run the club between them so obviously not, this is the hypothetical post Mowbray set up.

A bloke called Bernie Horne is an avid collector. He goes all away and youth games. Possibly someone like @Parsonblue may know him fairly well?

£12 million on two raw lads is enormous money for this club. It doesn’t work out for Mowbray and those two decisions could seriously restrict his successor and our future progress. In these times of FFP, a Director of Football has to be looked at going forward.

Up until the transfer windows came in a decade or so ago, you would have players signing at any time up to April. Many would go straight into the side that weekend. These days most players sign in the summer and you obviously have the luxury of weeks on the training ground with them. That’s all that’s changed, good players adapt quickly.

I don’t think there’s any talk of a boycott. On their forums it’s more about Churchilllian speeches about ‘now is the time your support counts’ and such like.

Always makes me laugh when folk let everybody know they drink French wine like it’s the height of sophistication

A manager who had a poor second half of a previous season don’t usually start with a total clean slate in August. Their card is marked to a certain degree. Kidd, Harford, Hodgson et al weren’t potted just for a poor start to that season.

Of course. Point being if they don’t get STs on sale quick that kind of crowd will be as good as it gets, you just don’t get 10,000+ people buying tickets game by game for clubs like us and Bolton.