Some churlish comments on here. Yeah we're all fed up and want the manager gone but there are some decent goals in that selection.

When you look at them though it helps confirm how much we imploded this season after a fine early start - none of the goals seem to be after January 2021 with most of them from very early in the season!

45 minutes ago, Craigman said:

D Williams scored in 5-0 win over Wycombe at start of season.

Good spot but begs the response that there's been a hell of a lot of games since then.

I have to say that for all the times our central defenders trot up for corners I never have any real expectation that they'll score.. 

3 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

I was just reflecting on something when I saw Carter now has 4 goals in 18 games on loan. Which is good, albeit in League One, but it made me think.

Defenders absolutely should defend first and foremost, and attacking-wise fullbacks' priority should be creating not scoring.

But has a SINGLE defender scored for us all season? I certainly can't remember it.

I don't think any have scored...Douglas has come mighty close though.

Indeed it is - we need a new manager for lots of reasons, just one of them being I'm far from convinced he'll even get rid of all the deadwood we've had for far too long.

I know, they were aspirational 'get rids' given that one is rubbish and one's a croc...

For me it's clean sweep time. 

Kaminski - keep

Pears - get rid, not even good enough to be a no 2 keeper, get a decent one in

Bell - get rid

Nyambe/JRC - keep one of 'em, I'd edge towards JRC and bring in a proper RB to compete 

Evans - get rid

Douglas - been a massive disappointment but might be worth a punt if (big if) he can stay fit to compete with Pickering for LB 

Wharton - keep but it's going to be a long road back.

Benno - get rid

Holtby - let him go (he wants to be in Germany with his missus and has tailed off badly in addition to not getting any younger)

Trybull - this one is tin hat time but I'd try and get him if Holtby and Evans are off. Obviously at least one other CM would also be needed though

Davenport - seems a bit lightweight - keep as a squad player?

Buckley - see above..

Johnson - get rid

Downing - get rid

Ayala - would love to get rid but I'm afraid he's the new Grella

Lenihan - if he wasn't the best of a bad bunch I'd say bye to him too - keep with gritted teeth

 Travis - keep but badly needs a full pre-season

Rothwell - toss a coin, can tantalise and infuriate several times in the same game..

Dolan - keep, shown some promise

Dack - long road back for him too. Really feel for him, hope he can relaunch his career.

Brereton - tin hat again , still believe he has something, early this season was borderline unplayable at times. Can a new manager do something with him? I'd like to see. 

Gallagher - can't get past the feeling he's going backwards. Might the new manager bounce help or do we cut our losses and sell him..

Armstrong - can't see him staying. Sell him for good money and hopefully reinvest the lot.  

Rest of  the loanees - Elliott, thanks, you're going to have a career.. Harwood Bellis - ditto, Branthwaite - premiership quality?, need convincing. 

As I said in an earlier post, it feels like there's an awful lot of work to do.

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

Those pointing out he is playing in a poor defence should remember that he is a quarter of that poor defence.

They should also remember that once Harwood-Bellis goes home the defence Pickering's joining aint no great shakes either..

Whichever way you look at it a major rebuild is going to be required for next season.

20 hours ago, roverandout said:

Can u not call in the texas rangers to investigate a fraudster?

Texas voted for a complete fraudster not so long ago so I wouldn't get your hopes up...

I think I'm right in saying that we've scored a miserly 9 goals in the last 14 games and that's pathetic.

We're a shadow of the team that started the season and whilst some of the players need to take a long look in the mirror the buck ultimately stops with Mowbray.

I'd personally get rid and move Johnson up to take a look at him for the rest of this season. Can't do any worse than what Mowbray's currently achieving.

3 minutes ago, Boroblue said:

I get the impression that Bellis doesn’t trust Lenihan decision making

That would be because he has no composure on the ball.. he can go in the summer for me.

7 minutes ago, WIR Second Coming said:

Go on then.. what is he thinking?

Brereton looked a proper player at the start of the season but then he wasn't the only one.

The excitement at the start of the season with the way we were playing was palpable for many of us and the fact we've ended up being so rubbish  for months now is both unfathomable and unacceptable and is the reason why Tony has to go...

It is damning Evans is still around and getting starts - says it all really.

Can't see anything but a Norwich win given their form, our lack of form and all the players we've got out injured.

Shame we can't play Trybull today. I'd be looking to sign him and lose Evans at the end of the season but until we sort out the defence we're on a hiding to nothing.

No way are we getting promoted with Wharton, Lenihan and Ayala..

8 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Only in Venky's world would being 'better than Coyle' be worthy of a mention. 

It's gone wrong for Mowbray this season, as it does for a lot of managers after the 3rd or 4th season. He certainly puts more thought into than Coyle, and I'd imagine he's a lot more clued up than Coyle on tactics etc. But Coyle was certainly a braver manager, he played wingers and strikers and wanted to attack teams. Mowbray just wants to keep the ball in the middle of the pitch so the other team can't score. Coward's football. 

I agree that his time's up. Most club/manager relationships have a finite lifespan and Mowbray's arrived there especially as it's going to be a re-build job this summer considering toe amount of out of contracts and loans who'll be leaving us. 

 I'd like to see someone younger and  hungrier than Mowbray - he always has the look of a man who's lost a tenner and found a fiver.

I like what the guy has done with Barnsley considering the fairly meagre resources.

3 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Three points from safety with 15 games to go when he was appointed. 

Bit of a stretch to call a team in that situation, ‘doomed’, no?
 

Doomed in the sense that they were one of the worst squads we've ever had and had League 1 written all over them. 

The main issue for me regarding Coyle was the sheer stupidity of the numpty who thought hiring him in the first place was ever going to work - an ex-dingle and someone who'd done nothing since somehow getting them to the premier league several years earlier. 

50 minutes ago, Ulrich said:

Its come to something when Coyles last 11 games reaped 50% more points than TM has in his last 11.

Coyle also effectively relegated us (remember where we were when we sacked him) so don't forget to add that to his outstanding resume...

I'm sure you'll blame Mowbray for that too but that team was doomed long before he rocked up.

It's come to something when people are using Coyle to beat up Mowbray.

Mowbray has hit the point where an amicable parting of the ways is needed but to imply he's worse than Coyle is risible.

5 minutes ago, RoverKyle said:

He's a really good player. I'd love to see him signed up to replace Evans.

I'd have him here too - time for Evans on.

1 minute ago, OnePhilT said:

Didn't think I'd say this but Stewart Downing needs to calm down!

I think he probably feels he has a point to prove.

The best result would be that the starting XI play so well that none of the bench are required.

Don't get this suggestion that a win today would be 'defying the odds' given that we're 8 points and 13 goals better than Middlesbrough at the moment. We need to go there with no fear, grab a win and then seriously start to believe that we can make the play-offs. Whether the current team have the cojones for that though is open to question.

4 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

buckley is tiny,he can`t be more than 9 stone,honestly,he`s not ready for the 1st team,brereton is a bid lad  who`s lacking ability and confidence,not size and weight

I hear this a lot and it's almost like it's a given but then you think of the David Silva's, N'Golo Kante's, Marco Verratti's, Juan Mata's & Lucas Torreira's of this world and it makes you think...