Second half was as good as Ive seen Rovers in possession for quite some time. Downing was a class apart from everyone on the pitch, and Johnson/Cunningham have also added some real quality to that team. Williams was superb at CB. Mowbray out!

Downing masterclass in that first half. Sadly for us Grosicki has been outstanding for them. Could go either way.

Think we’ll win tonight. Hull are no great shakes and have had a new manager bounce at the start of the season. We tend to do well away at Hull so I’m going for 2-1. We need more pace in the side tonight than on Saturday as we need a more counter attacking game here.

Cup games are not streamed on ifollow

Yes, but Dyche is one of the best managers in the country!

I can’t believe people are saying we should replace TM with Damien Johnson! Replace an experienced manager with someone who has never managed apart from at youth team level?! Beyond words. Once he lost a few games, they’d be saying “let’s get an experienced man in”. I would hazard a guess that many of the people wanting TM out are the same people who wanted TM out when we lost our first two league games in lge 1. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are also the same people who said we needed an experienced manager when we kept appointing rookies one...and now they want a rookie one in Damien Johnson. I would obviously take a Hughes or an Allardyce over TM, but we’d likely go with a cheap option to replace him, most like Johnson. I wouldn’t want that. Mowbray has improved us year on year and has also proved the doubters wrong and come through the sticky spells. He’s also shown he knows how to win football matches in this league and built a squad full of good young players. Time to back him over the next couple of months and then re-evaluate when the league has settled down.

2-0 away against a team packed with premier league talent is far better than I expected. Didn’t see the game, only the highlights, but it sounds like it was a much improved display. Obviously a class first goal but it looked like a goalkeeping error for their second. I’m pleased to hear Tosin looks a class act as I think a lot of our season will depend on him playing a big part in tightening up our defence. It’s a gamble but maybe TM is right in having a lot of faith in someone so young. Williams is a decent CB and so is Lenihan, and with Cunningham surely to start the next game, our defence looks a lot better. I struggle to believe that our attack won’t click into gear sooner or later as we have a lot of talent up there, but they’ve been disappointing so far. I think it’s time for Graham to return up top as we need his experience to get us going. I can’t remember a season where we actually started well. Last year we started ok but we never seem to muster many wins in the first five games.

Might as well do a Mercer and stick a few quid on a Fulham win.

Tbf, that’s better than last weeks defensive line up. We get rid of one CB on loan, fail to bring one in, and our best one gets injured/ill. You couldn’t make it up.

I think today will be the last we see of Bell for quite some time (thank god!). Cunningham has been brought in to be number one, without a doubt. He’ll probably have to wait a week though. If the injury to lenihan is true, then looks like a baptism of fire for Tosin. Personally I’d take a CB pairing of Tosin and Williams over Lenihan/Mulgrew. Ideally it would be Lenihan and one other though. No chance he’s dropping Downing for Rothwell (Downing did well last week) and there’s a long way to go before he drops Bennett. I think he likes Bennett in the side because his energy sets the work rate and tempo for the other players.

We’ll get a hammering today. Anthony Knockaert will destroy Bell on the left and Mitrovic will kill us with his aerial ability (and our severe lack of heading ability). 4-1 Fulham

Thank you to Mulgrew. He was sensational for us in the lge 1 season and has generally been a good leader on and off the pitch. Absolutely the right decision to let him go as his legs have gone over the past year. I don’t think Wigan are getting the player they think they’re getting in Mulgrew. Lots of quality on the ball but can’t do the basics of defending and gets caught out with the ball over the top too many times. I don’t get the “Wigan have had a great window and can push for the top 6” line on Twitter. They lost their best player in Powell and I can’t see any real quality in the players they’ve signed. I would take our signings over theirs any day of the week. Overall, not a bad window for us but probably not a good enough one for us to break into the top 6. But who knows?

Looking at other clubs’ twitter feeds, it seems that there are a lot of disappointed fans and many feel their club has had a shocking transfer window. I would say Fulham have had a blinder and should walk the league. Boro and Charlton potentially had the worst? Lost key players and not bought anyone of note. Many clubs have bought good players but also lost very good players (e.g West Brom, Brentford, Leeds, Derby). Interesting season ahead. I would expect another lower mid table finish.

IF Cunningham gets over the line then we have a stronger defence than we started the day (and the window) with. Still not as strong as it could and should have been, but it’s still stronger overall. Mulgrew going also improves us as his legs have gone and he’s now a liability. A back four of: Nyambe Lenihan Tosin Cunningham Not too bad at all and an improvement on the back four at the weekend. Williams will now permanently move into the CB reckon where he’s decent. I do fear what that back four will look like if we get an injury or two though. However, I’d still rather not have Mulgrew (or Bell) in the back four regardless of whether there is an injury or not. They are both hopeless. Bennett is an ok right back, but will be down the pecking order to JRC and Nyambe as the season goes on imo.

No chance Reed was in today for talks.

I’m never convinced by Sharpe’s info, more guesswork from him I’d imagine.

Must be a CB incoming. We wouldn’t let him go without one.

Mulgrew is finished as a defender. Hope we have someone to replace him though.

Mulgrew has gone

I agree. Yesterday he denied the Cunningham links.

That sounds very promising indeed. Sounds like a done deal but knowing our luck there will be a last minute glitch. Was widely regarded as one of the best LBs in the league before his move to Cardiff.

Cunningham would be an excellent signing. I’ll believe it when I see it. Him and a decent CB today and we’ll have gone from an average window to a very good one. That’s how crucial the next few hours are.

You'd think we'd need to be very strongly linked with a defender today for something to happen tomorrow. Our recent pattern shows we are normally strongly linked with a player at least 24 hours before they sign, but I have yet to see us strongly linked with a defender from a reputable source so looking unlikely at this stage. I'm absolutely flabbergasted that TM has not addressed the defensive situation at all. The signings we have made are good, but overall this window has been a huge failure due to not addressing our main weaknesses. I am a big fan of TM and believe he has done an incredible job, but sadly I think his job will be under huge pressure this season as we're likely to be confined to another lower mid table finish due to his failures in the transfer market. In saying that, a LB and CB signing and we're back in the game.

I presume we can still sign free transfers after the window has closed?

I think we will sign one defender before the deadline, probably someone who is a CB but can play left back too. That’s not based on any info, just a hunch.