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Lovely. At last!

They'd rather earn £30000+ a week than £10000. Hardly a surprise.

It won't be for £5M though!

Yeah, I can see why you"d say that. I'm a bit ambivalent about it really. We won't see the best of him under Mowbray that's for sure. And it isn't fair to judge him on the basis of the position he's asked to play. The thing is we have a double dose. Exactly the same things can be said about Brereton! How anyone can say Mowbray's a good manager on this basis alone is beyond me.

Yes, that's fair comment.

For everyone else on the MB, I'm sure its clear that my comment on the rate of progress is my opinion and just that. I didn't say so because its obvious!

He is an odd one alright. Sometimes, in fact a lot, he looks like a young colt who's still learning to walk. And, you're right, hie first touch is often woeful. But he does compete, nothing seems to get him down, not even being played out of position. Every game he does something that makes you think "there is a player in there". But he was never worth £5M.

I'm not lecturing you on opinions just telling you not to call them "facts"! You're perfectly entitled to believe Mowbray is a good manager, but "good' is a relative term. If you mean "good relative to Coyle" then you are setting the bar too low---in my opinion!

Don't put words in my mouth, you have enough problems with your own!

I'm a bit confused here----he's messed up so many chances as to prevent us being in the play-offs but its a great signing from Mowbray?!! You wouldn't be having it both ways would you?

No facts to prove that. Just opinions. We have improved since Mowbray took over but at too slow a speed, especially since we have a good squad. In any case he took over from Coyle---how could we mot improve on that?

Its been explained to you by others but its gone over your head as usual.

People desperate for a good manager for the Club they love. Fancy that!

Thanks for explaining all that to me! 😂

Agree with that, although it is unbalanced. However we need someone who can get the best out of it and that's not him.

"Fuck off, just fuck off1" I think I heard.

I'm sure that's what Venkys think too!.

Nice one! I've edited!

Oh right! We won't need a left-back then? Good news about the pitch but I didn't realise it was going to be rooted out as an excuse everytime we need something else. If we can only tackle Rovers' problems one at a time, we're going nowhere are we?

Re Harry Pickering, as I read it they want £600000 for him and we have offered £400000 and quite likely he'll go somewhere else. I've never seen him so I don't know how good he is or not but if Rovers think he's a good'un and he's only 21 and he plays in a position where we need somebody, why are we baulking at £200000? Its small change these days. Can't the owners see that they will make money from him one way or another---either the preferred way where he helps us get promotion or resale later on? Dumb.

You relented and reordered the Guardian then Gav?!

Its always 6 except at the start of the season. Its possible that we will finish top half this season, instead of our usual 11th-12th with a few more points than last season. At which point, some will laud the progress we are making and argue that TM deserves another year( or 3).

Why's he written his homework on his arm?!

Surely its been deteriorating for years?

I thought Nyambe was really good and Douglas was much better than he has been. Given that Brathwaite played well and Lenihan did and Kaminsky was on top form it wasn't really surprising that we kept a clean sheet. If they all play like that for the rest of the season there'll be many more. Interesting that they didn't need any time to settle in as a centre-back partnership.