We had a decent squad so why didn't it finish higher? Because Bowyer was a poor manager.

Mowbray is a very different type of man to Kean, judging from his Wikipedia profile-----"he has not drunk alcohol since the age of 19"!

Senior has put it very clearly. He see his job next season as substantially cutting costs. To expect the club to flourish in a slash and burn environment like that is akin to expecting vacant hospital beds under the National Health. We will NEVER prosper with Venkys.

The official Rovers site, so you're right!

You're still sore at your mate Bowyer being potted. Time to move on?

This would be my worry too---a disconnect between Senior and Mowbray over signings in summer. Of course that assumes a)Mowbray lasts till summer, the Club lasts till summer and c) whether we actually make any signings. If Senior was any use he would have tried harder to sign up Mahoney as Coyle apparently wanted. I do feel a bit more optimistic about Mowbray. He wouldn't have been my choice but he has more and better experience than any of the other 6 managers other than Lambert and Rovers may have sounded others out who refused the job for all I know. A steady hand I'd call him. I always felt we were going down this season so anything else is a bonus but the plans for next season mean we will struggle again anyway. In short, we will never prosper under Venkys and who the manager is, who is administrative head, who decides transfer etc are all part of the side-show.

Once again Venkys do the unpredictable. They probably read that we were reasonably happy with Adkins.

Great run through the middle from Thomson, rasping shot hit the underside of the bar.

I suppose his views on a possible future 3rd strip could be useful!

When we discuss this transfer window,it should be a comparative thing. In other words," have we improved relative to those around us?", not just"have WE a better squad?" I'd say its pretty obvious that we have not. I doubt we've improved much anyway, if at all, because the key areas have not been addressed. Some"manager" this is, forwards tripping over each other while the opposition saunters past the midfield,through the defence and comes face to face with a hapless keeper. And why has Marshall not been training for 2 weeks? Wolves must have known that. How could we have got 1.5M in these circumstances? Whole process stinks, like the club.

Everyone else in the relegation zone has changed their manager and are looking to strengthen their squads. We are keeping our lame duck manager on and looking to offload players to get the wage bill down. If that isn't deliberate relegation strategy then I don't know what is.

I blame the agents Jal!

If Jim had taken a penalty he would have headed it!

Havn't read the 170 other posts but JIM FRYATT gets my vote. I'm voting on the basis of a player who had a reasonable number of games not someone who was picked just the once and abandoned.

We have to take one step back to take two forwards?

Talking unemotionally, a draw was a fair result. They had a bit more fluidity about their play than we did, had as much possession and created as many chances. Inevitable that one would go in at some point with our defensive set-up. It was a poor game, we are a poor team with failings a blind man could see. We look what we are, a hastily cobbled together team of freebies, cheapies and loanees. We will endure many more games we should have got something out of but we will still go down. Looking at the personnel, and remembering loans from Premier League clubs are vital to us, I still think someone else eg a Warnock would get more out of them. Coyle will probably be sacked once relegation looks unavoidable in keeping with a history of great Venky decision-making.

His voice isn't what it was imo.

Burnley fans will be there destroying the toilets.

Signing Danny Graham is unadulterated good news and news I didn't expect tbh.

I honestly think it smacks of realism, depressing though that is.

1st signing Spurr! Does that give you a clue?

Half of the squad will play Coyle's brand of open football though----the defence.

Exactly! Instead of losing 0-1 it'll be 3-4! Great for the neutrals and the winners.

It really is like Kean all over again. He gives "a good presser".

Time goes by and the search widens! Complete madness! Player manager needed then we have one less player to find in a hurry!