Doing the right thing with Markanday get him fit and let him earn his way in. He cost about 500k plus add ons not 7 million so i'm not expecting this potential worldie if i'm honest.

At least you aren't factitious

Well it's a fitness guy they are after to replace the one whose left so separate to those two i'd assume.

I'll always have him down as a tosser for sitting on his contract here but his agents and Mowbray are equally as bad for allowing it. And that goon of a ceo. However both being of lge 1 or 2 ability there is no way Lowe is better, non. Smallwood captained Hull to winning lge 1 i think ? Then staying up in the Champ and he was everything Lowe wouldn't have been in lge 1 for us. Lowe was beyond useless in our relegation season then was on a free and only perennial crisis club Brum were interested were he predictably flopped quickly. Then only crisis club and skint Bolton were interested where he played in their worst side in recent history before dropping again to Salford. Thank god those days are gone and thank god for the academy.

Surely Performance coach and technical coach can't be poles apart when it comes to the day to day stuff ? Maybe they are expanding it or maybe slightly altering it in which case i'd keep a close eye on it they could ease a few out as time goes on. Must be costing an absolute fortune now the backroom stuff.

If Bowyer had one major flaw here it was this but the club had got him on a contract where he was too expensive not to play i think. Someone had convinced them there'd be a big sale fee involved at some point.

I thought his title more replicates that of Johnson.

JPVH was better in one season here than Duffy was in his entire time.

A lot ? No, just the minority he had were very noisy ones who camped on here night and day.

The way Rothwell played last season helped us shed off the possession football the manager had foisted on us out of nowhere. Finally a move on from the likes of Evans, Trybull etc so for that he should have had our thanks. I don't want to see it return.

Only in short spells but that's probably what we'd expect of a young player. Should have been put out of his false nine misery once it wasn't happening for him anymore. Came to life again once moved to his more natural role so hopefully a bit stronger and consistent this season. Great little player in the making.

Obviously a different type but will serve the side better imo.

Plonked in these cities the likes of Sheff and Swansea know they'll still get 15k+ turning up paying whatever, especially early games when hope is high. Away fans are just an after thought when it's a club like us, Rovers though on the other hand look at it the opposite way around. Or at least they did last season but a few pennies have dropped i think. Swans 1 Rovers 2

Could just be a touch of the Brad Dacks in his later days at his previous club.

Vale needs to develop whereas Gally is as close to the finished article as he's ever going to get so we should make best use of that now. Get a good season out of him then cash in the chips and reinvest.

We haven't really seen enough of Gallagher in that role to judge him.

The vibes i get are BBD and Gallagher won't be here this time next year also possibly Dack. IF getting the payroll down whilst investing in 1 to 2 million pound players on lower to hopefully increase in value is the aim. That's the way it'll go i reckon and GB and JDT will be looking to pull some rabbits out of hats but it's probably the way Brentford built up. And that lot down the road.

Maybe JDT is trying to get and keep Dack fit for he knows BBD will be off. Dacky on the left it is ...

He actually said about the team spirit so no need to interpret that as anything other than what he said. Agree on the rest the guy has had some good pedigree to learn under, a bit like Hughes.

He said when he came he wants a better team spirit than everybody else and wants us to work harder than everybody else. Between the lines i'd say that's his method to try and achieve something despite the lack of clout and quality we may have compared to a few others.

Think the away support will be badly hit this season with the way things are going which is a shame.

JDT wants a hardworking team that defends from the front and hopefully creates openings through that sheer graft. We've been through this before you cannot football your way out of this league with average players. The only way is add quality which we can't afford or you come up with a different system to make best use of what you can get. That's where we are and it looks like we now have a coach and set up who realise it, you want intensity you have to bring in those players.

Sounds like Van Hecke might be off to Hull

I agree, people are forgetting this lark with BBD wide left and Gally right was for a false 9 system created by TM. As good as he is Brereton spends a lot of game time contributing nothing so i'm sure JDT will want to evolve the style, that's why he's here.

Hope Tyler doesn't turn up in a black range rover.......