It's his usual double edged nonsense probably lifted from comments on here. For a start the under 10k pwk thing just fits with the FFP and embargo stuff. The not sanctioning long term deals etc surely applies to our own out of contract players as well ? Perhaps someone is trying to shove Mowbray under the bus it's classic Rovers under Venkys. Blame shifting but nothing changes because no one actually officially comments on anything. Next thing we know he'll have a contract extension and Nixon will be spinning that as a sensational U turn. I can fully believe that Mowbray and co encouraged them to sell Armstrong for the money on offer. After telling them they had a cheaper replacement lined up only for that to fall flat or be bullshit. They should know how he works by now though, slow train to retirement.

I don't get people blowing smoke up his fat ring at all he's a well known sh#t stirrer. Especially when it comes to Rovers so why put this story out now ? Naff all else to write that's why.

Maybe he just felt like being a bigger fish in a smaller pond for similar money. Here he'd be playing back up to kids and get rotated so much he'd be dizzy.

Yet... Nothing is done with any drive here anymore it's always why bother today we'll do it tomorrow. Waggot only surfaced to try and cover his arse over Brockhall then went back under his downgrading manual. TM will just be consulting his Coldplay album with his tea and biscuits before he lets rip with his spin when the tame local media get in front of him. All very relaxed and comfortable.

Yep at some point we'll have to take a big hit and it'll be a painful one but it needn't be a long one as demonstrated at Bolton etc.

The LT comments section is the club propaganda account nothing more. It's the two or three banging the drum for everything that goes on down there. On here, twitter and even facebook has more balance to it. Plenty posts the other night expressing similar views to a lot on here in terms of the transfer window. As well as the usual more positive views.

It was similar though early on last season we played a bit of counter attacking stuff and pressed high in other games. Then once there was a few points on the board it seemed to become all about possession every week. Odd game aside of course. Fully expect similar this season he can't resist messing about with it every time something has worked well hes altered it at some point. Hence no real consistency until the possession stats popped up last season. Usually it's the rotation of players and trying to get people involved all the time that dictates here.

I don't see how he can be expecting any sort of backing now to be honest. He himself knows that for our income hes had tremendous backing compared to similar clubs in his entire time here. He spaffed 12 million on 2 forwards years ago and only recently do we see any green shoots from either. He just about covered that with the sale of Armstrong but that was 4 years in the making nearly. Also he fell out with then nudged out a keeper for 3 million who is now probably worth triple that. The likes of Downing will have cost over a million in his brief stint here and there are other examples. So he's still in debt to them to the tune of millions on any balance sheet although of course selling a fit Dack would've balanced it. Pray we don't have to wait another 4 years for him to produce and sell another over 10 million !

They are daft enough to be hoodwinked again though by people they trust. Not maybe in the evil way of some of the former nest of snakes but more in a gentle trusting way. If and it's a big 'if' it's an ambitious top end challenging club they want then they are just backing the wrong horses again. Because they don't appear to be being ripped off almost monthly to the tune of millions disappearing and they like the guys in charge they just go along with it. One plan comes up they back it, doesn't work, a raft excuses get swallowed so tear it up and give us another one. We are on about the 3rd one now so you'd think some coffee might be being smelled. Wouldn't hang my hat on it though.

A combination of 1 and 3 for me.

Funny how most disappear in the puff of death spiral smoke only to return when there is that 1 win 12.

The owners are very capable of paying lip service and even more capable of Boris Johnson style U turns at the 11th hour. I wouldn't hold my breath for anything until it actually happens.

He will have told their clubs he'll develop them so i expect a few surprises. In typical fashion he'll have one or two of them shoehorned in somewhere they don't fit just to see if they can cope with it. It's absolute heaven for him all this is that's why i'm 90% certain it's him and the other two's idea to go this way.

They aren't capable of it nor do i think theres ever been much real desire. You can tell that by the patterns of play and style at times. Never been a hint or urgency or grabbing the bull by the balls its always been plod along 'this time next year' type stuff. They've pitched the slow build then been found out, pitched the possession stuff and getting in some experience whose done it before etc. Resulted in contributing to worst finish in years. So then they turn around and say you need 100 million ! To me this is just their latest little plan to keep their circus on the road another few years. So many things to hide behind now they've created their own cover.

I think it quite simply could just be a case of the Coventrio trying to show the owners they can operate with a small budget after coming under possible scrutiny for all they spent. And obviously the FFP issues. With AA out the door and the fee incoming it gives them leverage. Then not spending just begging and borrowing to finish midtable sets them up for new contracts. Look we've achieved the same as last season with 2 thirds the budget, that type of thing. Then throw in a few lines about journey starting and this is the way to promotion without 100 million but it may take another 2 or 3 years. And there you have it their sales pitch for new deals !

He's the only one who can really answer the questions that needs asking he is the owners right hand man. I'm constantly amazed he's allowed to continue his existence in some sort of parallel universe away any scrutiny. Local press should be ashamed of themselves, if he won't front up then flush him out, call him out but do something. What really is his role ? Who else is he connected to ? Who pays him and how much ? Is he on some kind of % for wheeling and dealing players or is he connected to or running his own agency from the club ? And why does he just sit back and hide in the shadows whilst the club goes round in circles and Mowbray & Waggot seem to do what they want ? If he's completely powerless then why is he even here, if he is ?

How many loans will we need next season ? Steve and Tony are creating room in the budgets for their own contract extensions

Downing back last season when there was no need, 400k and a long contract to Pears, the Chapman saga. There's a million quid down the tubes there for no good reasons at all. Then some wonder how money gets wasted here and why a lot of us think Mowbray is taking the piss.

If there'd been a player released by Boro, with the right connections wanting 20k pwk short term deal and Mowbray fancied him, he'd be here now. That's how self serving this lot are it's a rancid set up.

Why is anyone surprised at all ? We have form for this frequent low balling for players whose clubs have set a rough price. When and if they ever get past that they then low ball them with wage offers so it falls through. We get told they wanted 30k pwk, then they sign for clubs paying less than half that. Con jobs, the mass signings of the types we've got tells you all you needed to know about the real plan.

'Johns come in and done a great job he's sold a player in the last 12 months of his contract for big money. Hes brought in a host of highly thought of young players who'll only get better. Hes been sleeping at the training ground and hasn't seen his family, he works all hours this is why i, er sorry the club brought him here. The owners understand, they are happy with our business'

The back end is going to get rotated as much as the front line. It's ok though because he's only bothered about players personal development not league positions. Even if they aren't actually ours and offer no long term benefit to the club whatsoever.

True, probably for the first time ever on a consistent basis under Mowbray but now with all these kids to shoehorn in.....

Bingo. It's going back to how it used to be with all the ins and outs. Next thing they'll be flogging young players to lower div clubs for a few hundred grand again.

Yeah but Tony has promised to develop him in another position probably.