Doesn't like it up North i don't think but if you're going to do a project on the pitch to get promotion in a 3 year plan he's the type you'd be trying to get.

I don't think i saw Moran play for Rovers without some sort of bandage or strapping about him. Must've cost them a fortune in pre match pain killing injections.

Certainly wouldn't really call him an old bloke in management terms he really should be at his peak now. He does often cut the figure and come across as someone whose wind has gone from his sails though but again that's just judging a book by its cover. Anyone itk will say he works extremely hard but i think at times he may have been concentrating too much on the backroom stuff building up the inside of the club. He seems to have a real appetite to be seen as revolutionary in that area but on the pitch it's often looked like play it safe and go through the motions. Look after the squad and put a lot of responsibility onto his seniors and pals and hang others out to dry. Hence the pension pot jibes, just keep plodding season after season until something either drops in your favour or the owners finally get fed up. To me he's not the type who'll jack football in if he leaves here no matter how wealthy he'll be.

Same things were said about Armstrong early on last season when he was starting every game. Just another of those players who's body language doesn't always look good. He's a forward though and one's of his type just want balls to run onto and can't be arsed with anything else. To me he's always looked more happy on the left of a 3 not lurking about up top on his own, needs dropping to the bench tomorrow then unleash him. Usually seems to do the trick but imo we really do need a central striker from somewhere. Bad run ends tomorrow and a little purple patch coming up just to get everyone giddy again before Tony puts the blockers on it. Coventry 1 Rovers 2

Likes of him and DG are the ones who nick that one chance in tight games or when you're playing shite. That kind of thing is badly missing with us. It sometimes seems we win well or we don't win. Some called Rhodes a flat track bully only scoring against weaker sides mainly. Well not much has changed if that was the case. To really get anywhere we have to start nicking tight games and turning games around when we are behind. Not just against the good ones either. I agree this putting your stock into goals from around the side and ignoring the need for a reliable solid central striker is flawed for a team like us.

3 games v Cardiff, Forest and Watford yeilded 1 goal so it might be fair to say it's not a raging success. I'm quite confident we'd have nicked something out of one of those games with a Rhodes or Graham lurking about.

What planet are you on ? Planet Tony !

Don't be silly he'd still score more than anybody else if the formation suited but wouldn't fit how Mowbray wants to work now. What i was pointing out quite clearly is we had Rhodes then replaced him with DG but now there is no out and out striker or target man in the squad. We need one. Armstrong will get goals but last night highlighted the difference between someone like him or a Rhodes/Graham.

Yep it's not boxing nobodies scoring points for passes connected. What's happened last 2 games is a constant theme we can't see tight games out and we go behind we nearly always lose. These are the things that need ironing out and what the new possession based game was supposed to help with. Plus we need a proper striker, Rhodes, Graham...... Arma is not that man.

My guess is that's the way he's being coached, possession based remember. It's evident throughout the team.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing though isn't it.

Harper, Payne are another two, parent clubs were Prem clubs at the time and world away from where we were. Our very own BB can surely be filed under that as well.

We've had several highly rated young lads from top clubs under TMs watch, only one who paid off was Tosin - a defender.

Evans has made a career of not picking out passes like that but playing safety 5 yard ones instead. Now he's getting very sloppy at even that, Johnson has now had a season and a bit of learning '''''the rovers way' ie probably being told not to pick out these passes but play it safe. Be criminal if they don't make the use of this lads talents but lets be honest it won't be the first time we've had a so called wonder kid wasted here.

He's had the standard old school management cycle now so this season will tell us all we really need to know ( think we already know tbh ). 3rd Champ season in a row, constant backing in the windows to build his squad, big money buys, players for present and future signed. Now it's time to see if indeed it is on the right lines or still just a steady hand on the tiller. Everything stands at his door now and buying time will not wash anymore and at some point upstairs it probably won't either. Unless they embark on a cash grab back sales push that is.

Lots of variables this year thrown into n the mix. Wouldn't normally say it but approaching Christmas is the time to see were we are at this season. Falling well short or struggling then no ifs buts or maybes he should be put out to grass. Because in that scenario it's likely to be a season wasted so might as well look to the future.

The tinkermon is set to tinker. Some might say that is at least half the problem.

Same things are evident all the time it doesn't matter who he signs, who's available or isn't or how big the squad. The same things get done over and over the one constant is the manager. It's how he'll always do things.

Never going to be our night, might as well just shut up shop now.

Lenihen has shone at times but in the grand scheme of things he's overated vastly by us i conclude. Becoming a regular weak link.

Groundhog day x 10

He'd never have got 16 grand per week anywhere else over the last few years that's for sure. About TM finally saw through him and drew a line under it.

New players bedding in blah blah, same ones who weren't going to play anyway blah blah Just knew this was going to happen. Plenty time yet though, probably end up 4-3 to them.

There was the tale by a few witnesses that Dack turned up one matchday looking like he'd just rolled out of a hedge. Told he wasn't fit to play so he either was sent home or stormed off. Around the time he was having one of his domestic spats. Can't be having stuff like that interfere with the team so got to back the manager although the Graham thing sounds a bit daft. Probably a case of the boy who cried wolf with him though.

I just want to see him/us have a real go at it. Said the same last season but even more so now they've nothing to lose, if you're going to land in midtable anyway at least do so after trying to get into the top 6 not just trying to tread water and hope for a marginal gain. If we fall short we fall short but enough of the self preservation stuff please.