Combine him and Mowbray and there's a good manager there. Lacks a bit of experience but makes up for it with a brave no nonsense approach. Exactly what seems to be missing here.

Reed getting big plaudits as a defensive mid in Fulhams good season. That kind of thing sums up our current set up, pecking order and favs come first yet he's good enough to go in there and do that for Fulham. Why ? because he's a damn good player, better individually than anyone we have but no chance he'd displace anyone here. This is why we'll never move on in big enough strides.

Some might say it's too risky for them to do that so more likely a slow death and another ten years then no one will give a stuff anyway.

The raping of the club in all its gory detail. I'd have forensic accountants and the FBI going through that lot if i could.

His face doesn't seem to fit somehow but you'd think for this season he'd be cheap able bodied back up even if it's 4th in line. Might surprise a few if he gets chance.

The rumours are they always want to go for it but seems they might have been talked into the slow build instead. Which is double talk for give us time and we'll grow your investments to sell for lots of money. The slow build is the slow boat to nowhere but if sales eventually recoup enough to pay for it all they'll not bother in the slightest. You'd think at least one of them might be a bit more ambitious in their thinking though.

As far as Tosin is concerned i think another season here would do him the world of good. It should be a no brainer for then unless he can get a gig at a Prem club who'll give him games. On this seasons evidence he should be capable of coming on leaps and bounds in a team and enviroment he knows. Add some urgency and improve on his defensive side of his game and there'll be a player ready to step up to the Prem next year. Failing that an ambitious champ club with money might pay a good fee for him. I'm not keen on growing players for other peoples benefit but given the situ we are in and Mowbrays aversion to buying good run of the mill defenders it's probably the best option. If indeed it is an option which it probably won't turn out to be.

White, Talkshite and the rest all fed or feed at the teet of affiliates of you know who. No other station or reporters worth their salt would even mention Kean unless their wheels were greased he's biggest football no mark in history to retain any kind of news worthiness.

I also think that there is still a lot of window dressing gets done to create the illusion of potential big signings and ambition. That was around long before TM and i'm cast iron sure that some of the names we often get linked with he would jump at signing if there was any real chance of it. He might rotate the life out of them if he did like.

If it's a good one for a million pound loan fee plus wages why waste money on a permanent one when you can spend it on another wide forward or midfielder. It's only a goalkeeper after all, they only fetch 3 million these days.

You should start another business blowing up balloons pal ?

Ha ha at what ? Iv'e been on here years and so have you, i'm still waiting........

Don't fall for it it's just 'assumption' like the rest of us ?

Usually this time of year Rovers are allegedly enquiring about players we all know we can't afford. Who'll be this year's - Whiteman ?

He does and it's having a better budget than most others, a starting point of a squad with already Prem/good championship quality in it and being able to bring a few exotic names in. Non of which applies to the job here sadly and the evidence we have over the last 2 seasons is he struggles to better a few clubs whose budgets are smaller. I'm not advocating him sacked but lets deal in facts there's no evidence whatsoever in his career he can get blood from stones or polish turds.

They pulled Mowbray from the bottom of the very same barrel Coyle was in and Lambert so who knows what's down there. For all we know he might be no worse, no better either but if the dice has to be rolled i'm pretty sure it won't land Brown side up. I'd wager he'll be into a lower league job before that happens then you'll have to throw up the next biggest nightmare you can find.

His tactics were a bit rank tbh and he couldn't set up a defense either so i'll pass on that one ta. I'd put Johnson in right now and have Mowbray mentor him for a season. By mentor i mean step back into the background and let Johnson take full charge of team selection, training and tactics. Just be there if needed for advice etc and keep a presence about the place to keep the players in check so they don't take the piss. He likes slumping back in the dugout on matchdays anyway so that doesn't need to change.

I think i'd rather have Nyambe running his deal down for another season and hope we do well. Hope he changes his mind and signs another rather than cash him in for a few million now which will disappear. Then a season of capt fantastic in that spot, suit Mowbray down to the ground that would.

This is the epitaph of the entire Venky reign so far. Pinch pounds with one hand and throw 50 pound notes on the bonfire with the other.

This is the Championship so lets have a back four and keeper who can defend, know their jobs and compliment each others basic styles. Ball playing center halves, wing backs and spectacular keepers are all well and good if they know each other inside out and can defend as a unit otherwise just luxuries. Basics first everything else follows.

It's never been a settled unit it's never been built that way either. And at times it's often resembled the one that got relegated from this lge several years ago. It's quite bonkers it was never brought up to scratch a while ago really.

He won't be on City's bench for league games i don't think certainly not yet and Walton won't be Brightons no 1 maybe not even regular no 2. Some need to get real i think one's looked decent on the ball at an average midtable championship side. The other has looked between competent and awful in various spells at the same side. Both have a lot to prove yet.

All hypothetical of course but we might well have got Tosin even if he'd signed Bauer so the comparisons have been twisted a bit anyway. For me i think it's quite certain that at one point he dropped Bauer to put the money towards Downing if we look at the timings etc. Both were earmarked as back up after all.

He knows that damn well it's the type of thing he'd argue himself if it was the other way around. A pedantic soul if ever there was one ?

You don't understand building our own defense ? I'd despair but i'm not really surprised. Tosin over Bauer and an alleged million quid cost attached to it leaving us well out of the play offs, behind the other guy in the table and now back to square one with poss no money is a masterstroke ? Turned out a decent signing in the end but that counts for zero now absolutely nothing unless you're the player himself of his parent club. Just how in the grand scheme of things is it we could easily be sitting here saying Bauer done ok he didn't cost anything and we are looking at a decent partnership next season. That might been seen as a masterstroke getting a guy in for nothing and it working out. You dig yourself into some holes on here at times ? As for Williams he was signed here as a left back, has played most of his time here at left back then at his own request wanted to only be considered as a center half after a few games there. That's all that matters, the End.