It's been outed now that your mate is the bus driver aka Reg Varney (hopefully clubs and media outlets who allegedly read this board don't see Varney and link us with Luke).

I feel really sorry for Rich Sharp today. He has the lead story and headline on the LT website to essentially talk about nothing. Go for it Rich and throw a few red herrings in out of sheer boredom.

We are looking at a Damps Quib who apparently we looked at last January.

There is time yet ??. I will be happy to eat humble pie but I won't oscillate like so many on the back of a couple of wins.

And for the last 10 games we are 6th, the last 8 games we are 9th and the last 6 games we are 10th.

Condolences on the passing of your wife Jack.

Delighted with the win, less so with the performance. I thought our passing was sloppy and we just invited pressure for the last twenty minutes which could well have cost us. I don't know if it's been mentioned but I thought we looked tired with three players cramping up towards the end. After four days away in Portugal and effectively a mid season break that was disappointing. We will just take the points and move on.

I didn't take it personally. Underpinning all of this debate is the reality that Mowbray will still be our manager come the start of next season.

I should have been clear. I was referring to our league position now (or at the end of his sixth window).

Even if that were true it's not his fault.

And throw into the mix that at 11 pm on Friday he will have had six transfer windows. I remember lots of pro Mowbray posts with a theme of giving him four transfer windows. After six windows and many millions spent I think we are marginally better than when he came. And unlike a couple of his predecessors he hasn't had to sell any players to generate income to spend.

Mowbray cited 'a business decision' for sending Cunningham back to Cardiff which I fully understand but where was the 'business decisions' when he was giving out silly contracts disproportionate to players abilty? The best for Rovers would be to try and clear the decks now in my view and that is where the focus of Waggott and Mowbray should be.

I was using Smallwood as an example but collectively all the deadwood who are out of contract will be costing us a lot of money between now and the end of June. Clearly Mulgrew (with 18 months left) would be the hardest to get rid of simply because of the numbers involved.

I would imagine there could be extras like loyalty bonuses which would bump the figures up considerably.

For me this is where the club has to take the bull by the horns and make them an offer of contract termination. If the remainder of Smallwoods contract is worth say £250k make an offer of £200k to terminate. Smallwood can then find a new club at the wages he is really worth. The two combined would more than compensate him. I would be looking at most of the players who are out of contract in the summer who clearly bring no value to the club and make similar offers.

I'm sure I read he was from Failsworth.

In one of his first full games he suckered Livermore into a retaliatory push and he was sent off. On Saturday he was incessantly booed by the Wednesday fans and it didn't appear to bother him. In fact Mowbray seemed more worried as he took him off.

If I was Foden's agent I would be using that as leverage in his next deal. ??

I think one of the reasons foreign teams chase (and often get) some of our young talent is that they hardly get a chance with their clubs. Foden is a prime example. Guardiola said something like he's the best player he's worked with but hardly gets a sniff, a few minutes here and cup matches. If he doesn't get a regular spot I can see him wanting to move but most top PL clubs wouldn't play him regularly. And most of the top Bundesliga teams would. And with release clauses now a common thing they are affordable.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11914609/jude-bellingham-manchester-united-offer-30m-for-birmingham-city-teenager It looks like Birminghams FFP prayers have been answered. I find it staggering that so much can be spent on what is still only potential. A football club down the road went under for a fraction of that.

My reading live and subsequent viewings was that Luongo simply mistimed his challenge as Travis got there fractionally before him. If anything it was reckless (yellow card) rather than the serious foul play the referee interpreted it as. The referee actually indicated that Luongo had stamped on Travis. Had there been VAR I think it would have been downgraded to yellow.

To be fair to Monk he didn't use the sending off as an excuse but had a go at his players.

And justice has been done. The referee completely misread the challenge. He motioned that Luongo had stamped on Travis and quite simply he didn't.

After the injuries to potentially our most saleable players I wonder if Mowbray has been spooked into protecting Buckley as he hasn't been part of the squad recently.

I don't know for sure but I would image there is a contract clause for either party for another year maybe dependent on appearances.