jim mk2

We need a better goalkeeper and an entirely new back four if we are to stop shipping goals and have any chance of promotion next season

The 1962-65 team was better than the 1995 title-winning side.

You can get away with playing players out of position against poorer teams but sooner or later you'll get found out - like yesterday for instance. If we are aiming higher, we are going to need proper right backs, centre halves and wingers etc, not players filling a shirt because they are "versatile" I never said the latter, but when you're within 3 points of the playoffs with so many games to go to me it seems to me a huge missed opportunity not to strenghen in the transfer window.

Nailed on I'd say.

Why are you discussing it then ? Most Rovers fans see Brereton as a waste of £1 never mind £7 million. When the team is full of so many square pegs in round holes, and in desperate need of investment in so many positions, his fee will always be an issue while he continues to do an impression of a poor man's Corrado Grabbi

We won't get anywhere in this division if Nuttall is considered good enough to be in the team

You win promotion by having a solid defence, not trying to outscore the opposition. Priority No 1 is to have a keeper who doesn't cost vital points by making silly mistakes, then a domnant centre half. We have neither

A damning statistic on Mowbray and his tactics

Not really the point. There was a real chance today to get close to the playoffs and keep the momentum going. Conceding 5 to a team below us in the league is totally unacceptable The team still collapses all too easily

Just like Bowyer - manager, team and club takes fright at taking the next step

No strengthening in the transfer window was a huge error. I notice Britt scored 2 for Boro today

Soft underbelly of this team exposed again Every single time we approach the playoffs we get nosebleed and take 2 steps back The £7m wasted on Brereton was criminal really when it would have bought 3 players the team needed much more

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What's Nyambe done wrong ?

Nuttall won't help relieve the pressure. He's hopeless at holding up the ball

Is Dack on ?

3 in for West Brom. That's what you do when you want to win promotion

Just one decent player would have been sufficient. Quality usually costs money - unless it's Ben Brereton

Mowbray is tying his hands by only looking at British players or players only currently playing in this country. Hasn't he learnt that home-based players are expensive (Brereton £7m ????) and are on very high wages? There are very few Bradley Dacks around - if he wont spend the money he needs to look abroad for the bargains - something which he seems reluctant to do.

We've got ourselves into a good position in the league and just needed one quality forward signing to give us that bit of a push to make the top 6. Really poor effort by the club.

A poor show by Rovers. Another striker could have pushed us into the top 6. Anyone thinking Nuttall will deliver are going to be very disappointed.

Except they are very expensive.

I'd say Newton, Hunter and Wilson would walk into the current team, and Martin, Metcalfe and Rogers might be vying for a place too. But compared to the 1962-65 side it's nowhere near as good a squad

Great photo ! Look at the size of John Barton - who did he steal a living as a professional footballer ? Some good players there - Knighton, Hunter, Martin etc but some ropey ones too - the likes of Calloway and Kopel. But the club was on the way down and that squad isn't a patch on the one from 4 years earlier. Sir Keith sticks out as a Rolls Royce amongst a load of Ford Cortinas.