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The set up from the start but especially with Sigurdsson as a wing back and Rankin Costello as a third centre back certainly was a manager losing his marbles.

I find it staggering how he even enters your mind after todays game and the current position and run of form considering he left 18 months ago. Why is he still living rent free in your head?

He talked about calming expectations, to me thats just typical manager spiel, trying to lower expectations. Tomasson has been doing it all season. The last January window, Mowbray said he had turned down loans from the Premier League and that he wanted to sell Rothwell as he wanted to spend but he was blocked. In that same window, Revidge claimed he had turned down funds to spend. That was bollocks. But again my point was that hes been gone for 18 months and yet for Revidge he is still getting more blame than the owners somehow. If that money was unspent, why does it then vanish?

The main issue is the owners cutting the budgets etc but this current run isnt acceptable even with the current players. The selection today was bizarre and the shape post substitutions was laughable. Also a better coached side would not be so bad from attacking set pieces and concede so often from defensive ones.

He said he turned down strikers on loan. But either way, my point was more that its such a strange reaction to go down the Mowbray rabbit hole having seen your team limp to a lucky draw at home to a shocking side continuing a woeful run with a poor and thin squad that has been underfunded. All the blame as ever goes everywhere bar to the root cause of all of our problems for RevidgeBlue. Even if we ran with this nonsensical rumour, why did that money never materialise down the line?

Turn down 1m and loan out to a team much closer to us.

The return of the transfer window has led to lots more of this. Random supposed transfer links totally lacking context.

Again the blame is totally deflected from the owners. No doubt that the managers future should start to be questioned. That Broughton albeit with peanuts could have done better. You are even targetting Mowbray again as if thats relevant including ficticious transfer budgets available that funnily enough didnt remain for the next manager. But this squad left is so threadbare and the owners have gone AWOL.

Absolutely shocking performance again. A weridly imbalanced side and the decision to go with Sigurdsson as a wing back and JRC as a right centre back is right up there with any of the weird Mowbray decisions. Another set piece conceded too. Chrisene looks like a fish out of water too in the Chanpionship and our other signing cant even get off the bench. The owners have stripped the squad down of any quality but serious questions should at a normal club be asked of the manager as this isnt acceptable.

He clearly has minimal input into transfers. He seems forever in the dark and last window he repeatedly said he had authorised players that never turned up, and he didnt get what he wants.

"Popping up" where exactly?

I am quite surprised that you are potentially for this deal, considering your opinion on Danny Graham at a time when he was still effective enough to win player of the season here. Jutkeweicz is better in the air than Gallagher, but the latter is quick and powerful, the former is totally immobile now. Gallagher has got 8, 9 and 8 in recent seasons, compared to 8, 2 and 5. Birmingham fans will be nostalgic about a player that a number of years ago was a good player for them. He is not that player now.

Jutkeweicz is also out for 3 weeks with a calf injury.

Not sure weve had 2 good loans this season. Moran has been underwhelming overall, many more anonymous games compared to his effective ones, and regularly played out of position. Perhaps evidence that we sign (well, borrow) who we can rather than what we need. Hill often also played out of position and only stayed for half a season. He impressed at times but ultimately was part of a defence that has been the worst in the league and we needed experience and got a young lad. Weve got 2 more now, neither of whom are likely to be regulars. Ayari seems to be a natural number 10 who contrary to what has been said and assuming an experienced midfielder doesnt come in, is taking our captains position potentially leaving us weaker.

He has 2 this season, 5 last season, 2 the season before. Hes also totally immobile. He isnt better than Gallagher.

It really isnt. Gallagher is a far better striker and that is saying something, especially for the sake of maybe 500k-1m in the owners back pocket never to be seen.

He would be a shocking signing, especially as a replacement for our only competent striker. Hopefully its untrue because it would be the desperate signing of a donkey who couldnt hit a cows arse with a banjo. Im sure it would prompt one or two to say, you wanted experience what more do you want. Not him.

The issue on experience is down to the owners who wont authorise deals for older players as shown with the Batth deal. Waggott is just a fairly powerless clown but the issues are above his head and he seems as clueless as anyone else regarding what the owners ie the real problem are likely to do next.

I suspect there is no truth as per usual if he things weve got millions ready to buy him. Millwall being linked always seemed lazy.

Its an easy and lazy way to point fingers. Hes been playing crap, probably a mixture of poor form, lack of confidence, playing in a struggling team, ring rust and crucially his weaknesses being exposed due to tactics that are exposing all of our defenders.

Im guessing he would be a loan and it makes far more sense for them even for much higher wages seeing as they might never get as good a chance at promotion.

But if no one comes in weve lost our only effective striker and weve weakened ourselves even further. Even if he is bang average. Problem is, the people in footballing roles dont get autonomy under these owners and dont get to reinvest funds that come in.

No I wouldnt. My preferred option would be to sell him and reinvest the amount on an upgrade. As we know that wont happen, the next best scenario is for Ipswich to not meet his price tag because he is considerably better than the alternatives merely as a bang average Championship striker as opposed to either no replacement or another young lad borrowed from a Premier League club.

It is really hard to judge Broughton especially this season with not only the budget cuts but the policy on not signing anyone out of nappies. I certainly don't think that recruitment has improved upon before he was here, I am not convinced by him and getting the job was a big jump for him.

Based on the fact that the owners won't permit older signings as shown by them allowing Hill after stopping Batth, that isn't his doing.