Peterboroughs chairman is an absolute bell end to be fair. Everytime he was asked about him especially after they kept him he was bigging him up, saying he was a Championship player so everything he does is a PR exercise. We can only see how he does in this League but he would walk into our team.

Weve been unlucky recently but for the first 23 games, we had all bar Cunningham (for half of that time) so one major injury which is hardly rotten luck and we never got into the top 6 during that time.

It will sell fast if you advertise the additional features including the outtakes of Sam Gallagher as a right winger!

He came in with a difficult task but he failed in achieving it. He showed enough to warrant continuing of course but all of this extrapolating of his results is flawed, it wouldnt work out like that, many of our final games were v teams with nothing to play for and the fact that we came so close baring in mind some of the results, the collapse v Preston, the dismal performance v Barnsley, the drab draw v Bristol City (all at home) combined with how close we came to staying up showed that it was achievable. He had a difficult task and he failed it. He wasnt the protagonist to our relegation of course. I think failed to prevent relegation is a fairer evaluation.

I would agree but we are currently 12th and I would be pleasantly surprised if that happened.

It all screams of conspiracy, its more likely a coincedence. There is absolutely no rational thinking behind our initial transfer strategy. Grant Hanley was a reliable staple of our defence for a few years, firstly with Scott Dann (big money) and then replaced by Shane Duffy. (bargain) That partnership was broken up at a time when we spent 250k all summer, and Mowbray took over soon after. He has chosen to spend most of money on 2 strikers, he has suggested before that he picks the players and explained his (flawed IMO) reasoning behind his signings, he also put his neck on the line promising defenders so I cannot start subscribing to conspiracy theories just IMO deflecting blame. For what it is worth I am not saying for sure that I want Mowbray out, I summised my thoughts earlier in this thread where i listed both the positives and negatives and if he went today I would look back at his spell in charge positively. I just think the doubts regarding his ability to use any considerable budget to progress us and also our inability to ever get into the targeted top 6 has to raise many doubts. I dont think people doubt that we are in better shape than when he joined. I think the question might be are we in enough of a better state considering the money spent during that time? You could change your analysis to be 1. Failure to keep us up in difficult circumstances. 2. Promotion. 3. Consolidation. 4. Potential stagnation.

The thing was, Bennett was particularly prevalent at a time when the club was in a promotion season, it was always positive, basically every tweet was a victorious one, its going to only attract positivity. The problem is there will always be a time after negative results that if you are constantly on social media, "we go again" etc whilst some will see it as a noble act it will sometimes provoke and antagonise fans who have paid their money and are hurting. I am not justifying it but with football fans (not just ours) when emotions are high this kind of thing does tend to rear its ugly head. I personally would be happy to see footballers come off social media but of course thats taking away their rights. I remember Shane Duffy copped some flak on twitter (prior to the very sour end) and you compare the 2, Duffy was a very competent defender that moved up, Bennett is struggling at this level. The comments about him being "Mowbrays mate" are because that, across various lengths of time, many of the League 1 stalwarts not up to this level, Smallwood, Mulgrew, Williams etc have been jettisoned by the manager, Bennett is very much in that bracket yet until recently, when tension with fans etc has actually eased, he was not only still a regular but he was just being shunted in what ever position was left and repeatedly proving to be a liability. As I said, Mowbray was somewhat sentimental giving Smallwood a chance but after half a season Mowbray deserves credit for promoting Travis ans upgrading. I personally understand and empathise with players reluctant to give up financially healthy contracts that they feel they have earnt but can understand why others dont. That said its easy to say when its not you. People appreciate what Mowbray did initially, to suggest that he is not the man now for us to progress doesnt take that away.

If there is any truth to the conspiracy that he cant sign defenders, he was incredibly naive to promise that they were coming! Ultimately, he was showered with praise during his most successful season. He has had plenty of praise. And he has been at the club for a long period of time nowadays so its a constant dilemma after a while of whether he is the man to move us onto the top 6/promotion target that he has set. When we have never once made the top 6 even temporarily and the main chunks of money he has had have been totally wasted, and the good signings are mainly the short term ones, you are going to naturally have people harbouring major doubts over whether he can push us forward. Ultimately a bad result or two is enough to remove any temporary cover over those feelings of doubt. Even when we are in form we never break into the top 6 which is why it is very difficult to justify that we are credible contenders towards the expectations the manager has set.

Id take Feeney over Gallagher on the wing any day and thats saying something. But its an unfair comparison because Gallagher is not a winger and has never had a good game there.

Would keep Corry Evans around too. Sadly Bennett, Johnson and Mulgrew will be nigh on unshiftable.

Agree with all (as a few may testify!) but he gives his all, dont think you can doubt his work rate.

Downing was signed with the intention if playing in numerous positions, but with a lack of pace he has always looked most comfortable central. Armstrong was always seemingly being geared to be a striker. Gallaghers ability in general we may disagree on but surely you agree that he should never be played wide. He has never once had a game that justifies it and to be fair I feel sorry for him being shunted there. But I am not just focusing on him. Brereton and Samuel are equally poor out wide if not even worse yet when they play it is often wide. Mowbray loves a wide forward but its never been an effective tactic and our goals have always mainly come from central areas. Why sign an actual winger and not even give him one start when we have no alternatives. Im not interested in excuses from the previous window as its been an achilles heel through Mowbrays time.

Cant argue at all with your analysis on Johnson and Gallagher. I suspect that Chapman wont be the answer and I wasnt overly excited by his return but hes a natural winger who takes on his full back and for him to not be given one chance from the start when some of our failed alternatives have had repeated chances to prove their worth or lack of beggars belief.

He didnt do anything. Theres no point pretending otherwise just because hes young, its not a downbeat attitude, its just saying it as it happened. I dont think Chapman is the "next Lionel Messi" at all, but the alternatives out wide are so poor (Gallagher out wide, Bennett etc) that a natural winger with pace is surely worth a go over tried and repeatedly failed alternatives. We are only left scraping the barrel due to the repeated inadequacies of the manager to address the problematic position, desperate to shoehorn poor strikers into that position instead.

Even though we hadnt been in the top 6 at any point during the season? Baring in mind that Dack got injured on the 23rd December, on matchday 23, and Holtby, Rothwell and Evans were injured very recently.

One less option but not sure how much of a loss it is considering how ineffective he was in his 2 starts. Chapman has to start.

Gallagher remaining on the right wing?

There was one point on Saturday when Bell picked up the ball on the left with loads of space and I thought to myself, he will check back any second and go back again like he always does. He didnt, he proved me wrong, instead he ran forward and just straight off the pitch.

Your quote that is supposedly said every time we lose is obviously a massive exaggeration. But ultimately the problem is that the vast majority of the money weve had in the last 2 years has been horribly wasted and perhaps suggest that the manager will struggle to progress us to the team we aspire to be and ultimately we have never been in the top 6 which is our target. Those 2 frustrations and concerns are naturally unconvered when we lose a game.

Surely its natural for football fans to be "upset" when their team loses? I presume Man City fans are unhappy because their aim was to win the League again and they are miles away. Do you think their fans would be pacified if you said to them "youd think we was in 17th place?" The weakest part of our team is probably out wide where we only have 1 short term injury and literally no other competent options, assuming Downing is a central player at his age (far more effective there) and Armstrong a striker.

What team would everyone play on Tuesday night? Walton Nyambe Lenihan Adarabioyo Bell Chapman Travis Davenport Downing Graham Armstrong Not ideal having Downing wide but in the absence of any competent wingers at least one of him and Armstrong will have to play there. Very much a pragmatic 442, not Armstrong as a number 10. Johnson and Rankin Costello should be taken out. No more strikers out wide bollocks. No Samuel near the 18.

I was more interested in his continuous and consistent record of goals and assists rather than a big mouthed chairman inferring that the player like the majority of human beings is somewhat motivated by money. Maddison or Gallagher out wide? Maddison or Rankin Costello as a 10?

It is adapting "a mob like attitude" to feel like the manager should be heavily criticised and questioned for spending 12m on 2 absolutely joke footballers?

It wouldnt be too difficult to play wide and do a better job than a 5m striker who has had a grand total of zero effective games from a wide position yet has become our first choice winger to be fair.

I dont know why the fact that Mowbrays trying his best to improve us and that hes working hard is constantly brought up as a defence of him. No one doubts that, and the same probably goes for the other 23 managers in the League. You mention FFP and the need players to exceed their value which I feel like your defensive and flippant attitude towards the Gallagher and Brereton is somewhat inconsistent with that. You mention wages but Gallagher was reportedly on 40k at Southampton so even with a wage cut you would suspect that he is probably our highest earner, and I bet Brereton isnt on the peanuts some make out considering that he is a 7m signing. There will always be teams like Fulham who undoubtedly we arent on the same level financially but it is much more difficult to plead comparative poverty when you have a 5m and high earning ineffective striker as our first choice winger, who has never had a good game from that position and we dont really have any other wingers bar Chapman who has fallen off the face of the earth. I appreciate that you have criticised Gallaghers performance but you have also defended Mowbray and even called the outlay on him and Brereton as a "fairly moderate/good amount!" I am starting to get a case of de ja vu with Rankin Costello compared to what I have seen from Buckley. Both look out of place in the Championship and slightly overawed and it is obviously difficult to justify giving them a run of games unless they are capable of having an impact on games, even with our lack of alternatives. Of course they will and should get more chances but I can't say that either has made me particularly excited at all from the limited we have seen from them in terms of having any attacking impact on games.