You must be watching different matches to me! In the games I've seen, Chapman always looks like he can make something happen which is more than can be said for most of our other outfield players. Don't think Rankin Costello will make it. At 20, I'd expect him to have far more of an impact on a game, even at U23 level; IMO, a 'Joe Average' whose level is probably League 1 at best. Hilton doesn't convince me. Keepers mature with age and, IMO, he's a lot of maturing to do - would get eaten alive at 1st team level. Think he needs loaning out to a League 2 club to see if he sinks or swims - I think he'll sink.

Totally agree. Expect a win by at least two goals tonight. Feckin sick of reading stuff suggesting we are playing Liverpool, PSG, Barca, Juve etc.

Think you need to cost in transfer receipts and wages!

Rankin-Costello, Buckley, Mols, Davenport - none have stood out in my eyes. These lads are 20 / 21 year olds and, IMO, at best, they will never be better than average Championship players. If Chapman is such a prat, and I don't think he is having watched him several times, then why the feck did Mowbray sign him having known the lad for years!!! By the way, he's just 22 so hardly a veteran and only a year or two older than the likes of Rankin-Costello, Buckley, Mols, Davenport. So, with your argument, if Mowbray hadn't of, IMO, spunked away £12million+ in fees and committed the club to big wages on Brereton and Gallagher, the pot would have been at least £20million bigger over a 4 year period. I think he's had the resource, and even told us he only needs to ask for more!, and blown it!!! You optimise the resource you have - that is good management. Sheff U and Brentford have shown the way probably with budgets less than ours. IMO, Mowbray has failed and we need someone who knows the market and can work it.

Absolutely. Mowbray admitted at Blues 12 months ago he was brought in to keep us up. He failed. IMO, we drew matches we should have won and lost matches we should have drawn owing to his tactics (or lack of them).

Not great from what I've seen of him in the U23's etc. The lad's 21 years old now and should be showing a lot more.

Exactly what I would do. IMO, Gallagher MUST NOT start whether it be out wide or as a central striker. I think Mowbray has dropped another huge expensive clanger with his signing. I think Johnson is washed up and finished. Thought he looked over weight on Saturday - unfit, slow and poor distribution. Fully agree. I'd like to see Chapman given a run of games. To me, the lad's got good natural ability, can make things happen and is capable of getting you on the edge of your seat. B0ll0cks to all this attitude business. IMO, Mowbray has totally mismanaged the lad and I would be p1ssed off if I'd been treated the same way. The lad needs an arm around the shoulder and to be told how good he is now and just how good he can be going forward - give him his wings and watch him fly. IMO, the lad has more natural ability than Brereton, Gallagher and Rankin Costello put together. As supporters, you want to be excited and sadly, IMO, under Mowbray we've seen too much turgid stuff and 'ale house' football - and some on here had the nerve to criticise Big Sam!

Totally uninspiring stuff. Fulham looked a different class going forward, inventive and incisive - wonderfully worked goal. Can recall their keeper having one save to make all day and that came in the last 20 minutes from Gallagher. Don't think Rankin-Costello is going to make it though in fairness to the lad, played out of position whilst Gallagher played out wide yet again in Rankin-Costello's preferred position!!! Absolutely barmy from, IMO, our square peg in round holes, hopeless manager. Downing the only player to stand out - Travis worked hard but achieved very little. I think Johnson, Gallagher and Armstrong were diabolically poor. Last 20 minutes saw three big lads up front (Gallagher, Graham and Samuel) as we reverted to, IMO, 'ale house' football in what I think was Mowbray's attempt to bully/batter Fulham into a mistake. I think our manager is a footballing dinosaur. Will say it again, I think we are going nowhere under Mowbray and he has to go. Some came on here after Thursday's meeting waxing lyrical about Mowbray and Waggott - hopefully, they will think again and see through, IMO, the smoke, mirrors, b0ll0cks and bullsh1t of Mowbray and Waggott.

@chaddyrovershink IMO, it's all smoke and mirrors, bullsh1t and b0ll0cks and sadly some fans buy it. I've read a number of posts on here over the last 24 hours with some posters waxing lyrical about Mowbray and Waggott also stating they've the club's best interests at heart. All our supporters have the club's best interests at heart including you yourself, however, it doesn't mean you are competent or savvy enough to manage / run the club! IMO, it's all feckin nonsense. You don't go shopping at Harrods if you only have a Poundland budget. You find the rough diamonds and feckin polish them. IMO, as a club we are, at best, stagnating. One poster talked about Mowbray and Waggott laying foundations - well at this rate, I think it will be the year 3000 before the house is built providing the structure hasn't already collapsed into the ground! What has Waggott done as our CEO to advance the club? What has Mowbray done to advance our club? IMO, we are only marginally better off than we were when Mowbray arrived 3 years ago. Make no mistake, this summer, IMO, will be a massive rebuilding job with anything from 8 to 10 players needed (when arguably we should have needed only a couple of quality signings to take us to the next level) and we will be as far away from the PL as we have ever been as a Championship club. Other than the odd exception, I think the player trading (I don't refer to it as player trading strategy because as far as I can see we don't have a strategy!) under Mowbray and Waggott has been very, very poor and IMO, where we will find ourselves in the summer will be almost entirely down to their incompetence.

Bottom line is we didn't sign a single player and the team hasn't been improved. In my books, the window has therefore been an abysmal failure as every club should be looking to move forward. There are simply no excuses. If Mowbray and Waggott can't do any better then they should be replaced by folk who can.

Been through this thread in its entirety and seems to me a number who went last night were seduced by Mowbray's persona just as many were in Blues Bar almost 12 months ago. Compare what he said then and what has since happened, or rather not happened! I didn't buy it then and even less likely to buy it now. I think the man is a bullsh1tter and at best, a very, very average football manager. As for Waggott, to talk about naming a training pitch after Tony Parkes, is, IMO, totally and utterly disdainful. It is not as though the news of Parkes' illness was suddenly sprung upon him and he hadn't had time to think. I think Waggott is intellectually challenged and way out of his depth as our CEO. I think the sooner Mowbray and Waggott are out of our club the better.

IMO, not fit to be CEO of our great club. I think the man talks utter b0ll0cks.

Good luck to Holtby. It's a huge blow for him and Rovers. This is a nasty injury and when its torn from the bone (either thigh or shin) then there's a likelihood of other knee damage. I think Mowbray is wildly optimistic thinking the lad might be back for the play offs, if we get there, as I understand recovery for a sports person is generally a minimum of three months and in some instances up to seven to nine months.

Look at our Academy and all the £millions invested over the years. Didn't Rovers say the cost was in the region of £3million+ per year. My challenge would be is it really working? Look at Liverpool last night, in a FA Cup match against Liverpool, they fielded a team of youngsters with an average age of 19 and won and look at the team that defeated Everton in the previous round. I could not see Rovers fielding a team in such circumstances from the 'ranks' and winning. Mowbray talks about our 'kids' and Lenihan is going on 26 and Nyambe and Travis are 22 - these are not 'kids'. 'Kids' are what Liverpool fielded last night. When did our Academy last produce a real talent sought by PL clubs or European clubs? As a very, very bare minimum, as a Championship club, I would expect Rovers to 'produce' the likes of Lenihan, Nyambe and Travis. As as PL club, IMO, that would be a shocking return given the resource going into the Academy. You say we have "good youth players coming through and IMO some players who could become 1st team players in the future". IMO, the likes of Grayson (age 20), Magloire (age 21) and Mols (age 21) are not good enough and never will be. As for Buckley (age 20), Butterworth (age 20) and Rankin-Costello (age 20), a couple of them might become a Championship player but they are not, IMO, hammering down the doors to our first team nor set to become the 'next big thing' in the way Damien Duff, David Dunn and Phil Jones were - all playing regular first team football (and in the PL) as 17/18/19 year old lads. So if you measure our Academy objectively, IMO, it isn't working as it should. As for our Sports Science department again, I look at 'results' and the evidence I see in matches. I think we are one of the least mentally and physically fit teams in the league and as a result, the incidence of injury is higher. IMO, there are examples of players being injured and then sent back on the field, possibly worsening their injuries (posters above have given examples including Lenihan and Chapman). What sort of medical judgement calls are those? We seem to pick up lots of injuries and take an age to get players back. Younger players (as opposed to those 30+) shouldn't be injured as often as they are or take months to get into a state where Mowbray thinks they are fit enough for first team contention; Lenihan, Nyambe, Evans (excluding his facial injury), Holtby, Chapman and Davenport all readily spring to mind. Sit back Chaddy, think about it and try to measure things more objectively. Sadly, too many fans seem happy with mediocrity, are blinded by smoke and mirrors and think all things are rosy in the Ewood garden.

Absolutely. I think we once had very decent fitness and medical departments. Sadly, IMO, I think every level of the club has been downgraded under the present owners and its executive management. IMO, we have paid, and will continue to do so, a very heavy price. You get what you pay for. I think we've squandered tens of £millions on transfer fees and wages for some very, very mediocre footballers and that's being kind!. A fraction of that invested in key personnel would have reaped dividends. You need a quality CEO, football manger, chief scout, academy director and head of sports' medicine and you then give them a decent infrastructure to work with. Sadly, IMO, we fail in those five key positions and have done so for too long now; as a result, I think our club has regressed from an established PL club to, at best, a Championship club where stagnation prevails with our owners looking down the barrel at a near £200million loss. IMO, unnecessarily tragic.

Trouble is Chaddy, you don't accept what many see, with good reason, as blindingly obvious. I think we signed a dud in Brereton and, IMO, Gallagher isn't that much better! You can have all the technical / tactical video booths in the world but if you haven't got a degree of natural ability then you are stuffed. As the old proverb goes 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear'!

Don't see any reason why we can't win this. Despite taking a three goal lead, Fulham fortunate to win their home game against Huddersfield and owe a huge debt of gratitude to their keeper for some great stops. We need to get on the front foot from the off and get in their faces and then we've a chance. As posted late Saturday, think there's bad news to come on Holtby and we wont see him until early / mid March.

Absolutely awful for Tony and his family. I remember Tony joining Rovers from Buxton some 50 years ago. As a player, coach and manager he gave everything for Rovers. A true, true stalwart. Over the years, would often pass Tony in the car whilst he enjoyed his almost daily walks, listening to his music as he strode along so purposefully. A really nice, genuine guy and you can only wish Tony and his family the very best as they try to come to terms with a dreadful illness.

The answer is that, IMO, Mowbray makes it up as he goes along. I struggle to see a strategy where our recruitment is concerned. It's why, I think, we've seen square pegs in round holes for too long and too often.

Chaddy, look at it carefully, don't be sucked in !!

@Chaddyrovers house down the road on the market for seven figures+ I've bid £500k. Told the missus to hold fire on booking Pickfords just yet. Bottom line is you can bid for anything. Think there's more chance of me landing the 'des res' than Rovers landing Atsu or the QPR lad. Has the penny not dropped with you yet!?!?

Fortuitous point based on those I've spoken with who went. Hearing we'll be lucky to see Holtby before mid March. If correct, huge blow given injuries to Dack and Rothwell.

Have tried it Chaddy, albeit a little while ago. IMO, League One in comparison to Premier League Shajan - Mohammad is a difficult act to match!