No one committed to a £10million+ (fee and wages) for Dack at 19!!!!!!! No matter which way you or others dress it up, I think we've signed a dud and someone has dropped one big clanger.

Good and pertinent post from savage90. Good player recruitment is down to the manager's personal knowledge, the range of the manager's contacts and an effective scouting system. I think Mowbray's player trading, excluding Dack, has been poor. I think given the trials and tribulations since Venky's became our owners, our fans, to a degree, have been conditioned to gleefully accept mediocrity. I think the club's operating structure has been dumbed down and, in my opinion, this is also evidenced in our medical team and the management of injured players. In any organisation, the employment of quality staff in key positions is vital. If you employ second and third raters, you wont move forward.

Think you are on a wing and a prayer there! If that's strategic planning at Rovers then God help us. Can't believe you are buying this moonshine.

Think Moyes was like that at Everton - suffered from the transfer yips.

Given we aren't challenging, or likely to, for a top six place, I would be surprised if Mowbray has anything other than a bit of loose change to play with. Even if we sell Dack, I very much doubt much of it would be there to be recycled.

Are you sure he hadn't been on the sauce too long - £2m can easily get confused for £20m! Worrying he he was completely confident in Brereton!

Three really as Basil was a right footed left back!

You get a feeling about certain matches - this is one of them.

Wow! Think Newcastle see this as a hindrance with that line up. Managed to lump on Rovers at just short of 4/1 - this is a licence to print money. Two 'fun' bets: £5 on Charlie for 1st goal at 18/1 and £5 on 3-1 to Rovers at 46/1. COYB.

Decent player. Would be very surprised if Fulham let him leave - there will be a few clubs in line for this lad.

Do that and every player they go in for price goes up!

Don't know whether it's because it's NYE and celebrations started early afternoon but I'm feeling strangely confident about tomorrow. Lumped on Rovers' win at 21/10 with a tenner thrown in for a bit of fun for 3-1 at 27/1. Have a good one tonight and Happy New Year to all.

and why Mahoney left.................. Scandalous.

“Ten against 11 there was only one winner" - Mowbray in tonight's LT. So what went wrong at Boro Mowbray? Think he's losing credibility by the hour.

Think Gallagher's career has stalled. Doesn't seem to have been a rush of clubs in for his services since Brum last season. Think his scoring average is about 1 in 6 - a 7 or 8 goal a season man is not good enough for us. There have to be better options out there.

Every season in every league there seems to be a team that goes into free fall culminating in relegation. All the signs are pointing to us at the moment.

Mental and physical weakness. Every opposition seems fitter than Rovers.

A playing staff assembled by Mowbray, coached by Mowbray, selected by Mowbray, with tactics set by Mowbray and substitutions made by Mowbray...... The buck stops with the manager. Can someone tell me what Mowbray's strength as a manager is? Time some supporters woke up and smelt the coffee. Boy we need a REAL manager.

If Rovers have a stormer and pull off unexpected win what will Mowbray do for WBA?

Delighted Brereton, Travis and Rothwell all given starts - good luck lads, make the most of it and show what you can do. Do think it's a bit odd though to throw all three in at once in what will be one of our toughest away games. Dack being 'protected' for transfer window?

I think it's both. Have watched Venus and Lowe closely pre match and I have been underwhelmed - no surprise about Lowe as, in my opinion, he always cut an undistinguished figure when I saw in an Academy capacity. Just surprised you would want to back him in two further windows given your observations in the earlier paragraph.

Sums up the paucity of our squad nicely. Mowbray doesn't seem to see it. IMV, some £10million has been wasted on Brereton and Armstrong, neither of whom are good enough to start regularly in our team. We could have brought in 4 or 5 very decent players for that.

Which is even more laughable as we haven't got a feckin midfield!

So, thoughts are, we've been poor to shyte in six recent games, two games against good opponents and four games against poor to average opponents (and in two of those games <Preston and Wigan> we were woefully thrashed). This pattern of both performances and results doesn't augur well. Didn't see the Preston game but understand we were woeful - did see the Wigan game and we were dire (reminiscent of the worse days of Kean and C o y l e).

Look, every managerial appointment comes with risk. Every Johnny Foreigner will not be a success, every UK manager will not be a success. There has to come a point where you ask yourself if our current manager is the man to take the club on to the next level. In my opinion, Mowbray is not and I don't want to wait until 2022 for this to be proven beyond all doubt. I got hammered in some quarters on this MB for my early views on Brereton but I think more and more on here now feel the same way. Similarly, and I have spelt out why, on several occasions on this MB, I feel Mowbray has taken us as far as he can and we need to change.