2 points lost thanks Tony. Let's hope we can hang onto a point when we were 2-0 up.

Edun is a left back and midfielder. I'm just not sure why we are playing 5 at the back against Coventry. We've got Nyambe, Lenihan, Ayala and Edun (for Pickering) - so far that back line has looked solid (apart from the Pickering/Edun change). So why five? Bizarre decision.

Has 3-5-2 ever worked?

That's some of the dumbest shit I've ever read considering we're light on attacking options.

Yet there are potentially better options available than that forward line up. Says a lot about Mowbray.

I think a lot of people will be.

Butterworth must feel special after hearing that. Can someone give Mowbray a nudge and tell him that the lad is now 22? There's also McBride and Burns.

Is there any kind of movement at Rovers regarding a contract extension, or is it more terrible mismanagement? Raise his wages, three year contract - get a decent transfer fee for him, rebuild the team properly, pay for a decent manager to come in. Then I woke up and remembered who owned the club.

Need to give Butterworth a chance. Edun for Pickering. I hope Magloire doesn't end up playing again.

Fair enough, but for me it's difficult to separate it considering our paper thin squad right now and lack of money. Not blaming the player, blaming the manager and his silly journey.

If that's the only metric, then £7m has produced 19 goals in 3 and a bit seasons. From your own metric, it hasn't paid off. I wouldn't say spending the money would have worked out better (who could with Mad Tony at the helm), I'm saying spending £7m on a player that you're intending to develop, with a championship budget and a league 1 team is lunacy. No hypothesis because it happened. As for your own hypothesis that if we'd signed him last season then would it have paid off? I'd agree with that, it would be a big win. But we didn't. We've been carrying him for several seasons whilst defensively having a right mare.

Well that's fine if you're happy to exclude the context.

At the time of signing both players our "model" (we were told) was to gain promotion, not to develop young players to the detriment of the team, then sell them on when hopefully they get good. If you're seeking promotion, you sign players to improve the team, not to fatten them up to sell them on. The very reason our model (if there is one) has become this is because of a scattershot transfer policy. Signing two players, one for £7m and one a year later for £5m when we had a League 1 defence and a Championship budget was absolute lunacy. The whole concept of buying with the aim to profit on your players is a nonsense when any returns are a relative blip compared to promotion money, and the owners are billionaires.

I think we do need to define what "paid off" means. If it means paid off for the club long term, then it's a big no considering recent history. If it means paid off because we are seeing some goals which make us happy, along with seeing a young player flourish, followed by some money that will never be invested into the team because it'll service the bottomless pit that is the club debt, that the owners created by signing players for silly money and wages. Then I guess it's paid off.

It's great for him, and for us to watch the goals go in for hopefully an entire season, but what then? Will it lead to promotion? No because the squad is paper thin. Why is the squad paper thin? Because we were gambling £7m here and £5m there a few seasons ago. Where will that big fee go? Where did Armstrong's big fee go? How will the club cope with losing another top scorer? The same as Armstrong I'd imagine - just praying that someone steps up followed by the club spending barely anything and Mowbray's scattershot approach to football transfers. It won't even make a dent on the clubs debt. It was a silly signing then and a pointless signing now if we aren't building for the future.

It hasn't paid off yet, unless you put a bet on. No one is operating on the assumption that Mowbray would have done better with the money because in his bizarro world, anything could and does happen. The point is, at that moment in time the team needed investment in other areas but Mowbray decided to take a gamble which has taken years to even approach paying off. It hasn't paid off because the club is none the better for it. It's still Tonyhog Day. His bizarre decisions are still echoing today.

It was a daft signing at the time. Gambling £7m on a young lad when we needed to strengthen other areas which has held us back for years. Brereton's goalscoring feats may have redeemed the player but not the reckless signing. The only way it would is if his goals fire us into the Premier League, offset some of the debt and buy us some great players. If we sell him none of that money will make it to the pitch.

He's a messy nuisance isn't he.

Is 4 wins in 11 really something to shout about?

If only I wasn't in sunny Skelmersdale.

I wish I'd chucked £100 at it!

Which is weird because in all of his interviews I could understand him perfectly. I was once in the changing room for that Premier League winning team and no one seemed to have any problems understanding or communicating with Kenny, who was in high spirits. Ray Harford unsurprisingly, seemed bloody depressed.

Kenny didn't need to shout a lot. He used to find somewhere to stand so they could see him, they knew he was watching and they could be out if they delivered a shoddy performance.

I’ve noticed they are usually young lads who were too young to remember when Rovers were in the PL. This is normal to them.

Wasn’t the word that waggot wanted rid because TM fell out with him? Or something like that. It may explain our half decent start to the season (and before anyone says it 4 wins in 11 isn’t anything special for a manager that’s been here seemingly forever).