Luton also spent years gradually building up to that point too. With two very good Championship strikers in their squad.

How do you get a defence right when you can't bring in any players and your decent ones are injured or unfit? He won't get sacked. The two seasons we ended up 15th under Mowbray tells you all you need to know. And he spent money!

Or the silly cunt in the bus.

Scoring the winner in the Burnley match at Ewood is the overriding memory of Chimbonda for a lot of people.

Looked unfit to me in both games.

I never rated Olsson but he seems a class above what we have now. He left a decade ago too. What is it with fullbacks since Venkys turned up?

I don't rate Carter either but he has the odd solid game where he gets stuck in. Hyam is too quiet to be our only senior defender as well. Not signing Baath really hurt us, and I can't see how signing a 20 year old kid from L2 will bolster the defence. But I suppose he fulfills the Venky transfer policy of buying cheap young players who can hopefully pay the bills when sold.

Bimey, that's 12 years ago.

Currently third in the greek league I think, with Olympiacos.

All I want these days is two decent fullbacks. I can't remember the last reliable fullback in a blue and white shirt. Can anyone else?

I can't see a 20 year old from league 2 solving anything but checking a box for Madame D.

I agree.

I'd love Steve Cooper here, but he won't turn Pickering and Brittain into better defenders or turn our pound shop strikers into goal machines.

That doesn't quite tell the whole story does it. We already struggled to score goals with Brereton and we've had a bit of luck with Szmodics stepping in. Combine that with the CEO announcing to everyone that the goal was to stay up and these results become acceptable and normal.

You're aware we're potless and have owners that don't give a f***, right?

Still a poor line up but at least I wouldn't have to watch Brittain phoning in his performance again.

I think it was more of a brief prayer from Broughton, then he went to Borussia.

We can't afford a striker but let's pay our current manager compensation and bring in Steve Cooper.

Bonkers.

If we're skipping through the realms of impossibility I'd prefer Farke.

Someone who can get a disjointed squad full of kids and bargain basement buys, with no strikers, playing well? When Telalovic went off there was no height in the box at all. The rot started while Mowbray was here with no desire to bring in a decent striker, and it's continued with Broughton. There was a moment when Ennis had the ball at his feet in the box with the goal in front of him, and his instinct was to pass it to a player in a worse position than strike it. That's just fucking shite by anyone's standards. We got a freebie and a bargain basement injury prone striker from L1. That kind of investment only goes one way.

I predicted it after that ludicrous statement by Waggott. I'm surprised we've got away with it this long.

If you don't sign decent defenders, you won't be able to defend.

No investment, injuries, crap defenders, relying on kids, no strikers worth mentioning. What's gone wrong?!

Callum Brittain just delivered perhaps the worst cross I've ever seen. I'm not sure which part of the instructions he wasn't comfortable with there, but I would have hoped a cross wouldn't be beyond his abilities. It was supposed to be in the box, it ended up in the top tier of the home stand.