Maybe, but if so it must have happened fast over the summer as in our final four matches of last season Graham scored twice and got an assist. Overall 15 goals and 5 asissts in 43 appearances... compare and contrast to Mulgrew who was so abysmal after Christmas he was dropped in March, yet started this season as captain in the first eleven. Granted he has now been moved on, but that seemed to be a sudden decision rather than a long term plan.

I think the reputation system is either hidden or disabled now, so in theory I don't see any reason not to remove the limitation if possible. I think it'd be something for @J*B to look at though, as I believe that's beyond the powers of the mods! There may also be reasons for keeping the limit that I'm not aware of.

Looks like Raya had an outstanding game for Brentford today.

Maybe he was saying "I'd rather go to bloody Rangers than Wigan!" Or maybe not. Still a strange move for him to make though. From club captain, charity ambassador, and team leader at Rovers to a backup option at Wigan. He must have really wanted out of here.

We'd probably end up with the return of Shebby Singh.

One year ago on the opening day of the season we were 2-1 up against Ipswich, then in the final minutes of the match we allowed Tayo Edun to gallop towards our goal unchallenged and fire in an equaliser. A year later we're talking about the same problems, except this time we aren't even getting a point from these matches. Progression? I'm not so sure. And no, not one shot on target despite having £5m Gallagher on the pitch, the much-coveted (at one time anyway) Bradley Dack, Joe Rothwell and Adam Armstrong all on the pitch. Not one of them could hit a shot to even test the keeper. We know these players can score goals (Gallagher aside) because they all did it last season, so why in the first two games of the season have we only hit two shots on target? And the only goal we've scored was an own goal. Not sure what Mowbray is telling them to do, but it ain't working.

He's got a strike rate of just over 1/3 for us in the league so we all should be really!

On the contrary, it sounds like we mostly agree that it's a personnel choice. Fair to say that if Graham was on the pitch instead of Gallagher a few of the crosses we put in may have found their way into the net? Or perhaps he manages to lay off a ball to Dack for a clear strike on goal. It's funny because even though there has been criticism of TM not putting players into the team from the get go, I actually think we would have been better off with Graham up front for these first few matches and integrating Gallagher after we had a few points on the board and a bit of confidence flowing. Now granted even with Graham on the pitch we may have lost to both Charlton and Fulham, but I think we'd have had a better shots on target ratio than 8%.

17 points from 57 (19 games).

I agree Williams is not the main problem at all, the manager is. Williams is a solid enough backup CB and I don't have a problem with him in that role at all. I will have a problem if when Lenihan is fit he is on the bench and Williams is ahead of him though. If Mowbray doesn't consider Lenihan necessarily any better than Williams in that role then it means we should have been after at least two CB's in the summer, not just one. I'm not sure our attacking play is the problem tbh. We scored plenty of goals last season and we've had plenty of chances on goal in the first couple of matches, we've just had very few on target, which again points to poor personnel choice by the manager. Graham and Dack had a great link up last season and we need Graham back starting asap IMO.

Yeah, but would you have been happy with Derrick Williams as first choice CB for the next campaign at the end of last season? Our expectations are getting lower and lower. At the end of last season and even coming towards the end of this window we were being seen as dark horses for playoffs and people were backing that. Now it feels like people will soon be saying 21st is a good season and a job well done Mr Mowbray. It's worrying.

“That’s football,” Mowbray said of allowing Mulgrew to leave and Lenihan picking up an injury. “It’s early season, I don’t think central defence was a problem. “I thought they applied themselves well. “They all need to develop relationships and when Lenihan gets himself fit and comes back then he will have to compete to get in the team.” Bloody hell, sounds like Del is now first choice CB even when Lenihan returns from injury!

J*B's 11 v 11 post from a couple of days ago had Brereton on left wing, which I commented on at the time as being a bit weird. It might be that Tony actually wants him to play there.

I wonder if Lenihan and Nyambe backed Mulgrew?

Managed a 0-0 today despite having 5 shots to Coventry's 24. They are lucky the standard in League 1 is so poor.

And keep in mind most of those points came from dead rubbers at the end of last season.

The thing is, the result and performance in isolation isn't so bad. People were predicting we'd get thumped and we "only" lost 2-0 and remained fairly competitive for most of the match. Fine. Fulham have a lot of top Championship players so you can accept that. But no shots on target? That is unacceptable. In the first two matches we've had 23 shots on goal 2 have been on target. That's a dire 8.7%. Danny Graham has to start the next match. Not saying any of this is Gallagher's fault but we need somebody on the pitch who can shoot between the goalposts and the crossbar, and none of our current lot are doing that. If we don't start hitting the target and continue conceding two goals a game we are going down, it's that simple.

Mowbray is just a very poor tactician tbh. He knows one style and if that doesn't work he's flummoxed. His attempts at trying three at the back have always been comical, with the lads looking like they'd had the formation sprung on them as they exited the tunnel.

Trying to be optimistic here lads. Jeez.

Two shots on target in 180 minutes of football. One goal. Four conceded. No points. Great start to the season.

Good teams make their own luck. Not getting a single shot on target isn't unlucky. Big performance needed in the second half. Get Graham on.

Early indications suggest you shouldn't get your hopes up. 45 minutes to try and salvage something from the first two games of the season, even if it's only a point. Parker's Fulham are there for the taking but concede again and it's game over. With that said don't we have a horrifically poor record in recent times of coming from behind to get anything from games? Also thus far no shots on target... Do we practice shooting in training? Only managed two out of fourteen on target last week. Suffice to say we aren't last season's Norwich. We'll be doing well when we hit the target with one of our shots. Literally can't score otherwise. Get Danny Graham on the pitch ffs, at least he has a track record of scoring.

Same old pattern. We look half decent then concede. The more people posted about how well we were playing the more i knew the inevitable was coming. Wonder how many clean sheets we'll get this season? More than single figures?

I'm sure they exist but I'd advise against asking for them here, or...

Guys, there are no legal streams available for this match so please stop asking. Thanks