Someone, somewhere must have told them how to run a football club and they listened. Since Mowbray came in, things have been sort of normal. No more parallel board structures fighting each other, agents employing their children or 5th rate TV pundits signing Portuguese bus drivers to play. After 7 years of madness it is very strange.

It's just nice to have a bit of optimism and hope again when a player signs instead of "why the ___ is that guy signed? He failed at the last 3 clubs".

Difference is that Hughes was a brilliant player who adapted to a new midfield position late on, and Jerome is a journeyman striker. The only role I'd like him in is as a loan to cover Samuel's injury and to let Nuttall go to a 3rd division team to get games.

Is Mols related to the Dutch striker who once played for Rangers?

He probably asked Princess Anne about tax avoidance at Murrayfield one day if that was true.

Katie Price was a big distraction for Dwight.

I thought Rio Ferdinand was an over rated twonk who kept running out of position and losing the ball when he was at West Ham, but he went to Leeds and became a great defender.

Wiki does say he is a 'head coach', but I don't know if that is some sort of Director of Football type set up.

Michael Collins according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(footballer,_born_1986) Former Bradford manager Stuart McCall is now Scunthorpe manager.

Feeney has joined Blackpool a few days ago. Knowing how that club is run he's probably paying them.

At least it is just for one season initially. So if he is poop, he can jog on without a massive pay off like Murphy, Etuhu, Best.......

Don't have sky, so it is hard for me to really state a starting 11 blueboy, but those who have signed have shown they can do it in the past. Compared to all the donkeys and oddballs who robbed the club as we fell towards the third tier this window has been good.

The signings have improved the team, others have extended their contracts and a forward many rate is on the verge of signing. How can it be anything other than a good transfer window? Remember when we looked forward to Chris Brown and Nathan Delfeunso joining?

Sound like West ham fans. The colours are the same.

Thought Murphy might do pretty well when he signed. Venkys might do ok once they calmed down and stopped talking about Maradona managing Beckham. That talk was just a bit of hype, and Williams and the board would be listened to.

It's the talk of 'we have money to sign good players' and the comments from Mowbray and Waggott along those lines that are putting a real downer on what has been a pretty good transfer window. Getting expectations up, and then nothing happening.

Bellamy was a complete t--t at Newcastle and Coventry, refusing to play and mouthing off about how rubbish the clubs were. He only seemed to perform when Hughes managed him at Wales and rovers.

A risk, at worst another Bradley Orr, but Mowbray could be the right manager to unlock the talent. Think Hughes and Bellamy.

Sounds like cricket to this day. Now there's a sport with a school tie and blazer mentality.

Maybe Buckfast is not to Caulker's taste.

The only way I can see a D of F system working in British football is if the manager says "I want player X" to the D of F, who then goes and deals with the contracts, fees etc. and keeps the manager in the loop. Then, if the manager or the board balk at the cost, the D of F helps co-ordinate the scouting system to find a player Y the manager likes. So the manager has control of who comes in, but leaves the legal stuff to someone else.

The only way Rodwell would make sense is a £1000-8000 p/w deal until the end of the season, with the possibility of a a better deal after that. Keep the carrot of a proper wage and the chance to rebuild a career, and hope Mowbray can motivate him.

Best comment this week at least.

He was always a plank, but a few still wanted him here at one point or another. FC Twente was his version of getting Burnley promoted, and other than that McClaren's record is poo.

I figured it was an update of the old 80s wrestling with big daddy and co. The BBC did a documentary about when that was prime time viewing and it was actually interesting history. Shirley Crabtree was the brother of the guy who ran the whole thing and he was an out of work builder until he became big daddy.