Like Rothwell, he should be banging down the door of his agent asking for a move.

He's nothing more than an average manager, which is obviously a damn sight better than a lot of the blokes that have paraded through Ewood in recent years. That said, the Rao family are still in charge so I don't trust them to hire a better one should Mowbray be fired. We're in limbo as a club until they sell.

Thought he could have done better with the first - you have to command your six yard box as a goalkeeper. Admittedly Bennett was nowhere to be seen at the back post.

I thought he was poor last time he was here, but again people around me thought he was a really promising player. Doesn't have enough about him for mine.

Mulgrew is a terrible player at this level.

I thought it was a poor signing anyway - indicates as a manager that you don't think Brereton is up to it. Money should have been spent on replacing Mulgrew.

A small, error prone shot stopper?

So Rovers fans don't know their football?

Emerton came to us as a wing back (and he'd be by far our best player today, sadly).

You just have to look at the varying opinions on this board to see that we can't agree on any player. I'll trust Guardiola over your mate - we'll see who's right.

Top level sport is brutal. He helped us get up, which we're all thankful for, but now he's a liability. We've thanked him by paying his wages - time to move on.

You don't drastically improve your game at 22. He's a big unit who has a knack for scoring goals. He can't trap a bag of cement though so he'll never progress that high up the football pyramid. Good move for both parties involved.

If the replacement is significantly better, which we have to hope he is, then it's criminal to start Mulgrew just because he has experience playing with Lenihan. It's not rocket science - they won't be asking Tosin to do anything he hasn't been doing at an extremely competitive level since he was 16.

Nice save. To me he's not worth £15m, so I'd have sold him when that offer came in. He's often a passenger and his lack of mobility really dictates our style of play (that and lumping it up to Graham). Each to their own though.

Holy shit, we played 90 games last year? I knew it was a slog, but bloody hell that seems a bit much!

I can only assume that he's a significant upgrade on Mulgrew (who really can't defend at this level). So whilst it's not an experienced CB, we're in a better position now than we were at the start of last year. Personally I think it's frustrating because this league is there for the taking (the quality is really poor), but we don't seem to have the desire to push on and win it.

I'd have flogged him for £15m when West Brom came calling last year, but that's just me. Too often he just goes missing.

It's a long, gruelling season. Of course they should be starting games - just as few as possible.

Brereton definitely has the look of Love Islander.

He's a decent backup. He's also an International so there's no way he's being paid like one.

Zero problem with that, to be honest. They're loaning us a talent we couldn't dream of pulling on our shirt (as we've fallen that far in a decade). In return they want a guarantee that he'll play and, therefore, develop. If he's not up to snuff we send him back, ala Palmer. Why you wouldn't make the promise that he plays X number of games at this stage is beyond me.

Don't Wolves just use the one agent? Obviously he's a super agent with their best interest at heart (he makes his money on the side) rather than our previous situation with a certain agent.

I disagree. Elite footballers have tremendous stamina. Look at how City, Liverpool, Barcelona etc play. At our level it's hit or miss - quite a lot just coast on their skill.

Which is mental because Bennett is terrible at RB.

I don't think LB is a priority. If we get a CB who is good in the air and and can read the game, that would improve is tremendously. I also agree, Williams is terrible at LB, but a decent option as over at CB.