Yes, no more "neutral end".

We're good at every age group apart from the first team. What does that tell you?

Just be the usual pre match press conference wont it? They always hold them on the Thursday before the game. On transfer business he will just state "if something comes up, we'll look at it, if not we're fine with that too" Don't expect anything groundbreaking from him.

I'm going to put two and two together and say Hanley isn't happening then?

Great effort then, looking forward to the atmosphere if not the game ?

I'm wondering if we have sent some back, say 700 or so? Can't quite fathom that we will have sold that allocation in London at £30 a throw. Only reason i'm thinking that is we had a 2500 allocation for Leeds on boxing day, a few days before the game Rovers were tweeting that there were only a few tickets left, they just forgot to mention that we sent 1500 back...

Jacob Murphy is going to Sheffield Wednesday, we were never interested.

I imagine it will all be brushed under the carpet before that comes around. Everyone in attendance will probably be told "any questions about defenders will not be answered" before it starts.

What for?

After the debacle of Charlton I'd like to see us go with something totally different from the norm, lets face it we're going to get mullered anway. 4-4-2 - Walton, Nyambe, Tosin, Lenihan, Bell, Rothwell, Travis, Johnson, Downing, Brereton, Gallagher. Subs - Leutwiler, Mulgrew, Bennett, Chapman, Armstrong, Dack, Graham No doubt it will be the same tired players, trying to play in whatever weird formation TM has them working on this week. 3-0 Fulham, so happy i booked trains for this when the fixtures were released ?

Paul Ince was encouraging following his time at Macclesfied & MK Dons. I don't see a couple of good seasons at under 23 level being a catalyst to take this job over on a permanent basis, for me is Mowbray was to ever depart we would need somebody with some experience and guile to get the best out of our young squad, but you are correct in saying that he probably would be Venkys preferred option.

It does make me laugh that everyone on here seems to think that Damien Johnson will be our saviour if Mowbray should ever depart.

I keep reading about how amazing we are going forward, yet we didnt create anything on Sat and didnt look like scoring if we played for the next week. It's not just the defence that needs a lot of work.

It was all so obvious though? It was clear as day that Bennet & Mulgrew were going to start, and that Rothwell wasn't. The pre season lineups told us that. My only surprise with the team that was that Graham didn't start up front with Gallagher to one side of him,

That's very true, would put Rothwell out of a job.

As a separate note, the last time we scored an injury time goal that was an equaliser or a winner was 14th March 2017. Also, we haven't scored an injury time winner since Mowbray was appointed. Contrast that to how many we have conceded in that time. If we're losing or drawing when the board goes up you might aswell go home, there wasnt one ounce of pressure in that extra 6 minutes yesterday. This side has no balls or character, and I cant see that changing this season.

Mowbray loves tinkering with the team so at least there will be changes next week, christ knows what they will be though because there is no way Bennett & Mulgrew don't start.

It's getting to the point where I'm thinking that we could replace the whole back 5 and we would be no better off, because we're so disjointed all over the pitch with no organisation.

I couldn't help but laugh thinking about this new style, as soon as we kicked off today we played it back to Lenihan who hoofed it forward to nobody. Set the tone perfectly.

Why did Buckley come on over our £7m striker for the last 10 when we needed a goal?

Looking at the pre season lineups, Rothwell was always in the "B team lineups" it was as clear as day that he wasnt going to start. I always felt that Mowbray only played him in that last 7 games because they were glorified friendlys, and even then it was through gritted teeth.

I cant believe that Graham wont start. The only thing I'm convinced with is that Rothwell won't start.

Yeah agree with the above, went into that season with some real optimism, we had just finished the previous season with a long unbeaten run, and there just seemed to be a bit of a buzz around the place on that Friday evening. I think we were actually in touching distance of the play offs until around December before it started to go really wrong, remember losing at home to Sheff Wed, then away games at Brentford and Bolton which were awful. Cup run aside our league form didn't really recover to make a threat to the playoffs, it was our most wasted season since coming down I think.

Charlton never bring numbers up here though, save for that one season in 07 (?) when they put free coaches on towards the end of the season. It'll be between 12-13k tomorrow, as Matty says mid to lower table second division will never pull the crowds in here, and never has done in the past.

You have a right beef with Grayson don't you?! Seen you mention how terrible he is a few times. I've never seen him play to be honest, what makes him a non league player?