How is Sam Barnes progressing Stuart?

Brentford game on the 22nd of February live on sky 12:30 kick off

Before our good run you thought it was near the end for Mowbray? We have reverted back to type,I know there are injuries and fitness issues etc but the amount of changes Mowbray made to the team over the festive period was ridiculous. I had a little teeny glimmer of hope during our decent spell that Mowbray had finally cottoned on and would start to play a settled line up with players mostly in their correct positions. He has been unfortunate with Dacks injury but since it Mowbray doesn't seem to have a clue on what to do since he got injured. At any other club I do think he would have been sacked already.I like Mowbray and think he has done some good things for the club but we need someone in who can improve players with their coaching,who is better in the transfer market and who doesn't have to tinker every single match

The same place as your evidence that the manager is being told who he can and can't buy. It's been highly speculated that we paid a 1 million fee and we would have had to pay something or do you think City just gave him us for nothing?

I don't agree with this.In this game money talks,if our owners promised a prospective new manager the same financial backing as Mowbray has had and a lucrative wage I think there would be a long list of managers who would come here

One more point if the owners are indeed blocking Mowbray from spending on the defence then it seem's very odd that they would sanction a 1 million loan fee and whatever percentage we have to pay toward Tosin's wage

I'm not continuing the conversation with you because to you Mowbray does no wrong, it's all our owners fault. Next you will be telling me he is under instructions from the owners to play Bennett at right back.That it's the owners decision to hardly ever play the same side. I was under the impression that lambert walked as the owners went back on a promise of serious cash being made available for transfers? Or do you know different?

Well if true that he can't sign defenders then Mowbray isn't the man of honesty and integrity I thought he was. Mowbrays comments on brererton at the time he was signed suggested he was his signing.The same when he said defenders are coming.So basically you saying Mowbray is a liar and is only here for the money? No man of integrity,no man of honour would work under such conditions and if Mowbray is working under those conditions and lieing to the fans then he is no better than Kean or Coyle in my opinion. My take on it is he has just spent the money badly.

Mowbray had a budget and he chose to spend the majority of it on Sam Gallagher. We have terrible owners that can't be disputed but since Mowbray has been at the helm he has been backed. He hasn't had to sell any of our better players and has spent close to 15 million on Gallagher,brererton and Armstrong. Downing, Johnson and Holtby will be on decent money or will have got significant signing on fees certainly in the case of Johnson (who had a year left on a lucrative deal at Derby) and no way would Holtby have been coming here if our deal in terms of pay wasn't attractive. The manager has spent badly and it's too easy just to throw the blame at our owners door with statements like the manager is being told he can't bring in defenders.

So Mowbray was just telling bare faced lies when he told the fans "defenders are coming"? If he is being stopped from spending money on defenders than why make such a statement?

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Craig Conway of 3 or 4 seasons ago would absolutely get in this team.But he wouldn't be getting in it this season.If he was good enough for the championship he wouldn't have been signing for Salford

You hear this gossip every window.How many times have you said the same thing only for it to never happen?

If Tosin is going back to city what purpose would it serve for Mowbray to lie about it ten days before the window reopened?

I just don't see the club sending a player who has been in and around the first team squad down as far the conference to continue his development and I would agree with that. I would think he would have interest at league one level and would send him there to see how he gets on

Just because he is lightweight doesn't mean he couldn't have an effect at league one or two level. When he has been spoken about by Mowbray and the other coaching staff they always mention how he always seems to have time on the ball and in space. I'm not saying he is going to be a superstar and I'm not saying he will definitely make it, but if we are to let him leave on loan it will be to league one or two level not to conference north, might aswell release him or sell him if we are sending him down to that level when he has been making the bench and getting a few minutes at championship level

you have and it's nonsense.Absolutely no idea why you think it's a good thing long term for Buckley to be spending his time sat on the bench not playing. We make these signings you want then he will most likely not even be on the bench

yes but getting a few minutes here and there isn't any good long term to our younger players caddy.They need to be playing and getting experience.

Samuel,Chapman and Smallwood ain't involved with the first team squad though. If new signings are made then the likes of Buckley with most likely be dropping out of the match day squad. Surely long term it would be more beneficial for us for the younger fringe players to head out on loan and get valuable minutes and experience playing senior football at league one level?

could have been 3-1 down?We could have but on the same note we could have been 2-0 or 3-0 up, Gallaghers shot was a good save and Johnson should have buried the chance he had

Listened to the Mowbray interview on Radio lancs after the game and he spoke about Johnson,He didn't seem happy that Johnson hadn't found a place to live up here and was saying the travelling to and from training had been taking it's toll on his fitness. He looked fitter today and kept possession better than he had been doing prior to him losing his place in the team.

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Armstrong is on bench

bell hasn't even been making the match day squad, if not gone in January most definitely gone in summer

Mowbray is accountable for a mistake by the referee?Dack should not have been sent off for that.If he had taken Dack off at 11 v 10 he would have been criticised by many.I take it you would have taken Dack off then?