Good to hear Mowbray has his mojo back in press interviews.

Two injuries away from calamity in defence in all fairness.

Watched the PNE game and the Stoke defence was on a different planet. It certainly hadn't turned up at Deepdale. Buckland's confidence in complete free fall.

Will Horwich RMI re-form?

Passion!

Got to defend those long throws- Cardiff play like a Rugby Union side kicking for touch! Need the height of Tosin in there.

Gosh Vegas looks like a superannuated version of any Chinese city. Didn't expect it to appear so shabby.

Pre-season when we had the fixture list I posted that it was a very tough start but if we are 10th on the 1st September we could be in for a very interesting season. Well we are 10th now albeit could fall behind five clubs playing their game in hand this evening... August is shaping up rather interestingly. Started with the newly promoted curse plus an abysmal showing against Charlton. Fulham encouraging at least matching promotion fancies in many aspects yet falling uncomfortably short in the end. Oldham showed character and fitness levels to dig ourselves out of a hole of our own making- Oldham still bottom of L2 by the way.. We beat a Boro side very much at odds with itself- reasonably clinically and a clean sheet Hull away were much tougher opposition but we began to show elements of match control which looked very promising. Another clean sheet. And so we come to three fixtures which will show whether this is all wacky baccy or there are sunlit fields out there. Cardiff should be tough uncompromising but have visibly exploitable weaknesses. Then Sheff U newly promoted to the Prem with a sprinkling of £10m men will show how far away from the promised land we really are and West Brom away probably as tough a fixture this Division has to offer this season. Come 1st September we should have a decent view of what this season holds in promise for us.

Davenport, Buckley

Compelling!

Bit in bold I agree 100% Bit in italics I disagree 100%. We are probably over-stocked in central midfield and we now have three absolutely first class central defenders plus cover from Nyambe and Grayson/Platt while left back has Williams who could play there at a stretch plus Bell and Hart. Yes I would have liked to have seen a further addition at central defence during the window but Mowbray might have called this one right given what was and wasn't available in the market. Very much doubt Bauer could have matched Williams last night.

I suspect Tosin is another level higher again. We will see on Saturday when I expect Tosin and Lenihan in the middle and Williams to LB or perhaps we will go 3 at the back with Bennett and Downing as genuine wing backs. I would like that formation as Cardiff look to be capable of being overloaded in defence with quick attacks. By the way I would stick with Gallagher where he is until Chapman is fully fit.

Hugely entertaining game before a remarkably sparse crowd of just over 10k. Rovers bossed it apart from Grosicki. We did an excellent job on Bowen all night. Very encouraging as there was a solid feel to Rovers' completely missing from last season. Not totally surprised by how complimentary the Hull fans are about us. Might be premature but there is a core of 16 ish players who can all be relied upon to do a decent job. Still need to tighten up on our passing accuracy. Bennett main culprit but Johnson looks like he has a point dropping booboo in him for all his other very strong points. All in all though, we did an excellent job at Hull and looked a class outfit most of the game.

Wonderful win- up the football league we go! Williams immense and MOTM just for that tackle in the 94th minute never mind everything else he did. Downing is a great player still and Dack was excellent. Travis Johnson are a great pairing in the making- some dodgy moments but commanding. Somebody give Armstrong a footballer's brain and we have the makings of something interesting here.

Me too- highly entertaining game. Both sides' managements at half time will be seeing opportunities to win it. I am not so worries about us not getting shots on target as I would be if we were having zero shots. These things tend to go in cycles and the shots on will come. Great penalty save from Walton. Bennett has his statutory three brain fart ball give aways. Winning this depend on him having no more.

Rovers offside 3 times in first 5 minutes Now 4 times in 6

I am watching on iFollow now

Sadly we are now at the point of Bury North MP pleading with the Football League for time and threatening to use Parliamentary privilege to make disclosures. Bolton saga is at least two weeks from the various legal cases being resolved assuming goodwill between the various parties which clearly does not exist.

Show me a business plan which makes money as a League 2 outfit next season... The obvious thing is for the Neville brothers et al to take either Bury or Bolton over but they have a vehicle with constrained costs and no baggage at Salford which works for them. I would be astonished if their people haven't at least run the numbers on Bolton and Bury and the silence is deafening..

You guys still don't get it. Notlob are as dead as the parrot.

Tosin out until Cardiff. Ditto Butterworth. Samuel will be u-23s v Wolves Chapman, Platt Grayson, Hart all playing tonight v Leicester so not available for tomorrow's squad.

The number of games needed to catch up plus the size of the points deductions are making a mockery of League 1 already. No way could either club assemble even a half way capable League One squad from unattached players once the window has closed on 31 August.

Huddersfield will be brilliant winning a game they are not even playing in... Hull City are the Tigers.

Not completely- the larynx develops until as late as 27 for example.

Forget about points deductions, come 1 September League 1 will only have 22 clubs in it. Going to be a great season to do well in the National League- I cannot see relegation from League 2 being suspended but it might go one down three up.