I think a 34 year old Richard Keogh would be beyond a desperate act to put a sticker over our defence. Irish or not.

I dont understand what style he has in mind, he mentioned being reluctant to go direct but we dont have a competent target man anyway.

No one to our knowledge. There are the usual suspects, Pearson, Howe, Hughes, Wagner, Cowley etc but even if we wanted someone outside of those, there are plenty of talented coaches abroad and in the lower leagues assuming that the powerw that be put in the relevant research that may be beyond our immediate knowledge.

Bit late.

People tend to use the "give x a chance" line as a last desperate argument. People have given Buckley a chance and he to many has shown up as well off the standard. What is the difference between writing Trybull off as "awful" after even less appearances?

Mowbray has typically ranted about the state of the pitch post match. To say that the owners supposedly never refuse to write a cheque im surprised the pitch has been treat with such negligence...

And if you try to define such improvements to infrastructure, even if they exist why cant a new manager use these improvements? A supposed quality scouting network that has plucked a solitary goalkeeper and analysis boots which seem to br par for the course these days and as you say havent resulted in any improvement.

Do you think there is a realistic chance of that changing? And if not, surely it makes sense to build with half an eye on next season, building around the players mainly that will be around then. Mowbray is stumbling between systems just hoping something sticks.

The flaw regarding such a want is the assumption that a loss would lead to a change, when there is no suggestion of that.

He has never directly clarified. More deflections than a Corry Evans highlight package.

Ive not seen a replay from a good angle of either incident but it is of little surprise that you only chose the incident in which Mowbray can claim a hard luck story about.

You cant sack a manager after a successful season in which on the back of a shall we say experimental start managed to regularly win game after game to get to 96 points, comfortably clear of the play offs. Football is about results which is why his job was rightfully safe then and his time should be up now.

Ive still to see any constructive reasons as to why he should be kept on. Signs of progress, things to cling on to. The closest is the fear of "another Coyle" which is flimsy at best.

He scored the goal and fair play to him for being in the right place but be didnt do much otherwise. He is rather languid on the ball and everything is at walking pace. Fantastic is very extreme.

Plenty of business talk and intangibles as always. Proof of the pudding is on the pitch where progress can not be seen. He has done a good job overall but that journey stopped taking us forward a while ago.

Absolute shit yet again, no plan, no structure, constantly hopping between formations out of desperation. Only performance that would get 6 out of 10 was Davenport, why he was dropped I have no idea.

Decisions even themselves out. Armstrong maybe was onside but the ball seemed out of play for the equaliser which has been excluded from your analysis.

We could do with those 10-12 points right about now. Absolutely dismal, no excuses, shambolic.

Decent side but surely Travis and Davenport should play in CM? The shape makes sense, suits our main players more than 433. Magloire on to chase the game?

Nyambe is far better defensively, Rankin Costello cannot really defend and that is the primary need for a defender so I would question the competence line, but even going forward, Nyambe whilst it very much being a work in progress purely via his athleticism has started to assist goals this season, v Bournemouth, v Barnsley and v Norwich, as well as a great cross for Gallagher v Swansea in the last home game last season before lockdown. Best left back is not a compliment with our squad but I would probably go for Douglas, just. That is again not an insult to Rankin Costello as he is blatantly not a full back, never mind a left sided one.

He is not a competent right back defensively though. In those games he wasnt tested defensively but if you cant defend one on one you shouldnt be a full back. Well, indeed he isnt.

Im unconvinced that there is a consistent criticism to be had for Mowbray's treatment across the board. I do think for some of these players there is criticism to be made but I think equally there is perhaps some praise to be given. On Travis, he gets some unfair stick. He came in and did well for the three games that Smallwood was suspended in but he could have easily reverted back to the limited but experienced player. Travis has played basically every single game possible ever since and I think any talk of him stunting his development is totally unfair. Nyambe is a more complex one. Most of the time he has been first choice, but there was a decent sized spell to which Bennett was preferred despite never showing competence there. There was a game at Millwall in which Mowbray publically said that he dropped him for "lacking confidence" before putting him back in. There was also a couple of games in which Rankin Costello despite being inferior was preferred. There has also been the inability to get him to sign a new deal. So there has been plenty of game time and obvious improvement but also some scope for criticism. As for the others, the signing of Davenport has been particularly curious. Wharton has been loaned surprisingly with success (unlike many others loaned out) and had he started this season in the first team, we would have correctly questioned recruitment. After recovering from concussion, he was also preferred to a fit Ayala before getting his injury. I think with Wharton again there seemed to be a plan and some unfortunate luck. Rankin Costello has probably played as much if not slightly more than his performances have merited, and Buckley has played far more than any promise shown. I feel like Mowbrays faults and limitations lie elsewhere in the main.

I want a change of manager but for me it is a huge exaggeration to imply that Mowbray as a "football dinosaur" is going to help "kill off our club." Covid is the main protagonist that will cause all Championship clubs (and below) serious problems. I take on your board about Waggott too, all of his pricing policies and marketing strategies have shown a clear lack of understanding as to our fan base and that will only exacerbate the problem. All of this stuff about needing to rise from the ashes, on the back of some of the doomsday scenarios that you have dreamt up in the past, the club going under, the club selling its best players every summer etc before going onto the next match thread and telling people to lump on a comfortable Rovers win is what makes you somewhat of a parody figure. I also dont feel comfortable with implying that Mowbray is merely topping up his pension and cant believe his luck. He is a manager who overall has done a decent job but has clearly IMO gone as far as he can, but he seems a decent enough bloke. It is of course a job to him as it would be any other person but there is no need to question his integrity, merely suggesting that we should change manager is adequate.

The thing is that the crap he is saying isnt actually problem, but it merely throws salt into the wounds of a blatant failure to improve and come close to meeting targets on the league table. There is literally no basis as to how he has concluded that we should be 10 or 12 points better off, none at all. You get the points you deserve. I think there are still some fans who genuinely believe in the journey and that we are in a better place than last season purely on what they have seen aesthetically despite the minor issue that we are worse off for points even compared to a season in which we never got into the top 6. Even the supposed attacking/entertaining football has been non existent for quite a while now. His major flaw is that all of his theories seem to have concluded that there is a 100% correlation between having more of the ball and winning points, but there were numerous examples of teams who disproved that even last season. We also dont have any defenders who are good with the ball with their feet, nor the players seemingly to be able to play at a high enough tempo in those areas to ensure that it is not merely keeping the ball for the sake of it. Mowbray mentioned recently that he delegates set pieces to his coaching staff. A well managed side tends to be proficient from set pieces, and we may not have the biggest side in the world so to an extent I understand why we do try short corners but you have to put the time in to practice, you need the quality of coaching and you need constantly new ideas to ensure that teams never know what you are about to do. As we clearly dont have these 3, it makes more sense to play the percentages and take normal corners. Football doesnt have to be either obsessing about possession or going direct, there can be a happy medium and plenty of compromises but Mowbray seems too keen to stick to his misguided principles. We have 3 players in attacking positions that guarantee goals and assists, which gives us a huge leg up on basically everyone in this league, even having 2 as we have up until this date is a massive bonus. Play all three in their best positions (Armstrong central, Dack as a 10 ie no false 9 or CM shite and Elliott on the right and not again in CM) and go from there. We have a lorry load of players who tend to flatter to deceive, 3 bad games for every 1 good game, Rothwell, Holtby, Brereton, Gallagher etc and they can all fight for the remaining spots, then I would go with 2 central midfielders who can help to protect our flaky defence, and actually a lot of time spent on organising rather than "building on an attacking structure" which makes absolutely no sense.

You seem to be hell bent on pointing out "pessimism" as you often are but its hardly as if I undermine every signing. Elliott was a signing that excited me, Ayala seemed to fit the bill of what I wanted(in retrospect due diligence on fitness wasnt done), Douglas wasnt my first choice but I was happy at an upgrade on Bell, Kaminski I had never seen but certainly didnt undermine, Trybull seemed a decent addition, I was happy with the summer business. Kipre I was very excited about but we didnt get it over the line. Sadly the recruitment not improved us but at the time I was positive so your impression is false. I havent even said that it is a bad signing, just an underwheming one. That is more based on the situation rather than the individual. A temporary addition of an 18 year old with barely any senior experience is not one that gives me great confidence that it will make a major difference to keeping our goals against column down. The manager is the main reason for that and having said last week you wanted a change, im sure youll empathise. Financially it seems that the only market we can deal in is kids on loan, and I acknowledged that maybe the nominal experience he does have does put him ahead of some of the alternatives mentioned ie Harwood Bellis and Van Den Berg. But its more the market we are in, the inability over a long term period for the manager to organise the defence, the league position, the already forlorn hope of meeting our target this season and maybe even not being able to attend that causes me to be underwhelmed. In regards to my comments on data, I have regularly been of that opinion since the recent fad has grown whereby many on social media show various graphs and tables. With defenders especially I question their worth, with attackers goals and to a lesser extent assists are much more useful but even then things like progressive runs and expected goals are not something I take personal notice of. Again, that isnt something I do purposely to undermine Mowbray or Rovers. Kipre and Ayala ranked poorly on such "metrics" but I knew having seen them play (the doubt around Ayala was capability and reliability after injuries which has been proven) that they are both good defenders at this level. I feel that sometimes people place too much stock in such stats to the extent that they are viewed as matter of fact proof. The irony in regards to my hell bent desire to undermine everything the club does lays in your constant desperation to undermine the top scorer in the league who currently resides here.