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Putting England goggles to one side and taking a step back at a direct comparison for us at the level we are at. He would have to play excellently over a prolonged period to break into an area where Wales are well stocked. They obviously have Bale plus they also have Harry Wilson who is as good as winger as you can get at Championship level for years and is now a Premier League player, Brennan Johnson who has been a stand out Championship player, Dan James who I dont rate but who plays regularly in the Premier League, Sorba Thomas who has been excellent for Huddersfield and Matondo who is highly rated at Schalke. He has not played much football but he certainly didnt look out of place. His left foot has some power in it and he chipped in with a decent goal tally at Aberdeen. He is quite strong and well built for a winger too and can cover plenty of ground. "Woeful signing" is certainly not a rational comment.

And revert back to echoing the clubs attitude of questioning peoples commitment. The prices are crap and the whole attitude doesn't lend itself to attracting floating fans or seemingly as the club sees them, traitors.

Woeful? Talk about hyperbole. Was it? He signed for a nominal fee on the back of Markanday injury to give us another attacking option in a promotion push. Ultimately he should have played more which is a different argument but it made sense bringing the deal forward.

It has become a running theme across numerous windows that we have had leftover budget that never seemingly gets spent in following windows. Funny that.

In only 4 starts I don't think he looked average enough to suggest that we should immediately sell him on. I do wonder if he is somewhat tarnished in the original posters mind in regards to potential links between Mowbray's family and Aberdeen?

But surely the point is that you play a style that best suits the players at your disposal.

I don't get why Hedges would be one that we have already decided that we want rid of. He hasn't played much and when he did break into the team he looked pretty good.

The manager predominantly, in tandem with other staff members. Either way, the owners should not be vetoing transfers and interfering. I presume you have watched plenty of Plymouth to be able to comment based on your assertion the other day that I cannot comment on Jack Vale's loan spell at Halifax having never watched him there?

Incredible how much people still willingly defend the owners to a fault no matter what. There is always a good budget that happens to never be spent. Apparently them overruling the manager is perfectly justifiable. When they dont reinvest any money its purely down to FFP. Everything can be pinned on Mowbray and Waggott even though its been a 12 year shit show.

No, I would appoint a manager that I trusted had more expertise than me to dictate transfer dealings. If I didn't trust him I would get a new one.

His transfer record is very mixed (plenty of good and bad) and I wanted him sacked both this summer and last. I defend him when say things that are blatantly untrue ie one of (you have previously said the) worst managers ever. Just a bog standard one who did ok overall. But owners should never overrule the manager on footballing decisions. If they dont trust the manager they should sack the manager and do at normal football clubs.

How anyone can possibly justify owners overruling the manager they choose to employ is absolutely insane. And how the owners intercepting a potential sale at considerable profit is "irrelevant" in the case of Rothwell is again beyond having an agenda.

Kaminski would have already been on a senior wage therefore his increase will likely have been much smaller and taken much less negotiating than Nyambe and Rothwell in particular who may have expected wages befitting their statuses when their previous contracts were when Nyambe hadnt established himself and when Rothwell had signed from Oxford.

The blame can't go solely on Waggott, as incompetent as he is at other key aspects of his job. There is clearly still a lack of joined up thinking at the club hence why Rothwell was about to be sold for a considerable profit only for the owners to stop it.

They would have gone straight back up assuming they went down but the style wasnt "attractive" enough. Glad he isnt their manager though as they are worse without him.

The 2 questions that then come are: Is the budget from the owners enough? Factoring in money allowed to reinvest in the last year, seemingly not. Is everyone in the club working together? Based on the Rothwell situation, definitely not, and possibly never will be under these owners.

Also, absolutely no acknowledgement of the point beside the truth question, in that what exactly is a "good" offer? Its subjective, so to take that and take it as gospel seems strange.

When they tried to sell one of them to raise funds on what would have been a large profit on a Mowbray signing, the owners wouldn't let them! Your refusal to give them a tiny bit of the blame is laughable.

Why is it always about trusting everyone, often blindly whilst removing critical faculty? We may well have offered good offers relative to our budget but if the budget was small to begin with, then it isn't good relative to the general market.

It's not as simple as that. The key scenario you miss is the potential to sell to retain some value. Rothwell is the obvious one and you had people on the ground wanting to sell and replace, but internal conflict with our idiotic owners. The Lancashire Telegraph I think reported that Nyambe was subject to bids from Stoke last summer, again, should we have accepted, and was everyone on the same page? How do you know that they were good offers? I am not convinced that we are offering competitive wages to be honest. Also, see above on potential sales.

Does anyone know if renewing season ticket holders in the same seat will get new cards and if so, roughly when? I may have missed it being mentioned. The club are typically silent when you tweet them, too busy uploading endless pictures to respond to customer queries.

West Brom are close to signing Tom Lawrence on a free. Him, Swift, Wallace, Dike, Robinson and Grant is a formidable attack at this level.

The only part that could be subject to any criticism is the time taken to appoint both people, especially considering that it was seemingly known internally that Mowbray was to leave this summer. My point was just that whenever a club changes manager, they will be playing catch up in the market with the new man/men wanting their own players etc. By the time our recruitment process restarted, many/most teams will have made progess with quite a few getting deals over the line. That specific point wasnt a criticism. If indeed Kompany was aware of his appointment before Tomasson, then the latter is naturally playing catch up.

I have repeatedly said that it is unrealistic to expect ALL of a group of youngsters to all successfully break through together out of necessity. I dont doubt that we have talented youngsters and I am sure that some will emerge but I feel uncomfortable at the idea of forcing it simply because lots of players have left the club. Ive never once claimed that I know more than JDT either. None of us on this messageboard have an equal level of expertise to him. Nor did any of us have a similar level of expertise to Mowbray. I am merely giving my opinion, if we can only give our opinion if we feel more qualified than professional managers then we may aswell close the board.