Would definitely take Ainsworth over Mowbray, but shouting from the touchline is irrelevant. People dont care what a winning manager does on the touchline. Also dont get the clamour for nostalgic appointments on the coaching staff in the meantime. I still would like to think that there is someone on the continent that we could potentially bring in like quite a few times have had success doing. Sadly, Mowbray will be here next season and as you touch on it has removed any belief, hope and enjoyment. 0 goals this season, and very much a parody figure. Possibly the only striker in the league less effective than our 2 clowns! Mind you, a tad cheaper.

It feels like we are stuck between a rock and a hard place, the natural course would be to allow his contract to expire at the end of the season presuming that no one wants to buy him in the summer and he carries on stinking the place out, although I fear that a face saving contract extension will be on its way. His shooting is an absolute embarrassment.

I must say, the insistence that Pasha can or indeed will sack Mowbray seems a little premature and hopeful at this time.

He thinks that Mowbray is the messiah based on your earlier comments, although adds context when he instantly admits that he has barely seen us play.

Im not sure that there is much quality in that 20 man squad today.

Not here they arent, and the majority of the time since has been in empty stadiums. It wouldnt have made a slight bit of difference.

Absolutely shocking from a gutless and talentless squad assembled by a manager who cant believe his luck under owners who couldnt give a shit. Gallagher equally incompetent from either position, a 15-20 goal striker under a decent manager my arse, Brereton is an embarassment, for Holtby, Rothwell and Rankin Costello the question should not be whether they want to stay, its whether we want to keep them, none have done anything close to guaranteeing having any power over signing a new deal, Elliott really poor again but of course a "privilege" that he has come on loan, Trybull a waste of time.

I wanted him out from I suspect maybe slightly before then, but what does this even mean? None of us want Mowbray to stay now, not even chaddy, yet it doesnt make one blind bit of difference.

With this current squad minus Armstrong and Dack, unless we have a brilliant summer which never is the case, and of course worsened if Mowbray is still here, which I suspect he will be, weve a real dogfight on our hands next season. Play offs my arse.

Im not saying dont offer him a new deal, but if he is unwilling, then he wont really be missed, hes never fit and not the most comfortable even when he does play.

Each game just makes me feel more and more glum about how poor or squad is. 12 worth of forwards who cant control the ball, cant stay onside, cant hit a clean shot, under any manager, they are poor players. Holtby living off a reputation from 10 years when in fact his career has been full of unfulfilled promise and mediocrity, Rothwell again invisible, and Rankin Costello with injury proneness that makes Vince Grella look robust after a really shaky performance, does anyone overly care if he doesnt sign a new deal?

No, I have not had a Rovers shirt since I was in my teens. Dont see the point in buying a football shirt as an adult. Obviously it is impossible to get a shirt that is 100% popular, but a vote ensures that at least it is as popular as it can be.

Surely you understand the concept of a vote and how the most popular will win said vote? If I recall, they had votes for both shirts.

Obviously they dont have to. But surely by doing, they encourage and potentially cause additional sales by bringing out a shirt popular by fans who have chosen it. Its not a moral duty.

If this happens, even more than at the moment, Southgate will deserve sacking before naming the squad!

Not sure if anyone saw Stan Collymores tweet the other day. Firstly, what do people think of the sudden clutch of random new terminology that seems to have made its way into football, unnecessary hipster nonsense, or is Stan Collymore the one stuck in the past? Also, is there any other football termonology that raises eyebrows everytime you hear it?

Because watching his team was soul destroying, culminating in a cowardly performance at home to Millwall with a place at Wembley on the line. He said the right things but actions speak louder than words, maybe he has matured and grown as a manager since but at that time, there was no sign that things were about to improve and indeed it took a change to Bowyer who himself is not a good manager otherwise we would have gone down. At the time, the only reason to keep him was blind hope because on the pitch it was grim. Regarding your team for tomorrow, not that the game matters, but I would go close to your first team if Armstrong is fit, although Rankin Costello needs to be on the right where he can cross the ball, would have him right and maybe Rothwell left.

We are underachieving, but the main underachievement for me is the state of the squad considering the resources spent. I think any manager who could get our squad into the top 6 would also be overachieving, which reflects badly on the squad built by Mowbray. I dont think Barnsley necessarily have a "top 6 squad" either and indeed are overachieving but at the same time, they do have some good players at this level and I wouldnt necessarily say that they have a worse squad on paper than us, thats just my opinion though. That is going off on a tangent though from my main point that the academy and being Category 1 status is justified solely by the number of graduates we have within the first team, and I do not want it to be downgraded. Just because my opinion is that there are no stand out assets amongst them and that they have such big roles (like with the Derby graduates) partially because of the average standard of the squad, neither of those points are in any way a criticism of the academy or an allowance for our academy to be downgraded. You may feel that some of them can and will be sold on for big money at some point, and fair enough if so.

They dont need to no, but surely doing so is more likely to increase sales if the shirt is already proven to be popular, and it also makes said end user feel engaged within the process.

Not sure that is strictly true, I remember Rovers went down the route of a vote in the mid to late 2000s for the next shirt and it went down a storm. Sadly that is proactivity that left as soon as Venkys came through the door.

Coyle? Appleton for sure too.

I have not even slightly implied that we should do anything but remain Category 1 so not sure why this is aimed at me. I dont subscribe to the idea that we have lots of quality in the team and are underachieving massively because of the manager, im not saying we couldnt or shouldnt aim higher or that the manager isnt underachieving but his main flaw is that with competitive resources and plenty of time he has assembled a rather underwhelming squad of players. Previous comments cited examples of Bellingham, Watkins etc as big money sales and in fact I pointed out that the job of the academy isnt just to bring through gems to be sold for multi millions which it isnt necessarily for a while, but to have graduates regularly in the squad and/or the team even if they arent stand out players as that is of great benefit financially. Lenihan and Nyambe came through quite a few years ago now and for me are probably the main 2 assets from the current pack but even if their contractual situations had been managed anything but negligently, they wouldnt demand huge fees or attract Premier League interest. There is a lot of repeated snobbery towards Barnsley, they are overachieving IMO based on the quality of their squad but I dont think ours is necessarily better, Barnsley have some really good players for this level in Styles, Helik, Mowatt, Woodrow, Dike etc so whilst some might make their team, certainly not all of them would. I also think very few of them would make the teams of those around Barnsley too, same with Derbys youngsters, surely its logical to suggest that youngsters will get even more chances in otherwise fairly poor squads?

If as it seems that we will be keeping Mowbray, Armstrong is likely to leave and we dont have any money, I suspect we will be favourites for relegation rather than promotion next season. But lets be thankful we arent Bury im sure the rhetoric will be next season.

Qualifying is a much of a muchness really, teams click when the tournament gets going. England regularly fly through qualifying but it means very little as long as you get there which barring occasional exceptions they all do. Holland and Italy you mention and I agree we may fancy our chances against (both have better midfields mind you) but they are outsiders too. Belgium are one of the favourites although like us they are handicapped by a poor manager. France and Portugal stand out id say and we are likely going to face on in the first knockout round.

From those players, only 2 will likely start at most, Henderson if fit and Rashford who for me shouldnt. Saka might make the squad at a push, Grealish will be a sub, Sancho will be a sub and Southgate doesnt rate Trent. Dont get me wrong we do have a few really good players and I get the natural optimism going into a major tournament but I do think a strong bias shows at times from yourself. In certain areas we are lacking and a huge question mark lies in the dugout, he keeps changing formations and his team selections very rarely have any balance to them. Tonight and v Albania we were so dull to watch, the balance of the side was all wrong and it was played at testimonial pace. Our defence will always have a mistake in it, especially with Pickford behind it, our central midfield will really struggle against better teams and we lack a threat in behind with lots of similar players wanting to do the same things. At the world cup, we snook past some inferior teams via a very fabourable draw through set piece goals, if we win our group as I would probably expect then we would likely face Portugal or France in the first knockout round.