Would keep Corry Evans around too. Sadly Bennett, Johnson and Mulgrew will be nigh on unshiftable.

Agree with all (as a few may testify!) but he gives his all, dont think you can doubt his work rate.

Downing was signed with the intention if playing in numerous positions, but with a lack of pace he has always looked most comfortable central. Armstrong was always seemingly being geared to be a striker. Gallaghers ability in general we may disagree on but surely you agree that he should never be played wide. He has never once had a game that justifies it and to be fair I feel sorry for him being shunted there. But I am not just focusing on him. Brereton and Samuel are equally poor out wide if not even worse yet when they play it is often wide. Mowbray loves a wide forward but its never been an effective tactic and our goals have always mainly come from central areas. Why sign an actual winger and not even give him one start when we have no alternatives. Im not interested in excuses from the previous window as its been an achilles heel through Mowbrays time.

Cant argue at all with your analysis on Johnson and Gallagher. I suspect that Chapman wont be the answer and I wasnt overly excited by his return but hes a natural winger who takes on his full back and for him to not be given one chance from the start when some of our failed alternatives have had repeated chances to prove their worth or lack of beggars belief.

He didnt do anything. Theres no point pretending otherwise just because hes young, its not a downbeat attitude, its just saying it as it happened. I dont think Chapman is the "next Lionel Messi" at all, but the alternatives out wide are so poor (Gallagher out wide, Bennett etc) that a natural winger with pace is surely worth a go over tried and repeatedly failed alternatives. We are only left scraping the barrel due to the repeated inadequacies of the manager to address the problematic position, desperate to shoehorn poor strikers into that position instead.

Even though we hadnt been in the top 6 at any point during the season? Baring in mind that Dack got injured on the 23rd December, on matchday 23, and Holtby, Rothwell and Evans were injured very recently.

One less option but not sure how much of a loss it is considering how ineffective he was in his 2 starts. Chapman has to start.

Gallagher remaining on the right wing?

There was one point on Saturday when Bell picked up the ball on the left with loads of space and I thought to myself, he will check back any second and go back again like he always does. He didnt, he proved me wrong, instead he ran forward and just straight off the pitch.

Your quote that is supposedly said every time we lose is obviously a massive exaggeration. But ultimately the problem is that the vast majority of the money weve had in the last 2 years has been horribly wasted and perhaps suggest that the manager will struggle to progress us to the team we aspire to be and ultimately we have never been in the top 6 which is our target. Those 2 frustrations and concerns are naturally unconvered when we lose a game.

Surely its natural for football fans to be "upset" when their team loses? I presume Man City fans are unhappy because their aim was to win the League again and they are miles away. Do you think their fans would be pacified if you said to them "youd think we was in 17th place?" The weakest part of our team is probably out wide where we only have 1 short term injury and literally no other competent options, assuming Downing is a central player at his age (far more effective there) and Armstrong a striker.

What team would everyone play on Tuesday night? Walton Nyambe Lenihan Adarabioyo Bell Chapman Travis Davenport Downing Graham Armstrong Not ideal having Downing wide but in the absence of any competent wingers at least one of him and Armstrong will have to play there. Very much a pragmatic 442, not Armstrong as a number 10. Johnson and Rankin Costello should be taken out. No more strikers out wide bollocks. No Samuel near the 18.

I was more interested in his continuous and consistent record of goals and assists rather than a big mouthed chairman inferring that the player like the majority of human beings is somewhat motivated by money. Maddison or Gallagher out wide? Maddison or Rankin Costello as a 10?

It is adapting "a mob like attitude" to feel like the manager should be heavily criticised and questioned for spending 12m on 2 absolutely joke footballers?

It wouldnt be too difficult to play wide and do a better job than a 5m striker who has had a grand total of zero effective games from a wide position yet has become our first choice winger to be fair.

I dont know why the fact that Mowbrays trying his best to improve us and that hes working hard is constantly brought up as a defence of him. No one doubts that, and the same probably goes for the other 23 managers in the League. You mention FFP and the need players to exceed their value which I feel like your defensive and flippant attitude towards the Gallagher and Brereton is somewhat inconsistent with that. You mention wages but Gallagher was reportedly on 40k at Southampton so even with a wage cut you would suspect that he is probably our highest earner, and I bet Brereton isnt on the peanuts some make out considering that he is a 7m signing. There will always be teams like Fulham who undoubtedly we arent on the same level financially but it is much more difficult to plead comparative poverty when you have a 5m and high earning ineffective striker as our first choice winger, who has never had a good game from that position and we dont really have any other wingers bar Chapman who has fallen off the face of the earth. I appreciate that you have criticised Gallaghers performance but you have also defended Mowbray and even called the outlay on him and Brereton as a "fairly moderate/good amount!" I am starting to get a case of de ja vu with Rankin Costello compared to what I have seen from Buckley. Both look out of place in the Championship and slightly overawed and it is obviously difficult to justify giving them a run of games unless they are capable of having an impact on games, even with our lack of alternatives. Of course they will and should get more chances but I can't say that either has made me particularly excited at all from the limited we have seen from them in terms of having any attacking impact on games.

Enough said!

Because you are making out that we are better off without players who are quite clearly an upgrade on what we have.

I wish we was in their position!

Every human being is interested in money, lets not pretend that he is a one of a kind money grabber or that he couldnt do better than Gallagher or Samuel on the wing or Rankin Costello as a 10.

That is absolutely embarassing.

I singled out Armstrong, Gallagher and Samuel for criticism too. Was an attacking performance whereby criticism is deserved basically across the board!

I wouldnt panic yet, the terrible form has only been across 19 games.

The inability of all the team to stay on side was embarassing but Armstrong was by far the worst offender. He should have gone out wide, I know we want him central long term but if the alternative is Gallagher and Samuel wide theres no alternative. Playing as a number 10 you need to offer an attacking threat and every time he got the ball he didnt know what to do. Cant help but be worried and unenthused at the prospect of watching us for the rest of the season with the current remaining players.

Views on Gallagher/Samuel wide, Armstrongs return to spending all game offside and Rankin Costello?