In fairness, you seem to get on your high horse about this more than anyone else. I can see your point, and you might not be wrong, but to jump to Mowbray's defence every single time is just a bit silly in my opinion.
He is a good manager, but he does make some mistakes. Letting Martin go might not be one of them, but failing to replace him before the season starts certainly is.
Who's getting on their high horse about it?
I'm not just mindlessly jumping to his defence on everything, it's just innocent until proven guilty isn't it? If we get to the end of the transfer window and he hasn't built a competitive team and we're losing games, then we can start chucking toys out the pram then can't we? Similarly if we get to the end of the season and we miss out on something marginally by a few points and we get battered in the first couple of games and it wasn't worth the risk, then we can question the trade off then can't we?
But instead people are just hellbent on moaning about everything and bitching about not having any funds (even though there's no evidence of that), saying we have a relegation team already, etc etc. Just don't get it. It's likely the guys got a game plan, and is taking calculated risk by keeping the squad thin and going for quality rather than quantity, and accepting that we may have to wait longer to get the best quality.
Ideally we would have bought excellent players at the start of the transfer window, all for significant fees, beating the competition, and have a really long pre season smashing everyone and be ready way in advance. But unfortunately we're a third tier team with about 11k average attendances and no stadium, and so we need to be shrewd with our budget. Unfortunately people can't seem to wrap their little heads around that.
