I BET Gary Bowyer can’t wait until 10.30am every morning so he can just get out of his office and on to the training field and forget about everything – embargoes, players going out, players coming in – and concentrate on working with the lads.

In his two years in charge of Rovers he’s had to deal with a lot of problems that other managers – and older and more experienced ones at that – have never had to deal with, all the while still putting a fairly good football team out on the pitch on a Saturday which can play good football.

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His problem now is losing his best players.

We’ve seen Tom Cairney go and I’m sure Gary will only want to lose one more, at worst.

But at least he can console himself with the fact that his good work is helping the club.

He’s picked up some absolute bargains in the last couple of years, took a gamble on them after their previous clubs allowed them to leave, and developed them, so that if and when they do go, they’ll go for a big profit.

Tom Cairney was good example of that.

So you’ve got to admire Gary for what he’s doing off the field, as well as on it, and along with all the deadwood he’s got rid of, it’d be interesting to sit down and work out how much he’s brought into the club through transfers and how much he’s saved on the wage bill.

The problem is, though, now he cannot spend any of the money, certainly not on transfer fees, that he brings in.

So, as I said last week, I bet he dreads every time the phone rings in his office.

Not that there’s anything he personally can do about it. He’s just got to hope no-one else gets picked off.

And it will be a shame if they do because in his two years here he’s put together a good little squad.

No doubt, then, he’ll be looking forward to the closure of the transfer window because he’ll know then exactly what he’s got to work with.

By then he certainly will have wanted to have made some new signings because, as I say, it’s a small squad, one that will become stretched quickly if it suffers the same amount of serious injuries it did last season, particularly to key players.

But that will be easier said than done because when you’re restricted to frees and loans, it’s very difficult to replace players of the quality of Tom when you’re in those markets.

I’m sure Gary, though, has been through worse at this club and he’ll be big enough to get through it.