Well the main positive for me is he is a relatively young, hungry coach with a sprinkling of experience. Not one of the older end here to top up pension.

On a par with Ainsworth then, who many seem not to want. I would back either personally, but particularly the passion Ainsworth would bring.

Wouldn't have been my first choice, but I've seen worse names mentioned. Ferguson is definitely a character I could get behind after the morbidness of TM.

Ferguson for me wouldn't be a disaster. Everything Mowbray isn't character wise.

How do the Rovers play? I never quite worked it out under Mowbray

The man has a seriously low opinion of our supporters that much is evident. Doesn't even bother himself with a token clap to the away end, combine that with repeatedly insulting our intelligence and enough is enough. Mowbray out.

Anyone any idea of ticket sales for this one?

Probably swings and roundabouts. Would have been a pen against us for North End for sure, handball by Nyambe I think it was.

Oh yes I agree 100%, just reporting what I was told, totally understand TM's thoughts if true.

I was told by a member of the groundstaff at approx 1405 that a) Mowbray wanted the game off over concerns as to the long term damage of the pitch b) Unsurprisingly Rowett wanted it on c) The pitch was better than both the Preston and Hudds games and therefore well playable.

Probably not the right place for the debate but wow that's harsh on Bradley Johnson.

He was given a lesson in the dark arts of forward play by the slightly smaller (according to google) Tom Eaves.

The ref got plenty wrong, but the Buckley tackle was one of the clearer yellows you will see.

If it was the other way round and Barnsley had scored and goal been given this forum would have been in uproar. Just one of those rare incidents. Poor - yes. Wrong - no. As you say down to the referees interpretation of the seriousness of injury, which is hard to judge.

There's a lot of things from Rugby that football could benefit from in my opinion - none more so than refs mic'd up for everyone to hear.

Top 2 bullet points. So all down to his interpretation of the injury.

Yeah mate very hard to judge barring the obvious but that's the guidance given at the moment to referees. Yes it's open to abuse as it looks like happened on this occasion.

Play should be stopped if the referee suspects a serious injury or a head injury. As you know yourself when you have a split second to decide if its a head injury or not it's best from a referees view to lean on the side of caution. Frustrating for fans but from the referees point of view it's better to disallow the goal than allow it and then the player is carried off with a head injury. Hope your well and had a good Xmas.

Im also a qualified referee, the latest guidance is to stop the game for a serious injury or a head injury (no matter how serious) however I agree with you it's about when he blew the whistle and how audible the whistle was, but he was perfectly within his rights to stop the game the second he suspected a head injury, no matter how serious.

If its a head injury you stop the game immediately as a referee, so I'm not sure he blew to quickly is an excuse. There's no advantage to be played from a head injury. I didn't see the actual incident due to a toilet trip with a nagging child, but the minute a player is holding his head the referee should stop the game.

Anything getting up for 3k is absolutely fantastic all things considering...pandemic, no trains, the general last 11 years we've been through. Is the famous old club stirring? You bet. Rise rovers Rise.

Absolutely no question - Rovers to get promoted.

I think I prefer a slightly lighter blue (not as pale as the 90/91 or 18/19) so for that reason the 91/92 Ribero home shirt. Away shirt I would go for the 95/96 champions edition, red with black sleeves away shirt. For a third shirt the Wembley 92 yellow shirt, narrowly pipping this season's macron version of the shirt.

Not sure if been mentioned but did anybody see the fight after the game? Grown men who ought to know better and some young kids attacking Huddersfield fans (who were goading but still, absolutely no excuse for that). I don't get to many away games but last night confirmed why I don't.

No one likes losing games of football but 3 points from the 2 away games this week will do me just fine. Anything more is fantastic.