Ridiculously soft penalty. Their player went looking for the penalty and got it. Took the dive. Still it's not even close to being the worst decision of the night so far...that's Tony playing Gally on the left wing. Yet again. Not sure we look like getting level though, even with 80 minutes to go. That's far more concerning. Hope I'm wrong.

FFS Brereton, stop diving. We could have been in a good position there if he hadn't thrown himself to the floor and needlessly conceded possession.

Fair play. Think I was just in a bad mood.

Do you want to improve this meandering response? Eh?!? Seriously, I read it three times and I don't know what your point is. Honestly not trying be a dick here for once...

Silva's honours... Manager[edit] Estoril Segunda Liga: 2011–12[13] Sporting Taça de Portugal: 2014–15[22] Olympiacos Super League Greece: 2015–16[32] Individual Segunda Liga Coach of the Year: 2011–12[60] Versus...Mowbray's Managerial career[edit] West Bromwich Albion Football League Championship: 2007–08[49] Blackburn Rovers Football League One runner-up: 2017–18[50][51] Seeing as the only thing Mowbray has in the last decade or so is a history of being sacked and not being able to win League One despite having by far the biggest budget... It's a no brainer. Not Marco Silva's biggest fan, but anything is better than more Mowbray doing nothing but promising jam tomorrow and giving us a season over by February.

As if Armstrong started shooting on sight, game after game, without Mowbray's instruction. BS. He was told to do it. He'd have been hooked otherwise but no...he never has been, has he? AA plays to Mowbray's instructions just like all Rovers players. He's the manager.

What a difference a month makes in a Tony Mowbray classic death spiral!!!!!!!

I reckon Millwall will know they can take it nice and easy after that, watching Arma smash the ball into the top stand half a dozen times from outside the area. It'll be a like having a half day off work for them after we somehow gift them the first goal through calamitous defending.

It begins with an analogy with Kenny Dalglish's time at Rovers. I stopped right there. Life's too short.

As a player listening to that you'd be ready to run through brick walls for the man once he finishes speaking. The focus on our positives and not worrying about the opponents (whoever they are, who cares) was the most impressive part of that soundbite. It's difficult to listen to that and not think that we are the Rovers and we fear nobody. Prediction after that? Millwall 1 Rovers 0.

Never a truer word said, Chaddy. We argue back and forth on here and there but Rovers fans are powerless. I think that, ultimately, is why we all feel so frustrated. 1 point in seven, 16 in 18. We're going backwards all the time...yet nothing will happen unless India decides it will.

Venky's Blackburn Rovers Publishing House are proud to announce our new publication, "Around the Championship in 80 Years" by Tony Mowbray which will be released in May 2096. You will... - Laugh as another striker is played out of position in 2047 - Cry with pain as Rovers lose yet another game to a team that scores more goals than us in 90 minutes and Honest Tony claims against all grasp on reality; "We deserved something from that" but "We gave it a right good go" and "We'll be fine when **INSERT RANDOM INJURED PLAYERS** return". - Improve your numerical skills by counting along how many shots Adam Armstrong punts into the stands with your younger ones. For even younger readers, you may wish to count with them how many players line up in the wrong position at the start of the game or count how many midfielders Honest Tony throws on as substitutes at one time. Note: Children will need five fingers if they wish to count all the random substitutes at once. - Look forward to the upcoming sequel, "Another 80 years doing absolutely fuck all in the Championship" which will be released in May 2176. Here's to another 80 years doing sweet FA in the championship and talking about some journey rubbish or some such!

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19131462.concerns-facing-rovers-mowbray-winless-run/ The comments section on this article tells the story. Rich Sharpe lambasted for his negative slant on Rovers. Those wanting a change are, rather bizarrely and with a startling lack of self awareness, labelled as "fan boys" (eh, of what, Rovers?!? It certainly isn't of Mowbray). Statistics randomly massaged and others ignored. One post from some Ewood Wobbler chap which must be some equivalent of Hamlet's soliloquy considering the fawning adoration it's received; the town of Blackburn has finally found its equivalent of the Bard of Avon, it appears. What is it, sixteen points from eighteen? How can that be acceptable to these lot? Are they just masochists, is that the answer? Finally, when did a crap loss against Reading in which we created next to nothing turn into our Dunkirk moment? Where has this bs narrative of a great performance come from? One poster on the LET brands it as "criminal" that we didn't come away with something from a game in which the opposition scored more goals than us. Who needs enemies when you have fans like that? We're sleepwalking into a relegation scrap. To be or not to be, indeed...let's keep doing nothing, eh?

The obvious answer is... Kickbacks. Ain't ever a deal that happens which doesn't enrich someone. Luckily, we have no history of agents and overinflated signing-on fess so we don't have to worry about that.

Pulis would hardly be the ideal option but it's certainly better than the scenario we are in right now. He has a promotion from this league under his belt, kept the likes of Stoke, Palace and WBA in the premiership, something which is beyond Mowbray, whose one season in the prem saw his team dead last. Even in a season when only 35 points were needed for safety, he finished not only relegated but even looking up to the heights of 18th and 19th. Besides, Pulis teams do not play worse football than the dreary tedium we've served up during 2021. Nope, not anywhere near my top choices but still a definite improvement. Then again, so would Bielsa's bucket be compared to the recent shower of shite served up. Nobody on here really knows though, do they? They don't know if Mowbray will even be sacked, so how the heck can anybody know it'd then be Pulis-time?

Good job we brought on our free kick specialist Downing.

The Reading manager should be telling his players that the best way to attack is to give Rovers the ball somewhere near the Reading goal. There'll be some Reading player racing away into the Rovers half within seconds... Why do Reading need forwards when we set up the opposition attacks ourselves?

Wow. I think that's the WORST criticism of Mowbray's Rovers that I've ever seen on here. Cutting. If THAT half was "the best we've played for a while", which includes precisely zero good chances and attacks that somehow end up back in our own half, then Mowbray should not only be sacked but be sacked now, at half time. Let the lads organise themselves for the second half, they can't do worse than Tony's doing!!!

The goal alert on the BBC says it all; "BIG learning experience for Liverpool loanee Harvey Elliott." Yep, we're paying Prem clubs money so as to be able to give their kids work experience and allow them to make their mistakes on the job with us. With this experience in hand, they can then go back to benefit their actual clubs. Meanwhile, our own winger who could never get a chance (and it was all his fault apparently, nothing Integrity Tony could do) is smashing them in for Shrewsbury. Just don't see the sense in that.

I think this is a top six squad just about, albeit unevenly distributed. So, therefore, it should be challenging to be in the playoffs. I could accept being round about the playoffs by the end of the campaign, even if we do ultimately miss out. That'd be frustrating, but where we should be. Some might think we should be aiming higher, but they're all just opinions...not facts. Seems we can all agree that the exact strength is not the main point though, which is that Mowbray is failing to come close to reach the potential of this squad. We could even be down to 18th place by the weekend should results go against us. 18th in March! As it is, considering our March schedule, we're much more likely to be harbouring relegation fears than anything else.

Would happily take Alan Partridge as manager for the comedy value alone. We may not be in the playoffs (although, to be honest, he'd almost certainly do better than Tony) but at least we'd be able to smile. This'd be Alan trying to get Daniel Ayala's attention so he can be subbed off in the 4th minute to avoid yet another injury...

Would happily sell every single player and save Brockhall. No Question.

Who? Why?

You reckon a proper manager like Warnock, McCarthy, Pearson, O'Neill, Hughton and so on wouldn't AT THE VERY LEAST have this squad near the play offs? Can't agree with that. Not at all.

Shocking to read the negative views on Mowbray's Rovers. We gave it a right good go today and we'll put the point in the bag and move on. We're only..what is it?...35 games into our journey. The Venkys can see what we're trying to do here. We're only little old Blackburn Rovers but we'll give it a right good go. We'll take the positives. It's about the positives. Every game in which we've played absolute fookin' shit we should have been taking something from the game because my name is Tony and I talk any old shit to the press and they lap it up, saying what that I have integrity and should be referred to as Tony Dignity. Etc., etc., ad infinitum forever and ever. Drivel, drivel, drizzle, bollocks that never seems to stop... What a shit show of a club and, with those clowns in charge, we have the manager they deserve.