Thats where we differ then Matty, I like watching footballers play football, its been great watching Nyambe progress after everyone wrote the lad off, Tosin is absolute quality, sometimes worth the admission fee alone. As for the football we play, well thats like the vast majority of the sides in the league at our level, you cut your cloth accordingly.

You've not yet come to terms with the plight the club finds itself in, like many on the site might I add. Yes we can change the manager, but I'm telling you now, without significant investment we're not going up, we're not even making the playoffs, the clubs a basket case. As for fans losing the will to watch football, I think thats more to do with your own personal circumstances tbh. Tosin is a quality player, Lenihan looks like he could play at a higher level, Dacks a magician when he's fit, Naymabe progressing nicely, Downing superb, how can fans not enjoy watching those players? We all want to win matches and progress, but you need some perspective thrown in.

The current manager has given us stability and small shoots of recovery/structure in the background, its not the sexy part football fans are interested in but its vital to the success of any business. To pull up those roots now would be a real waste, set us back years, because I can't see an outstanding candidate in the dross thats available, certainly nobody that can get a poorly run, financially hamstrung, mid table championship club into the Premiership and that would be the only goal for a new man coming in. Stick with Mowbray for now.

Its no surprise that West Brom and Leeds are in poll position to go straight up, clubs that have spent millions over the past few years, makes our £12m look like peanuts. Brentford have spent over £30m on new players over the past few years! When you look at those numbers its clear Blackburn Rovers 2020 simply can't compete and bringing in a new manager won't change that sadly. We've got to wee with the willy we've got and small improvements is the only way forward for a club like ours in 2020. Sacking the manager disrupts those small improvements and should be avoided at all costs, for now...

I’ve been watching that show since it started in mid 2000’s Chaddy. Brilliant show, tough tough work to put food on our tableS, they really earn there money that’s for sure.

Sorry OJF but I've never managed to get into his solo stuff, its hard to forgive him for splitting up The Jam.... He also needs to cut his hair, he looks slightly sinister with that new barnet. But no doubt about it, a music icon, one of the greats.

The Big Pink - Dominos

I understand the sentiment DE and you did say permanent, but Tosin is absolute quality, if he continues to improve he'll go a long way, so he can spot a player/defender when he see's one. His buys upfront are his downfall, they've made no impact at all and the money involved clouds people views, they can't get past the money. I'm not saying ignore £12m, of course I'm not, but if you took those buys away would his tenure be viewed in the same way on here?

Tremendous player frosty, he wasn’t here long, but he was well worth the admission price on his own.

The league is full of dross Mercer, the top 2/3 sides in the league have quality, the rest are bang average, but that doesn’t mean that all the managers are cr@p. I like the small shoots of recovery made under Mowbray, structure in the background, we’ve actually got a European scouting network back! Small things I know, but they all add up when you’re a basket case of a club with unstable owners.

Dack is a very good player, sorely missed, no doubt about that. But the players around him need to be improved, significantly, we have 3 quality players, the rest are absolute dross. Over to you Tony, you have 10 games to prove people wrong.

Warnock can deliver the good on a shoe string, great appointment for Boro, pity Cheston and Co fooked it up.

I probably did to be honest His set pieces were legendary outside of Blackburn, but for anyone who watched him week in week out the frustration at hitting the first man from a corner, or smashing free kicks into the stand was palpable. As for Pulis, his best days are behind him, Stoke should never have got rid, we don't want him here.

Its a superb picture, taken at the top of Livesey Court 1972 by a chap called Peter Booth. The Albion pub shining brightly, the kiosk between the Riverside and Darwen end. Wasn't it around the time the fences went up at Ewood? After an Anglo-Scottish cup game against burnley which was like the War of the Roses by all accounts.

A picture for some of the older posters, taken from Blackburn now and then, Easter fair with Ewood in the background 1972

You may not get paid to pick a manager JH but its always good to offer an alternative if you want the current manager sacked, thats how these messageboard things work. Whilst I don't agree with your pick, you also pulled many more names out of a hat above, only Warnock fits our requirements and that ship has sailed. But fair play to you for the names, if we could get Hughes back with a bit of a budget I'd drive Mowbray back to Teeside myself.

I'm not on twitter, I can only speak for whats going on here in Brfcsville. The current pool of available managers is as bad as I can ever remember, how many those managers have taken a club with no money, no staff and mad owners to the Premiership? If they sacked Mowbray today I wouldn't shed any tears, but I would if they brought the likes of Mick McCarthy in to replace him

You missed the point. The ones calling for a change of manager earlier in the thread refused to be drawn on a successor, they had no plan, a bit like Venkys. Also the posters who want Mowbray to stay are being pigeon holed into "Venkys can't pick a better replacement" which isn't entirely true. I personally think he deserves another 10 games with Dack back and a bit of summer trading. I actually gave up a while back worrying who those imbeciles would appoint next to be honest.

Most fans are realists, all my mates have had season tickets for over 30yrs, they feel the same, some want him sacked, some don’t, but we all see what’s taken place over the past 10yrs and form an opinion based on that. To be positive in the face of adversity is admirable, but it’s actually baseless in terms of the modern day Blackburn Rovers. I’d love to be proven wrong.

You shouldn't be calling posters defeatist then Mr Clitheroe, especially when you've got no answers to the burning question yourself. We've had 10yrs of decline under the current owners, its not hard to see that we're going nowhere, regardless of whoever the manager is.

Coyle was poison and useless, Mowbray is neither of those things. Howe isn't an option as you quite rightly point out, so give us a couple of names, plenty out there by your own admission?

Some of us live the real world Mr Clitheroe, we can see whats happening in front of us, the quality of players at our disposal, our budget, the coaches and staff in the background, the owners. Whilst others think we'll go up every year, they're the ones throwing the toys out of the pram now promotion has gone down the drain, you're one of those by the sound of things. The smart money was on us not going up this year, look at the squad, look at the players, not a chance, the same next season for me unless a large injection of cash comes in, we simply can't compete and changing the manager won't make a difference in my opinion. But opinions are like arseholes, we all have one, I hope yours is right and mine is wrong. Who are you going to bring in to replace Mowbray?

Let’s get Mick McCarthy in then chaps, sounds like just the man we need to push on, make that next step. Give me a minute whilst I change my vote

Bringing in a new manager won’t improve things in my book chaps, that’s the point really. I’ve seen some right donkeys mentioned earlier today - Mick McCarthy a poor mans Allardyce, kept Ipswich just above the relegation zone season after season, do you want that? Be careful what you wish for, big Mick is exactly the type of manager we’d end up with, give me Mowbray all day long.

He needs to be given 10 games next season with Dack back and a fully fit squad, with a bit of cattle trading over the summer. I’d rather have that, than bring In one of the usual suspects who will spend the next 3 seasons keeping us in mid table and repeat....... The club isn’t geared up in any way to make the step into the Premiership, we never will be under Venkys and that’s the hand Mowbray or any manger that comes in has been dealt.