It may appear that Ive been negative but I fully support his efforts.

Totally agree, I think Mowbray will be here next season, with a much depleted squad with numbers made up of free transfers. History will be repeated with relegation a real threat. When Souness took over mid season he had time to assess his squad and made signings to suit what he wanted. I guess on the other foot it could end up like when we installed Lambert mid season with the new man realising he has inherited a no win situation and walk before the end of this season.

Totally agree with you but the question is where the start comes from. The issue is that it appears the owners do not have the vision to grow the club or brand. If they did they would realise they need a catalyst for re-invigoration. Little things like sprucing Ewood up making it look like people care is a start. Im not touching on the footballing side of things.

Yet I live 5 mins from Ewood on a street with 10 houses. My daughter and I are the only season ticket holders at Ewood but there are two Old Trafford season ticket holders. I hope we can grow into the local towns I really do but I think the damage from the last ten years maybe is too irreversible. Venky's have a lot to answer for.

Now that the season is dead, if they are going to move in another managerial direction at the end of the season, surely it makes sense to make the break now and allow the recruitment process to begin. If we wait until the end of the season we will then spend most of the summer replacing the manager then they will need time to assess what they require then we'll end up with the likes of Wes Brown and Gordon Greer signing and look how successful that was.

You might fill it if the minibus started at Kendal called at Lancaster, Morecambe, Garstang at Preston on the way down.

I know but unless you are a bloody good con artist there has to be something there that people want to watch. Putting transport on for no one to use seems the least of the concerns. I live within minutes of walking to the ground and it would take all my time at present to go. Its a shame but its the position we are in. Maybe it would be better trying to get people to buy into away trips and making them into great days out that people wish to attend with the match as a side issue to create support because the stuff being served up as present wont draw the crowds. WE ARE the Rovers I agree

We've seen plenty of other players return from long term injuries, re injure themselves with similar types of injury in the past. Paul Warhurst and Kevin Gallacher are two that spring to mind. These thing happen and not always someone's fault. As lots of said it may of been because of fatigue but so can any injury. Any player playing three games in less than week could have suffered it. Mowbray's a plank should not be manager I agree but to beat him with this is IMO is wrong. Now if you were to ask me if Dack should have been still on the pitch because of his performance, I personally would have took him at half time.

The only worry is that with our fall in season tickets and the apathy that is around the club, is that buses maybe from outreaching towns might be a touch over the top. Car sharing might be more in order. With the Dingles in the premiership, we may have lost the floating Lancashire supporter. I think we may need something to pull in more local support as well but the club do not seem too bothered about that either.

Fair points but they are exactly the same problems that Mowbray inherited. He has tried different things but we are still making the same basic mistakes as from day 1. It does not matter what formation we play when your defence makes the same mistakes week in week out, season in, season out. There is no pace in midfield so transition is slow from either attack or defence. It does not matter if we have one, two, three or four there. How many times do we think that player x should be there or player y should have closed quicker. Everything is too slow. It does not matter who plays upfront because 9 times out of 10 they are too isolated because we cant get the basics right. There is no progress under Mowbray, nothing has changed. Its all smoke and daggers to hide it.

Sad to say but the option you did not mention will be the most likely outcome. Lose and Mowbray stays

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As Ive said before when Gallagher plays down the middle he reminds me of when Kevin Davies played here. Davies goes to Bolton under a proper coach and he becomes a different player. We'll never know if Gallagher could become a better central player because Mowbray hides him out on the wing. I disagree that he can't hit a barn door. The few time he has played central he has scored.

No but neither can SG

Not all Hughes' football was good to watch. When we had Dickov up front it was very basic and in your face. This is not unlike Dyche, Moyes, Allerdyce and a degree Hodgson's today. This changed once we had Bellamy but still had a direct option with Kuqi. That is where Mowbray fails as we have no variety.

I understand contracts better than I know how to put you ignore it seems!!! Plodding around in midtable does not seem to put the manager's position in question. As I dont know what the maanger's KPIs are so I dont know if promotion is beneficial. His contract may say avoid relegation. You though seem to know what is in Tony's contract so I bow to your obviously superior knowledge.

It was you who mentioned AKON oraginsing a defence. All I was saying is that it is irrelevent because Mowbray cant organise a defence. If you are hard of thinking thats fine but I will explain. I happen to agree if Sparks as Mowbray is under no pressure to deliver and is well paid so why upset the apple cart? Youre now on ignore so I wont have to reply anymore.

If Mowbray could organise a defence then your argument would have a relevence...but he cant so we aint going up

Only pushing top 6

4 youre forgetting about Williams as well

It hasnt stopped him with midfielders, he just rotates them

I see it as one of two ways:- i. WE haven't made an offical bid and Crewe are trying to get a bidding war hoping any other club to make a bid. Barry Fry used Rovers several times in the Uncle Jack days to try to sell players by announcing weve bid for players. or ii. We have bid and been rejected so Mowbray is denying were interested as not to upset our existing players and he does not rock the boat.

He maintained his stance and did not mess us around. Mowbray had us hanging around. As soon as he let his feelings known we should have moved on and not wait for him. Why was it stupid? He had chance of premiership football, with no financial penalty to him. He is young enough to get set up if it didn't work out. Its not like he wont get a Championship club is it? Once a player is on Mowbray's wanted list he very seldom leaves it so it would not surprise me if it did happen

Correction.....mainly the same players bar the keeper. Nymabe, Lenihan, Wharton and Williams were all here.

All the way through the summer it was widely reported on most media sources that WBA was Kipre's prefered choice. The only sticking point to it was Rovers were the only bid accepted and as such Kipre hung on as long as possible for his "Dream Move" to the premiership. We were always his 2nd choice so agreed terms and medical because as we were Wigan's choice until shortly before he moved.