RevidgeBlue

I'm under no delusion whatsoever that this will actually happen with Swag in charge, unless the owners decide to take a closer look at what's going on and cease to be taken in by the 'we're bang on course" routine. However whilst I don't think it will happen, the day you don't think a manager who isn't up to scratch SHOULD leave is the day you should give it up as a bad job! I'm really fed up now, normally I can't stand international breaks but I took a complete two week break from Rovers news, didn't miss worrying about Moggasaurus in the slightest, and returned to it full of idle curiosity wondering if a two week break would have healed some limbs and recharged our batteries. Sadly not it seems. In that two week period I'd almost forgotten how bad in general we are under Mowbray.

Spot on JH. Excellent post. I only hope someone that matters in Pune is reading it and beginning to see through this "slow build" jam tomorrow nonsense.

So how long does he get? Should he be allowed to ruin yet another season or should someone else be given the chance to try and salvage something out of it? If the latter we need to be making the change in no more than four or five games time imo.

Apart from the fact we're not 11th, we're 14th. In the second tier........

Not seen everyone's else's posts. Thought that was a desperately poor performance for 80 mins yesterday. No urgency whatsoever until the last 10. Too many players completely anonymous yesterday, Johnson (back to last season's form) Trybull (what a pointless player he looks - Lowe/Evans mark 3) and Elliott. Rothwell the pick by a country mile and next best Brereton in terms of overall play although he seems to lose his composure completely in front of goal. Poor result against a very ordinary side under a poor manager. 14th already and another wasted season, lower mid table at best, beckons unless there's a change in the dug out.

Played pretty well today, although rode our luck on a couple of occasions. To my mind the injury to the useless Evans actually helped us no end. Wharton also looks to me exactly what we need, a solid no nonsense defender who does the basics gets, gets his head on stuff when needed and isn't afraid to put the ball in row Z if necessary. Unfortunately he probably won't get a look in when everyone's fit. Armstrong's a weird player, misses easy chances, scores more difficult ones and some of his play is really poor but his goal output has been phenomenal so far this season. You can sort of tell what sort of afternoon we're going to have when you see the starting line up. Bar Holtby for Evans and Douglas for JRC I don't think that was far shy of our best starting line up today. Rothwell the pick for me.

If no one passed to him he wouldn't be! ?

Second one was a terrible shot from Armstrong. Like a back pass. And why won't he pass to Brereton?. Could have slipped him in three times.

Solid 2 mins from Evans prior to the international break. ? We might have a chance now.

Positives - Wharton starting Negatives - Corry "Started 4 lost 4" Evans in the starting line up again and no Holtby. I think we know which way this is going to go already.

Absolute nonsense. No-one has a divine right to be in the Premier League whether you're Blackburn Rovers or Manchester United but it would be nice to be challenging and feel like we're in with a genuine chance of achieving by the same. I don't know how much clearer it has to be to convince some people that Mowbray is not remotely capable of delivering that. 15th/11th/15th already this season, five points from the last seven games, I mean come on, do we actually have to be six points adrift at the bottom of the table before we make a change?

Yes Wonder how much he earned for sitting in the stand last night. £10k?** And as soon as a couple of injuries clear up I don't see how he gets in the side ** (I'd have done it for 5)

Which Christmas. 2025?

We actually improved and resembled a professional football team in the final 25 mins, the first 65 was an embarrassment and a disgrace to the Club and shirt. We were immensely lucky Boro were sloppy in the final third and not out of sight. The only positive of the night for me was a decent cameo from Wharton. Two or three examples of great muck and nettles defending. Overall though we seem to be drifting further and further away from looking capable of mounting a challenge.

Strange how your point of view changes, depending on the result. After we got tubbed at Watford you loftily informed us how no-one in the know or with any football knowledge judged a team on results, you should ONLY judge it on performances. Now we've scabbed a fortunate point at home because Boro should have, but didn't, score 3 or 4, all of a sudden we're meant to be hailing "a fantastic result!".

Dolan the sacrificial lamb again. Bet Gallagher survives 90 minutes without getting hooked.

I don't so far either. Looks like another Evans. Speaking of which, can't believe some are calling for his introduction. The whole team need to step it up massively. Holtby who's been generally excellent this season is having a stinker tonight.

Don't get the Dolan bashing, looks more likely to do something than most. I'd take Gallagher off, bring Rothwell on and move Elliot into the middle. At least he might be able to control the ball up front.

Teams are terrified to play us apparently.

Embarrassing stuff. Only had to look at the managers before kick off. The 56 year old looking miserable, about ninety, and going through the motions, trying to eke things out as long as possible to top up his retirement fund. The 70 year old who's been at his Club a relatively short time, beaming, bouncing and full of beans and trying to add one more promotion to his already impressive resume. Has no - one told him "a slow build" is the way to go? ?

I wouldn't want to see him in the starting line up ahead of Brereton Johnson Dolan or Elliot, I think it would be completely contrary to the free flowing play we've shown in the games we've played well in. I wouldn't play him ahead of Douglas either. He only comes under consideration for selection if Douglas is unavailable imo.

If it was technically possible to sign him for a month just while we got a couple of people back it would have been more palatable. When everyone is fit, who misses out to accommodate Downing? It's a retrograde step whichever way you look at it.

Come on, you can say there's no evidence he's lost his legs until you're blue in the face but it doesn't make it any more true. The evidence was there last season. To myself and most people he slowed up and his performances dropped off considerably in the second half of last season. He's now 36 and it's overwhelmingly likely that that was the reason and he's even less likely to have benefitted from another extended break. If he was 26 maybe you could overlook last season's drop off in form and put it down as just one of those things but to take another punt on him at 36 is madness and simply a case of Teflon Tony ignoring what went on on the pitch lin the second half of last season because he likes the bloke.

What's Davenport done wrong, he hasn't been given a chance!

I wouldn't say there was no basis for it, Imo, he was poor post lock down after a break. Very optimistic to think at his age he is going to improve on that, back to the form of the start of last season after another extended break imo.