RevidgeBlue

Yes I forgot Wilder, he'd be on my list as well.

If I were the owners I would always have had the view that the manager is the most important person at the Club and that money in that respect should be no object. My shortlist would read something like: Experienced names: Bilic Jokanovic Hughes Younger managers Cowley Ainsworth Neil Critchley

Thank god for that. Cast iron penalty against Nyambe not awarded on the whistle as well. Let's put a line under this abortion of a season, get in the best manager and coaching staff we can, hire a decent CEO and look forward to next season with a clean slate and sense of optimism.

Branthwaite's rubbish.

Armstrong just turned into him looking for the foul.

Appearance money time.

He knows the rules and he isn't even playing for Liverpool tonight. What if he now mistimes a tackle? Completely unprofessional but symptomatic of the holiday camp mentality prevalent at Ewood.

Wow. What a gift. First the defender slipping then the keeper throwing it in. Mowbray must have swallowed a horseshoe today. Can we hold on?

Yes. The commentators would probably be making more of it had all the chances not been on top of one another.

Good touch from Holtby through to Armstrong. He has to score there.

As in not quite as bad as Brown. There isn't much in it though.

EIT seems to have it in for Nyambe for some reason.

As Jim said, dreadful half, how Derby aren't at least two in front is anyone's guess. As for Gallagher, decent goal but Christ, I think he edges Douglas in the worst player ever to wear a Rovers shirt stakes. Maybe just behind Chris Brown and Paul Mckinnon. I'd chop someone's hand off at the elbow to take the point now.

Probably suffering from hurt feelings knowing he's not our main centre half.

There's no actual evidence they're withholding finance, Mowbray always claims the opposite, that he has to hold the owners back. Besides is it a case in this instance of them withholding finance per se or Mowbray just unilaterally deciding that he doesn't think players X and Y are worth what they're asking for? My point about would you give Mowbray any more money was based on the hypothesis that either the decision to remove him will be made in summer or has already been made.

Thanks for sharing. Personally I'd take that very much with a pinch of salt as part of Lambert's PR and charm offensive to make himself look good in advance of moving to his next job. I do remember him saying "This Club has got to decide which way it wants to go" a lot whilst doing absolutely nothing about renewing contracts. Then walking out thanks to a clause in his contract which he'd inserted. I don't believe a word he said with the benefit of hindsight.

I agree with the other poster in a way. Mowbray deserves to be commemorated as having the worst run of any manager in our near 150 year history. So given a choice I'd choose to limp to safety via a few draws. You're also right though, safety is paramount and you can't pick and choose. Therefore I'll take survival however it comes and will be delighted with a win tonight.

I don't remember that at all. Source?

This is another reason why Mowbray needed to go a while back. He must be on his last legs and should have no input on who does and doesn't get a new deal. Should have been down to a new man. (To be fair to the owners would you give TM any more money)

Sort of agree with you, the odd swear word is fine, when it gets every other word it's irritating. There's nothing worse than someone whose vocabulary is so limited they have to pop the f bomb in every other word to pad out their sentences, e.g. "I'm going to the f-in chip shop" or (Who told you that) "f-in Shayna" etc.

As an ex teacher I thought you'd have been more affronted by the fact "bollocks" was spelt incorrectly gumboots! 🙂

If Dan has started spouting off, could someone point out to him that Waggott has effectively been caught out blatantly lying as it was freely acknowledged in the latest Sharpe article that the facilities couldn't be replaced to the same standard on the one site. All this despite Waggott claiming Cat 1 status was vitally important to him. Then we'll take the discussion from there.

Where did he say this? Also I didn't quite understand what you meant, did you insert a "not" in there by mistake? 🙂

Again, this theory about him being told he could have the Rhodes money to spend is pure conjecture. For all we know he could have been parachuted in specifically to sell Rhodes. Has his subsequent record not put you off him?

1) Yes, a better manager than him! 2) Did he? Says who?