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  1. I agree with Stuart tbh Nathan. Mowbray been here over 2 1/2 years now and at no stage has he looked like he is close to being tactically aware or knowing how to set a team up. We have shipped soft goals almost from the start of his tenure and lost or drawn games through silly goals conceded/poor game management or daft substitutions that wreck the shape of the team. I find it incredible that the shape of the team and ''style'' of play goes out the window repeatedly when he makes his subs. This happened in League One though generally teams weren't good enough to exploit it. In the Championship they do. He has been ultra conservative since he walked through the door and had he been bolder he might well have prevented relegation to League One. He remains ultra conservative. He has publicly commented on 'defenders coming' and knows full well that we can't ship goals like we do. Yet in god knows how many windows , the defensive structure of the team is no different and in some cases neither are the personnel. His obsession with utility players knows no bounds and continually we have players in wrong positions . I genuinely think he is a decent bloke at heart but has been pressured into some very strange outbursts of late and in my opinion , I think he is simply struggling at this level to compete tactically or organisationally. He is too old school and as some have said including myself , I think he is a decent chap but a managerial dinosaur . I don't think he has it in him to radically change and deal with the demands and footballing intelligence of a fast moving football world . He is naturally conservative and a steady hand which initially was needed but if you cant progress from that then you start to go backwards and that is what is happening here. He has nothing more in his locker than we have seen. So it is possible , god forbid, that he frustrates and infuriates us even more in the coming weeks. But The whole Club looks to be behind the curve operationally at many levels , notably our scouting, and the owners aren't savvy enough to see it and therefore we bumble on as a club because he's a decent bloke and appears to be trying his best. The fact that his best isn't good enough is likely to mean that we will need a sequence of horrendous results before anything changes because nobody within the Club will rock any boats for fear of their own positions. The Club is a cleft stick of mediocrity which most on here can see and which is why there is so much outrage at the claptrap comments they come out with which basically insults our intelligence. Most on here know what they are talking about in general (though there will always be differences of opinion on specific players etc) .We have lived through decades of this Club and know its capabilities, strengths and weaknesses all too well. The people in power at Ewood are largely people who don't have that depth or history with the Club and which is why we find it pretty offensive when they come out with the tripe that they do. I don't see change coming early; it might happen if we have a total nightmare run of results .The owners wont want the hassle or the cost and the present incumbents won't want to put their heads above the parapet. Conclusion: Stalemate, tread water at best. Flirt with relegation again at worst. Why? because we are badly owned and poorly managed.
    24 points
  2. Seems a very poor decision seeing as he should be nowhere near the team if Mowbray bothered to pick our strongest 11
    16 points
  3. Taking my daughter (5 y o) to this one - her first visit to Ewood and first competitive football match. Gone for JW Upper seats, near as I could to the halfway line. No doubt it will be a case of 'Is it finished yet?' well before half time, and the wallet will take a pounding in the club shop, but hey ho, the blue & white blood has to be infused at some point! COYB!
    13 points
  4. Here’s the thing that I think gets missed in these discussion, the constant references to “we”: what “we” need, who “we” should get etc. There is no we. There is us, the fans, and them, the owners. Owners who never once have shown any regard to the fans, never once made the right decision at the right time, never once recruited a manager either worthy of the role or capable/empowered to take us anywhere. I see Mowbray as a reincarnation of Bobby Saxton: well meaning, committed, passionate, but too loyal to certain players, not a great finder of talent, and tactically limited. We all wanted Saxton out sooner or later, but history has shown he did a better job than was thought at the time by his dealing well with some existential off-field issues. I suspect history may say the same about Mowbray when the Venky regime is over, should we ever again be in the hands of owners who care about the club AND the fans.
    6 points
  5. What have at the moment is a collection of players, not a team.
    6 points
  6. Not exactly off-topic - more at a tangent to it - but, as one in whom a love of the Rovers was nurtured in him by his Dad 60-odd years ago but has no children of his own, I must say I'm heartened to read the posts from Dads taking their children to their 'first game' tomorrow. There'll always be a Rovers if that loyalty is instilled at an early age. No matter what those youngsters think about the Manager the club's got twenty-odd years down the track!
    5 points
  7. Mowbray should play his strongest eleven. Full stop. We need a convincing win to give us some confidence and momentum.
    5 points
  8. I think both manager and squad have enough about them to avoid the drop comfortably even if we lose the next few but it does make a potentially good season has gone up in smoke and this time it will be at this managers door nothing else. However i totally agree when the writing is on the wall it's there for all to see and the ten games then becomes christmas, jan window etc then we get down to the next 3 and it goes on like that. Sometimes the best thing to do is look at the bigger picture/long term goal then plan, source and make the change when safely in midtable mid / late season before the summer scramble starts. Besides we'll know if/when TM is coming under serious Venky scrutiny because SKY will be all over it and other managers will be making special appearances saying what a great bloke and manager he is. Then tell me again certain influences have nothing at all to do with this club these days still. Mowbray came via the path of the other managers......
    5 points
  9. I really don't get the arbitrary ten games which seems to me a figure plucked out of the air. In the last two relegation seasons I predicted that we would go down after the first couple of games. Whilst results were obviously important I saw that several players weren't good enough and the managers simply didn't have a plan or the wherewithal to start winning. Whilst we are not at that stage yet I think another couple of consecutive defeats and we will be. For me we need two wins in our next three to save Mowbray and stop us falling into the abyss.
    5 points
  10. Cements Bennett's place. non playing captain's exist but are rare - and let's be honest does anyone really think Bennett will be a non playing captain? We might as well rename this thread the goodbye Nayambe thread. Too much competition in midfield for Bennett to play there regularly and there's too many strikers to cram in at right mid. Sad news as I liked Nayambe as a player and Bennett guarentees a couple of horrendous muck ups per game at RB.
    4 points
  11. in my opinion the words in bold should read. when having yet another poor game.
    4 points
  12. It basically confirms that Nyambe won't play RB this season Parson. Terrible news.
    4 points
  13. Yep. My house, business, car, the lot. But then again, we might just lose tomorrow night......................
    4 points
  14. We will not lose tonight. I guarantee it!
    4 points
  15. Why 15? Why not 25? Why not 46? We have been on a downward trend since the January window closed. We haven’t fixed the problems that caused that - in fact we’ve made them worse. Mowbray has peaked.
    4 points
  16. We sold Raya who was our player, we had all the close season to find a solid replacement and we've ended up with a keeper on a one year loan who, at the moment at least, is unconvincing. And we have the same back-up as before. Does anything sum up the confusion and inadequacy around the club than that?
    4 points
  17. Not really - we are 5 minutes from Ewood, and at 5 years old I think the noise and hustle of a full match day might be a little overwhelming, whereas there will be a smaller crowd on tomorrow evening (I would wager!)which shouldn't be too 'exciting'. If she likes it, then there will be more opportunities in the coming months to build her interest. Are you going? ;)
    3 points
  18. He only has himself to blame.
    3 points
  19. Knew it he was going to go with Bennett ... really out of touch our manager is and he’s getting very bitchy with each game that goes by .. we will learn and go onto the next one as he likes to keep saying ...I see no light and with each decision he makes gets worse and worse ... please get Rid of him before it’s too late ...
    3 points
  20. The thing that bothers me about Bennett being named club captain is that it almost guarantees he's going to start regularly, which means Nyambe might as well paint his name over one of the seats on the bench.
    3 points
  21. Great post lifted from FB: 'Mowbray is like that Sunday league manager who picks his son and makes him captain no matter how shit he is''
    3 points
  22. Mowbray should play his strongest team tomorrow. Whatever that is.
    3 points
  23. Think you have missed one between Iley and Coyle!
    3 points
  24. Jason Lowe MK2 We know how that ended
    3 points
  25. Captain is a non-job in football. Make him Club president for all its worth, however it should not in anyway keep him in the side if his performances do not merit it.
    3 points
  26. If I posted my opinion on that I would get banned again and probably deserve it. Suffice to say Mowbray is certifiable.
    3 points
  27. I know...….Game 3 of the season and a dilemma at home to a league 2 team who have lost both games. WTF have we become????
    3 points
  28. Well people keep telling me modern football is better. Really ? Look at that pitch yet the players conjured up more goal mouth incidents than we can today. That would be what 90% of pitches would be like by mid Feb and March.
    3 points
  29. He's not so cheap if he doesn't play.
    3 points
  30. I don't we are there just yet, not that I don't have serious doubts. I also don't think we should stick to some arbitrary 10 game target either. Charlton was very poor and worrying, losing to Fulham away with the players they have isn't the end of the world plus the performance wasn't too bad (I know we didn't have a shot on target). Give the defence a couple of games to settle, see if Tony figures out that strikers play better up front then out wide, then see where we are. I think we've come into the season a little under cooked again, we generally had a good start to last season despite not winning either of the first 2 games so we've got plenty of time at this stage.
    3 points
  31. Having been to the game, I thought we were pretty good yesterday.... The results will start coming. We will be top 10 finishers this year and will do well, another season of progress.
    3 points
  32. Making a judgement after three seasons, not two games. TM deserves a chance to get the season going - and a little loyalty.
    3 points
  33. Disappointing defeat tonight which didn't really reflect the balance of play. Thought we were looking good value for a point which would have been a good start to the season for what was a young and inexperienced side missing the familiar faces of the last couple of seasons (Grayson, Buckley, Butterworth, Rankin Costello). Rare event of 3 penalties all awarded to one team and all scored but couldn't really have any complaints with any of the decisions as it was very easy for the referee to award them. Hope we get a manager sorted soon as it has gone on long enough. The number of games we have to get through at u23 level really means we need a decent manager in place to lead us through it and up for the challenges ahead competing in a multitude of competitions this year.
    2 points
  34. You don't have to justify it to anybody mate. I hope your daughter has a great night and is on your case to take her to every home game. I am taking my granddaughter who has been to several games and is now asking questions about various aspects of the game.
    2 points
  35. As if Mowbary is going to play a winger on the wing.
    2 points
  36. Indeed. That’s why we are a million miles from promotion. Yes we had quality players in 2001, but the side was full of captains or ‘men’ as TM would put it. Friedel, Bjornebye, Short, Berg, Hignett, Flitcroft, Hughes. Even the young lads like Dunn and Johnson had some balls about them. Compare it to where we are now.
    2 points
  37. I wonder if something is amiss with Lenihan and Mowbray. Talked the other day how he'll have a battle to get back in and was a cert to be captain in my eyes (Tony used to wax lyrical about him, now not so much). One of the only saleable assets we have and the captaincy could have prolonged his Rovers career. As I say, terrible decision and Nyambe will no doubt be banging the door down to leave come January - and who could blame him.
    2 points
  38. Lenihan was my choice ahead of Johnson. Think most fans feel pretty much the same.
    2 points
  39. At least with Lenihan there is a lad who has been at the club since 15, shows proper leadership on the field. No, not for Tony though. Stubborn man. You know, it might just have got him to stay if a bid comes in next summer. But no, apparently fist pumping is an important skill in Mowbrays eyes. Really, really poor choice.
    2 points
  40. I think this shows Mowbray is a stubborn man. He will stick with players out of position or shoehorned in until it gets him the sack. I remember not so long ago he was saying Lenihan could be a future captain. Obviously not whilst he needs to have Bennett right back. The worst thing is all those stupid decisions Mowbray now seems to be making will just lead to the fans turning on the players, because as we have seen, Mowbray doesn't take blame himself for his formations or tactics. He has fucked Brereton up. Rothwell on the same route. Bennett definitely and he will probably do the same to Gallagher by playing him on the wing. Not happy at all.
    2 points
  41. Bob Crompton, Ronnie Clayton, and Colin Hendry to name just 3 great players but from different eras who captained both Rovers and their Country. Now we have Elliott Bennett whose main claim to fame is being Mowbray's Pal in the dressing room. It is beyond sadness how far we have fallen.
    2 points
  42. I don't have a problem with Bennett being captain material. My issue is that he's given it to a player who a lot of people on here don't think should be in our best 11. Would have preferred it to go to someone who you'd class as part of our best team.
    2 points
  43. Mowbray confirmed it at his press conference today. Seems a very sensible decision as Bennett is respected by players and manager. Always gives 100 per cent every game and, unlike some players, never hides on the pitch when having a poor game.
    2 points
  44. Good. The lad needs 90 minutes under his belt. Let's see what he has. Seems like he's been wrapped in cotton wool for 6 months and has just been a drain on resources.
    2 points
  45. ‘I think Elliott Bennett will be club captain going forward.’ FFS.
    2 points
  46. From what I have read on another article Deloitte and the other firm of accountants that came in, did so, as there was money going missing that couldn't be explained. It seems that their forensic accountancy work, found out what the problem was and sorted it.
    2 points
  47. Semisonic - Closing Time
    2 points
  48. I wouldn't play Tosin, or Dack and give the central midfield pair a break. Fisher, Nyambe, Platt, Williams, Cunningham Buckley, Evans JRC, Butterworth, Downing Brereton
    2 points
  49. So two games into the season and I have formed the opinion we need to find an option to play two strikers and Dack, simply because we have a lot of strikers and we need to find a way to actually use them centrally without doing totally daft things like playing Brereton on the wing. Given the above brief all roads lead to a diamond. Can't say I am totally original, others have suggested it. ------------------------Walton JRC---------Tosin--------Williams----Cunnigham ----------------------Johnson ----------Travis---------------Rothwell ------------------------Dack --------Gallagher--------Armstrong In the above Gallagher and Armstrong will need to run the channels to provide width but they do like doing that anyway. JRC and Cunningham on overlap, Dack pulling the strings, Rothwell and Travis getting up and down while Johnson sits. Worth a try I think. We need an alternative when 4231 is not working.
    2 points
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