His style of football allows players to hide far too easily and again that's another symptom of the real problem. It allows multi personnel changes and kids to be plonked in without falling to bits and getting tonked every week. I think that's a large part of the reason he's adopted it, however... It's no good losing, losing is losing whichever way it's dressed up and here he's now presented them with a raft of ready made excuses. Mentality is all wrong and has been since they dumbed everything down after promotion. When instead that should've lit the fuse. If he wanted to create a pressure free enviroment he seems to have done that certainly. Soon turns into holiday camp mode, it used to be just do enough to keep everyone off our backs. Lack of fans means they aren't even bothered about that now by the looks of it and the sounds of him.

I'm unlikely buy one again in the Venky era to be honest i just have no faith in this club with them steering it. The appointment of Coyle tipped me over the edge after about 9 straight years. A few long term fans i used to go with stacked it before that because of the awful agent led nonsense. Non have yet returned full time and some of these date back to early 80's attendance like me. To be fair the early Mowbray era restored a bit of faith in the football side of things if not the rest of it. I was tempted but then Waggots handling of ST's and closing more of the ground etc put me off. For over 18 months now though iv'e seen straight through TMs babble, when you've seen a lot you just get a feel of how things start to shape up and where they'll head, ie nowhere. I don't want fanciful guarantees of success or massive transfer spends. I just want to see the real above weight punching ambition that was always associated with this club. Bad seasons, transition seasons are all part and parcel of it and so is changing manager when needed. That's where we've been at for a long while.

In truth with TM i think most of those who want change have wanted it for a while and made their own minds up over the last 18 months. The glass ceiling was hit with some force a long time ago. However last summer and the unexpected backing he received allowed a bit of breathing space and presented him with his best opportunity to back up his talk. He's failed miserably on all fronts sadly, so a few victories in end of season dead rubbers and more bold talk aren't going to alter much opinion. We know what we are dealing with now and expect bucket loads of the same, great backing or not. In short nothing will change he is what he is but all this 'integrity' and the rest of it veneer is wearing very thin now. Only the most head in the sands or manager over club lovers will remain his staunchest allies.

He has a fragile ego we've seen that the min the media asked him a few searching questions. That lasted all of 2 mins before they either bottled it or got reigned in. Things were probably said off record to fend them off. However it flagged up just how untouchable he sees himself here so any aggro from a crowd would tip him pretty quickly. The covid situ has been both a hinderance and a help to his position this season. I'd like to think results would have been better with a crowd in but not naive enough to think they would have been good enough.

I'm beyond bothering what anyone else thinks or says to be honest. SKY always have one agenda or another and we are already in their fans to blacklist book. Don't think it's an anti Rovers thing it's just too much internal influence in there from certain agents. We'll never get away from that so just got to live with it. The thing is the truth always outs in the end, it always does. They took Kean and Andersons side against the fans, they took Coyles to. Funny how they didn't throw out widespread support for Bowyer though who'd done far better than both and was getting a far rawer deal. Look where Kean and Coyle are now though and where they've been since. Fans proven right all along and it'll be the same here. Mowbray might get a decent job somewhere but it won't last. He'll be back in footballs wastelands in no time without the the security of clueless billionaire backing. I'm only bothered about what i see and hear on matchday week in week out at Rovers. Sod the wider football public and media or what they think, it doesn't matter diddly squat outside of the Blackburn area.

This is how it'll play out except he'll walk and play the victim. We are going to end up being the only club in England whose fans aren't looking forwards to getting back to normal in the ground again next season. Instead of an expectant crowd turning up we'll have a 'Mowbray out' lynch mob. Press will love that, Kean/Coyle mk2 is set to play out again here.

Its been a regular theme through his tenure that though just cast minds back to us playing Wigan etc this stage last year. That's why it's vital we avoid another relegation scrap under him because the fate is sealed before it starts. Although his points tally since arriving might have been midtable we went down with a whimper. The only real fight was on the last day, that's also why we never challenged for the lge 1 title. He threw the towel in on that way before he could have when the job was done. Again upon promotion it was a case of job done, why push and try to kick on when we can plod to stability. It's also we we've crumbled every time there's been a whiff of the top 6. He just doesn't have that mentality it is all about the plod and it rubs off on the team and whole set up. Sadly over a year ago that turned to arse covering as well, there is no journey there's only the plod under him. The bus might get a few new tyres or a new gearbox every now and then but it'll always stay on the same flat route. It doesn't have the horsepower or the driver for anything else.

That's his sales pitch to the fans but i'll bet there are a different set of ideas in place in his head.

He lost plan A when Graham's legs finally went then of course Dacks injury last season. His answer to DG getting old was to get BB and Gallagher with an eye on changing the system. Quickly realized that was never going to work so decided in his wisdom last season to use transition to possession based game as his excuse. This seasons seeds where sown long ago and it was unlikely to yield much covid/injuries or not. He's ballsed it up when there was no need to other than his own two dud signings. He's been trying to cover those two up for 2 seasons now.

Some should be very very grateful to him they should be nowhere near starting or even coming on as subs.

I understand using a few loans trying to get a bit of quality in we couldn't otherwise afford. Just fluffing out the squad with other teams youngsters and playing them in front of ours though is twisted logic. He should be starting our young lads every game now and phasing out the loanees for this season. Makes you wonder what he's really up to but going off the honesty and integrity he keeps reminding us of, i'll just assume it's his method to keep everyone liking him.

The theme now in the snowflake land of twitter and FB seems to have switched back to lay off Brereton. They've given up seeking offence on TMs behalf so it's Bens turn again now. Fans on his back...from 200 miles away today.

To me it's the only reason he appears to retain the backing of the players. He bends over backwards to get them all involved all the time. And look after them and pay them whilst they get fit to go and play for someone else. AKA taking the piss with someone else's money.

It's simple really if the owners/investors want to see any return on or for their whopping investments in him and Gallagher they need to invest further in a new manager. That's the only chance whatsoever they have of resurrecting anything out of those two. Because this manager is only taking them one way. He's not known what to do with either of them since they set foot in the place.

Average managers are ten a penny at this level so changing one for another is no big deal. Might be hard to get a top name in but we've long past the stage where change is needed for changes sake. He's neither got one iota of a clue left and cares even less now.

Another thing today that sums up his cackhanded approach was the dropping of two of our own players to start two loan guys who are just seeing out their time here. Then he hooks those to to put the others back on after 70 mins. In a season going nowhere and nothing to play for what is the point in it ? Just shows he's all about trying to keep all the boys happy and their clubs where loanees are concerned. He'd rather be Mr popular with the boys and take a loss or draw rather than piss half of them off but gather 3 points. Really sums up why we go nowhere with him and never will, such senseless stuff.

It's like a boxer who never throws a punch and keeps losing on point but he keeps going because his argument is he's never been knocked out. That's how delusional it is but you can just see the Indians lapping up this nearly there shite.

Tony 'one nil to the opposition' Mowbray is happy tonight because the stats tell him we aren't far away. This kind of denial to the truth gets teams relegated alongside tip tap football we aren't good enough to make count. I hope there is finally some coffee being smelt amongst our dwindling ranks. The man has long since surpassed the being insulting to fans mode he really is now in snide Kean mode. Ok not with the snake like corruptance but he's an arsehole all the same. No cure for that i'm afraid once its been exposed. Get gone, i don't care who steps in.

Iv'e suspected something like this since the middle of last season. Some of the stuff he said then and he's said recently has almost sounded like he was asking for the sack. Otherwise he'll just shrug his shoulders and carry on looking after the players regardless of results.

Our lot seem to be letting them get rid of a host of backroom staff instead. That'll fix it.....said no one, ever.

Don't put the excuses in his mouth, that'll no doubt be held up as the reason for todays shambles anyway.

'But Madame we lost JRC early which completely ruined my 3 point winning masterplan' Ah ok Tony, better luck next time, carry on you nice man.

And as if by magic they'll probably wake up now !

Why aren't the press asking, nay digging to find out exactly why people are leaving ? Absolute waste of chip paper all we get is Mowbrays angle on it. Not even the CEO who's supposed to be in charge of these things. No just the first team manager putting his spin on it. Why no interview with Harvey ? Why no questions asked when a groundsman leaves to go to a lower level cub ? Surely that is what actually passes for news and where there might be a story.

I think he's far to into it all and that's the problem iv'e always looked at him as a bit of a dinosaur trying to be too modern. For me that's where his caught in two minds methods come from, instinct versus stats sheets. The result is what we witness from game to game. Some stats are a good thing but trying to totally run the club off them aren't. If a player has a shit week in training and doesn't do his numbers it seems they dropped these days. Some of the best players we've had have allegedly been some of the worst trainers. It's all about blend and balance on a matchday. We don't really see that we see a guy turning out his side based on his obsession with the opposition reports. He's been at it again about this game for possibly the weakest side in the div.