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So much wrong in that statement. For a start we didn’t lose. Even so Mowbray is useless and nothing will change that. It’s pretty clear he’s stuck in his ways and too stubborn to change. Or he may just be thick. Either way he needs to go.

To be clear and concise, he was the worst player on the pitch.

And low forehead.

He was having a good laugh with the fourth official moments before they scored. He clearly looked like a man who could not give a toss.

It’s a brilliant feature, but please let us be able to rate the manager. Please allow us some catharsis.

And still nowhere near as horrifying as Mowbrays caricature of a football manager.

There’s absolutely no way that Butterworth or McBride can be any worse than Gallagher was today. But he didn’t spend £5m on them so not happening.

Brereton didn’t have a terrible game. But yes Mowbray lost 2 points there due to his awful management and Gallagher shouldn’t have been on the pitch.

Harsh only because he shouldn’t have been on the pitch. But he was terrible, no qualities about his game whatsoever. He returned to how he was when he was first signed for £5m. No idea what Mowbray saw in him to keep him on for 90 minutes.

He reflects his dickhead manager.

Parked the bus and tried to hit them on the break when 2-1. Brought Magloire on and put Pickering and Nyambe at wing back. Instead it invited more pressure from Luton who were already working their socks off for any chance. Then did hit them on the break but neither Brereton or Gallagher could get the ball in the net. Went down other end, Luton goal. If I owned Rovers I’d take Tony into the office, lock the door, tell him exactly what I thought in great detail using some quite strong language along with some sexual swearing. When he left the office he wouldn’t be Rovers manager. That was textbook Tony Mowbray. His entire time managing Rovers in the championship encapsulated in 30 minutes. Lots of running about, unfathomable decisions, not much to show for it.

Can’t blame anyone else but Mowbray, he bought the ineffectual strikers, he decided to park the bus against Luton, he wasn’t able to sign players, he’s the one with the bizarre tactics. There were clearly players on the pitch that were playing poorly or were tired. Mowbray did nothing except have a good old laugh at the fourth official replacing the ref.

For the record to anyone not watching, that’s on Mowbray.

wtf is going on? We'd done the deal but the deals didn't get done. How does that happen?

Oh mate, try to watch some of the Dalglish days along with Souness and Hughes. Amazing times. Some of the Hodgson and Allardyce days were pretty good too. It's a shame YouTube doesn't capture the feeling of being there, it all seems like a dream now.

I was doing a recce in that same suite years later and it brought about a shudder at the thought of those helpless early days. Hasn't got much better though has it. I think I'm just desensitised.

And there was that unused footage in Manchester of Balaji where it was obvious Balaji was in charge from the outset. No idea where that went. Like the prank Derek phonecall. Or the SK car park cctv. I’m surprised they didn’t resurface for posterity.

Penny pinching Gav? Running down his contract?

Short term not so good, long term better for the club. I'll take short term no wins in this case. I think we'll deteriorate under Mowbray and I see no signs of improvement with his weird methods.

It's always been Balaji's baby. @J*B can tell you that.

The point still stands that he's a good league 1 player but won't come here. Poor do. A new low I'd say.

But if you're a football manager and you're handed £7m and another £5m 6 months later, you don't splurge it on two strikers (of any quality) when you're "skint" and you need to build a team in the league you've just been promoted to. The fact that Brereton at that time was a kid and Gallagher hadn't set the world on fire up to that point only adds to the stupidity of it.

Why should he have to come up with a style that fits the players best? He didn't bring them in. Mowbray's paid a ton of money for making that work.

And when you're skint you don't go gambling £12m on two strikers.

Poor do that we can't even sign young players that haven't set the championship alight previously. And yes I know he was only a kid and has bags of potential, but it's still disappointing we can't sign someone as yet unproven in the championship.