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If you read my post you wouldn't have needed to ask that question. When Mowbray bought him we needed players, not a high stakes gamble. Silly signing when our mission, so we were told, was promotion. Mowbray has probably thrown away our last chance of that and his attempts at lowering expectations confirm that he knows it.

FFP has always been stupid, a ludicrous rule conjured up by a twit in a suit.

“I know what Blackburn fans can be like.” What? Expecting more for £7m, like a bleeding defence and a manager who hasn’t been lobotomised? There was much more to the Brereton signing than the lack of quality on the pitch. Probably never get the chance to compete again in this league - but hey Big Ben is beloved in Chile. That’s the main thing right.

The only way Mowbray will sell him is if it makes him look good to Madame and co in Pune. So if someone offers £9m for BB, he'll be gone. Will turn a silly signing into a good one overnight for Mowbray purely in financial terms - though I and a lot of fans won't forget it.

When we needed defenders, under the threat of ffp, and a goal of promotion a daft time to gamble with £7m. Funny how so many people don’t get that bit.

I saw this thread bumped near the top of the forum and thought he'd gone for a moment. Back down to Earth I go.

If that's true he's an absolute idiot and probably now planning to take BB out of his tombola. He'll still use it to keep his job either way. "£7m well spent, under my expert guidance he's an international footballer now Madam." Or... "Relegated - if only Ben Brereton had listened to me and not disrupted my pre-season masterplan for conquering this league."

Nah, Tony will be seeing this as his own success story.

Evidence suggests that there’s more chance of him turning into a Fiat Punto, but I hope so too.

Hopefully it means we’re in with a better chance of eventually offloading him and recouping some costs now.

Bennett and Johnson should be leaving too. Not sure why we are keeping Chapman. I guess Mowbray can’t sell Gallagher or Brereton as that would be admitting defeat. Glad to see many of the others leaving. Evans should have gone a long time ago. Bell just not good enough - though I’m surprised with TM’s tinkering ways, he wasn’t used as a winger.

A connection... He does talk a load of crap.

Great times.

Best wishes to his daughter, what an awful time she's been though. We need a Tony Parkes statue to go alongside Jack.

Tony Mowbray. Capable of choosing a team if the tombola stops working. Of choosing a working formation if he his daft experiments aren't paying off. Of signing decent players when he can be bothered. Of getting off his arse when he thinks his job may be in question. Of coming out of his coma during in an interview if someone says something he doesn't like. So capable of pulling a rabbit out of a hat when he needs to, if it means saving his own skin, not the clubs benefit. It's all about Tony. Tony Mowbray - Rovers laziest manager. Very self serving, reactive not proactive. We're now in the position where we need the league to contain enough abysmal teams to survive relegation because we have a crackpot who sleepwalks through a league season.

If Mowbray is in charge he'll have ample opportunities, as has Evans and Bennett this season.

Well done Barnsley. Please go Mowbray.

Tony, thanks for putting so much effort into picking the team week after week. It’s 10 seconds of your life you’ll never get back and for that we are truly thankful.

Let's face it he's discovered the perfect job where he can tinker till his hearts content with zero appraisal, get a good wage regardless and we'll never be shut of him. The really terrifying thing is that he's only 57.

Got to be miss of the season that though. Coming in at the back post goalkeeper nowhere near him, it was harder to miss. Mowbray out, he's signed some dollopers.

Brereton gets that on target it goes in. Keeper was nowhere near it.

How did Brereton miss??? Amazed at people moaning at Armstrong's shot getting saved but Brereton just completely missed the bloody goal.

Rotherham next - Mowbray will be rubbing his hands. Don't be fooled folks.

5-2

Dolan deserved that goal, shame.