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Time for Tony's I fucked it up first time I'll give it another roll of the dice 5 man substitution.

Are you watching this on the radio again?

Even the officials didn't want that to go on any longer than it had to.

Hoofing it to a bloke who is 5ft 6.

I can't believe this has been 30 minutes. 30 minutes of nothing.

Rovers look a right ragtag bunch. This is like a game where the manager has been sacked and the caretaker is trying his best to make sense of the mess he's been left. It doesn't show any signs of a long term plan, or coherence.

I said he'd shoehorn Bennett in after a few bad results, I didn’t think he’d dare do it after the Preston travesty. Evans will be back soon. He’s doing exactly what he did at Celtic and Coventry but without the danger of the sack.

Historically, Mowbray really is a bit of a prick really. Reading those quotes from him you wonder how he's made such a fortune as a football manager.

I'd take the ghost of Keith Harris over Mowbray.

So in basic terms you can stuff the system where Dack thrived.

He's lost the plot.

I'm a bit behind. Did he really say he didn't believe in formations?

Plenty on Facebook who can't wait to jump on anyone who politely think Mowbray has done his best and time to move on. Some overseas and young adults who think they can abuse people who have been going to Ewood for 40-50 years.

I'm not sure where you've been for the past two years but there's well over £12m of signings and our defense is still a shambles and we still rely on one man for goals. If that's not a waste I don't know what is.

It's the same in all things tribal, football, politics, games consoles, you always get a subservient amount of people who will take anything from their betters. They are a weird bunch. Someone on Facebook recently posted on the Rovers post match report that as fans we should support the club and all things within it, without question. That's what a supporter is, he said. If you don't support the manager, or the players or someone at the club then you aren't a supporter so you should stop following the club.

Mic drop.

A manager with a plan, who can organise a defense and play players in their most suited positions. And not waste ridiculous amounts of money. Is that too much to ask in 2021?

None of the players are playing well at the moment. He puts Dack on the bench and the player that takes his place also will be being criticised post-match, guaranteed. It's strange having almost an entire team out of form at once. There's only one constant in all of this, the manager. Perhaps if he played the likes of Gallagher, Dack, Rothwell, Elliott in their preferred positions it would be a step in the right direction and we could make a decent judgement about their fitness and form. As it is none of them look comfortable. It's not gone unnoticed that players who are performing well are either being benched or playing out of position a couple of games later. The manager has to take some blame for out of form players.

"Who is that player? Would make a great wide player!" Tony Mowbray, Summer 2019.

Anyone remember the days when players only played out of position when there were injuries? Tony does it for fun.

Team is a mess of ludicrous ideas, another defeat.

In his interview he said it was cold 😳

I see it a bit differently than that. He's good out wide but in the middle he's lost. Mowbray should have known this within 10-15 mins of him playing there and switched him back, but no he had Gallagher (who naturally should be in the middle) where Elliot should have been and Armstrong on the left who had scored 16 goals up to that point. Utterly nonsense management that almost everyone else and their blind dog could see from a mile. Expecting a 17 year old to do that job, and sacrificing other more capable players in that position is idiocy on an epic scale.

He spent £5m on him too, managers have been sacked for less.

I've no doubt he's safe but I'd say signing players is more likely to lead to a sacking rather than preventing it. We've got worse!