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Hope they can keep this going!

Lucky escape then!

Right Venky's what have you done with the real Tony?! Not that I'm complaining, keep him in his box I like t'other Tony.

Plenty of time for him to find something he's good at then.

I agree!

Looks great!

An excellent keeper and two up front?

That was a decade ago, he's moved on since then. Now he uses an ipad.

Scroll down. https://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2009/mar/26/tony-mowbray-west-brom

You might want to delete this, you will give Venkys ideas for how to make the crowd happy with shit football.

I reckon that's startlingly accurate.

It must be a really difficult job when you consider the scrutiny you're under as a football manager, having to please the players, the media, find players, try to convince players to join you, trying to keep them happy individually whilst trying to get them working as a group. I've probably only mentioned half of the job there. So why make it even more bloody difficult for yourself like Mowbray continually does? It's borderline masochistic.

"I really like Harry Chapman, that’s the reason he’s here. The seriousness of football is something that he has to know." Says the man who gambled away pretty much all our transfer budget, two years running on players with no track record of scoring goals when we needed a defence. Any chance you could start knowing the seriousness of football Tony? Maybe lead by example?

So he'll have to impress in order to get a chance in the team. Yes Tony, because the first 11 are doing so brilliantly. 18th place in the Championship reflects what in-form footballers we've had playing in the team recently. Imagine being a player being told you're not good enough for that shower. I don't need to imagine what he says at half time, if it's anything like his comments in the press it will be demoralising and nonsensical.

I doubt he'd ever consider coming to Rovers again if rumours are to be believed. Just the fact they picked Coyle over him is enough of an insult.

The Facebook faithful are confidently expecting a win. Will they turn if we get less than 3 points?

It does all kind of blur into one horrible nightmare. We've gone from one of the best owners in football to a group of the worst. I saw Preston fans saying they couldn't understand us moaning because Venky's gave us 12m to spend on strikers. Mike Ashley has spent a lot more than £12m but I'm sure none of them would be happy to see him take over at nob end. Even when Rovers had no money it felt like a proper football club ran by people with enthusiasm and do the best for the club. Now it seems success is measured by whether the manager is able to buy mediocre young players and sell them on at a profit if they turn out to be any good. Winning football matches or promotion is secondary. The ghost of Kean/Anderson still hangs over the club like a pair of scooby doo villiain rejects.

Lambert was appointed after Bowyer. Then quickly went from Lambert to Coyle.

That's very unfair. He got them promotion from League 2 with nothing. He's now flying high in League 1 with the same budget. He can clearly get blood out of a stone and has some attacking nous despite what has been said on this thread. I agree that we need someone with more experience in this league but if Venky's were to appoint a budget manager, I'd like to give Ainsworth the opportunity rather than another also ran.

In your case absolutely anyone with a BRFC trackie on.

Let's face it, under Mowbray Rhodes would be on the bench and might get a spell in midfield for 20 mins if we're 2-0 down.

Bloody hell.

Brilliant. I want him to go, but only to Benidorm for a couple of weeks.