you are right, of course we did ! - he at least therefore has no excuse Mowbray [for all his faults] has been the right man at the right time for this club, he's mended it from the bottom up and you cant but admire the bloke for the challenge he's taken on. Would have been so easy for him to walk away but he looks like he made a plan, identified the type of player he wanted and engendered an obvious term spirit and togetherness that hasn't been evident for very many years. It looks like he has the 'good bits' Gary Bowyer had, but a bit more steel and directness. Mowbray is not perfect by any stretch, but in retrospect we struck lucky - things could have been very, very much worse.........

I'd say Evans based on performances this season, maybe Samuel

Wigan............. " he's going home, he's going home, Jason's going home....................................." [4 years too late ]

phonetically - yes......

If he keeps us up he'll become a 'cult' manager his predecessor will be confirmed as a manager befitting of the prefix being altered by substituting the 'l'

Possibly, assuming that 2 of his wins are the home games against Wigan and Bristol City - a winning start at Burton would be a real bonus (albeit extremely unlikely). His real challenge is finding a system that gives the players a chance to stop leaking goals, some stablility in selection would be handy. with improved structure, fitness and discipline, we may yet scape through, need to be much tougher and harder to beat as certainly with Coyle we were pretty much pushovers, not good at closing down in midfield, and played too deep hence as an impression, we always look like conceding goals. not sure he's necessarily the best appointment, but Mowbray seems the right type of person, fingers crossed.

I'd put at stronger than 'might' ! they seem to have added 8 players, 3 or 4 with Prem experience most comments on the radio commentary of their stuffing by Man U last Sunday suggested they were playing with a purpose and organisation which belied their league position. They now look stronger as a squad than Rovers and they were one of the teams that we hoped would fall away below us. If they don't fall away, then we have to outperform not only Burton [who have a decent manager, likely to now have a 'loyal manager bounce, have 3 points more] but also majorly outperform one of Bristol City, Forest or QPR [all 8 points ahead of us]. Rovers [and arguably Bristol City] look worse than before the window, both have serially failing managers bereft of the ability to get their teams out of their respective runs of woeful performances and I agree that we'll soon be cut adrift if nothing radically changes. I really hate it when Rovers lose, but the only straw I can see to grab is that Senior has blanked Coyle's supposed targets, and in undermining him perhaps needs a really bad result to justify canning him. I think Leeds might present the evidence to show how the right manager can transform the fortunes of a team. I really think that our 'last chance saloon' is to get a really good hiding from someone.............maybe even from Leeds sad, sad days indeed

the real stroke of genius is moving both the goals to the left touchline, that will fool visiting teams

Toyah ? its a mystery ...........

Wasn't it said on here that Jensen and Samba were the only ones that came across to talk to travelling fans after the Newcastle game? If Kean ignore fans and no. 2 went to them could see that loyalty would be questioned, in the current regime we know what that means don't we?