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Have they just realised his contract has ended and he’s left? Sounds like it.

Mowbray comments today should prick a few ears. When he’s openly saying he doesn’t know how the owners work, and when he’s saying Waggott doesnt make the decisions it really is damning on the owners and on Waggott. For starters, it’s no good to anybody when the main man at Blackburn doesn’t have any power, can’t make decisions and presumably - like Mowbray - doesn’t understand how the owners work, how they think or what they want. If he had any credibility he should tonight be considering his position. Then again we’re looking for a new manager. If they read Mowbrays comments would they fancy risking their reputation, or building their reputation after seeing what a mess this club is? Someone will of course, but how can they succeed under these conditions? As for the owners, Mowbrays comments are just adding to the already low esteem that they are held in by most fans. 12 years. It really is time for them to sell up and move on. They can’t bring anything to this club apart from derision, confusion and exasperation. Put the club up for sale. Your times up in my opinion. This is a total shambles of a club.

Yeah, I saw that as well. Couldn’t really miss it. I have to say that Lancs TV are doing a great job. There are a number of cameras now (7 I believe) rather than the two behind the ends previously. The scoreboard on there though is regularly confusing.

Excuse me for thinking nobody at Ewood at least, that has a clue what’s happening.

History has shown that if we hadn’t sacked Don McKay, we would never have won the Premier League.

No, makes no difference.

If you’re not prepared to change because of the fear of making the wrong choice, you will never succeed at anything.

👍 Exactly why this idea of long term plans is garbage. Players come and go on a yearly basis, hardly anyone - including the manager hangs around that long. You can’t “build” anything unless you’re in the few top clubs in the country who can keep hold of players. No. For me, when a manager comes to a club like Rovers and talks about building the club slowly, he’s basically giving himself time and giving himself some protection. Do players want to hear that kind of thing? I doubt that as well. Please, give us a manager who wants to be successful from day one - and demands that from his players as well. Of course it might not work out, but at least it would show a bit of ambition. Every manager can be ambitious, wherever they are. Long term plans at this level are a get out clause.

Hopefully someone who doesn’t think that developing young players is the priority. The academy is there to provide those and the managers priority is to assemble a squad that can win games. I do believe that since Venkys took over and dissembled a Premier League squad with the idea that rovers could only prosper by bringing through youngsters then selling on, the focus has been far too much on player development. Mowbray said on Saturday the new manager should focus on that also. 12 years later - how’s it working?

You want another 5 years of the same then Gav?

Can we have someone who believes that we CAN (no, must) compete with the other teams in this league please - and has some idea of how we can do it?

Yes. To be honest, he should have spoken about Mowbrays position before Mowbray himself said he was leaving.

It took some doing to finish behind all these teams, but we managed it.

Yeah - and it was the game when Duncan McKenzie gave one of the best individual performances I’ve seen. What a footballer he was.

It’s the mental health side of all this Chaddy. Stokes is a man who’s just taken time out from the game because - I guess - he found the workrate or stresses too much. Coming back and immediately taking on a job where expectation, stress and focus of every media outlet will higher than ever before doesn’t make any sense to me. The most important thing is his health, not the England captaincy. This is captaincy of a struggling side with a dearth of test talent as well. He should have refused it IMO, but I wish him all the luck in the world.

He might be proud, but I would want more from the next manager in less than 5 years. Mere championship existence interspersed with record winless runs and frequently being reminded that we can’t expect to compete with most of the teams in this league, doesn’t do anything for me.

I’m not sure that he’s done well during his time here. I wouldn’t have settled for what we’ve seen for the last 5 years. 5years is a long time in football and for a manager getting that long I would have expected far better than that. Wasted years in my opinion. Would anyone settle for another 5 years of the same?

Full member. My mate retired last year and we always said we would spend some time at OT. Went last Thursday and thoroughly enjoyed it. c£160 - not too bad we didn’t think. Parking behind pavilion £4:50 as well which was a lot cheaper than I expected.

I got told last night that he was retiring at the end of the season and that Duncan Ferguson was on the shortlist. Take that as being a rumour from someone apparently with links to rovers.

It’s my first season as a member O2G’s. Sod’s law, I can’t make the York’s game😏

Fantastic performance aided hugely by PNE allowing us acres to run into behind their back four. Did their manager not do his homework? Very happy tonight.

5 would sound good

Is anybody confident because I’m not.

I expect rovers to come out second half thinking the games won. It isn’t if we don’t keep pressing them up front.