Crimpshrine

If we sign another manager with Middlesbrough connections that would be a scandal - Ewoodgate.

LT:Tony Mowbray is set to leave the club this summer after five years in charge, and despite his contract coming to an end, the Rovers boss says there have been no approaches, or talks, about his future. TM “The contract is running down, I will run the team until they tell me not me.” I'm convinced Venky's will try and persuade him to stay. He may have decided he wants leave but even so, I bet there will be no new appointment any time soon.

I think Mowbray will do the 'honourable' thing and see out his contract until the end of June. 1 more match and he can then go home and twiddle his thumbs for 2 months and get paid for it. If he gets bored, he may just jump on a plane to India!

Venky's do not have direct day to day contact with anyone at Rovers other than Suhail so I believe Mowbray when he says he has not had any discussions with them. The Venky way has always been to discuss contracts face to face in India during the summer. I am not surprised by the current situation and I don't think Mowbray will be either. It's obviously an outdated and arrogant way of dealing with employees but it's definitely not a surprise to anyone. Venky's won't be thinking about next season until Mowbray and Swag turn up in Pune. They both know how these owners work. Obviously, if Mowbray has decided he;s had enough he simply doesn't get on the plane.

The lack of any formal statement suggests to me that Venky's are still expecting Mowbray to visit Pune before the end of June. Suhail is the owners 'conduit' ( Mowbray's words ) and I am sure they talk to each other sometimes and since 'plans are in place' for next season, the subject of the manager's position must have come up. Mowbray has stated that he has no new contract but he has not actually resigned from his current one. He is still the manager until the end of June. I think he has left enough ambiguity to make a U turn and accept a new contract if offered.

Ainsworth has got his Wycombe team in the playoffs again. I'd be on the phone tomorrow if it was down to me.

From boardroom down.

Well done. There are some very true words here - the first 4 to be precise - "Personally I don't understand". You certainly don't

I'm still not convinced he's leaving. The interview was contradictory in many ways and he did state that 'it looks like I'm leaving' due to lack of communication. He has a contract until the end of June and Venky's are probably expecting him to pop in for a visit before then.

“I’ve decided.” "All I can do is say that there’s been no conversation, no approach, no discussions and we’re a week away from the end of the season, so what do you want me to think? I don’t feel like I’m being disloyal saying anything other than it looks like I’m leaving because there’s no contract discussions and I’m out of contract at the end of the season" Sounds like he's decided to leave - unless he gets offered a new contract!

Probably cheering them on at the Riverside.

After that interview last week, I am convinced Mowbray is staying too. If not, what's happened to Steve McLaren ? - NOT ADVOCATING him in any way but I bet Venky's advisors would see him as pluckable from the same scrapheap where they found Mowbray all those years ago.

24th of Jan we were 19 points above Preston. If we lose tonight they could overtake us at the weekend and their form hasn't been spectacular. If Carlsberg did death spirals!

I agree. His quote about asking Waggott is a nice way of deflecting the questions. He doesn't once say 'I will consider things' - it's all down to others. He doesn't want to go anywhere and I suspect Venky's will be happy to let him continue. The future is bleak.

Exactly how I see it - and Bournemouth weren't bothered as they had achieved what they wanted to and unsettled the player. One well run club one shambles of a club.

I was talking to a couple of Preston fans at work and they both asked about 'Rovers throwing matches because the owners don't want promotion'. I told them this was a bit of an exaggeration - we took the lead at Peterborough with 10 minutes left - not something you would do if you wanted to throw a game. However - I told them the real truth is that the owners don't care if we go up or not and that attitude has permeated the club and shows itself on the pitch. I just found it interesting that our performances have been so poor and the general ambience of the club is so lackadaisical that opposition fans actually believe we are trying to lose. Thanks Venky's

It's an ongoing protest, not a final one, but needs to be brought back into focus. If everybody stops going to Ewood and makes it clear that we won't come back until Venky's leave then we can have an impact. One day we will return with renewed hope.

This is exactly what my Baggie mate told me. There was possibly a very small chance that they would approach Mowbray as a stop gap but no way he is the type of manager WBA are looking for next. Mowbray was on the scrap heap when we appointed him. It was a lazy, cheap option at the time and WBA won't make the same mistake. What worries me is that the summer may see Suhail and Cheston in charge of appointing a new manager ( assuming Waggott follows Mowbray out of the door ). We all know what happened last time! I wonder if Cheston has his holidays booked?

Virtually every recent match can be put forwards as evidence that something ain't right. We don't need any more evidence, we all KNOW the club is a shambles top to bottom. The only good thing about the club at the moment is the fans. Venky's out

Disagree on both counts. Mowbray's lack of passion and his 'it's not 1995' attitude are major contributing factors to our lack of success on the pitch. Being manager of Blackburn Rovers is just a job to him. He would rather be elsewhere. I think Ainsworth is worth a punt based on his results at Wycombe on a very small budget and his approach to the management in general - he appears to be a good man manager as well as a good football manager. He has served his apprentiship and deserves a shot. The fact that he loves the club and may well be more proactive in dealing with the owners is an added bonus. As for potting Mowbray now - why not, get Warnock in and see if he can get 3 or 4 wins from the kast few games to give us a chance of the playoffs. New manager bounce does seem to exist. If it doesn't work then we've lost nothing. Mowbray won't get the requried results.

So, without the financial chicanery regarding the training ground we would have posted a loss of £23.9 million. While the debts mount and assets change hands and the revenue burden increases, the playing squad is being allowed to fall apart and the ground is becoming dilapidated. We are truly kicking the can down a dead end road. The fans care, the owners obviously don't. It may be their money that is being wasted but it's our club that will pay the price. Venky's out

And yet Mowbray admits they can earn double elsewhere - that's not tittle tattle. So other Championship clubs are offering double what we are (none of the three will be be going to Premiership clubs). There is something wrong if we can't pay home grown players the going rate.

I would go with 5/10 so far. Average in almost every aspect. He's signed some good players, he's signed some bad players. Despite the fabled 'journey', planning for the future has not worked out. I am worried that it's too early for this discussion. A trip to India followed by a new contract could lead to a struggle next season and we could all be voting 2/10 this time next year.

Mowbray's brother Darren - works at Aberdeen and formerly with Boro and the Dingles.

Surely there must be some outward signs of this wave of positivity flowing through the club ? Research ? Appointments ? It all seems very secret. Do we need to get Louis Theroux on the case ?