Very ironic.

Yes, PLENTY do continue to say that. To flip your argument a little - the Venkys employed the very same Mowbray that people champion. They have financially supported him, they showed patience after he failed to stave off relegation and have stood by him through very long periods of poor results and wasteful signings. Does this patient approach suggest that they have developed a better idea of what is needed from them and their next appointment may be, in fact, very diligent? Doesn't it suggest a decent opportunity with increasingly more experienced and patient owners? Personally, I can't imagine Jack Walker putting up with Mowbray, his excuses, poor performances etc. Nor any other owner of a similarly failing club. Yet through apathy, certain areas of the fanbase accept failure. They champion it and have embraced something of a small club mentality - yet we have big club facilities and expenditure. The Venky's have invested (pronounced wasted) even more money than ever Jack did during his time here and have got sod all to show for it. We need promotion but clearly, what we are presented with this disorganised rabble, which isn't ever going to cut it unless we can consistently bag three goals a game. In the meantime, we stick with it and pass on Pearson, Warnock, even Rowett etc.

I can read just fine and the only person making direct insults so far is yourself. But if we are sharing advice, maybe you shouldn't hang yourself out to dry with a sneery short-sighted response and then go on to keep 4/5 of your argument in your head? People on here with differing views have debated this and many other topics for years. I welcome them. I am open to my opinion being changed. I am one if the few who will hold my hands up when I am wrong, but I am also passionate about Rovers and perfectly entitled to indirectly rant about people who ridicule and chat baseless nonsense away from here. Those who simply roll out the overused, clichéd responses, whilst covering their eyes and ears and happily poke fun at people who share similar views and frustrations to myself. Those are the stick-together, snidey fanboys I have developed issues with - nobody else. I geinely don't know if that is you, or you have some other online pseudonym - but I have clearly touched a nerve to the point that you felt the need in the middle of the night to dust off your dictionary and do a bit of grammar policing for some reason, which is no problem - personally, I'd much rather talk Rovers than slang. So anyway, I don't direct message. I will gladly listen if you want to add meat to the bones of your stance/arguement but if are the kind of person who doesn't like getting a bit back when they happily dish it out, then it's probably for the best that you pop me on ignore. There'll be no hard feelings from my side.

For clarification, although I felt like I was being clear - yes, I think anyone who thinks we currently have THE best man or the only man for the job must be unbelievably short-sighted, full of fear, easily pleased by dogshit football and definitely delusional. Genuinely, I have no idea which pigeon hole you've popped yourself into but you seem to be tarring yourself with the same brush as the ones I am critical of - whereas I haven't read your opinion prior to this so I have no idea of your stance. Facts are, I was interacting with another poster before you hopped on the back of a post and suggested that I wouldn't be able to list suitable options and would make a Muppet of myself if I tried...that in all fairness, does appear to be in line with the blinkeredly Pro-Mowbray club that I was slating on the Telegraph website (in that initial post). You know the ones, those who just snigger, scoff, offer no substance to an arguement and discount facts and reality? I hope that's cleared things up.

I agree 100% and cannot comprehend how anyone cannot see what we see. Totally abject, passive, dis-jointed and courageless shite.

I don't know what you think. You jumped onto a comment of mine suggesting any options I gave would prove me to be a Muppet. I strongly disagree so replied to you. My comment of him being the best option is based on a load of delusional fans saying he is the best man for the job, even the only man for the job. Fans making out that being 3 or 4 points outside of the playoffs is ace, that people like me "Don't understand what Mowbray is trying to do" and we should simply, "Get behind the lads ffs". To give him more time to fail and probably buy more midfielders! Performances over a prolonged period of time are totally unacceptable. Basic mistakes happen game after game and I am sick to the back teeth of his bullshit, his idiotic chopping and changing and his pathetic never-ending excuses, hanging young players out to dry and not being self-critical.

Really? Since we've bobbed around like an unflushable turd over this last 12months we've previously suggested the realistic likes of Nigel Pearson and Slaven Bilic when they were out of work - they've not done too bad have they? People have frequently suggested Gary Rowett - who suddenly has Millwall in a position we haven't been in since the month after we were relegated. There are viable options out there such as Hughes (who will have to drop a division or jump on a plane for his next role), Warnock who loves a short-term challenge and who previously wanted the job - he would be a brilliant 18month option, Chris Hughton (who I do feel will likely bide his time for something different tbh), even Tony Pulis would shore us up and make us more physical, Martin O'Neill would bring a better philosophy than whatever our pretend philosophy is, Jokanovic would be fantastic, he is proven and realistic as he is managing in the middle of nowhere, Aitor Karanka out of work but seems well liked. There are loads of decent lower league managers, foreign managers and Scottish managers who would love a crack at a team like ours. Then there's a long list of promotion on their CV run of the mill managers available too, such as McDermot, McClaren, Adkins etc. who are certainly no worse than Mowbray (who was a sacked/jumped before pushed bottom of League One manager when we gave him a shot). If we were to see the light and get shut, there would be a stack of quality applicants. ...but apparently, it's pointless, all is good at Ewood and we have the absolute best in the business.

Thanks. I feel that for some reason, Mowbray flatters to deceive some. In terms of conceding 2 or more goals, nobody in my lifetime has done it with such regularity. In fact, In the relegation season, I think Coyle's Rovers did it on 6 occasions, Mowbray was 5 in his shorter stay. One less goal conceded would've kept us up (I think - without checking). In 2019, I think we conceded two or more approximately 20 times - which is ridiculously bad. In terms of developing young players, Travis is going backwards fast, Chapman - invisible until days ago, Brereton- obvious, Gallagher - mainly stuffed on the wing, Nyambe - dropped for a thirty-odd year old midfielder, the centre backs have been shipped out in favour of leftbacks, midfielders, Buckley has been thrown in any old place, Armstrong has done ok at times. My opinion, Mowbray's terrible massive investments have put us at risk of FFP, we are a disjointed, leaking ship when we aren't under restriction - imagine what state we'll be when we can't sign players.

Genuine unloaded questions, I'd love to hear your responses to any of them; What is so good about Mowbray that makes him the best and seemingly only option for Blackburn Rovers? Do you think you have very low levels of expectation for Blackburn Rovers? Do you think the team look fit and organised? Do you think that the considerable transfer funds have been spent sensibly and appropriately? Do you think the young players are progressing under him or do you think that many of their careers being damaged by being played out of their depth or out of position? Which other manager would pick Bennett as first choice right back, Gallagher as a first choice winger/RM, play a 36 year old in 4 positions in the same match? Can you think of another time where Rovers have conceded two or more goals with such shameful regularity? Do you think that after 3 years in the role, any other manager would only buy Paul Downing and Amari Bell to solve such obvious defensive failings? If you answered them honestly, do you think we have a strong and valid point to be critical of TM?

I thought Tosin hit some terrible passes outside of the box, straight to the feet of the opposition. Lenihan hoofed it high and wide like he always does. For a spell in the 2nd half we moved the ball better and at pace but (including the strikers) we just weren't good enough, organised enough, composed enough etc.

At the start of this transfer window and with a free hit FA Cup match on the horizon is as good a time we'll get to make a change.

We have named them, and named them, and named them. Have a quick scan over the list of unemployed experienced managers, they are plentiful. And in regards to your question, yes after reading excuse after blinkered excuse (mainly on the Telegraph site) I will refer to such people as muppets - as no valid arguements are ever made, they sneer at anyone critical of the marvellous Mr Mowbray and they simply skirt right around criticism and facts. In response to the suggestion of change, all I ever read is their fear re-packaged up as, "We won't get relegated under him" (which, to a degree, has already happened) "He's honest", "He is a safe pair of hands", "Who will go to India?" "Why would X, Y or Z come to Rovers?"...it is all absolute, gutless and blinkered bollocks. We will never do anything under him. We make basic mistake after basic mistake. God only knows how he picks a team and the lack of intensity and amount of fatigue based injuries and omissions shows that we lack fitness. He isn't good enough for where we need to be.

No. Pro-Mowbray muppets live in absolute fear of change and talk down every viable option out there. Mowbray is a poor manager. He proves it week after week. He proves it here, he proved it at Coventry. Better managers are ten-a-penny, equally bad ones are fifty a penny. How can anyone look at the gutless, disjointed, can't pass a ball, shower of shit that Mowbray has assembled and can genuinely defend the lack of investment in a shoddy defence, the wasteful spending on toothless strikers and the square pegs in round holes approach (which he does as a first choice) and suggest that it is the best we can do OR he is even capable in his role?

Harsh on Brereton. Our defence and their distribution was utter shite, as has been the standard for most of the season. We are a very poor side.

I don't blame him for the first. Dogshit defending from the useless Bell allowed their player to put a perfect and unchallenged ball into the box. Very Pedersen-esque.

What a shambolic shitshow of a side Mowbray is responsible for. I don't trust him with another penny. Get on the blower to Warnock and see what he can do for 18months.

Pathetic. Bell fucks around on the opposition's box, shits it, three or four backwards passes including one to the opposition, another unchallenged cross into an unmarked man - get fucked Mowbray, these are your failures and what a set of gutless goons they are. Embarassing.

We are absolutely shit. Bell inviting yet another cross into the box and a Walton special wiping out the attacker. Three years in, we cannot defend for toffee.

I did similar under Coyle ? In Warnick's defence, he oozes passion and I imagine he is the management equivalent of Bellamy and Savage. Hate them unless they are yours.

If we had those two, one would be at fullback the other would be getting up to speed on the grass or getting used to the way we play.

Gutless and embarrassingly shit. Again.

Today, I was ranting like a madman that in all the years Tugay was here, he never hit as many bad passes as our current numpties do in a match.

Don't be too harsh. Only a fool would think that the knee had been scanned and consulted upon the same night it happened. It was clearly hearsay. ...I'm not calling anyone a fool btw ?

Same shit, different game. Too many changes, not enough effort or urgency, lots of faffing about and needlessly misplaced passes. Typical Mowbray team.

Merry Christmas you filthy animals. And a happy New Year.