Will to win means absolutely nothing without the ability to actually manage. He has no experience and even as an assistant has only consistently underperformed with a very expensive Everton side. He has done nothing to eatn a Championship job and if he wants to manage should prove himself further down the pyramid. Anyone wanting him over even the likes of Ainsworth is off their rocker.

I'm getting that feeling too, and honestly that would be miles worse than Pardew imo. Proven himself to be nothing but an abject failure even with PL money behind him.

Awful decision for me that screams "we can't attract a decent sponsor". Even without the moral implications the logo is hideous and likely to ruin any shirts we get.

As with the last few appointments it will be someone no one has talked about that is with a certain agency and well and truly on the scrapheap. There was a real chance to make a statement with these appointments, and really push season tickets with a new dawn of kicking on from a reasonable (albeit frustrating) season. Instead, they'll likely fumble it, appoint someone who inspires literally no one and will continue to complain that they can't attract the fan base they lost. I'd honestly love to know what Venky's end goal is if this is the case, because aside from when we first came down they've shown literally no ambition to improve.

Considering the amount of decent managers with proven track records that are out there this just screams "cheap agents' choice". If they want to cement low season ticket sales this is the kind of appointment to make. JFC

I remember watching Magloire in preseason a couple of years back against Leicester and he look really good, but then when he was needed in league games he fell to pieces multiple times. Shame as he was always touted as a potential star. Doesn't seem to have done much on loan unlike Wharton and Carter. Maybe the hope is a decent coach can actually get a tune out of him.

I still can't believe Spurs potted him the week before the final. I appreciate in the leagues they were a bit all over the shop but if there ever was someone to beat Guardiola in a final with a weaker team it was Jose.

My hope is the retained list hasn't been released yet because they're still negotiating with Lenihan and Nyambe. However the silence on everything else is amateurish.

No. I wanted him gone last season where we had nosedived for the second successive season and were in relegation form. I wasn't particularly high on our position in January because I knew in the long run we would fall way short. This second half season pattern is a Mowbray thing, not a Rovers one. Even a semi-competent manager would have had us in the play-offs from where we were. He has been holding back a reasonably talented young squad for a while.

A bit rich coming from someone who by his own admission had the blessing to go out and bolster a squad that was 2nd in the league and managed to come out of the January window and not even make the play-offs. He's been backed more than multiple managers before him and is outperformed season after season by teams with worse pull and resources. Shut up and get gone.

If we manage to blow another 2-0 lead 15 mins from the end I honestly couldn't think of a more fitting tribute to Tony's time at Rovers.

I don't care if it's a dead rubber next week, get him gone after this match. He shouldn't be anywhere near the rebuild process.

You say that but under Tony we are generally horrendous at picking up points from behind.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20100946.tony-mowbray-gives-biggest-hint-yet-blackburn-rovers-future/ That's him going surely? As much as he's driven me up the wall over the past year I think if that's the case it's now important that we just throw everything behind him and the team and pray for a miracle ending.

Not to mention he isn't our players after a couple more games. Should be giving time to players here next year.

Classic Mowbray season though isn't it? Season derails completely and the second we can no longer actually achieve anything we start smashing teams so people forget about the dross and get their hopes up over the summer...

2 CB's booked already. How much is down to them, and how much is down to the lack of cover provided by Tony's terrible tactics?

Let's be honest if we scraped into the play-offs we would be hammered by every other team in the mix anyway.

Not a single update on the Rovers twitter since Stoke scored. I'm not watching but I assume that speaks for itself?

So he doesn't train them in specific fundamentals (as he has admitted), nor does he seem to motivate them... what exactly does Tony do in training?

Almost as if he's a left back who keeps getting thrown onto the right wing.

It's more and more clear that it was the win streak that was the "outlier" for our results, rather than the awful form surrounding it. Without that period we'd have just lost a relegation six-pointer. And yet some will still defend the dinosaur.

Don't worry, you won't have to after we lose the next 4 as well.

"Why does nobody turn up at Ewood anymore?" Have you seen this guff?

Getting absolutely pumped by the worst team in the league. Hand Tony is p45 and let him find his own way home.