Is this based on anything in particular?

Oh yeah he was never going anywhere, TM wouldn't have it!

Would be the best transfer business of the summer if we were to offload him.

Good man. Fingers crossed you see some success sooner rather than later, you missed some glorious years!

Jesus you only started supporting us when we had Dann & Hanley?! You poor fucker

He still had an error in him and was very shaky under corners in particular. Says more about the standard of player we've come to expect under Venkys reign more than anything. The thing Mowbray really got wrong for me was not getting in his first or even second choice replacement. He'd been here long enough to understand our budget/wage structure so to miss out on two European keepers and get that clown Walton in was unforgiveable. He also, incorrectly, believed that getting in a taller keeper would solve our problems at the back.

My head is telling me the delay in Venkys giving Mowbray a transfer budget is because of the state of the global economy and the fact they're panicking that they may lose everything Daddy gave them. My heart is saying its because they've looked at what money they've given at Mowbray in the last three years, not liked the lack of progression, and decided to try and bring another manager in. In reality it'll be somewhere in the middle and they'll neither get rid of him or give him any budget - literally the worst thing you could do as our owners this summer. The hate continues.

You're happy with 5% progress? Settling for mediocrity whilst our debt continues to pile up and the single way for it not continue for it to pile up is promotion is frankly, pathetic.

I 100% believe this happens but I still think Coventry is a tough sell. I said a Prem club but actually I think any Championship club in and around us, they'd put the spin on you mention and try and get him out of the door.

For a downwards move like that I'd fully expect him to turn it down. If a Prem side came in for him then it's another story...

With the current situation of a likely global recession, whilst being beholden to the chicken folk paying at least some interest in their 'investment', and our squad needing funds to patch up some glaring holes, combined with a manager that has an average at best transfer record; I reckon this thread could reach new levels of fury this summer.

Do we take from this that our two expensive flops aren't very good at handling the pressure now that it's off and they've performed?

Are defenders coming Tony?

They clearly all just buckle under the pressure, as soon as its off we looks incredible. Yes I'm moaning

Of course we're going to win this. Someone called "Brereton" has scored for us ?

That first line has made my weekend. And anyone that thinks Venkys are an innocent in the fucking shit show that our club has become, or claims we have to give them some respect for keeping pumping money in, can pop themselves in the same bin as K*an.

Still don't expect to see a player as good as him, in that position, again in my lifetime at Ewood.

Honestly - what is the fucking point? Give each team a point and save everyone involved the bother. Though actually thinking on it; Bowen is doing a half decent job at Reading, perhaps Balaji or the greasy fat one with the ponytail cam tap him up. Or is Balaji the ponytailed fat one? Which is the one that got interviewed on Sky and said they were confused? Looks like a willing drug mule. Ah fuck it get Madame to stop bothering the chickens and she can do it herself.

I don't think it's a simple as that. The bulk of the blame absolutely has to lie with Coyle and ergo our clown owners, however I genuinely believe a better manager would have kept us up that year; I remember when we lost 0-2 at home to Barnsley towards the end of the season after Mowbray had had some time to bed in and I just couldn't understand it at the time. We were absolutely rank that day and our attitude and application were a million miles away from where it needed to - be given the fight we were in. Three and a bit years later I now totally understand, and even come to expect, that type of performance. It's what we've always been under Mowbray - streaky as fuck. Given his general demeanour, comments in the press, treatment of certain players and baffling tactics I can completely understand why we have these streaky runs as well. After this long he clearly isn't going to change either so given the perilous situation the club is in the benefits of a change outweigh the negatives for me.

Sounds like we got Mowbray'd.

Football goes in cycles. Imagine being told in 2006/7 at the peak of the Hughes reign, that by 2020 we'd have been out of the prem for nearly a decade, and the scum down the road were the shining beacon of how a small club can punch above their weight in the top division. I just hope that it doesn't take another decade to get out of our current cycle and the for the clowns to become a distant memory.

Had £100 sitting on Cardiff this afternoon, never placed it. Cannot believe this result! (even if we draw tbf)

No.

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If only the clowns that owned us invested just a little bit of time in understanding the game, or even doing some proper research on who could give them some good advice, then perhaps we could have a chance of getting someone like Neil Harris. Given the amount of money they're losing you'd think they'd at least give it a little bit of focus.