You beat me to it. if we have a decent December and some clean sheets we will buy nobody. Tony Freud says: “I think we can strengthen in certain areas. When I say strengthen I mean create competition. Let’s wait and see. As I’ve always said, in transfer windows everything has to work, you have to find the players that will improve your group with the right mentality, right personality, that fit in to your budget."

RIP Bob Wilis. An England Cricket true Legend.

Mowbray: "Whether the fans are happy or whether the fans didn’t want me here, I’m not going to change anything I do" What a couple of wins will do. He reads this MB too much. He's forgotten he dropped Bennett.

Did not know where to put this. Its a photo of my all-time favourite in a, perhaps, seldom seen setting. Can anyone put a date on this?

Shameful cheating dive by the West Brom player, it starts well before he reaches the keeper, The keeper should have gone for it full on instead of trying to be clever. The Ref was useless, no news there. Surely IT can fully replace these waste of spaces. The Preston keeper could not have had more of a colour clash if he'd tried.

Match date?

Mitrovic, Cairney and Kalvin Phillips

It did look really sad on TV. Where were the Brentford fans put? I know they only brought a small following, not a criticism and to be expected for a midweek game on TV a long way away. Ewood is simply too big for our present condition which will last as long as our owners and more, imo

A typical Mowbray piece. All about HIM. A working-class man working far from home? He's from the North East of England not the far side of the moon FFS. He knew the terms when he took the job. Never ever is anything his fault.

39% possession at home to Barnsley results in Mowbray spending his post-match presser praising to high heaven the leagues bottom club. And telling us performance doesn't matter. No explanation of why Rothwell was subbed. A day in the life of honest Mowbray.

Absolutely. I was just trying to be helpful to the lad, I like his passion on here and FB.

Try this. I use it and English is my native language https://www.grammarly.com/

A quite brilliant riposte. Well done.

In all my years in following Rovers and Football, in general, I cannot recall another manager having such control over a Club as Mowbray does at Rovers. It has been achieved in a relatively short time frame which speaks volumes for the ineptitude and disinterest of the owners, Mowbray tried the same sort of 'takeover' at Coventry but came across more business savvy ownership. I am at a loss to understand how so many of our Fans, well what remains of our decimated following, cannot see through this charade sold on the back of a "I build Football Clubs" I truly hope I last long enough to see the back of Mowbray and his cohorts.

Mowbray: “I generally pick Elliott Bennett because he drives this team, the life of the dressing room. Every player in that dressing room looks up to Elliott Bennett and when he talks, they listen." I simply refuse to believe that. Just because Mowbray says something it does not make it true. Mowbray, being deluded, will believe it. He's away with the Fairies, poor Sod. Mowbray, just do one.

There was a reason I see now why I avoided this thread before.

Q: If Venkys apologised and stated that they would attend the next home game, how would you feel? A: Time to find a Snowball. A big one. This thread passed me by before, can't fathom out why but maybe I just avoided their name in the Title. Forgive and draw a line? NOT in this lifetime or the hereafter.

He's on a one year contract and was never a top-flight great. He's actually done better than I thought he would, I was sure hed do us on a ''Whittingham'' The 1-year contract helps Mowbray not give Downing the Captaincy so Bennett has it just so he can be guaranteed a start. Only at Rovers Circus.

3 of those players were bad enough to relegate us, one is asleep or looks it and one injured u.f.n. Couldn't make that up .... Mowbray masterclass

It should not be beyond the capacity of any decent nay reasonably intelligent manager to fit at least 2 very good footballers into a team/system In the case of Tinkerman Tony, it should be a piece of piss. The problem is to do with flair which despite what Mowbray preaches he is anti. Presently Holtby has not been fully assimilated and wanders off the blades of grass Mowbray, in his delusion of being a tactical expert, has assigned to him.

Elliott Bennetts running pattern during match play. The bright Red squiggles are those that resulted in a positive outcome or good play.

At least Celtics ''hope'' stayed around until the end of the Festive Season of that Season. Ours did a runner a while ago. It beggars belief that anyone could mess up so badly at Celtic in the SPL but then again ''Maybe it’s a league for organising your team properly, picking a defence that doesn’t give away free gifts every week, not allowing yourself to be outnumbered in central midfield and playing strikers who can play in inside the penalty box?""

All very interesting but, WTF is Paul Yates?

A perfect Rovers signing as long as he's expensive too

I sincerely hope that your appraisal is the correct one, he is contracted until 2022 and with his mates appointed above him his position is secure. I simply do not believe that someone is open, honest and brimming with integrity and 'values' just because they tell me they are in every other interview. Mowbray is running Ewood and that is simply wrong.