Dalglish built that team in 4 months, not four years. Dalglish hadn't already had several spells of going 5,6,7 games without a win under his tenure. Dalglish actually got us into the top 6. In some of those games under Dalglish during that spell we were the better team.

Oh, and as for that kid from City. I warned you with Mowbray comes much responsibility. But you didn't listen, and you see what happens. You are not ready.

Before we get the "they were in the premier league last year, what do you expect" comments, remember Coventry, QPR, Millwall, Huddersfield, Wycombe and Forest are amongst the Championship behemoths to have already taken points from them.

On a bit of positive news, my Stanley supporting mate said Pickering looked different class last night against them. Said he stood out massively.

As the season has now one, I would certainly suggest giving the lad some game time to see how he develops and how he looks. We gave a 19 year old Brereton plenty of minutes across 2 seasons despite looking useless, so I'm sure the same should apply to anyone who is having great success at our club at the level below the first team.

Not sure Scott Wharton would agree. Centre-half has been our achilles heel for a number of seasons and yet he has been loaned out several times with great success. However he rarely got a look in here until serious injuries struck and we had little choice. When he played lo and behold he seemed well up to this standard. You could argue maybe Mowbray didn't fancy playing a young centre half until he has matured, but then you look at our current back 4 and you realise that's obviously not the case.

Guess which club Steve Kean left in order to join Rovers?

I'm not sure they are given proper chances. Despite our deficiencies in defence for several seasons Wharton kept going out on loan. He only got game time due to a severe crisis and you would have to say looked at least as good as, if not better, than the Brandthwaite and the City lad. Plus if we played him and developed him we could see for a profit, which was supposed to be our model. Now its discard the status of the academy and flog the land.

If the academy was to retain its Cat 1 status it would surely have been in Saturdays press release. That whole release was to try and calm down any storm which was brewing. Every bit of positive spin which could be put on this would new included in that release. Not mentioning the Category 1 status of the academy is unlikely to have been an oversight. Put simply, we are selling off the category status of the academy to raise funds.

Yep. Once it's gone it's gone - for any future owners of the club.

Probably. The 'other' thread which somebody opened asking why it had been removed last night has also been locked now.

It says "Pending approval" again when I look at it now. Venus isn't popular but it looks like he was manager when they went down which isn't going to help. The detailed reply was:-

The Coventry thread is up - https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/blackburn-selling-off-training-ground.129388/ The detailed post is interesting, mainly on his views on Mowbray and his recruitment.

Someone made a new thread in their General football forum https://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/blackburn-training-ground-thread-that-was-on-general.129389/#post-2207018

I just posted on a Coventry forum to quite civilly ask for their opinion and for a quick summary of what happened in in their situation. I got one reply but within a minute the thread was deleted. I presume the mods thought it was going to be either too divisive or legally dodgy. edit - the thread has been hidden pending approval.

Venkys have no idea what is happening in Blackburn or what the best thing for the football club is. Therefore the idea And proposed benefits must have come from here A key question is will people close to the club, either currently or previously, benefit personally financially from this. The similaraities to the Coventry situation are alarming. Venkys bought a club (cheaply) with several a major assets. One of them, despite it being condition of the sale it not be sold off for non-sporting usage, is about to be lost from the club forever, unavailable to be utilised by whoever owns us going forward.

Not sure on what formation we are planning on anymore. I think Mowbray and Venus will be looking to go 2 up 2 down with a few detatched out wide.

30 mins till touchdown. I hope they're friendly 👾👽

Did you know that "THE NAME TONY MOWBRAY" is an anagram of "NO WAY TO THE MR NYAMBE" It's correct. Check it. Coincidence? I think not.

The thing on Nyambe is we have no alternative who is potentially as good, and not picking him last night meant that we were exposed down the right side of our defence. Most of their breaks, including the two excellent blocks that Lenihen put in, came from that area of the pitch. I saw the logic in bringing the two loanee defenders in as a quick fix as we were short of numbers at the back, but to force one of our own players out of the squad to play an unproven loanee seemed odd, and his performance showed it up as odd.

Don't get me wrong it was terrible. But as I said to my mate this morning, was it any worse than the first half against Middlesborough a few weeks ago? The difference in that game was a good last 20 minutes of the second half and a goal that disguised that abysmal first half performance. As did kicking their lad in the eye.

I agree with a lot of what you have posted post-match Chaddy although I am going to go off topic and pick you up on this. If Arstrong's girlfriend has her profile set to public and is happy to comment to the general public on her husbands footballing performance, then I'm pretty sure it's "appropriate" for that comment to be repeated on a football message board.

Eh? Belittle means to dismiss someone or something as unimportant. I wasn't saying everyone wanting Mowbray out but no-one giving an opinion on who should replace him is unimportant. I was saying that clearly that is not what is happening as we have a full thread on who should replace him.

I didn't highlight it as I wasn't responding to anything you said about people belittling other posters. You made a point in your post which was clearly untrue and I was just pointing this out.

You mean other than the 22 page thread on that exact topic?