I think his point is promoted in May 2018. Advertised in August 2019. Whilst not 18 months, 15 months is still a long time from promotion to advertising the role. That plan should have been in place during the league one season as what will happen IF we get promotion.

I suspect it's more of a case of him knowing we have paid players off previously. It's not working out for him at Wigan so he may as well go back and see if he can get a lump sum from Rovers to pay him to terminate his contract. Opens his options for next year.

I've not idea what happened. However is Waggot really going to say "Tony got me an interview " or vice versa if it was true? As for running the club, who interviewed Coyle? The million dollar question.

Ignoring social media, which is a breeding ground for trolls and reactiionists, what criticism is disgraceful? If I watch a player who is crap and doesn't look like a footballer I will say that. I cheer him on the pitch and have never booed or jeered him. History may well say he was hung, drawn and quartered by the Rovers fans, which simply isn't true.

We already know none of it sticks to this lot.

It was definitely sang clearly twice, once towards the end of the first half and one half way through the second half. It was also followed by a chant of Ooh Ahh Gallagher which showed that nobody was questioning Gallagher's commitment or effort. Just the fact he is clearly in the wrong position.

Pointless and misleading as you have left out the games he got points in!! Plus City and Spurs finished above Liverpool in all 3 of Alardyce's seasons.

As I said above, I meant on here. You have got frustrated by what you have seen at Ewood this season as much as most this season. When you spend time and money to go down, and see players out of position and players benched that should be starting, all to justify a failed transfer policy, it's annoying.

I meant on here.

It appears to be the people who don't attend who want to stick with the manager.

And some people accept we may have to take a chance on a coach who hasn't achieved as much in the game yet, or struggled in a previous job, but may be able to make a better go of managing Rovers under the current circumstances than Mowbray is doing. I suspect both Johnson and the Hill-type manager would have got more bang for their 12 million bucks. Your solution appears to be hope Mowbray keeps us in the division as long as possible and hope Venkys eventually leave, with no ambition whatsoever to believe and aim for promotion. This gives no thought to how much we would have to be cut financially post-Venkys and will ultimately lead to even lower attendances as the club show no ambition whatsoever. Personally, I'd rather think big and gamble.

He has wasted £12 million on two strikers. One doesn't look a footballer. The other isnt great but keeps getting played out wide. Our best striker, who was voted player of the season above Dack last year, cannot get much game time because he doesn't fit into any formation in which Gallagher and Brereton start in. And having spent that much money on them at least one of them has to play. Therefore we have blown £12milln and actually weakened our starting line up. Add into that we have never strengthened a suspect defence in 3 years, Bennett is poor but plays out of position because 'he is a leader and needs to be on the pitch somewhere', creative players are often benched as we worry about the opposition more than let them worry about us, we sold our keeper and got a worse replacement in on loan and we make around 4 changes per game. Mowbray is a popular figure amongst the fans as a person and he was the right man at the right time. He is just making too many mistakes and doesn't show any signs of wising up or changing.

People were dissapointed when Mowbray was hired but gave him time to prove what he could do. Initially that was a good job. However he now seems to be struggling to manage the club because of the FFP situation which he has partly created by blowing the 12 million, whilst also jeopardising his team selections to justify those transfers. People do not trust TM to recruit suitably anymore. Of course people preferably want a proven manager, but like when Mowbray was appointed, they will give anybody reasonable a chance unless it is as iffy and dodgy as Coyle. However we are going nowhere as we currently are so if we have any ambition at all of kicking on we need a change.

It looked a 'do not concede' lineup with little creativity and so it proved. The Gallagher wide thing really is pointless. I cant think of many times all season it has had any benefit. Even when we hit long balls to him, he seems unable to pick up the flight of the ball until it has travelled half way towards him. Most of Prestons high balls where nowhere near that lump they brought on but he still got to most of them. Graham just has far more nouse as a striker. The penaly appeal on Gallagher is a nothing ball forward which DG manages to make something of. For the chance at the end when the Preston player cleared it and ran into the post, Graham was in the right place for the cross. Had that been Gallagher he would have been on his heels or making the wrong run. The fact he has been sidelines all season to make way for £12mill's worth of flops really is shocking. I'd be trying playing him with Armstrong in the Dack role and see if they can link up. I thought defensively the starting back 4 did well, especially Lenihan and Nyambe (who would have been MOTM had he lasted it out). Bell made some key blocks in the 2nd half but is shocking in terms of ability on the ball. Other than that the rest did OK bar Gallagher who doesnt know what to do when he gets the ball out wide. Armstrong was very good and also seemed fired up for the occasion. Would have liked to have seen Chapman or Rothwell late on but the changes due to injuries didnt give us that option. Preston, like practically every team this season, look very mediocre. However there will probably 2 or 3 of those teams that get in the play offs, and if Sinclair has an impact they might scrape in there. We are set for a 13th to 18th finish due to the loss of Dack. We are now just relying on getting the ball forward and hoping something happens rather than creating.

Could we have done worse though?

Surely that should be say "prove we are a better team," unless you are a Preston fan trolling away who hasn't been able to cover his tracks very well. It's a big game, just as Leeds is a big game. I'm looking forward to it. It's nowhere near as big as the Burnley game though for many of us, and doesn't attract the thousands of casual Rovers fans that turn out for that game.

Crosses? We put a few in yesterday but most games we now try and walk it into the box and create goals that way. It's our new 'style.of play'.

Gallagher looks less mobile and a worse player than he did 3 years ago. I see a Danny Cadamateri player here who was highly touted at a young age but gradually drops to find his level. What worries me is we are so obviously trying to get a return on investment nowadays that we will not play graham just to allow us to include inferior players. Therefore we are not felding our strongest team in order to win games, which is ridiculous. Now that may well have to be how the club is run nowadays, and I accept that to some level. However the problem has come because the two targets identified as strikers were so poor, and that's TM's fault entirely. Brereton was an unknown, but the majority of people on here had seen Gallagher for a season and could tell you he wasn't good enough (and did before he signed!!) Birmingham fans thought he was awful as well. So the club has to ask itself, if the model is to buy young and sell them on for a profit is Mowbray the right man to do this? Most evidence since we returned to the Championship says no.

How would supporters at the ground know that Ben Brereton was in tears on the bench?

Good job we didn't take that view in 2002.

Strange.

So you'd rather be out of the FA cup than have a replay?

Doubt anyone is going to come on and say we don't create any chances for Gallagher. I can think of 5 off the top of my head.

Gallagher is a mediocre player at this level but Brereton is a different level. He looks like he has been pulled out of the crowd to play.