£7m......SEVEN FECKIN MILLION!!

Jesus Tony. You are lucky you still have a bucket of goodwill after promotion. Talk about a suspect eye for talent 

6 hours ago, Peteb2014 said:

replay confirmed for Tuesday 7:45 Kick Off Live on BT Sport

Typical. Never TV for the common man

5 hours ago, S8 & Blue said:

9/10 of the last FA Cups have been won by either Man Utd, Citeh, Chelsea or Arsenal so I’m not sure if it is “devalued”.

It’s the bottom 10 or so teams in the PL that’s the problem. The PL in general. 

Long live the Championship.

It's been devalued because the governing bodies bought into the squad bullshit and allowed clubs to field joke lineups. This in turn with the obscene amount of money losers get on the premiership spelt the competition's death knell. It is now held in contempt by the majority of the top 50 clubs. Even league 1 sides field the 3rd string in cup games now.

Why are people still online fencing about attendences?  Just enjoy the game if you do go but realise that the Rao's and Steven Kean was the modern day 1960 cup final ticket fiasco. If they are lucky your grandchildren may see the exorcism, just like we did from 92 to 2010. But until then the current attendance levels are the status quo. And as far as the FA Cup goes why should fans bother when football clubs management treat it with utter contempt?

9 hours ago, Stuart said:

This is just like under Bowyer.

One win and it’s back to full-on superfan support.

I’ll carry on supporting Blackburn Rovers and not whichever millionaire happens to have the closest view of the pitch.

That said, Mowbray needs to build on this result now and not keep chopping and changing. Delighted with three points against the Baggies but he’s only one dodgy team selection of being right back at square one. A decent League One manager, an average Championship one.

Promotion at a canter now Stuart. Though the first month or two was spent in the doldrums and the minimum expectation of 1st was missed despite having the best squad, best budget, best facilities etc far outstripping the 2nd best club in league one by some distance. This isn't to say that I am not grateful for promotion as a lesser manager could have easily stuffed it all up big time. But revisionism to one side the reality remains that the same doubts about Mowbray 'in the Champonship' remain from the 2016/17 season. The club still desperately needs another promotion to fix all the off the field problems that have never really gone away. Is Mowbray that man?

 4.5 years on and it's still all about giving it a good go and excuses. Though we are where I expected us to be this season but that's no reason to ignore incompetent game management and tactics.

2/10 Tony, must do better

1. How many home games have you attended this season?

None

Once a game starts that's it, no refunds.

Rovers v Wimbledon back in the day was called off minutes before kick off after it only started raining at 2.00pm!!!!!! Then their players didd belly slides all over the pitch. Remember the game was rearranged for a weekend (free fa cup day??) and they were allocated just the first two vertical rows in the Darren end ??

Never forgive. Never forget.

If we never heard their names or saw their faces again it wouldn't be a day too soon.

Stumbling upon a slightly above average manager is hardly worthy of forgetting the wanton destruction. Just thinking back to the Coco days and the unswerving backing they gave him in the face of all rational reasoning makes me want to rip their heads off.

14 hours ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Not showing he is the man to get us where we need to be. Are you for real? 

I think our good start has led some to get carried away with themselves and given them false expectations for where we should be this season. 

When Mowbray took over, if someone said to you in two seasons coming into December we would be in touching distance of the play offs,  would you have been happy with that? 

Mowbray with not get this club promoted. Not now, not ever. Not that that is a negative at this stage of the rebuild. But a 3.5 year deal? Utter fkin madness.

2 hours ago, Parsonblue said:

Excellent news. no better way for the owners to show their faith in the manager and indicates that one or two bad results won't lead to wholesale changes 

Not sure that waa the case when you know who got a new deal ? take it all with a big pinch of salt 

Not sure I'd of been throwing round a 3.5 year deal though. 1 year at the most. Last year he didn't even quite achieve what he should with the best team and resources in League 1 (1st) and this year he's not showing he can be the man to get us where we need to be sooner rather than later to finally get rid of the parasites whilst the debt is still wipeable by the rewards on offer.. He's a footings man rather than the Messiah and a 1 year rolling would have been more than sufficient.

As for showing faith he'll be sacked quick sharp if the situation arose, just as he'd be off quicker sharp if a better placed offer came up. There is no loyalty in football and potentially burdening youtself with having to give another manager a big payoff isn't good business.

Gg

1 minute ago, Scotland1 said:

Best manager since Sam in my opinion 

? Such faint praise ????

Just now, Paul Mellelieu said:

Thanks Einstein.  What has caused the change in form?  That suit you?

Defeats 

27 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

So a month ago, with ten men and outfield goalkeeper the team, was rightly praised to the rafters.  Now they are awful.  Explain that one.

It's called form

Rightly they are being called for what they are at present, awful. In fact bloody awful.

5 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Pleased you have make your little fan group very happy. Im sure you and little fan group will be little sly comments on here about me until the game starts. Thats good for you. Ive got better things to do. 

Shocking and embarrassing result in a derby. A 2nd walloping away from home in 3 matches. Anything other than being gloomy tonight is just wierd.

Wow. He's not been a lemon for 5 minutes. I could do that in that city side ?. As soon as he pulls on an England shirt with expectations he's gash. Typifies the modern footballer. 

On 20/11/2018 at 00:25, MCMC1875 said:

Was that not Richard Brown at Tranmere?

My memory is hazy. It may not have been Sunderland. It was before the 1992 season too.

7 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

You dont get the number of goals and assists that he gets without being a very, very good player, even with top class team mates. He is a player who has developed his game under Pep from the raw player that joined City to be one of the best of his type of player around, and trusted more by Guardiola even than the excellent Leroy Sane.

He's still average.

I don't think I have read so many fancy words to describe how sterling is made to look better than the sum of his parts by his brilliant City team mates. 

The England Raheem Sterling, surrounded by lesser team mates, is the real Raheem Sterling. Fragile, self entitled and average.

In worthy England news we only take up our euro 2020 play off spot should we finish 3rd in our 5 team qualifying group. Should that near impossible  event happen the England setup would be imploding anyway 

4 hours ago, Stuart said:

So what olive branches do you suggest?

We need people to get the bug again.

Imagine you’re already disenfranchised or out of the habit and you start getting that itch again, maybe egged on by friends.

You look at the match day price and go “£27 for Sheff Weds? I’ll not bother.”

But your mates persist and by Saturday your combination match is called off or you pilates class is cancelled and you decide to rock up to Ewood only to be told “£30 please”.

Do you honestly think that’s going to make you think: “I really need to get a half season ticket?” Or more likely “Nothing’s changed, has it, still taking the piss out of fans”?

Get people in with a good offer and a feeling of being wanted back.

There is no justification at all for the late purchase surcharge. Not one single valid excuse.

It's a disgrace. A huge boil on already spotty backside.

Who will be Mowbrays Yeovil Town?

My expectation is inconsistency, frustration with a decent smattering of fine performances whilst not having to look down