Surprised that’s actually happened. Wouldn’t have had him down as being ready to play in highly competitive, feisty South American WC qualifiers. There’d be a partisan crowd there too normally. Best of luck to him though, would be a great story if he could do well and help them qualify.

Can only echo what others have said, Nuttall's poor. His only half-decent trait seemed to be finding himself in the right place at the right time (granted there are far worse attributes for a striker to have) but apart from that he didn't look like much of a footballer at all to be honest.

To be honest most of our Championship seasons have been mind-numbingly dull, the only exceptions I can think of are 12/13 going through five managers and falling into the relegation zone in April, 13/14 where we still had a very small chance of the playoffs on the final day, and of course 16/17 when we went down. The rest, consisting of mid-table nothingness, just blur into one. It really has been a miserable decade with absolutely nothing to shout about apart from promotion out of a division that it was embarrassing to drop into. Just the way Mowbray likes it though, plodding along in mid-table in the Championship (although I'd be surprised if we're as high as that next season....). Think the same goes for quite a few of the players too unfortunately, though we should be rid of some of them this summer.

JRC should be one of the easiest contracts to tie up. He’s a decent prospect but I wouldn’t have thought he’s played regularly enough to attract any serious interest from elsewhere, he’s had some big injuries too. If we’re struggling to get him to renew, and as Skip says I doubt he’s asking for much, then that’s very poor.

Hah, I wouldn't be happy with that at all if I were a PNE fan. When does this type of thing ever work out? Cheap option indeed. Still probably finish above us again mind if we have Mowbray for the entire of next season.

Yeah, he’s well wide of the mark with that one (if he genuinely thinks that of course). But either way it’d be nice to have a manager who talked up Rovers like he’s doing for Portsmouth, instead of Midtable Mowbray calling Boro and Stoke massive clubs and saying things like ‘Shearer and Sutton aren’t here anymore’.

This is Mowbray's (and a lot of our players too I imagine) dream match - end of season, nothing to play for, the beach is in sight and playing a poor side who are already on their holidays judging by their result last week. 2-1 or 3-1 Rovers with the players clogging up social media after the game saying how nice it is to finish the season with a win. I'd be too embarrassed to post anything at all after the run we've been on second half of the season.

That’s my fear as we go into the summer. No games, a lot of people (not on here) will forget about Mowbray, how much a change is needed and just how abysmal this season has been. Focus will turn to transfers, who’s getting a new contract and kids on social media will be drooling over whichever PL youngster we borrow next thinking it’s some sort of coup for Blackburn Rovers. Round and round we go. Depressing.

Fine with that. On a free he was probably worth a punt, but it hasn't worked out really. He'll be 31 just after next season starts, pretty injury prone and doesn't really stand out much when he does play - neat and tidy, but he's never really looked a class above, apart from maybe during some of our big wins against 10 men earlier this season. Seems a decent guy though so good luck to him. Hopefully he'll be followed out the door by some of the others who'll be out of contract and of course Mowbray himself.

He’s been okay on the rare occasions he’s played, nothing special but I do remember him playing well at Brentford when we were down to ten men not long before he disappeared off the face of the earth. However the thought of Mowbray talking about “what might have been” after Ayala features in a couple of dead-rubber wins between now and the end of the season, with the beach getting ever closer, makes me want to reach for the sick bucket.

Surely we must be selling hardly any iFollow passes now. Weren't we down to about 1000 for one game, and even that was a couple of months ago? Must be, what, a couple of hundred now? Few hundred absolute max. I haven't paid to watch on iFollow since December now when it became clear it would be another season of nothingness (not that, deep down, I expected anything else under Mowbray) after hardly missing a game before that. Not missed it one bit.

Agnelli at Juventus is one of the most slippery characters of the lot, he’s been right behind something like this for a while. When Atalanta first qualified for the CL a couple of years ago he openly spoke out about how they basically shouldn’t have qualified as they have no European history. Proper weapon that guy. Atalanta of course went on to progress further than Juve in the CL that season which was brilliant. And on Sunday, the day of the announcement, they beat Juve 1-0 and overtook them in the league meaning Juve might not qualify for the CL next season. So it’s no surprise they’re involved but you’d like to think, given the Agnelli family have owned Juve since 1923, that he’d appreciate history and genuine competition a little more than all the American etc owners behind it.

Regardless of whether you rate Buckley or not, picking Evans ahead of him is mental. Thought we’d maybe just about got past the days of seeing both Bennett and Evans in the starting eleven. Obviously not.

Mowbray's wet dream. Yep, thankfully 99% of comments I've seen are dead against it, rightly so too of course. The only occasional comment I've seen from people in favour ("Why wouldn't you want to watch the best players and teams face each other all the time?" 🙄) have unsurprisingly come from African or American 'fans' of one of the 'big 6' or glory-hunting teenagers who get all their football knowledge from Fifa 21. None of them of course have ever set foot in a football stadium. Oh and Spurs getting involved in this. Spurs! It doesn't feel that long ago I was hoping Rovers would finish above teams like Spurs (and we'd be expected to finish above City too in fact). Madness.

Boothroyd's sole promotion from the Championship and subsequent 20th placed finish in the PL was even a couple of years before Mowbray did the same. His record post-Watford should have meant he was nowhere near the England set-up.

Took one look at his comments, saw 'journey' and 'results orientated owner' (that's a new one)....can't stomach any more. I can't believe this is still going on and being dragged out like this. Well I definitely can given the previous ten years, but still....

Very quiet (not that I think it means anything, unfortunately). Harvey Elliott has been signed up by New Balance Football so he's been modelling their clothes. Oh and Barry Douglas says 'every day is a new day to learn'. Inspiring stuff. That's about it!

"Tony Mowbray's teams play good football" - this really does have to be the biggest myth going. It's all based on his West Brom team from 12/13 years ago that got promoted from the Championship scoring a lot of goals but then passed their way to 20th place in the Premier League. Yet you still hear Sky pundits say it every time we're on TV. Clueless.

16. Questions 2, 3 and 14 I got wrong. Should have known 14 really.

Dack's posted on Instagram today about his Euro 2020 sticker album. You usually don't get too much after a defeat, maybe a 'looking forward to putting it right next game' from Holtby, or Elliott posts a lot too but he probably can't wait for the season to be over now. It's when we scrape a draw or win that they all come out of the woodwork.

Why’s he suddenly not picking Travis at all? Sharpe says he was available for Friday so presumably he was for today too.

Definitely Coyle. Can't remember what people's thoughts were about Appleton before his sacking - we'd been well and truly dire for a good few games and the football was abysmal (Millwall at home in the FA Cup *shudder* while the Burnley game was awful too apart from Dunny's goal) but can't honestly remember the general opinion at the time. I think, when he was sacked, it was more anger at Venky's and what they'd turned us into. I don't remember my reaction being 'I'm glad he's gone', just a shake of the head at the overall mess.

Indeed, and there wouldn’t be a discussion at all if Mowbray didn’t have a strange issue with Nyambe. If Nyambe had been playing every game and putting in his usual levels of performance then I don’t think the RB position would be a talking point at all. I know we can trigger an extension (which surely would have been done by now if he was going to stay) but I wouldn’t blame Nyambe and his agent for looking elsewhere. He’s better than sitting on the bench for a team 15th in the Championship and being messed around by Tony Mowbray.

A team managed by Gary Bowyer with Jason Lowe in midfield going down to a defeat to remain six points off the play offs? Sounds very familiar.... (Even though, in terms of league position, that’s as good as it’s been for us since relegation - which is frightening)

The 'class of 92' are certainly getting through a lot of managers at Salford.