Winning 5 in a row could very well happen. History says that his death spirals end. When they do Rovers turn into the league's best for a few weeks.

I watched an Oasis documentary last night. I have no idea if it was UK or USA produced but I liked it. It chartered their beginnings and ended with their Knebworth concerts in August 1996. Noel and Liam both said that Knebworth should have been their last gig.

This alone points to the latest death spiral getting back on track. 2 or 3 more bad results to go before the tide turns and Mowbray's Rovers start showing promotion type form for a few weeks before fading once relegation is mathematically avoided and summer holidays can be booked.

I don't know why I did that. I knew that he'd gone. His old assistant Butler has the job until the end of the season. He's a local lad, ex-captain.

I had a look at the League 1 table earlier. It looks all to play for at both ends of the table. League One Table - Football - BBC Sport Stanley's playoff hopes are still alive. They sit in 7th but their games in hand advantage has been lost. Doncaster are one place ahead of them. Peterborough are top. 6 games ago Doncaster had 2 more points than them, now Posh has 12 more. I wonder if Darren Moore can get Donny firing again.

Mowbray does seems to have lost something. Don Said's old posts yesterday were eye opening. Mowbray isn't a Prem manager because of his flaws. These flaws are being exaggerated at present. Why does he keep changing formation? Pick one and go with it. Personnel may change but their roles once playing shouldn't change. I got a text of a Boro supporting mate last night. He asked how Rovers did. I told him we lost and are sitting in Championship purgatory. His reply; "Ah, mid-table Mowbray. That's what he does.".

The Telegraph article is a very good summary of this messageboard. Plenty have been saying for a long time what the journalist has now articulated. What I don't understand is that if Mowbray is doing a slow build to promotion why has he signed so many Premier league teenage loanees? They all have talent but I think that more than too puts too much on their shoulders. I have also commented previously that if Mowbray is secure he should get new coaching staff in as the group he currently has isn't good enough. Yet that apparent security allows him to keep his mate Venus around. I still blame Venkys for all of this. 10+ years of utter mismanagement.

Last night's game wasn't much of a nail biter. It was over as a contest hat half time which was surprising. Brady was superb. Mahomes spent most of the game avoiding a hammering. as darrenrover said, the superbowl is more of an event than a game. I like American football so watch every year. I too would like the Panthers to do well, as for college teams I don't care.

I think that the worry is that in future players will be able to drive 400 yard holes, eliminating mid range clubs. The argument is that it will turn into a longer version of chip and putt. The game is changing though. DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, and Brooks Koepka are all built like NFL linebackers. Jon Rahm aside, the European lads aren't. Property of Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

A mate of mine got a new set for Christmas. He gave me his old set. A right hodge podge of brands, but I'm no good so I'm happy with what I've got. Golf never stopped over here. It probably got busier. Due to the aforesaid clubs I've played 4 times over the past month. I'm signed up for the next few weekends too. I do enjoy it. I read on the BBC that the R&A are thinking about limiting drivers to 46 inches, limiting driving distances. They can deny it all they want but this is their opportunity to stifle Bryson DeChambeau. Both the USGA and R&A have been working on ways to limit his tee shots for a while, now they may have found it. He's got a bit of star power over here but the authorities aren't fans.

I watched the highlights. It should have been a penalty and a booking as it was clumsy from Branthwaite. It didn't warrant a sending off though. As to Warnock's reaction, having a go at Branthwaite is poor form. Mowbray should have stepped in and mediated it. However, you can see why Warnock is a good manager. He's past 70 and still has a lot of passion.

If this is true (and I don't doubt that it isn't) it beggars belief. Embarrassment. Shambles. Disgrace. All are appropriate. It is a bit colder out at Brockhall so pitches there will freeze more often, yet are used daily. How did Mowbray let this happen? He is the manager. Surely he wants the team to be as well prepared as possible. What about the academy? Indoor training? Looking at Tom's pictures they should go back to Pleasy rather than the pitch at Ewood. I've never seen so much grass. It used to be like Blackpool when I played out there.

I have both a lack of skill and a lack of desire to do any sort of DIY. It drives me mad. If I had it my way I'd never do a thing. One thing that does strike me about Americans is that a lot of them do all sorts around the house. New kitchen floor; done. New bathroom; why not. I have a mate who is a schoolteacher with no trade training at all. He spent the last few years completely renovating his house. He did it all by himself top to bottom, including a new roof and fitting out his basement. I'd never dream of attempting anything like that.

Both were around when I was a kid yet were gone by the time I was old enough to drink so never had any of it. I also remember those massive cans of Foster's. I assume that they are long gone too. Harp has a following over here. "Irish" bars countrywide sell it.

Me too. My mind has it at the other end of the ground. Riverside-Darwen end corner. You sound like you remember better than I though. That surprised me too. There was hardly a blade of grass in sight. It was really bumpy too.

Oh dear, it's one of those that I can't watch but can't stop watching. It's embarrassingly bad.

If Dyche's Burnley side played "attacking" football they'd be relegated pronto. You have to score to win, but a solid defence gives those players usually responsible for goals more confidence to play as they know if something doesn't come off they are less likely to be punished for it. Anyway, back to Mowbray. Although higher than his past 2 seasons he's averaging less than 1.5 points per game; the absolute minimum needed to reach the playoffs. He will need to pick up 1.6+ over the remainder of the season to get there. Elliott, Dack, Armstrong, and now apparently Brereton have the talent to score plenty. Kaminski is an upgrade on recent keepers Rovers have had, but Mowbray's baffling trait of not being able to sort out a back 4 will be Rovers undoing.

I just finished it. It was superb. I have vague memories of it all as a kid. It spent very little time dealing into why he did it and lots on the police efforts to catch him. Britain was a different place in the late 70's, a lot of the political uncertainty and societal changes taking place factored into how it took so long to catch him. Fascinating. Sutcliffe died of Covid last month.

I do like the podcasts. They get players who tend to have played for northern clubs, and are not usually Prem star types. You can easily lose an hour or two listening to them. Kilgallon had one. He spoke well of his time at Rovers and reckoned that the squad he played with had the talent to get promoted. Marshall being one of those he specifically mentioned.

The knockout stage draw was made today. Borussia Monchengladbach vs. Manchester City Lazio vs. Bayern Munich Atletico Madrid vs. Chelsea RB Leipzig vs. Liverpool Porto vs. Juventus Barcelona vs. Paris Saint-Germain Sevilla vs. Borussia Dortmund Atalanta vs. Real Madrid

Tyrone's post is a good one. Mowbray is a symptom, not the cause. I think he is a competent unspectacular manager, yet he doesn't seem to have the spark to get Rovers to push on. Nobody on here knows what his marching orders are though. He may have told Venkys that it will take 5+ years to get everything ready to get promoted and they are happy to sign off on it.

Some interesting points. At a macro level I think that they can be problematic. Their modus operandi is to make money, they do that by harvesting your data. Yet at a micro level they can help. Living overseas it would probably benefit me if I had Facebook or Instagram to keep in touch with people who don't live close. But I've never felt the need to do it. I may give the Social Dilemma a whirl.

What are people's opinions of social media? Facebook? Instagram? Twitter? TikTok? Snapchat? Many others too. Is it good? Bad? In between? I have no interest in them, this is the only social media account I have. Am I in the minority? Facebook in particular gets lambasted a lot over here, with Zuckerberg rarely helping himself in the good publicity stakes. The US government filed suit against them yesterday asking for them to be broken up. The government portend that as they own Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp they have monopoly power, which has effectively driven out competition. On a macro level they've been accused of influencing political changes, and can be seen as all encompassing, but how are they to an individual? Or are they a reflection of the individuals that use them? An idiot in the pub is going to be an idiot everywhere.

I was 15 at the time. My mate and his dad went. He said that it was a brilliant atmosphere.

I went on Wikipedia for a refresher. You were right. After his leg break Rovers lost 2, drew 3, and won 1 - then lost 6 in a row. Frightening form. The rot ended with a draw at Tranmere on Easter Monday. After that the only defeat was Derby away in the playoffs. As an extra the defending for those Cambridge goals was terrible. The second in particular was a comedy of errors. It all started with a Rovers throw too.