Very strange how that ended. Kean does seem to have been unsackable, and basically had to be given cause to resign and get a payout through Shebby. I don't think Mowbray is unsackable in the same way, but he's insulated himself pretty well.

Wouldn't miss many of them tbf and I don't think there are many players with a proper winner's mentality in the squad. With that said replacing 2-3 players is difficult, let alone more, regardless of said players lacking a winning mentality.

I actually think it's the opposite, and instead they make decisions months/years previous and are just incredibly slow to action them. I'm only partially joking with that. I can distinctly remember The Sun running a story that Bowyer had been sacked at the end of August 2015. The journalist in question must have heard it from a source within the club as it was put out with such confidence. After Bowyer remained in situ the story was quietly removed from the website, and GB ended up being sacked a couple of months later instead.

It actually came up on my facebook feed as an advertisement and I saw plenty of comments supporting Mowbray & Venky's. It shouldn't be underestimated how low expectations across the remaining fanbase have fallen and the general lack of ambition that has been drilled into supporters over the last decade. It's sad to see but inevitable, especially amongst the younger fans, some of whom won't even remember a Rovers that weren't owned by Venky's. I also saw comments from other club's fans in my FB feed so think a fair amount of those views will be from people with no affiliation to Rovers.

It's not a problem for you or anybody else to share info on here. Keeps the place lively.

It's very strange. It's a comment that'd be acceptable for a youth/reserve team manager to come out with, but a first team manager? Makes no sense at all. Especially when you take into account our performances are terrible anyway! The man is either in a completely delusional state or is trolling the owners in an attempt to get them to sack him.

Mowbray's credibility vanished for me during the 'defenders are coming' debacle. He took the entire fanbase for fools that summer. Since then I haven't believed a word that's come out of his mouth. The only positive I'll feel towards Mowbray when he eventually leaves is relief that he's gone.

Our current form is so bad that there are going to be rumours of TM being sacked after every draw/loss now. At a normal club he would have been gone weeks if not months ago. We've won 1 game out of 14 and have gone from within touching distance of the playoffs to a relegation battle for goodness sake. I've said for some time that eventually we won't be able to pull up out of the frequent nose dives we enter under TM, and I think we may be at that point now. Problem is, as always, Venky's are far too late in making a decision. Their glacial decision making ability is exactly why we will never be successful as long as they are in charge.

Conversations between who though? Waggott wouldn't sack TM, no chance. The only conversation of importance would be between Pasha and one/all of the owners, but not sure how that could possibly have leaked short of a decision already having been made and press releases being readied (as was the case with Kean at one point - press releases ready only for Venky's to change their mind at the last minute).

Wish one of the journalists would bring up his 'honourable man' quote from Coventry and ask what's changed since then? Why was it honourable to walk away from Coventry but not Rovers, despite this run being worse than the last one he resigned on the back of?

Sadly think we are past the point where Mowbray would leave with our gratitude and thanks. On here, anyway. Certainly for me he's been past that point for a while, especially after the Brockhall plans came to light. I now see him as little more than another parasite feeding on the club's corpse. In the decade Venky's have been here only one manager has had the balls to walk away when he realised he couldn't do the job we needed - and like him or not, that was Lambert.

What's sad is how many times this has been said in the past few months. Being brutally honest we've basically been abject since October.

Unfortunately another consistency with Kean, the media fawning over a manager who is clearly terrible. Although in fairness this happens with most managers due to the old boys club network amongst pundits and broadcasters.

I'm sure the 'honourable' man will once again blame everyone but himself. 1 win in 14, fucking tragic yet TM is bulletproof. I've always resisted claims that there are any similarities between Kean and Mowbray, but the longer this goes on and the longer TM blames everyone but himself and remains unsackable the clearer those kind of comparisons become

The only slight comfort in our present situation is that all of the teams below us are down there because they can't put together a decent string of results. It's possible one or two will do, as tends to happen towards the end of the season, but 7 out of the 9 below us? It isn't impossible but we would have to lose practically every one of our remaining games. Knowing our luck rather than scrape to safety we'll end up winning every remaining game, meaning absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things but giving TM a boost going into the summer and ensuring he's in situ for another dreary campaign next season.

Looking at the table, the chances of us being overtaken by all but two of the teams below us is very slim I'd say. We've probably done enough to drag ourselves over the line. It's certainly not where we should be, though, after 4 years with a manager who has had a very unique luxury of not having to sell anybody and being funded a decent amount every season to boot.

1 win since the end of January, 13 games, and he thinks we'll win enough games not to be concerned? Proper head in the sand stuff. I think we'll scrape enough points to survive but to be in that position from where we were is horrific. Mowbray's blasé nature about the whole thing is even worse. He's shown himself to be a manager with little to no real ambition and unfortunately that will affect the players as well. I've said it time and time again but we need a winner in the dugout who genuinely cares and gets upset if his team fail to perform and fail to win matches - not somebody who looks like he's on the verge of nodding off at any given point during the match.

I don't necessarily blame Mowbray for clinging on to the bitter end, however I think he deserves to be called out for his hypocrisy regarding integrity and resignation due to his comments at Coventry. Which, as a reminder, were: Keep in mind this run garnered 6 points from those 10 games. Comparatively, we've got 7 points from our last 13 games. Where's his "honour" now? This is worse than the run he resigned from at Coventry, supposedly out of honour. He made a rod for his own back with those comments, and it needs to be highlighted because we've heard all too often that he's a man of 'integrity' and 'honour' who will 'do the right thing' if things aren't working out. What we're seeing now is that he's the same as every other manager out there, clinging on even when the ship is sinking rapidly and waiting for a payout. I don't blame him for doing so but I also can't help but look at his words when he left Coventry and wonder what else he's lied to us about over the years.

The only minor positive from this disaster is that it proves to those who insist otherwise that the owners are indeed as clueless and apathetic as the day they darkened our doors. Nothing learnt, nothing gained and nothing to be optimistic about with them at the helm. If Mowbray goes the best we can hope for is that they luck into a cheap appointment who does well for a couple of seasons. That's our limit under the present regime and always will be, as they are simply unsuited in every way to own a successful football club.

Becoming obvious the only reason TM resigned from Coventry is because they weren't paying him much and his agent likely convinced him he could find a better paying gig elsewhere. Nothing to do with 'integrity' as he would have held his hands up and walked away from here a long time ago if his true values matched his words.

Mowbray is embarrassing himself as much as us now. He ran his race for us a LONG time ago, any competent club would have got rid during the 9 losses in 11 run. The fact he's still here and now actively regressing us shows how little the owners know or care about the club. Learnt from their mistakes my derriere.

Mowbray isn't going anywhere this season and we're still not safe yet, so we need to be pleased with any points we get at this point.

We could only really call this a good point if it was building towards something. I suppose if you think we're in serious danger of getting relegated it could be considered an unexpected point away from the danger zone. Otherwise it's just another step in the mind-numbing journey of utter mediocrity Mowbray has us on.

The last time they were in the PL they came straight back down without putting up much of a fight, so that doesn't mean much!

This Norwich team are bossing the division. They're distinctly average at best. Absolute joke that we're 15th in such a poor league.