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Mowbray has tightened us up defensively, and made us more difficult to beat. Unfortunately he has not been able to instill a winning mentality into our players, or erase the cowardice from their character. As Gav said, you can motivate and plan all day long, but if the players are crap the effect will be limited. That's what we've seen since Mowbray arrived. Other than the injury prone Mulgrew we have no quality in our team. It's a squad full of misfits, has-beens and never have beens. We're going down because we've sold all of our best players and replaced them with absolute garbage and cast offs from teams in the same division. Not too dissimilar from when we were dumped out of the PL.

At least we've been @#/? and in the relegation zone all season, Big Club's self-inflicted implosion is absolutely incredible. To go from 7th to relegated in a few months would be a real kick in the sack. Brum are lucky our lot are largely spineless, untalented and indifferent.

People on here have been "taking" bad results all season and we've duly spent most of it in the relegation zone.

Let's just remind ourselves of our last five results... Brighton 0-1 L Reading 1-3 L Barnsley 0-2 L Forest 1-0 W Bristol City 1-1 D 4 points out of 15, with some very winnable games in there, doesn't suggest to me that we're on the way to safety.

We're second from bottom because we deserve to be. A shambles of a club that is rotten to the core/coar. Losing at home to Barnsley showed us everything we needed to know about our squad and unfortunately suggested our manager does not have what it takes to motivate the current squad to get out of the mire. We'll do well to come third bottom at this point.

On the face of it we are an attractive proposition, but scratch beneath the surface and you very quickly find this is a club in terminal decline with no hope in sight as long as the current owners remain. It's been said before, but at this point changing managers is akin to rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the titanic. We're sinking fast and will continue to sink no matter who is in charge, because the overall structure of the club is designed for nothing but failure. You can only roll a boulder up an increasingly steep hill for so long. We're at the point where that boulder is about to roll backwards and crush everything in sight.

Seems like Mowbray has more or less given up. Can't blame him really.

Exactly. Venky's entire business model in regards to Rovers needs to change and I don't see that happening. It's the same every transfer window - players linked, manager comments that he's waiting for the "green light" from India, most of the time the target ends up elsewhere. The only ones we do get are the players nobody else wanted and who were happy to wait the month or so it takes for Venky's to agree to anything. It's been a joke since day 1 and hasn't got any better. These idiots haven't learned a thing.

It's actually 7 hours if you include the pre-show (which had three matches on it). WM33 was the definition of safe booking. Some good stuff, but overall very predictable. The Hardy Boyz return was great, haven't heard a pop like that in a long time. The Raw after WM is now better than WM itself, imo. Speaking of which, Reigns had some seriously nuclear heat on Raw. The first fifteen minutes was just amazing and then Reigns cuts the best promo of his career in just five words. Haven't seen somebody get that much hate from a crowd since Cena at One Night Stand when he faced RVD.

Unfortunately our fate now largely rests in the hands of others. Coyle should never have been hired in the first place, but at the very least he should have been sacked before Christmas. Bowyer wasn't even given until the end of November in his final season.

We paid pretty much all of them up, except Paulo Jorge who stayed here until the bitter end (2015).

He might be running football operations but he isn't going to be running finance as well. No budget and cutting costs means we end up with a squad of even poorer quality next season, regardless of what Mowbray would like.

People said the same stuff during the Bowyer years. "We've got stability, we're getting better, next year is our year". Some fans will never learn, and I feel bad for them because until Venky's go they will be setting themselves up for bitter disappointment season after season.

Worth noting we have no idea how much of a payoff Mowbray would actually have gotten from Coventry. Judging from the outside you would have to assume not very much, which would make the decision to walk a lot easier. There's little doubt he is a decent bloke, but as Gav said a few posts up, he's ultimately on a hiding to nothing here.

Fair enough, either way his career trajectory had gone downhill fast, so the reaction on here when he was appointed was totally understandable. Looking at it in greater detail it seems like he was better than Coventry and probably should have avoided what appears to be an even worse job than Rovers (for now).

With ABBEY gone the ying and yang is out of balance.

People had every right to be upset with the appointment of a guy who had been sacked after leaving Coventry bottom of League 1. Sorry to say it, but that is what Mowbray was when hired. Three games in and things are looking good. But it's only three games. A little early for anybody to be crowing and hailing Mowbray as the second coming. He's had an excellent start but there's still a long way to go. This'll be a difficult end to the season, and even if Mowbray does keep us up we most likely have a pretty grim summer ahead of us which could see Mowbray starting next season with both arms tied behind his back.

Yes. Pretty much every Man Utd fan I've spoken to hates the term "Man U" quite passionately... so remember to use it frequently in their presence.

Tony's quite well thought of in these parts, so I really hope he can work some miracles and untangle Coyle's mess before the season ends. What's sad is that even if he does, it's very likely only delaying the inevitable.

So, Tony Mowbray...

As long as that view is being against Venky's and the continued destruction of the club, long may that continue.

Technically just under six and a half. November will be seven years. Feels like it's been seven decades.

I've always thought Bowyer would make a great assistant manager, or first team coach. Don't think he has the tools to be a successful first team manager. That's not to say he never will have the tools - with experience he could gain those - but he shouldn't have been learning his trade with us.

Incredible.

Those who don't learn from history...