I sympathise for Dack more than I have for any player suffering injury. Very cruel and potentially career ending or derailing. However looking beyond Dack it seems Mowbray will now use his injury and the talk of "the family" to protect his position and divert blame and attention away from woeful results. Sadly some people including the idiots who run the club will lap it up. The club can support Dack's recovery and still make a managerial change. We don't need Mowbray to nurse him back to fitness.

Not sure. He did very well at Burton first time around in getting them out of League Two and top of League One. Nigel Clough the finished the job and got them to the Championship. At QPR and Northampton he struggled, though most managers seem to struggle at those clubs. Doing an unbelievable job now though. Maybe Burton is the right fit for him.

How come Wigan have been bought by a Bahrain based businessman? I thought nobody was buying debt ridden town clubs?

I can think of an easier solution to stopping this project to a long drawn out and expensive planning battle. Get rid of Waggott, Mowbray and Venus. Do that and this scheme disappears.

Interesting that there is a suggestion that a large number of residents haven't been contacted about this scheme despite the consultation period ending soon. Wouldn't be Rovers trying to do the minimum and get this through quickly would it? Unfortunately I'm not confident that the stuff around Jack Walker's legacy and the betrayal will be relevant to the councils decision. We need to hope that there's a Councillor or two living in Old Langho.

The excuse laden narrative has been ready and waiting to go since last summer in the likely event we didn't get anywhere this season. Covid. Bad pitch. Injuries. Bad weather. A season like no other. Liverpool are struggling. No fans. Congested fixture list. They've had these up their sleeves since last season and they will become more used over the coming weeks. This is all for India's benefit and to protect the happy camp they've got set up here. We're right back at 2011 folks. The intentions and motives of the people concerned might be better than they were back then as might the capabilities but nothing has really changed in the structure. A manager with complete power who isn't measured by results and silence from India. If that's the way they want to play then that's up to them, but I'm not minded to spend hundreds of pounds backing it any more.

There comes a point where a manager has been out for too long to mount a comeback. Hughes is getting there now with nearly 2.5 years out. If he doesn't get a job by the time next season kicks off then he's really going to struggle to get back in. Remember people like Curbishley, Pardew, O'Leary, Davies who were all highly rated and reasonably successful at one time or another who left their clubs, didn't get back in and have now become forgotten men who have been out of it too long.

Sorry I can't find it now - can anyone point me towards name of the 'agents' or whatever they are based in Ramsbottom/Manchester that @darrenroverposted about earlier before it disappeared?

Yeah but your posts have gone now

What should I be looking at? I find the Mowbray directorship that ended last year particularly interesting, but is there anything else that waves red flags?

The similarities are uncanny. I don't believe in coincidences like these. Coventry 3 out.

Birmingham won't be looking at Mowbray. I'm sure of that.

Preston will get rid of Neil before we fire Mowbray. Just think that one through for an illustration of how dysfunctional this club is. Neil has had a fraction of Mowbray's resources, at a smaller club with lower requirements, and had them top of the league last season before West Brom tried approaching him. They're supposedly having a bad season yet are level with us. These clubs are going to be ahead of us in getting new managers and getting themselves sorted for next season. We will end up keeping Mowbray because we can't be bothered or don't have the skill set to find a new manager and won't have enough time with the squad set for demolition in the summer.

When the Facebook numpties and others are out in force saying Mowbray shouldn't be criticised or questioned and all is well in the world they should be directed to this sort of thing. Preston next to us in the table with a smaller cost base having lost multiple key players yet many of their fans want Neil gone. This is Preston, and we are Blackburn. Billionaire owners, bigger losses, bigger cost base, bigger club, better facilities and academy. Lets also remember that Neil has had Preston top of this division and in the top 6 for a decent period, which Mowbray has never and will never do. It is horrendous that we are next to this lot and Luton in the table. Yet some just think we should cart on and do it all over again.

I've heard a rumour that if Barnsley finish in the top 6 they will refuse to participate in the play-offs. Their manager doesn't think they can compete with the parachute clubs and it's too early on their journey to get promoted.

Because that part is a lie, aimed at shielding Venkys from criticism and to convince people that the motivation isn't financial when it is.

Incredible run for Hasselbaink at Burton. Hammered Crewe away today who are a strong side at home. Something like 9 in 11 or 10 in 12 since he took over.

I've been told and would fully expect that Waggott is on some sort of performance related pay or bonus system. That would make sense - the more money he saves/delivers the more he takes home. It would explain his attempts to hit his targets - running cash competitions to hit his magical season ticket target. Now if he delivers this project, which brings in millions in extra cash and also saves substantial amounts every year on running costs, I think it is entirely plausible that he will get some sort of reward for doing so. In fact I'd be absolutely amazed if he was overseeing a project of this nature through to delivery and not doing. As above, it isn't illegal or dodgy, but the project itself isn't in the club's long term interests, I'm sure of that.

Waggott will already be well equipped on the excuse front as he has been for everything else he's overseen. My prediction is that it will be the ever increasing and tough requirements set by the Premier League aimed at favouring the big clubs. There's probably some truth in that but you don't risk things by halving your facilities and limiting capacity forever.

Putting buses on to South Ribble was on the 'agenda' a couple of years ago when Waggott turned up. Quite rightly it was asked why Rovers do nothing whilst PNE put buses on into an area that is just as much Rovers or even more so. His answer was that he would 'look into it'. To my knowledge nothing happened. He's also looking into a £2 million new pitch. Doubt that will happen. He expects us to believe he can deliver a multi million pound new training ground. He's a bullsh!tter of the highest order and the club has regressed under him. Long term the damage could be enormous. We've chucked away 25 years of advantage and success over neighbours through laziness and corner cutting and now Accy Stanley are doing more than us in our own back yard.

I was saying earlier that Mowbray thinks he is being clever with the Brentford aspirations yet in practice we are now in year 5 of his project and to still be hoping to copy fecking Brentford says it all about his journey and how it has gone.

Not when there's a training ground to develop...that's the only opportunity on the horizon in our boardroom

There will be one or two Championship clubs on the lookout now after he has become available. Probably means that some failing managers face the axe more quickly with a good option waiting in the wings. Not here though. We just get to watch others benefit a la Cardiff and Middlesbrough

Just think. Wilder and Knill in before the summer and a reasonable pot of money = massive optimism. Mowbray and Venus here for another year = isn't worth thinking about.

The cynical side of me suspects this scheme has been on Waggott's agenda from the day he turned up, possibly even before he arrived, possibly might even be the reason he came, and the last few years of positive spin, 'stability' and hard work at developing trust and ingratiation with people has been with eyes on this project. Of course I'm just a conspiracy theorist but I'm sick of inadequate board members and managers dragging us down to their level. I wish Waggott would go back to Southend and trying to fit bedsits onto Roots Hall and leave our Premier League facilities well alone.