JHRover

My reluctance to buy a season ticket stems more from Waggott than it does Mowbray. I can accept garbage football and a team going nowhere (if the club does something to try and address it). I really struggle to justify subsidising Waggott's obscene salary whilst he milks fans during a pandemic, withholds money paid in good faith, schemes to sell our training ground and protects his failing manager friend. What makes you say there will be no away games? Why not?

I hope for all our sakes you're right

I'm out of contract in the summer. I won't be renewing either.

Lining up deals probably means Mowbray is looking ahead knowing there's no squad left soon and so he's trying to impress some free agents with tours of our dilapidated training ground. We've heard rumours before about him speaking to people and getting work done on deals for players before approval comes through from India to save time. He does all the leg work of talking to them, getting the £££ in order and getting the player on side and then the last job is to wait for authorisation to come from India. I wouldn't necessarily take that as evidence he is staying, but I think he will be. Sums it up though doesn't it. The halfwit has been telling the Telegraph for months that it's review at the end of the season and leave it at that for now and see where the owners want to go, now all of a sudden he's busy talking to players. They'll do nothing because they've got this club back where they want it - minimal fuss or aggro, once a year review, line manager they like/trust who tells them what they want to hear. Good work if you can get it, but Mogga worked that one out within days of relegation didn't he?

We've ballsed it up big time on Armstrong and it will cost us. The golden goose won't lay quite the golden egg they had hoped. For all his shortcomings a lad of his age, English, with pace, no injury issues, ex England u21, 20 goals under his belt this season - as we've seen with some of those Brentford have sold it's usually £20 million territory. Thanks to Laurel and Hardy running the club and the idiots in India doing nothing he's down to 12 months. Half his price on that alone. Any interest from the Prem will come late on when they're getting more desperate for goals or miss on other targets. Another problem. We aren't even in the business of offering new deals let alone suitable terms for a player of his ability and ambition so we can rule that one out. So much for growing a squad of assets eh Tone. All a load of cobblers like the rest of your journey. Next news is we will be forced to sell Armstrong to some dross like Forest or Stoke who at least have an ounce of ambition and Waggott will be out wailing about FFP constraints, conveniently ignoring that looking after the Armstrong scenario by sorting a new deal for him last year would have landed us millions and millions in profit. Then he wouldn't need to worry about how many caps and scarves we sell in the club shop.

Middlesbrough, Everton, Bristol City, Coventry, Cambridge, Southend, Oldham Possibly some others I forget about. Northampton? I'd be pleased with Hummel. Like what they've done especially with some of the Coventry shirts and they do seem to like half and half shirts.

They're about as bad as us. Honestly think this will be Mowbray's dead rubber win. Then it will be 2 wins from 3 and what are us unreasonable fans moaning for? 2-1 Rovers, Armstrong and Gallagher

I just think he doesn't know either way. He expects the sack, as anyone would after his performance. But in typical Venky fashion they are either ignoring things or are confused so haven't given him his marching orders. So we've a manager who knows he is finished yet one who will carry on until told otherwise.

Barnsley, Rotherham, West Brom, Newcastle, Blackpool, Wigan, Tranmere, Swindon

Not sure how much of that is down to Mowbray or the club being decisive/proactive and how much is just down to being skint/not dealing with contracts. Seems very convenient that those we are looking to keep all have 1 year option mechanisms in their deals, enabling the club to exercise those quickly and easily without the need for any negotiations, meanwhile those that will require talks and space on the budget to sort are all being left. They'll have us believe that there's some well thought out plan being followed when really it's just that the deals are ending and there isn't the organisation, money or approval to offer them new ones so off they go. I'm not losing any sleep about those leaving but they need replacing, under a clueless manager and badly organised club with no money. Relegation is nailed on.

What happened to the summer review? For weeks, no months, his story has been that we need to get through the season to the summer and then we can assess, review and see what the owners want to do. Now all of a sudden he knows his budget, knows who's going, knows who he wants to keep and is planning ahead. How? When?

Maybe he's retiring from football and going into housing development, Mowbray was showing him around to get him on board with that scheme. Probably more likely than us signing a player this early.

https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/news/2021/april/season-ticket-information/ Accy Stanley have released prices for next season, adults at just £219. Strange because I thought the uncertainty and pandemic were stopping us announcing prices. Must be another case of Covid stopping at the M65 and affecting us in ways it doesn't affect others.

The bit I'm struggling to justify is paying £400-500 for a season ticket to support a setup that is all geared up for the benefit of 5-6 people - the owners, Waggott, Mowbray and the underlings. Waggott gets to keep his cushy number protecting his mate and trying to strip the club of its prized training ground Mowbray gets to keep his cushy number going through the motions and failing at his job. They're laughing at us whilst treating us with contempt and expecting us to pay them to do it. I'd really like to but I don't think I can look in the mirror and hand over my hard earned money to keep that going. Shame it has come to this.

Anyone who applies any analysis to Mowbray's career will see a theme of winning and losing streaks. Its why he's got a reasonable win percentage as a manager even now, and has often had his clubs in good positions, only to collapse and not achieve anything in the end. With this in mind he has always had that streak up ahead to turn it around here and bounce back up the division and 'answer' the critics just as the heat starts to turn up. For the same reason he will probably get off to a decent start again next season. The loons will probably see that as evidence that sticking by him was the right thing to do. Those with any memory or sense will know it won't last.

I dont think it is loyalty any more than negligence. Loyalty would be based on a belief or delusion that he is the best man for the job, based on their experience, or that whilst they understand results and performances are dire they would much rather not fire him because they like him but instead will try and move on and better the club by encouraging him out or even sideways. None of that here. They just don't care so won't do anything. Same old really. It was only ever their underlings who got rid of managers. They've been happy to stick with all of them.

Oh well. There goes the season tickets. Just need to decide where to book the extra holiday to instead.

I know we won the January transfer window with the loans of Harwood - Bellis, Branthwaite and the Crewe LB but that lad Dike at Barnsley has done alright. Another winning goal takes him to something like 10 or 11 since joining in January. Proper season changing transfer business, rather than going cap in hand to City and Everton and asking to borrow someone on the cheap to fill a gap for 5 months.

This season has been littered with bad stats but I think there are a few honours still up for grabs yet. We need a minimum of 2 points from our remaining 3 games to surpass the 51 points we went down with in 2017. A failure to surpass that figure will take some explaining from the pilot of our journey. We have now lost the same number of games, 19, as during our entire relegation season, so a defeat in any of our remaining fixtures will mean we have lost more than that Coyle coached relegation side - abysmal. We are just about to be overtaken by Coventry, fresh out of League One and skint. This is particularly relevant not just because it makes a complete mockery of Mowbray's journey talk, as after 3 years at this level we are behind clubs in their first season, but also because he was the one who set Coventry on their way to League Two before getting the job here. Coventry have now come full circle under his successor and have overtaken us. Bravo Mowbray. Take your pick but the above 3 stats are inexcusable and should be put to the manager immediately, along with his p45.

Because its Wycombe and they're bottom of the league? Gary Johnson did a good job and got Yeovil to the Championship. Anyone want him? This is Blackburn Rovers and we need to get to the PL. The reason we are in this mess is because we cut corners and go cheap/easy on appointments and go for people who are just grateful to be here. I dont get this obsession with looking down the leagues and trying to be clever and find someone different or new. Why not just target someone established. Remove lots of risk and pay them the going rate.

We are losing £20 million a year. only 3 ways of stopping or significantly reducing that 1 - get promoted 2 - slash costs and likely go and stay in League One 3 - unearth gems to sell each and every year whilst surviving in the Championship Option 3 isn't going to happen, because you need to be very astute with your recruitment and contracts and very few clubs are so savvy. Barnsley and Brentford the two obvious ones. These owners aren't up to it and we are going to be forced into selling Armstrong at an undervalue due to his contract status. Option 2 should be off the table So it needs to be Option 1. Why when able to sustain £200 million losses you'd cut corners on the coaching staff i do not know. This is a huge decision, not one that should be influenced by emotion, place of birth or convenience You get a manager with the track record to do the job. That might mean you have to pay more, or agree to his demands. Just because a manager might require persuasion rather than crawl over glass for the job doesn't mean we shouldn't get him Wilder. And a big bonus if he succeeds.

He's got a worse record than Lambert so far. Having said that we just need to hope they start going daft and fire Cook then approach Mowbray and Venus. Leave Cook in charge through the summer and he'll have them thereabouts next season when he sorts their squad out.

If Coventry beat Stoke tonight and/or there's a winner between Forest and Birmingham then we'll drop another couple of places to 18th. Good job the league tables don't matter.

Some ambition would be nice. Just something people can believe in. Not sure replacing Mowbray with Wycombe's manager shows that, but I suspect they'll make such a mess of this from here that he'll end up looking like a great appointment compared to the more likely alternative of keeping Mowbray.

More outrageous comments from Mowbray. After the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral was arranged for 3pm Saturday we, quite sensibly IMO, took the option to bring the Derby game forward to the Friday evening. I rather naively assumed there was some method in that decision in view of tonight's game - e.g. doing it to give ourselves an extra 24 hours rest/recovery between the games, including over Sheff Wed who played on Saturday afternoon. Then we turn up tonight with wholesale changes throwing in some players who have barely featured recently - and 7 of the starting 11 are out of loan or contract in a few weeks. What's that all about then? You take advantage of the fixture rescheduling to buy yourself an extra day head start on your second-bottom opponents, you then turn up and make 5 changes to your side that finally won a do on Friday, many of whom have no right to be here next season (journey my ar*e) and then after a disgraceful performance mention they seemed jaded. He's desperate to be sacked and has been for months. But not desperate enough to hand his notice in. Please just do us a favour. Someone. Somewhere. Soon.