We don't spend money on defenders even when it is obvious that we should do. That has been the case for 8 years under 6 different managers. Quite a coincidence that all those managers have decided to avoid spending on the defence. Meanwhile Rhodes, Brereton and Gallagher money appears from somewhere. One constant is the ownership who appear to need to be persuaded to release extra cash for new signings. I don't think it is unreasonable to suspect that there are people advising the owners on what to provide money for and part of that is a belief that strikers are better investments than defenders.

What does his u23s record have to do with managing the senior team in the Championship? Mowbray has brought through some.of our good youth players. Buckley the most recent. Not sure why that should be a requirement for the manager. By all means use the academy but it is all about results and using the players needed to achieve that. I don't know anything about his coaching record but being a manager needs more than a good coaching background.

Hughton's football gets results. That's all I want. Couldn't care less if we win games and his Brighton side did that.

I don't know how you can have that opinion. What is it based on? His record with the u23s is irrelevant.

The purpose of these meetings, directed by the FA, is for fans to be able to directly question owners, representatives and board members as to their running and management of the club. Sending Mowbray is not what these meetings are for.

Holloway is finished in management. His last 2 jobs have been very poor and mediocre spells at QPR and Millwall. Would be a typical Venkys appointment. Available, cheap, desperate for a return, successful a long time ago. We need to be far more imaginative than that. Not keen at all on the Ainsworth suggestion either. Done well at Wycombe but realistically that's an entirely different situation to that here. Low pressure, low expectations, lower league players and he's been left to get on with it for 7 years. As others have said if we are scouring the lower divisions for successful managers we should consider Coleman, Ferguson or Flynn. I think the best we can hope for with these morons is someone like Nigel Adkins. They simply don't have the ability to source an unknown or up and coming manager.

Spot on. There seems to be an attitude towards sacking managers that it is a bad thing that should be avoided but in reality in the vast majority of cases it is an essential part of club management and is required to push the club on to better things. Managers go in cycles. Usually a couple of seasons. A few exceptions at this level like Johnson at Bristol but he's had them improving each season at the right end of the league. You even look at Harris at Millwall - club legend who got them up and kept them up but this season realised time was up and walked. Mowbray has been here now for 2.5 years so well above the average tenure. He's done well overall in getting us back up and keeping us up but it is quite clear now that things aren't working and the solution is likely to be a change in coaching personnel. Mowbray squandered a good opportunity in January and then in the summer to keep us moving in the right direction and pushing on by refusing to address our weaknesses and squandering millions on non-contributing players. Time's up now. But as we've seen and I've warned against for the last 18 months allowing Mowbray to accumulate vast power and control over the club means it is unlikely he will go anywhere unless he walks. The structure that has been put in place at this club is backward and so flawed it is untrue. All built on the basis that Mowbray is here and getting results on the pitch, which now he isn't.

So in a nutshell we do nothing, cross our fingers and hope things improve and we can limp our way to safety. Meanwhile another £20 million loss comes along. If we get relegated there may not be any coming back from that. I can't accept sitting back, doing nothing and hoping for the best.

Since the end of last season Swansea, Huddersfield, Stoke, Middlesbrough, Hull, Birmingham, West Brom, QPR, Millwall, Luton, Fulham, Reading, Derby and Forest have all changed manager. Almost all of those sides have improved or at worst stood still. Only really Middlesbrough gone backwards. There are loads of good managers in the world that would love the chance to manage Rovers. This narrative that nobody would come here or there are no decent options out there is a complete cop out. If it isnt working then you make a change. You don't stick with something that isnt working because you can't be bothered looking for a replacement. People like Waggott are paid fortunes to supposedly run the club. He should have a list of options. If he doesn't then he isn't really a Chief Executive.

So we are now at the point of trying to find 3 sides worse than us to ensure we don't get relegated. We've already lost at home to Luton and have to go away to Luton, Barnsley and Wigan. Would anyone put any money on us beating any of those away when the pressure is on? I think Reading have a better squad than people give them credit for. They spent a fortune in the summer and shouldn't be getting relegated. Middlesbrough are underachieving but have a chairman who knows the game and wants the best for his club. He wont sit idly by as they slide into League One. Others that we had targeted as strugglers- Charlton, Millwall, Birmingham and Hull - are doing alright. Not looking good for a side that cant defend, can't create and has zero consistency in approach.

How about Owen Coyle, He once got promoted too.

So did Paul Jewell at Wigan, Phil Brown at Hull and Aidy Boothroyd at Watford. Shall we give one of them a ring next time round?

Wigan are running a promotion for their Boxing Day game v Derby. Adult tickets anywhere in the ground £10, u18s £5 and u12s £2. Available now 6 weeks before the game. Promoting it to try and get as many in the ground as possible.

Same old stuff. Customary 2 goals conceded. Defeat. Next to no clear chances to score. 3-4 players who might as well have been stood next to me given the contribution they made to the game. Usual hard luck poor us excuse available with the penalty decision. No doubt Mowbray will be quite happy to only lose 2-1 against the Leeds juggernaut. Combine the narrow scoreline away at a side near the top of the league with the dodgy penalty and that should be enough to fend off any serious questions for another few weeks. The second we went 1-0 down I had absolutely no confidence or belief we would get anything from the game. I think we have sleepwalked into a relegation battle. I say that in past tense because we are in one now, this isn't something that might develop in a few weeks. Amazingly I see very little mention of the 'R' Word on here, in the media or in Mowbray's comments. I wonder when reality will dawn on these people and they admit to the predicament we are in. Probably too late. The writing is on the wall and has been for a couple of weeks now. The manager, other staff at the club and friends in the media just want to cart on and pretend all is ok with the world and we're just always unlucky. I suspect by Christmas we will be below Huddersfield and Stoke. I'm not happy with it. Relegation would be a catastrophe and I'm not prepared to put my head in the sand and pretend everything will work out fine because Tony is a nice bloke.

So some journalist at the BBC doing a bit of digging for his programme discovered he was a con man whilst Rovers well paid auditors, lawyers and trust were all gazumped by him? Difficult to believe but if accurate casts doubts on how competent those acting for Rovers were.

Well I'm not sure where that win came from given the balance of the match up until 60 odd minutes. Up until then Middlesbrough were by far the superior side and we didn't get going. Only the keeper with 3 or 4 excellent saves kept us in it. The removal of the 'first team' trio resulted in an immediate and drastic improvement from which point the game turned and Middlesbrough had no answer. Mowbray's trio have a hell of a lot to do before they can be relied upon to perform. In fairness there is a long history of senior players dropping into the u23s and not looking interested, treating it more as a run around whilst the younger players put more into it.

We've done all we can

As a club we've done 'all we can'

Decent option but a bit of a gamble. Done very well with limited talent at international level and made them hard to beat but never done it at decent club level.

We also gave him a new deal after promotion. I'd expect his agent to be kicking off big time if he was on a fraction of the wage of new signings.

No way is Gallagher on 3x the wage Dack is. But if true that is going to come back to bite us big style.

6 years from now at this rate we'll be more than a quarter of a billion in debt.

One reason we shouldn't forget what Kean and his mates did. Some say we should just forgive all the misdemeanors and move on. Whilst I can be persuaded that Venkys may have been naive and didn't intend to cause damage for personal gain I will never accept Kean was the same.

Aye they'll be having palpitations as it is at the prospect of nearly 20,000 turning up. Expect a story in the Telegraph offering advice on what to do on the big day etc. Any more than that an Caley and co. will need time off with stress. Absolutely no appetite at Ewood even from the bean counters to see 25,000+ on or even try and get to it. If PNE were to bring 7000 that would mean we'd need to get an extra 5000 or so home fans on. A challenge but priced well and promoted as Derby day and it is something to aim for and would be a brilliant atmosphere if we got close. They know PNE will bring a minimum of 5000 for the annual family day out whatever the price so maximising income from those will be the priority. Not really bothered about filling the home ends. A extra few thousand on the home gate would require effort, cheaper tickets and aggravation for those who just don't want it.