Lenihan AGAIN.

You think Mowbray is making up false positives for Rothwell now? Dude, you need to get out a bit more. This lockdown is having pretty bad effects on people’s minds, but wrapping it in tin foil won’t help

There’s more evidence on his than Barton’s. Which was the point of the post. You just deleted the rest of it.

Where have we heard that before ? Same with all walks of life now. Power concentrated in too few hands. Joshua could lose 4 in a row and he'd still be the most advertised boxer in the division. UFC is going the same way now as well. Gets a bit like WWE at times with the ridiculous storylines they try and peddle.

12, my bad.

Gallagher did have Conway to be fair. But he also had Feeney if I remember correctly, with Jason Lowe and...who was the left back that year? Williams? He isn't known for his crossing.

3 losses out of 4 is it now? Our form has to change otherwise we will leave ourselves a lot to do in the later half of the season. Will be a tough game. Not nearly as excited now after the Reading game. I hope we don't become the flat track bullies we are appearing to be. A good defensive performance will go a long way here. Lenihan has a lot to prove. A tough 0-2 away win will do for me.

Sam Gallagher got 17 goals for us up front in that relegation season. So if you can't imagine him getting 15 goals 'from what you have seen' - did you even watch our relegation season? We have two fine crossers of the ball in JRC and Douglas. Quite why Gallagher isn't central against them I don't know. I actually quite liked the substitution of Evans for Gallagher against Reading. 4-2-4 is attacking stuff. Then I noticed he put Elliot up top with Armstrong and Gallagher out right and felt myself sinking into the sofa. I think I switched that game off on the 87th minute.

Bloody hell. People claim Mowbray is not the man to get us out of this league. A statement they claim is 'evidence based'. Now we have clamour to appoint Joey Barton. Not a single promotion on his record and 1 (2?) good seasons as a manager with one club. You can't write it.

Barnes? Don't he play for Leicester?

Jesus Christ. Just beyond stupid. Take a test, if he is negative then he should be allowed to play. Take it he hasn't trained for this self isolation period either? Absolute bobbins. I went for Nyambe because I was thinking about a bit more of a solid defender. With people claiming they tend to play on the break I thought his pace would be a better fit. But, if they sit back like suggested, there probably is calls for JRC as he's a better crosser. Tricky one. Douglas has to start. I wouldn't be too bothered if Buckley plays ahead of Johnson but I personally think Johnson's shithousery will be important in breaking up counter attacks and alleviate the pressure on Trybull. Key is to ensure we don't have a midfield that consists of both Johnson and Evans. Not enough about them two to accommodate on the same pitch.

Was it any good? I'm not particularly bothered by it but if it raises Rovers' profile in a positive way then sod it. I always said that Olivia would do what she can to distract Dack from football though. It's a good little earner for her now, but if she can get in touch with higher profile players (ie a bigger Premier league team) so they can film her and Dacky-wacky "mingling" with them she'll be encouraging it. Make no mistake about that.

I haven't seen Pears play but he's fairly rated, so it feels a lot better knowing we have him behind rather than Leutweiller. With any luck it's Nyambe in for JRC, same midfield with maybe Johnson dropping out for Rothwell and same front 3. Be probably our best team, keeper / Ayala aside. Confident about this. Not stopped being excited about a game so far this season. Reading is a big test though and we have come up short against Watford and Bournemouth this year. 3rd time lucky really. I want to be the team that debilitates this Reading squad and puts 5 past a once-solid defence. Brereton to continue his fantastic form too. How I wish we could be in the stadium and roaring his name right now. He deserves it really. The lad never put the price tag on his head, he's kept quiet amidst the criticism (although I don't think it as vocal as some but was clearly there) and now he is getting his rewards. A truly fantastic performance on Saturday and he seems to have got better when the squad around him has. Coincidence? Definitely not.

I don’t know, you do it more than most, are you happy?

Or, in the real world, fans happy that their team has won.

Same team with Nyambe and Rothwell in on Tuesday will do me just nicely.

Has Tony Mowbray just out Elliot up front and Gallagher on the wing? WHY

Who wants to share this humble pie with me on Brereton then? Anyone man enough? I’m ready....

Nice.

I didn’t think Bell had long left in him. He got dropped for Cunningham too. Let’s hope Douglas is good and stays fit. He’s in good company with a name like that at Ewood though. Trybull obvious choice for Evans. Wonder if Johnson will be the man sacrificed for Rothwell eventually? Happy with the squad today. Should win this one.

Some good points, well made Blue blood. I can't say I agree with you though. I think we have been consistent in terms of 'our level'. I never expected our squad to put on a 30+ wins a season. If you sat down with a paper showing nowt but the results you'd be right, but we should at least consider the squad he's had. He looks to be addressing the problems we have moaned at on here for time: we have had 2 new left backs in 2 years (albeit loans), we've got an entirely new goalkeeping dept, we have a winger and we have a new centre half. This summer has had some fantastic business given the circumstances and a lot of that is down to the work Mowbray puts in. The new scouting department bringing in Kaminski, which hopefully is an inspired signing. I understand your points, and I am far less frustrated at criticism as above than I am when I read the whole "pay-day" and pension pot accusations he has thrown at him. Mowbray for all of his faults isn't a chancer. It is, and always will be, refreshing to have a real football bloke in charge as opposed to the hatchet men we have had in the past. I honestly hope I can quote you at the end of this season and say "I told you so". I think we have a chance this year, at least with the squad at hand. I can't agree all the evidence stacks against Mowbray and I look forward to him proving you wrong ?

You could have left all of the above with a simple sentence. You might disagree, that's fine, but the question at hand is whether or not our club is in a better position now than when he came. You contradict yourself in every effort to be contrarian. "A better set of players than he inherited? Of course. Massively convincing? Not sure". Well, the term 'of course' would indicate you are sure. Our starting line up has Champions League experience, Premier League experience and goals in attack. Unsure what the last sentence even means. Our team is one of the youngest in the league with academy prospects throughout. We have had a few missing over the last couple of games and it has shown, so this idea that there's nothing be taken from narrow losses to two recently relegated Premier League clubs is absurd in my eyes. One of them featured a £30m club record signing...

Why does the evidence 'strongly' support this Blue blood? He's had previous promotions. The fact of the matter is that we had a mid-table squad last season. Our squad this year is improved but chances are we won't be as good as the likes of Watford and Bournemouth because they have had years of Premier League money and all that comes with it. I certainly don't think the evidence suggest he's not good enough to get us promoted - he's had one under his belt with us already! We've only had 2 seasons in this league with him.

Well, when Mowbray inherited the squad we had the likes of Wes Brown, Gordon Greer, Stokes et al kicking about. We were in the bottom three of the Championship, hardly a saleable asset in the entire Club and on our way down after a decade of waste and struggle. We now have, on paper, a very competitive squad with 2 decent players for each position and are looking more and more like an attacking football team. Results have been Rovers fashion but Forest aside we have lost to 2 relegated clubs and give them a good game whilst we were at it too. If you don't think the club has improved since the day he came then I am sorry but you are quite far removed from reality.

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