We should all ring up Radio Lancs and complain - feedback is important to the media

I was thinking perhaps Forest will demonstrate 'Fortress Home mentality' and give us a reight beating, but then I reflected upon our own 'have a go spirit' having resurfaced last Tuesday, giving rise to the possibility that we might just give them a game. For me it hinges on what kit we wear. If it is that god-awful cheese feast that passes for the official away kit I am pretty sure we will get tubbed. If we somehow wangle the right to sport the famous blue and white halves (no conflict with Forest's own home garb there) I think we could even take the points. Either way, we're on the road to nowhere...(for the rest of this season anyhow....) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhmeG691Xg

Nope, no sarcasm, just my personal assessment of the fuster-cluck that was February and March for Rovers fans. I know all about the benefits of promotion (cash, prestige etc) and have 45 years experience of following the Rovers through thick and thin, so I guess I'm as qualified as anyone else to have a view. Again in my opinion, there are plenty of precedents for teams ascending to the highest levels with a core of players who competed at all levels in between. I understand that the game has now somewhat changed, with the deep pockets and money no object approach available to clubs like Citeh and Spuds, and maybe I understand that we are never seriously going to compete with teams like that any more. However I do think there is a good prospect for teams that are built around a core of players who genuinely gel together - we have seen glimpses of this from the Rovers core this season. Long may it continue ! Arte et Labore indeed!

Simple for me - Mowbray has been using his old head and guile to hold our heads under water for a couple of months, so as to manage expectations, and avoid the 'nightmare scenario' of potential promotion too early. Now that we have once again 'come up for air' and there is no realistic prospect of either upward or downward movement from this division, we definitely have a solid basis for building a clear future strategy. If the team going forward has the engine and energy that was on display this evening, then next season, with a few additions and taking out some of the obvious weaker links, then maybe we would have a realistic opportunity to contend for promotion, or at least be in the mix. For the doubters amongst us (including me!), consider the prospects had we continued the trajectory set in the January form (where TM was manager of the month) - if we had been promoted, we would have been eaten alive by the quality of the outfits in the Prem, including the six fingered knuckle-draggers. Plus we would have been prime targets for the greedy sharks (agents and other shady characters) that swim in those waters looking for clubs to fleece - and we all know how that pans out, don't we??!. So, great win. I hope the team can learn from the experiment. Now would be a great time to kick on and finish the season with a flourish - come on Tony M, give us back the Blackburn Rovers we all want to watch

What an excellent read - I wish our coverage and analysis of the first team was half as good! Key for me was this quote from Burnett: " "IF YOU DON’T APPLY YOURSELF, OUT-FIGHT AND OUT-COMPETE YOUR OPPONENTS, IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH ABILITY YOU HAVE." Listen up Dacky and Co!! For me, we should be sending the U23s out this evening, and giving the tired old bunch of losers a lesson in hard work and application. End of.

Is see the Wanderers have had yet another slice of erm...'luck' to enable them to hobble over the finish line without a points deduction / being wound up... Pathetic! I hope their player strike has the desired effect! In terms of our lot, we could learn a lot from the Tykes.. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/apr/03/barnsley-football-league-tightest-defence-pinnock-lindsay-championship

'kin ell!! Away from the forum for a few weeks, but get back to this 'my willie is bigger than your willie' shite and drivel again, rather than reasonable and insightful commentary on matters relevant to the team we love....For information, my willie is much bigger than all your willies combined, as I am the biggest dick ever to swing on to these pages. Now that we have sorted that, can we get back to discussions about the Rovers and our chances of avoiding a complete dicking tomorrow?

Naahh, you're missing the point - the Sky lot are paid to talk shite and make stuff up.

Accy Stanley.... Actually, I couldn't care less to be honest.

I think we are a better proposition now for either an experienced and proven manager who has delivered at the top level, but is no longer attractive to top half prem clubs. Or, perhaps, we might be worth a shout for a hungry up and coming talent looking for his first 'Big Club' (Ok tongue firmly in cheek there!!). Either way, unless we see some signs of change from TM in the remaining fixtures, I can't see much point in going forward with him. He steadied the ship, did a solid enough job, but doesn't seem hungry enough to get the fan base excited for the right reasons. Time to put up Tony, or ship out!

Something has gone rotten in the set up and TM is ultimately accountable for sorting it out or not. Nobody is going to convince me that the same set of players that got him the January MoTM award have suddenly gone to pieces. No, there is something more deeply rooted and divisive going on that is unsettling the team. Paying fans deserve better. All fans need more belief in the players, but that isn't going to come with any more 'couldn't give a toss' performances like the last 6. Come on Tony, grow a big fat pair of cojones and sort it out!

erm...Rovers weren't shite in the 1990s... and in the 70s and 80s we were a good club to be around. I agree we need to look forward, and that it sometimes appears that one or other of the north west clubs is top dog for a while. It will be a long time before Rovers have to look up to the likes of Nobend, Burnleh or anyone else to be fair, because we are and always will be the first and only small town winners of the Premier League. Not sure what Nobend have got to compare, but as willy waving goes, our achievement in that respect knocks your pea-shooter into a cocked hat.

The glass jaw syndrome means we expect to concede - which I think is part of the problem, as once a goal goes in, we seem to lose any notion of hitting back. First goal crucial today. We score and we may come away with something.. they score and the dark clouds of doom gloom and despondency gather around Ewood Park. C'mon you BLUES!

What is important is that somehow we create momentum in the right direction to end the season - suffer a further run of defeats then morale will dissipate, heads will go down and the trajectory will become inevitably downwards. Keep battling and looking to get wins, and confidence is strong which can easily carry us into a new campaign with a positive outlook. I know which trajectory I'd prefer (I've been a Rover a long long time, and I've seen it all ways) - let's give Reading a battering. Come on you Blues!

Head was right on this one I'm afraid. Mind you, I don't really know how folk convince themselves that this team is good enough to challenge at the higher end of this division - if we were barcodes, I could understand it, but we aren't

I'd like to see an attacking approach today, and put BCFC on the back foot as far as we can, whilst keeping tight across the back (three or four or whatever). We've shown in recent times that we can put sides to the sword, such as Hull, who are now above us. We owe Brissle a poke in the balls for raining on the Charlie parade at theirs, so hopefully home advantage will prove to be so. Whatever happens, I think today is shoite or bust in terms of any aspirations in or around the playoff spaces - there is always one team that mounts a serious challenge from below by stringing good results together in the run up to the deciding stages, so my question would be, why can't it be Rovers this time? C'mon ye Mighty Blues! Head - 1-2 Brissle Heart 3-0 mighty Roar Roll on ten to five!

Well, he isn't that nice, and whilst he doesn't hate being reminded about the Prem win with Rovers, he does wish it had happened whilst he was a barcode instead - i know, I've spoken to him about it in the Diamond Inn, Ponteland, a few years back on a Friday night before he went big into punditry

Well, he is on the bench...

Hmm, I think we will come unstuck for this one, and we will see a return to thoughts of what might have been... Some tough fixtures coming up. I do hope TM can demonstrate superior tactical nous over the cold days of Feb... For me it looks like: Brentford Away - 2-1 (Brentford to nick it) Bristol City Home - 2-2 Reading Away - 3-1 (the inexplicable last 15 minute hoodoo returns after going ahead in 3rd min) Middlesboro Home - 0-2 Big Club Away - 1-1 So, pessimistically, 2 points from 12 in Feb, doom gloom and despondency set in, as the days get warmer and longer... Total @#/? of course - Rovers to win EVERYTHING from now to the end of the season. COYB!!

My sister was very good at Spoonerisms... best one was "I wouldn't trust you with a barge-pole'

Erm.. who? ?☺️ underwhelmed...

Oh christ on a bike! Don't start that again

Much as the thought of playing at the top level once again is an attractive one, I don't really think the recent mini-revival should cloud judgment to the extent that many begin to see promotion to the Prem as a realistic proposition this season. Just cast your minds back to the dour run we were on in December, when many were looking over their shoulders at the prospect of a further relegation. I know the team is playing well, and that we appear to have established a settled backbone to the side, but isn't it the reality that we are still in the very early stages of consolidation and seeing if Big Tony's experimental concoction actually works on a sustained basis? Loving the prospect of decent incoming players, but not in danger of smoking our own exhaust just yet.. ;)

I see Steve Agnew manages the Owls, just about to be fed to the dogs at Chelski...

No smoke without fire, and Madon is certainly one of the most reliable and genuine posters on here. If we can get a strong, ball holding, goal getting centre forward, and it doesn't mean a complete re-write of what TM has engineered so far, then definitely go for it. Liking the cut of this Rovers' gib, to be honest. Evolution, not revolution. Tasty.