Although I'm concerned that if Mowbray was sacked then his many many fanboys would take their frustrations out on whoever was brought in to replace him and just waiting for any excuse to get on their case.

8 hours ago, Miller11 said:

Here is the HSH list…

Steve Cooper

Mark Robins

Craig Bellamy

Gary Holt

Sami Hyypia

Gregory Vignal

Tony Pulis

Graham Westley

Micky Mellon

Dave Challinor

Dean Keats

Fabrizio Ravanelli

Paul Jewell

Tony Philiskirk

Rob Edwards

And our previous three managers too, obviously.

 

Bellamy would be interesting!! It would either be great or complete Armageddon😅

Maybe something akin to when Roy Kean first took over Sunderland , Kean was great in his first year, getting the team revved up and  super motivated as you'd expect from kean and promoted in his first season, but then I think his ego and old school bully boy style of man management got the better of him and things quickly went off the boil.

Honestly though, I'm sick of repeating my self but Mowbray is history and we need a change...

This talk of the owners making no money available!.... We signed 2 left backs in the summer for a total of over a million (plus likely future add ons for pickering) and neither of them have impressed much at this level. 

Most of mowbrays permanent signings in the championship have been poor, only dack, armstrong, kaminski and Brereton have been good, but the dack, kamiski and armstrong transfers where no brainers really considering what we initially paid for them, Breretons come good for half a season after 4 years of being a kevin dabies esque puncline, but i cant see him being as prolofic next season (when he'll likebe off anyway) 

14 minutes ago, USABlue said:

I have resigned myself sometime ago that I will not live long enough to see us back in the Prem.  Sad but true.  After Reading I am devastated.

I only came on in the hope he'd been fired and DJ announced as caretaker.  Can't do any worse.

Please don't tempt them 😩😩

I agree though 

4 minutes ago, dallydally said:

Vis your last paragraph you need to shake your head. Gallagher is total sh1t. £5M to buy and a contract extension recently? He is patron of the Jason Roberts School of Finishing

Roberts at least had some other good qualities, if he'd been a good finisher he would have been top class! 

11 minutes ago, booth said:

I'd let Venus take over till the end he did a much better job second half against Derby. Mowbray was perfect in the role of keeping quiet and letting someone else make some sensible decisions.

I don't know much about venus tbh, with Johnson i was just thinking more along the lines of him knowing our younger players very well having managed some at under 23 etc... And also having an ex rover in the dugout always gives fans a little boost initially. 

But honestly I'd have pretty much anyone in the dugout other than fkin Mowbray. 

9 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

 

3 minutes ago, yankfan said:

Not having a replacement for BBD in case of injury or poor form a huge mistake. We’ve been searching for a plan since January. Rothwell has been no where near as effective since his transfer was denied. Buckley’s form has disappeared. The first half seems a mirage 

The fact another striker wasn't bought in the summer to replace Armstrong was poor enough! Especially when you think at that point they could never have envisaged the goal scoring run Brereton was about to go on!

1 minute ago, simongarnerisgod said:

i would`nt go that far,his time is up though for me,mind you it was up for me after the first season back in the championship when defenders were coming😰

The irony is that he's probably been their best managerial appointment! But he's just far over stayed his welcome and should have been potted 2 years ago. 

Has to be worth getting shut of mowbray right now and giving the caretaker job to D Johnson for the remainder of the season, He literally couldn't do much worst than tm. 

I wouldn't trust the venkys to hire a good replacement manager in a short space of time, so best just getting a caretaker for now so we can take our time searching for a more promising replacement manger

(although in reality! I'm under no illusions that the owners would just give the caretaker/cheapest option the job permanently should they win a few of the remaining games) 

8 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

for once i don`t blame mowbray for gurning like that

Well at least he's got himself somebody else to blame again. 

Mowbray out

Waggot out

Venkys sort it out! 

24 minutes ago, booth said:

For some reason yes TM has been chasing him for ages. It was a panic buy because we could have got him for free in Summer.

Thanks,yeh sorry just misunderstood your initial post. 

Wouldn't that have been something to look forward to in the summer 🙄😩😄

1 hour ago, glen9mullan said:

I had a 2 and half hour call yesterday regarding a new documentary about Rovers.

The past is certainly not forgotten, the story of Venkys ownership past and present will be told.

Dooped, Niave, hands tied? This is fictitious account we are left with after weeks, months and years pass.

What was their excuse when they was picking team?

What was their excuse when selecting board members to replace our solid administration they inherited?

Kentaro, Crescedo et al, its all very easy to pin all the blame at their door. They are massively culperable , but Venkys are certainly not innocent.

I try and keep my head down nowadays, but its quite evident that many people have profited, jokeyed for position locally, have got too cosey with the club, hang on their every word, and in some respects put the efforts and sacrifices of thousands to waste.

You look around the ground, and 95% of local sponsors are gone, the boards which separate the upper and lower tier no longer advertises these.

We have a business development manager, who went from walking on protest, wearing venkys out t-shirts to then getting a job at the club and within a couple of weeks, requesting to meet me at the services to lambast the supporter base for making a stand. Sold himself out for a job!!!!!

Time is not healer, thousands have walked away, loyal supporters for decades. We now have an element of support within our supporter base which is young youths, who can make going to a game somewhat intimidating. Many of these are not old enough to remember Venkys buying the club, or understand where the club was before Venkys.

I, and many of you have lost family members, seen people who marched for the cause sadly pass away, it breaks my heart when I remember these supporters that they are no longer here, and the club they loved so dear continues to be a shadow of its former self.

Venkys have been here a long time now, but the frailties and fundamental basics which they dont do remain.

The acceptance of, it is what it is, or make do is painful to see.

The years of taking our case to the highest authorities of our national game, the cover ups, the personal intrusion, has sadly taken its toll on my health. 

The years of not being there to support my wife in bringing our children up, and giving every minute of my time to stand up for those who had the courage to fight for our club, its future and threat of existence, is something I have to live with, I will never get those years back.

Its a shell of a club now, absent owners, no one being held accountable and no one standing up for us.

Accepting the issues, forgetting the sacrifices, you become part of the problem and not the solution.

Watching Panarama this week and the Ambramovich story shows where the games at. £'s buy votes, they buy silence, they buy closed eyes. If your team is winning, no one bats an eyelid, its only when results are bad that people take a closer look. Supporters are taken for granted, not just by our clubs, but the administration of our leagues and governance.

As things stand we are always just an hour away from going bust, our owners are unpredictable, our board are puppets and full of self-preservation.

You cannot talk or negotiate with Puppets or ignorance. 

I've deliberately not spoken with Waggott, as there is not a single thing he could say, which would remotely interest me. Like those before him, he has the power of a broken light bulb and gets paid handsomely for being ineffective.

He will give his lip service to those who will listen, and get many on board. They will quite like feeling important and sadly buy into his bullshit.

For those of us more seasoned in the art of negotiations, (we had years perfecting it), they fear us, they fear an uprising , they fear getting knocked off their pedestal. This current crop are not as clever as the last crop, and would fall like skittles.

I hope i'm still around to see the day, the town really does have its club back. Knowing the things I've learnt, seen and witnessed is a curse.

Anyway it was not my intention to write a long winded post and this was not directed at you, or anyone else in particular. 

 

Yeah but! SUTTON OR NEWELL, WHICH ONE WAS BETTER? 

Only kidding, great post and I like im sure many others still remember the huge personal sacrifices you made to help get shut of kean etc...

Just a shame that the club and fanbzse has never recovered from everything that went on  it's just left a huge void where hope used to be

38 minutes ago, tomphil said:

I presume Booth means they rushed it through and had to pay money despite him already being on a pre agreement. To come in summer.......for nothing.

Ahh get ya, what a waste of money! 

Even on a free he's still a waste of a salary if he's not going to be used

2 hours ago, booth said:

Regarding Markandays injury, the lad has never scored a professional goal yet, and he’s a winger. Hedges was a panic buy… Another winger.

The man is bonkers.

Hedges was a panic buy!? 

We seemed to have been chasing him forever and negotiations to bring him in appeared to have started right at the beginning of the transfer window (if not earlier) 

More like a shady looking poor buy

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

The owners shouldn't be interfering with footballing decisions. End of.

Errr not really disagreeing with you but just to point out that Jack walker always had big say(and the final say!) in transfer decisions whilst he was owner

There's even some pretty infamous examples of potential signings that he vetoed for one reason or another 

1 hour ago, martonrover said:

Yes, that Twitter post can definitely be construed as undermining the manager and broke the code of keeping dressing room politics in-house.

Sorry i don't do twitter at all! 

What was said? 

Cheers 

I think like after the fulham battering it took the fans getting on their case for the team to up their game just as it did today when they came out after half time. Clearly nothing bloody wetwipe mowbray and his cronies say in the dressing room really motivates them

2 minutes ago, CambridgeRover said:

Some player Wharton

He's been the real break out star this season, never mind Brereton. 

1 minute ago, K-Hod said:

By this, do you mean he’s as bad as Jason Lowe? I’m confused. I never saw Lowe smash into tackles like Travis does.

The two are like night and day in the way they play.

Yeah lowe was a different level of awful! He literally just ran back and forth like a headless chicken but never made a real challenge or did anything positive when he had the ball

We'd do better just to stick gallagher up front on his own with just one player behind him then overload the midfield areas, we have to get right back to basics Formation wise.! 

Just now, Silas said:

Might as well throw everything at this now.

I'd prefer to lose 5-0 than die wondering. 

Chuck a few subs on and go all out attack second half.

We actually worry teams when we go at them. When was the last time we even tried it?!

Ya dreamin bud. Not even kidding, history has shown that this clown of a manager is far more like to switch to an even more defensive formation

I cant even think of i time in my life that our form has switched from one extreme to the other for long periods within one season. Especially not without the manager getting sacked once the form drops!!! 

Just a pathetic shambles. 

Mowbray and waggot out (all though i know it wont happen) 

4 hours ago, den said:

Newell was a quality front man. He could hold the ball up, run the flanks, bring others into the game and score some cracking goals. Scored one of the fastest ever Champions league hat trick for Rovers against Rosenberg.

Sutton could do that as well, but was quite a bit more mobile than Newell. Sutton was the better of two top players.

Id completely forgot about that hat trick! That was something 

Mind you i have tried to banish all memory of that chamions league mess out of my m8nd over the years