We're not getting mauled at the moment, we're just shite. But half of our problem at the moment is it's a relatively young squad and has little know how, whether that's from the manager or their own experiences of how to tackle games. It's partly why we keep losing by the odd goal. I appreciate the notion about the young players, Wharton surprised me with how he played (after a dodgy substitute appearance against Watford), but Carter looked well out of his depth at the end of last season. JRC jury still out, Dolan burst onto the scene but largely ineffective since his goal against Preston, though would have liked to have seen him get a start again at some point. Magloire had one good friendly appearance. We need a core of better experienced players than we have to help the young ones on, that's the big thing that needs to change in the summer (asides from the manager at the very latest)

Basically an u23s team with a couple of older players sprinkled in. They'd get mauled.

Looks like Travis when Mowbray is telling him it's his fault we're losing all these games

Agreed. There's not a single player in there that you could see bollocking his team mates and dragging them up by the scruff of the neck to win crucial games. Too nice, no backbone

I can see that 11 points being eaten up pretty rapidly after the next few games of 0 points. Appreciate the stability Mowbray brought to the club with the promotion and behind the scenes work, so I get where you are coming from there, but our performances have been wretched for the last year and a half asides from a month or two at the beginning of this season. I don't see how he deserves more time with it

I dare say we are on the cusp of a relegation battle as it is. And if we get fully entrenched into one then I really do fear for us as after watching that 2nd half yesterday, I don't think we'd have the fight in us to survive.

Unfortunately I fear we might be toast in terms of relegation by the time Mowbray does one

Yeah the Hughes talk baffles me. Just last week there were loads of his former QPR players coming out slating him for his attitude and demeanour towards them, hardly what a young team like ours needs. And he didn't pull up many trees while at QPR in terms of performance on the pitch, scraped survival and got sacked not long into the following season. And don't even get me started on the likes of Sven and Gordan Strachan, I'd rather keep Mowbray and I really don't want him here anymore

Given the upcoming fixtures, if we don't beat Coventry and don't remove the manager, I think we're going down

It's a nonsense rumour I imagine so not much point speculating

It's never the particularly eloquent who get through is it...?

It's absolutely astonishing to read this. Everyone else who watched that game surely cannot agree with him. Missed penalty and Armstrong's shot from distance aside what else did we create??? I genuinely can't remember anything else, besides Bell getting into promising positions down the left about 3 times and it going tits up on each occasion. He's losing supporters in droves by the week.

I would argue that 2-4-5 record is pretty bad. Probably not far off Mowbrays record for the last 11 games and most of us want him gone. The suggestion of Tugay is a bit daft, anyone following the guy on social media would see he's clearly living a life of luxury and wouldn't have the discipline to be a successful manager (who can blame him). Get away from these romanticised notions of former players coming in. It rarely works. Lampard at Chelsea the most recent example. Equally suggestions of Hughes are odd, not done well anywhere really in the last 5-10 years. Progressive managers are the way forward for me. Wish we'd got Barnsley's before they did, clearly knows how to set a team up. Shame we don't have the infrastructure to spot a diamond in the rough like that

In terms of on the pitch, all Mowbray has done is right the wrongs of the relegation which he still has to be partially responsible for, though I would lay more of the blame at Coyle's Irn Bru sponsored front door. We're back where we were in the Bowyer/Lambert era and show absolutely no signs of pushing above that midtable mediocrity. It's all well and good accepting that over relegation but football will always have an element of risk and reward to it. Totally appreciate the stability Mowbray has brought but maybe now is the time to take the risk. Personally I feel we'd be a good proposition for prospective managers. Good squad, great facilities, owners willing to spend and seemingly happy to not get involved too much. All the foundations are there, we just need a forward thinking manager who feels formations and tactics are a relevant part of management

It's just the unrelenting deja vu that gets to me. You could sit down before the beginning of every season with Mowbray and predict how it'll go and you'd be right. Average to decent start, look promising around November, horrific December, unbeaten January, chuck all that form out the window, win 4 dead rubbers at the end of the season and make it look like the next season will be better. Rinse. Repeat. Our season is over now.

By the sounds of it I don't think the deal would have got done if we didn't agree to loan him back. No issue for me, Douglas is improving, Bell is just about capable of being back-up, Pickering to come in as first choice next season. Looking forward to seeing him play and hopefully he successfully fills what has been a problem position for years. Let's not get all negative an hour after the lad has been unveiled eh

Genuinely don't think outright naming who we're interested in would be for "the good of Blackburn Rovers" to be honest... When has any club ever regularly used that as their strategy?

As in name the players? Not really a professional way of going about things. Would only make the other club not want to do business

This is the kind of performance that often sees a manager lose his job. It's a shame there's no chance of it happening here

I'm not surprised the amount of crap the local journalists get. And then get a "any transfer news mate?" from the same people a day or so later

Personally would have taken 7 points at this point before the start of the season. Disappointing not to break down 10 men but it's not like they had 10 men for the majority of the game. Were always gonna sit deep at that point. Take the point, third clean sheet in a row, unbeaten in three. Better than the end of last season that's for sure.

We going to ignore the global pandemic that might be affecting some things at the moment?

An air of incompetence perhaps?

Certainly not miserable about the performance and result. But fair to say looking at that crop of midfielders I don't feel overly inspired in terms of any sort of tilt towards the top 6. Couple of injuries and we'd be putting a weak weak team out. I think at this point I'd take a LB and CM as our only other business. They're the 2 crucial positions for me now

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