27 minutes ago, 47er said:

if we keep Nyambe the defence next season could be 

Nyambe       Carter       Macgloire   and that new Guy from Crewe (whose name I've forgotten)

With Kaminsky behind them, there is something solid to build on.

Given that Travis would start in the middle, hopefully alongside Davenport, there's a really good young side merging there----hopefully skilled and hungry. We'll have to replace Armstrong of course------McBride?

There's also Rankin-Costello/Pike if Nyambe goes. And Dolan  to throw in.

I could be proud of a line-up like that but not with Mowbray coaching the life out of them.

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

1 minute ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Mowbray is incapable of taking this Club forward,he is failing even his own set standards,he needs to depart for himself and most importantly the future of the club...what can't people understand?

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

1 minute ago, Waggy76 said:

We havent got the personnel to battle , last time we survived a relegation battle was with Big Sam at the helm ..

I dont count Keans effort cos he wouldnt have done it without Big Sam ...Or Man U playing the last 10 mins like a pre season friendly...

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

2 minutes ago, dcbrfc said:

We’ve still got an 11 point cushion but if we do get dragged down there then I would say that’s time for a management change.

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 

9 minutes ago, dcbrfc said:

Because times have changed. Souness days were some of the best I’ve experienced (missed a lot of the Hughes time as was away at uni). But we were a Premier League club back then in a different era. The game is different now. Look at the clubs in this league who have bigger budgets and far better squads. And I’m not saying we should never be back there I just don’t think it’s a realistic expectation right now. We were a Second Division club for what 15 years before we went up in 92? And yes I’m sticking with Mowbray because after all he’s done for the club - he’s the best thing to happen to Blackburn Rovers since Venky’s walked through the doors 10 years ago - I just feel he deserves a bit longer. If we get sucked into a proper relegation battle then yea sack him but as things stand we should give him more time, support the team and hope results can change.

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.

Just now, PeteJD13 said:

no i don't think so i think he is toast if we lose another 3/4

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

8 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

What is depressing is that Venkys have made it so that it would be nigh on impossible to attract the manager of Barnsley.

Barnsley are building a good young, balanced team and are right in play off contention.

The thing is that Barnsley and numerous teams found these talented managers, we should be able to cut out the middle man.

Hughes is purely a nostalgic suggestion based on 15 years ago, in a different league under different owners. Has many stains on his CV since too.

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

12 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

If Hughes does come in, it will be interesting who he bring in on his coaching staff. Question is would he change his coaching staff now or stick by Bowen, etc

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

9 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

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

5 minutes ago, yoda's brother said:

FROM BBC SPORTS

Blackburn Rovers manager Tony Mowbray: "It was more like the way we want to play after a frustrating last few games.

"We looked like the team we've been for most of the season and we feel a bit hard done by not getting anything from the game. It just seems to be the way it's going for us at the moment.

"We needed to raise the levels after the last few games and I felt we did that. It was similar to the QPR game when we were also pretty dominant and yet lost 1-0.

"But I've told the players we will win football matches with those sort of performance levels. We have to play with that urgency and with a front-foot attitude. We had the chance with the penalty kick and I felt we'd have gone on to win it if we'd have scored."

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.

34 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

I came into Rovers fandom when Bowyer was hired full-time. I looked up Appleton’s record, he was 2-4-5 at Rovers... not bad, but everyone was scared to death of dropping to League 1. 

All this is guesswork of course; Mowbray won’t last forever, but I expect him to survive the season. I fully expect us to get “hot” when playoff spot is out the question, and the season is for all intents over, and he’s safe for the offseason. 
 

 

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. 

1 minute ago, Mercer said:

Would take it a step further - if he's no better than Bell or Douglas then why sign him at all?  If he is better then he should be playing for us NOW starting at QPR on Saturday.  We know all about Bell and although Douglas has had a couple of better games really, it doesn't say too much following his string of, IMO, abysmal performances for Rovers

Just hope this is another another 'Stagliakis' type signing where we were supposed to have unearthed a gem and then Mowbray found it necessary to sign Pears.....................................!

 

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

1 hour ago, rigger said:

And I will take solace in the professional way we go about things at the moment. I want the entire club structure to operate for the good of Blackburn Rovers.

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?

2 hours ago, rigger said:

I wish the Rovers would come out with statements along the lines of: Yes we are interested in (certain players), but we are only going to sign deals that are to the benefit of Blackburn Rovers.( Even if it's bullshit, at least it's positive bullshit).

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

5 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Has Cryer left the BBC?

He was a bit hateful towards Rovers fans after he left the LT. 

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.

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

If Waggott had been sent in to deliberately wreck the Club, he really couldn't have done a better job than that.

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

5 minutes ago, Stuart said:

Personally I think Bell has something about him.

But like Chapman he isn’t showing it.

An air of incompetence perhaps?

Just now, philipl said:

Just confused by most of the posts on here.

Somebody thinks we have a hole in midfield.

Must have swollen Johnson, Holtby, Rothwell, Buckley, Evans, Davenport, even Bennett and Rankin-Costello before taking into consideration our long term injuries.

5-0 and we are all miserable.

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

"How to turn a mood with one interview" by Tony Mowbray

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

So if it is Ayala, has he significantly lowered his wage demands, was Swaggot full of shit, or are we panicking and offering him whatever he wants?

Might be mistaken but thought I read that we'd agreed personal terms but obviously the overseas team offered way more when they came in