Would love the likes of Eddie Howe but unlikely. The Cowley Brothers are free agents and would be happy with them. I'd be tempted to look at Gareth Ainsworth as a Blackburn lad who has done absolute wonders at Wycombe. He'd no right getting them into the Championship at all, but they've been slowly improving and are only four points behind Derby County and Notts Forest. He'll get them in a relegation scrap that they have no business being in on a threadbare budget.

Yeah, how can we compete with those Championship versions of Chelseas and Man Citys above us like, errr...big spending Reading, moneybags Barnsley, are Preston owned by Dubai these days?, Luton Town...blown us out of the water with their recruitment! 'Get behind the team' they say...what, when the team isn't behind the manager? So who do you support? Rovers or the team or the manager? As it's plainly no longer possible to support all three! We all wanted this season to be different. We all got excited when we were swatting aside the cannon fodder who'd had a man sent off. That's before when we were looking up, not down... After all that early season excitement, the (Venky's) chickens are now coming home to roost.

We could be ten points off the playoffs if the teams in the top six win their games in hand. This in a season where the the top six hasn't been pulling away, even. Not that it matters, as we've no chance of challenging the top six this season unless drastic change is made.

Davenport rescues a point...never seen again. Dolan is always a handful when he comes on as he offers something different...he's getting five minutes here and there every so often. Gally's being ruined by being played out of position (and he's no world beater in the centre, but he gets involved) just as Bennett was last year. Terrible tactics, terrible substitutions, terrible man management. His time is done. Almost four years is not a bad stint. But he's out of ideas now.

That's a tough break. I think we could all do with a shower after watching that shitshow.

If you can listen to the iFollow commentators at the end of the game, then you'll be able to hear a manager being savaged by the most optimistic sources you can find. When even the cheerleaders have nothing to cheer, then you know that time's up. As for those Rovers fans who want to give him time, the question is...why don't you want the best for your club? As there ain't no way in hell that this is the best Rovers can be doing.

Even the permanently optimstic iFollow commentators are struggling not to say he should go. That takes some doing. You can hear from their tone that it was a joke of performance once again. They have nothing positive they can say and they're paid to be positive in what they say!!! They're mentioning the players out of position, the goals drying up, defensively soft, we've frittered away all that hope from the start of the season... Damning. When even his cheerleaders can't find anything to cheer, you know it's time for a change in the dugout. And now.

Incompetence, perhaps? Either that or holding on for the 2-1 defeat?

Sarr again. Too easy, non-existent defence. 2-1 Huddersfield. P45 for Mowbray in any normal club.

Gally tap in!!! 1-1!

The players don't give a shit, just going through the motions. They're looking like they've no real faith in themselves or their manager.

Mowbray subs Nyambe off for an inexperienced midfielder again when needing something from the game. Last season it was Bennett starting at right back in front of him so Mowbray has form. Yet some fans think he should be signing a new contract?!?

No Davenport, no Dolan, no Downing. All have played well or looked threatening and offered something different at times. Yet they then just receive cameos after promising appearances. An out-of-form Holtby replaces Trybull. Those three still not brought on, but Sam Gallagher IS brought on?!? Buckley brought on for Nyambe...?!? Baffling. Just plain baffling.

There's our goal against for the game. Somehow had a free header from seven yards out while five Rovers players were within a metre or so.

IFollow Commentators have forgot to switch back the "On" button after half time...🤦‍♂️

True in some previous games, he's obviously been told to shoot on sight. However, he's been our best player by some distance in the first half. Has looked lively and been looking to bring other players in. He's had some half chances but no sitters. Looks like he's got a goal in him tonight.

It's almost as if they're taught not to cross it but instead to keep possession instead, hence passing it back instead of whipping it into the box time after time. Add in Armstrong seemingly having been told to shoot on sight wherever he is (meaning one good shot for three attacking positions wasted for the team) and it leads to few clear-cut chances but high percentage rates of possession and lots of shots per game. After a relatively promising start, we've been second best since Holtby was brought on, which meant Johnson (who had looked like he was imposing himself on the game) had to move back. Seemed a perfect time to give Jacob a chance. Since he performed well at Brentford, we've barely seen him except for cameos. Bizarre. Not sure what the Three Degrees - Davenport, Dolan, Downing - have to do to get a start for once. On a plus point, Armstrong looks lively so far.

Anticipation is at a shockingly low ebb for this one...

There's really not a lot of point getting angry about this either way. The Venky's will decide when to get rid or not, like always. It won't be from "social media". To think they give a damn what fans say on a website forum would be delusional. They didn't give a crap about us before, they don't do so now, they likely never will. Not much we can do except put up our feet and grab the popcorn, beats arguing amongst ourselves. Such is life as a Rovers fan in the Venky's era.

I don't even know what we're arguing about here anymore. Stoke were in the relegation zone when O'Neill took charge. Since then, he's got them five point ahead of us while they've had a far worse injury crisis than us. When they played us, they go the goal then kept us at bay for the rest of the game to take three comfortable points. They also had a nice little cup run in which they competed well with Spurs. So they played "putrid" football against us, did they? So what? I think we've been putrid with little payback on occasions. With no result. Good for them.

Everything's in place for a top six finish. Except the manager?

We have a good team. The players at our disposal is not the issue. Like Steve Gibson saw at Boro, we've reached the limit under Mowbray. We need to let him go and thank him for what he's done for the club, then get the manager us who can get us promoted like happened on Teeside. It won't happen under the Venkys, though. What we need and what we get have rarely been the same for this past decade.

Blatant penalty turned down then?!?

Superman Rothwell to the rescue!

Why does it look like we are playing long balls up to the striker when we don't have a striker playing? Armstrong's wide right, Gally chasing balls down the right. Elliot's playing way back...