You're missing the point. As soon as we play teams in and around the top 6 we fail massively. We can't play PNE, Cov, Wycombe etc every week. In that regard nothing has changed. I agree with your last sentence, except to say we don't know what his remit is. If he has been told it's Top 6 or bust this season then he will get sacked if we get to the end of Jan (for example) and he's miles off the pace.

The current Top 6 managers are people who 99% of this board would never have heard of before they rocked up at their current clubs. None of them had managed at club level before in this country. So being asked who should Mowbray be replaced by is a fools mission. That is for the club to do it's research...which shines a light on the massive Venky-shaped elephant in the room. They turned down Warnock for Coyle. The real questions therefore are:- 1) What is Mowbray's remit this season? (if top 6 he will eventually have to be replaced if he fails or it looks likely he will fail) 2) Who is responsible for appointing the new manager? (Barry Bling, Senior, Singh etc or a respected figure within football) 3) What is the criteria for finding his replacement? (when TM was appointed the main criteria was someone who wasn't under contract elsewhere, according to Cheston) 4) Is there anyone available using the current criteria who the recruitment team believe is better than Mowbray? It's a bit simplistic to say 'sack Mowbray' when the alternative is potentially much worse.

The reason we won't achieve it is because of the manager. That's my opinion. Mowbray is an idealist, not a pragmatist. Also, the signs are that absolutely nothing has changed. We'll continue on good runs and then bad runs and continue to fail when it comes to the crunch against our supposed promotion rivals. Narrowly failing to beat them is not a sign we will start to beat them any time soon.

I can assure you I don't need your help with anything...even if you do think you 'know football' better than anyone else😂 Also, where did I say we should sack the manager?

The signs aren't there, that's the problem.

Your last sentence doesn't quite ring true. Lenihan and Williams regularly get pelters on here, as do Douglas and Bell. Nyambe is our only consistently good defender as far as I can see.

How would I know? Its not my job to know. Its up to the club. The only certainty is that Mowbray clearly can't.

Someone who is capable of getting this group of players in the Top 6, as the current manager keeps predicting but failing to achieve.

I know, will it be 10th or will it be 14th. It's exciting!

This aged well

He's not a bad manager and the club is in a much healthier football-wise than when he arrived. He has credit in the bank for that. Sadly, he's just not good enough to get us promoted or even in the Top 6.

Sigh!

Beautifully coiffeured footballing God!

His quote today about how having lots of possession and shots will eventually translate into winning games sums him up.

You'll not hear Tony quoting those stats.

Untrue. He's been incredibly cautious in his time at Rovers. It was embarrassing at times in League 1. This season is the first time he's played a formation that is set up more to attack.

'Shoot for anywhere lads. think of the stats' Classic Mowbray

Tony Mowbray - 3 games in a row against promotion hopefuls = no wins. That's all she wrote.

Seance

Nyambe used to be Tony's scapegoat. Now it's Ayala. Neither was born on Teeside. Just sayin...

Fuck off Daniel

Definitely Camus. Mowbray said this: "After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it in the Racing Universitaire Algerios (RUA)Boro youth team"

You should be on your way out or else...

Are we gonna win or we gonna get Farked? I don't feel confident. Rovers 0 - Norwich 2

There's a train ticket with your name on it at your local station. I would suggest you enjoy a day out and return here after the match to read all about some of the finest football ever played at Ewood and a resounding 5-0 win. Or you could watch us lose and find a horses head in your bed...a horse that looks like Owen Coyle. Choose wisely my friend.