Richard Oakley
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9 hours ago, Roverinbelfast said:
So true. Change the full attacking midfield and the RB every single game.
The manager issue is the million dollar question. If TM goes who do we replace him with. My heart says Hughes my brain says another Coyle cheap option
Remember, it's When Mowbray goes ...
If results don't go our way, next Sunday at 5pm, we could find ourselves involved in the scrap for the final relegation spot and Mowbray's already failed to do that once, so you'd think he'd have to go and Venkys bring forward their review. That assumes they don't want us in League 1, of course.
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1 hour ago, roverandout said:
You think rovers will win the next 4 games out of 5?
Mowbray does. We've established that he's delusional.
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I expect the games to moved to Sunday
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3 minutes ago, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:
We don't do easy Richard!
True. If Rotherham win both midweek games, they'll be out of the bottom 3 on goal difference and Derby will want the win more than us and Mowbray will spend the week bigging up Derby - because he can't help himself. That's assuming he's still here and Venkys have surprised us all. It'd snow!
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Just now, Mattyblue said:
Three consecutive home games against QPR, Coventry and Birmingham. Certainly a big chance to close the gap on the pack with those fixtures...
I hit submit too soon, lol
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2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:
Big week for us next week as Rotherham start to play catch up with a game on Tuesday and then another on Thursday.
Indeed, three home games against QPR, Coventry and Birmingham (week Sunday). We've an easy home game against Derby next Saturday ...
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I should be concerned about more teams below us. Of the teams below us only Birmingham won. Rotherham ought to have - bad news for us. One more defeat for Wycombe and we can't finish bottom. 2 more defeats for Wednesday and the lowest we can finish is 22nd. Swansea could be bad news for both those teams this week.
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Just now, Ewood Ace said:
Such a soft goal to concede, really poor. Kaminski culpable for both goals today.
Yep, Kaminski showing the benefit of a season's worth of Ben Benson coaching.
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4 minutes ago, rovers11 said:
Just gotta hope Rotherham don't put a run together as we are so, so bad.
Sheff Wed are the team that concerns me the most.
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20 minutes ago, dcbrfc said:
Was merely offering to help you spread publicity about the letter by putting something together for you to send to the LT. Planned to do it this weekend but now it’s been shelved there’s no story there for them unfortunately.
Of course, there is. Why are you trying to spin that there is no story? How would you react were another journalist to tell you there's no story behind a piece of information?
I'm sure there are people on this board who have provided information to the journalist you tried to airbrush away - this story, that is. They will also have provided the LET with information. What Peacocks said and the material submitted to the committee is now a matter of public record.
Will this scandal force the football league into action? It has already placed us under a transfer embargo, after all.
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Mick McCarthy said "Tony Mowbrays' team will be a good footballing side". Mick must tell us when, since he clearly knows something we don't. The current team won't be here next season; there's not too much time (6 games ) for this miracle to occur.
McCarthy will be eager for Cardiff to hand out a 5-0 drubbing to another team, after experiencing one so recently.
We do like to experience 1-0 defeats with Mowbray lamenting everything.
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39 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:
Yup. Many of us pointed out it was the season to 'ride the wave' but the club just paddled up to the wave, then paddled back to the safety of shore.
Have yet to reach the shore. The water is a little bit choppy, we lack that little bit of quality and our cox is issuing contradictory orders and nobody will throw him overboard.
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17 minutes ago, JoeH said:
You guessed, poorly, without researching. A few people presented the truth with fact to back it up and your response is "get a grip".
Your comprehension is truly woeful. You're being told to get a grip about BRFC and what it is, not about why the academy groundsman has jumped ship to Fleetwood or why out chief scout has also jumped ship (on the Talking Back podcast that was linked).
The academy groundsmen could well have gone due to a lack of budget to maintain said grounds.
When you fished up on this message board, you claimed you were researching a book. How is that coming? Don't let that keep you here. Of course, the reality is that you're part of the firm providing the Club with Analytics that Mowbray uses for his 'possession based style', not that Mowbray has a style.
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@Bigdoggsteel You know it's all your fault, don't you? If only you'd agreed with my suggestion of Damien Johnson as caretaker, Mowbray and co would be gone.
Not really. That would assume someone in Pune read this message board and took note of what is being said. Yeah, I know, fat chance.
We're such a well run club, Woodgate, that we're under a transfer embargo, again.
Speaking of LET, a poster Mumbai Rover got called a "troll". That particular response was to a post that was saying rumour in India has it that Venkys want to sell the club at the end of next season and are just looking to extract what value they can.
It's a mite difficult to sell a club that has negative market value as per the Rovers Trust analysis. Liquidation is a more likely outcome and given the size of Trading creditors, sooner than than later. Only the advance payment of Sky TV revenue staved off administration in 2012 (I think that was the year) and unsubstantiated rumours that the HMRC has come after the club chasing tax payments.
Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic Limited is not being run as a 'going concern'.
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1 hour ago, Ulrich said:
Have you tried vanish? I also find it best to shit in the toilet. 🚽
The only thing free-flowing at Rovers is Mowbrays mouth. I guess windymiller7s blanket must have been near him.
And our fall through the table, now 4 points above 21st.
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4 minutes ago, CheshireRover said:
Can we get this in writing?
Don't worry @CheshireRoverIt is just another Mercer rumour! Lol.
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If Waggott was 'instructed to act', he's failed to so do. Do we move the 'clock' forward to 5pm or will we just look back on this moment as the one where we missed the opportunity to save our championship status.
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2 minutes ago, J*B said:
I’ve heard nothing. And when I look back through history, Venkys seem to make quick decisions. I can’t think of another example where there’s a rumour prior to a significant announcement.
Very funny. Situations have been allowed to drag to the point where no-one expects any action to be taken and then Venkys take action.
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5 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:
We always say this though, then a performance/result like the Milwall game comes out of nowhere.
Just by law of averages, we'll get another 3/4 points this season to crawl to safety.
Next season is the worry unless changes happen.
That's what Hull fans were thinking this time last year.
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Mowbray's defeat at Wycombe proves we won't finish with his target of 70 points. Another self-designated target missed. Of course Mowbray has to go. Venkys are not running this club as a going concern. Expecting the Football league to act is about as promising as expecting Venkys to clear out the managerial/executive dross.
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36 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:
Ya. That would be fine, but then we all remember their previous form.
Hopefully that's what's happening, do you genuinely believe it is?
Yes, I genuinely believe it is.
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44 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:
Link?
If they weren't happy, surely they would sack him, no?
I would imagine they, like you, want to have a replacement or replacements lined up for immediately after Mowbray gets potted. They, like you, don't want to name Johnson as caretaker. The more extensive the planned changes, the longer it takes to arrange everything. If they are ditching HSH, that will cost money and take time, too.
These changes are things Venkys can't mess up and so it's one time I don't really begrudge the time, though as a fan, I'd like it done faster.
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13 minutes ago, JHRover said:
Hopefully, because if they stick with him they'll be in the top 6 next season.
He did this at Brighton. Struggling down at the bottom when he took over, did enough to keep them up then turned them into promotion winners. I've no doubt he'll do the same at Forest if given time. The owners there are mental though so might not let him get on with it.
They may not. They may think there are better choices out there, now. Like you, I think they'll get up there, if they leave him be. We'll see, if there's a team in the playoff places collapses this year like Forest did last. I thin Reading are a result away from cracking and Barnsley may have peaked too soon.
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Hughton's Forest haven't performed as well as I thought they would since his appointment. I don't know, if that puts his job under threat.
Tony Mowbray Discussion
in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
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@Stuart The nighmarish scenario I think we want to avoid 'Venkys sell Blackburn Rovers to Jerome Anderson'. To add to your list.