The Mowbray exit spoke volumes on the club efficiency and what we were about to endure. I maintain we do not have the people or processes in place to appoint a good manager. If you’d be pleased with the target then sadly you can pretty much forget about them. That’s the reality of this club. Even if Farke or Carvahal wanted to join Blackburn Rovers, they’d be put off by the owners. I’d love to be proved wrong but doubt I will, although I do feel there is a slim chance we could end up with boyhood fan Ainsworth and that’s not through skill and hard work or for the right reasons. If you’re accepting bad advice you’re incompetent and they will forever hold this club back. The process was always going to drag on and fall down often. They should have had 3 months+ to prepare for this, if they follow the football club, should they not? I’m prepared to be severely underwhelmed but hopefully whoever we end up with interviews with a bit more enthusiasm than Mowbray. VENKY’S OUT!

Ah the cheapest, most local, most uninspiring coach. This is absolutely a done deal.

A friend who uses this forum has told me that 2 managers were interviewed today for the vacancy.

This is going to be a circus.

I can't get my head around not signing a centre midfielder in the summer or January. We've gone from thinking it necessary to have Holtby, Trybull, Evans, Johnson, Davenport, Travis, Rothwell and Buckley last season to having just Johnson, Davenport, Travis, Rothwell and Buckley. It will always be for me one of the most important positions in football and I think it's perhaps somewhat unnoticeably cost us greatly this season and last. It was clear at the end of last season that Johnson was close to being finished so realistically we were going into this season with Davenport, Travis, Rothwell and Buckley. The manager has removed (unfairly) Davenport from that equation leaving Travis, Rothwell and Buckley. I can look at those 3 players and pick a number of faults with each that are probably fine for a team targeting mid-table/ survival but not for a team pushing for promotion. This was clear during a transfer window... while sat in 2nd! Travis is probably one of my favourite players but the reality is he's pretty average. His range of passing is limited, he can't shoot at all and switches off but does give 110% and likes a tackle making him important to the side. Buckley is still learning/ inexperienced Rothwell in and out of games throughout his Rovers career and more often than not out so can't be relied upon. I'm of the opinion that you'd be extremely lucky to go up with the above as your 3 and I was of that opinion in January. We needed one more in that could control the middle of the park better than Travis but instead we've been left exposed, not only that we were always going to be screwed if he got injured, luckily he hasn't but either way not bringing in a central midfielder and a striker was criminal. Turns out it wouldn't have made a difference anyway because the manager is utterly useless - and if you still have your doubts about that, just remember he genuinely started Bradley Johnson as a false 9 in a competitive and important fixture. 🤡

Lack of ownership is a common theme at Rovers. There is a lack of ownership by Venky’s for the club as a whole, from facilities through to appointing a functional boardroom. There is a lack of ownership from the “CEO” Steve Waggott to measure the current manager based on results and make unbiased decisions about his future for the good of the football club and fans. Ultimately failing completely in his role (arguably more so than anyone). There is a lack of ownership by the manager weekly for his performance, his teams performances and the results. The above is all enabled by the owners, they have no interest beyond a bank balance so why should anyone else (players included) have an interest beyond theirs? Venky’s OUT. Waggott OUT and Mowbray OUT.

We are essentially a football club with no CEO and no owners, drifting through seasons relying on a useless manager who is allowed to not get results at an alarming rate time after time. We've been here before. We are not results driven. Venky's get out of our club and take Steve Waggott with you!

The real issue is that they don’t need to stop and they haven’t needed to stop for 15 games now.

It’s a joke that Johnson’s getting a start for any team in the Championship still. He was finished last season!

This was clear before the January window and not addressed. I knew it would be costly, why didn’t the professionals?

Got to laugh really, at the fans that didn’t think a new manager was needed. Absolutely no surprises here.

Had Mowbray been fired a month ago, there's a high chance we'd be sitting comfortably in the playoffs now. Any on hand owner or legitimate CEO would have taken the warning signs from last year and said no thanks, this isn't happening again. Terrible ownership, a terrible boardroom and a total lack of interest, epitomised weekly by the manager. No plan, no passion and no expectations. Overall we've become a largely non competitive football club, that is making no sustainable progress. If your owners can't back you when 2nd then you might as well give up, they are rotten and have been since day one. Something else that's totally unforgivable are the signings in January, whoever was responsible for Hedges, Zeefuik and Giles should have their contract terminated right away, same applies to whoever was responsible for failing to recognise what was really needed. Ultimately a lot of this falls on Waggott, who is failing the fans, mistake after mistake made by departments and management without any change or consequence. They all need to go but If Mowbray's in charge of the next fixture it will be an even bigger farce than it already is.

Sack this f*%’ing sh”t bast%rd! NOW!!

Confidence must be on the floor, I said before the Blackpool game he shouldn't have been in charge of that fixture. Same applies here but it's probably too late now. He should have been potted weeks ago to see if we could get a reaction from the team under anyone else.

Imagine being a player playing for a football club where poor results have no consequences, witnessing again and again terrible runs of form that would seemingly be allowed to go on forever. A club where the man in charge will sympathise with your failure to perform year after year and owners where the cost of success is an inconvenience to them. A club where half of the fans think we should be grateful or happy to still exist since 2010. Are you really giving 110% every week and are you going to do absolutely everything possible to turn around a bad run of form? Do you need to perform consistently each week? Probably not. If this season has done anything it's proved that we'll never reach the top under the current ownership. It has to start off the pitch, you can go further with worse players than we have if you get it right in the boardroom and on the training ground. Waggott out, Mowbray out but most importantly Venky's out!

It's not my job to decide and that is part of the problem the club has, there is no one making these kind of decisions either. Just a set of mates keeping their heads down. If the point you're getting at is we won't do any better, I agree, I have zero faith in any decision maker involved with the club, which is ultimately why we're probably about to miss out on a playoff spot somehow. Until we get it right off the pitch we'll never get it right on it.

Any manager capable of reacting tactically to poor form. If that's a stand in then sobeit.

Mowbray should not be in charge of this fixture.

100%. The real problem.

Mowbray and anyone else at the club involved in transfers, tactics and team selection have no one else to blame other than themselves. An unforgivable second half of the season and it will be a fitting farewell to a tenure of mediocracy come May. The big worry is our totally incompetent and indifferent owners will not know what to do next. We need to hear from them and we need to see some big decisions made quickly and correctly. Can they do it? Well, we haven't seen it in 12 years... If they knew what they were doing they would be working on a replacement CEO and manager to be announced May 1.

Finger on the pulse from Sheff Utd. They must be a bit short and have something to play for... !

Yet some deluded fans will still say we're lucky to have them. How can any football club be lucky to have owners that have zero interest in funding or improving infrastructure. If your facilities are deteriorating or being left behind by new standards then your owners are a problem. It really is as simple as that in this day and age.

Appalling manager.

This is what we keep seeing week after week. Mind numbing ideas from the manager. It’s a farce! We haven’t scored enough with this setup across a massive amount of games now. Are we really expecting the goals to start coming without any kind of change? The playoffs certainly don’t allow for that kind of passiveness. Sorry to say it but we absolutely do not have what it takes.

Partly but I find it difficult to be critical of any player until they're playing in their natural position. Didn't Mowbray play Armstrong as a wide forward for years and we thought he was crap too? The current scenario is - key player gets injured and we just carry on as is expecting someone else to play well in an unnatural position instead of having a plan B shape wise to play to an available players' strengths. Buckley will not get you goals, we know that, we've seen it many times recently. It might look nice but he's very clearly not a goalscorer. Giles and Dolan should have been peppering Gallagher tonight in the middle at some stage to see if he could do the business. Who saw Gallagher - Buckley - Giles on the team sheet in that order and thought we would score from open play tonight? Maybe Mowbray, although I'm not sure why if he was at the previous 7 matches. It shouldn't have been left like that for so long. The manager is constantly misusing the attackers he has available and the result is over 12 hours of football without a goal from open play.