I won't blame it on Mowbray or Waggot this time, as there are clearly people above them preventing fundamental footballing decisions from happening and with that any real progression of the football club. Armstrong should have been offered a much better deal last summer, after scoring some standout goals. That would have been a priority at any well-run club. Fast forward 12 months... This will keep on happening and it all circles back to one thing: A neglected secondary business ran from a galaxy far far away.

Probably linked to why the squad's never quite ready for the first game of each season either and why revenue is down. Bad planning, bad foresight and an inability to get things done throughout the club. We seem to have a kit released when there's no choice other than to release a kit i.e. the season is starting. Right now a shirt isn't absolutely necessary so we don't have one. A bit like a squad of permanent players, we will scrape one together on deadline day if allowed to do so.

Great post and astonishing is the word.

Ayala should be totally forgotten about. If we're building season aspirations on him then we are in a real mess this year.

Any frees that don't get picked up.

The two sentences weren't meant to be related, although I do think some blame can in fact be pointed at Mowbray as any returning loans after last season's humiliating form were always going to be unlikely regardless of who the player was. Results are key to success, long term and short, that's why football is a results driven business... at most clubs. Bellis and Elliot were never going to happen regardless and the manager did well to sign them a year ago, unfortunately that doesn't change anything. He is completely substandard in too many areas and is incapable of getting results. We could spend £60 million this summer and would be in no way guaranteed a play-off spot under him. That is the reality of how bad our manager is. The quicker everyone comes to terms with that the better.

Good decision by Harwood-Bellis and a similar one will be made by Elliot. MOWBRAY OUT!

If I had to guess, I would say that thousands are with you on this.

Absolutely terrible decision by the club not to replace the manager immediately as the season ended. It's a decision that's going to cost the club revenue and the team support on a match day. Understandably so after the manager was on national television, crying out for the sack with the season still ongoing. There is no coming back from that in a dressing room of winners, which leads to be believe the notion that Brockhall is a holiday camp for a better than average Championship pay. Next season is going to be a total disaster regardless of what players he manages to bring in. I'll be playing very little part in it as a supporter thanks to Mowbray, Waggott and my own lack of trust in a club that fails to deliver the minimum in fan expectations. My prediction is an underwhelming start to the season, a build up of a toxic atmosphere with the owner's being forced to make a change by Christmas and announce more plans for the pitch to be replaced in the summer. Sincerely, A fan that will be spending his money elsewhere

I was being facetious and saying he can no longer contribute enough to justify his salary. He should have been cut.

Is Elliott Bennett still capable of Championship football? Very strange decision to keep him, unless he's taken an appropriate wage deduction.

False promises to mask over an issue that WILL reoccur. I did not believe it at the time, although it was a good experiment to prove right - that anything said by the club, like any badly run business, has to be taken with a pinch of salt. Do journalists really believe that the owner's can't afford £2 million on a new pitch??? This isn't a financial issue it's a lack of interest and ownership issue. Ask the awkward questions. It's chump change to them! Our pitch doesn't need to hold up for a full season, just like the manager doesn't need to perform for a full season. In my opinion it epitomises everything wrong with the club. The problems are glaring, the fixes are obvious but instead corners are cut and we fail to achieve. We are no longer a club of progressive and continuous excellence. As it stands we do not have the right executives or owners to move the club forward. The only way to get their attention is to show how it can be monetised. They're everything that's wrong with club ownership today. When are we going to hear from them?

Are we still 5 or 6 years behind Brentford now?

We still have one of the worst managers in the league and it's going to continue into next season with a few thousand less fans.

He was keeping the squad fresh to ensure we got promotion... 😂

A completely reactive football club. No wonder we're 5 years behind Brentford... sorry Barnsley.

Got to say I'm finding it difficult to support a club where the fans happiness is so unimportant. This week showed just how important fans are to the game but at Rovers we haven't been listened to since 2010. It's difficult to take and continue to support financially and with enthusiasm. Neville's comments about certain owners being imposters is exactly right. “You never hear from the owners of these clubs” he said - that part really resonated with me and I'm sure it does with many others. Venky's should be ashamed at how they've estranged so many fans from this great and historical football club. I realise, and couldn't care less that they've supported us financially, many others could do the same but loyal, hardworking fans take greater joy from much smaller gestures than that. The fans want to be listened to and feel a part of this club. A manager losing the fans should mean something, it has to. Someone somewhere is not getting that message across and the fans have been failed yet again.

How has this man still got a job

Surely he is done? I mean surely this has to be it? No more of this please. I won't be watching or attending a single game with him in charge.

A crap manager. Crap performances and crap results. When will the owners figure it out?

It's time to protest against the manager IMO.

Imagine having to adapt your game to a wide forward when you have all the physical attributes of a CF and because your manager failed to sign players that suit his own system. He should be used as an impact sub and his first touch worked on in training.

Winnable game but it should be a different manager getting this opportunity.

He's right, there isn't a winning mentality at the club under him so why would we expect the difference between 9th and 17th to mean anything. I didn't expect anything less. Listening to that, it's a man that isn't going anywhere, career wise or out of the club. It also sounds like player wise we have a bunch of amateurs trying to make it as pros, which is news to me. He seems to be forgetting completely about the playoffs. They are a lottery to give 4 more teams outside the top 2 a chance of promotion. That simply has to be the target, I'd say every fan would have been understanding had we just missed out on them but at the very least challenged with this squad; which we might have done this year under a different manager. The issue he's avoiding completely is the consistent underperforming and overall underachievement of the current squad, and with that his complete and utter failure as a manger. It seems as though recently he's tried to point the finger at the fans expectation's being out of line, whereas I think everyone realises promotion was unlikely, we were outsiders for that. The issue is that the manager is not getting any results (quite literally) and the squad is drastically lower in the table than it should be. That is why the fans want him out immediately, not because we aren't getting promoted. We are in fact very reasonable people. This current league position is the managers fault and has been coming. Not winning promotion is an entirely different issue, it will take time but I can guarantee even with a much better squad than this Mowbray would not be able to do it. As others have mentioned, canning him so late impacts next season too. Underprepared and prepared to fail for yet another season, whilst risking relegation in the current one with a talented squad! The owner's need to wake up and get active.

Elliot has done more this season than many of England's current best players did when they were 17 going on 18. Absolutely no chance we will be buying him, sorry.