You're assuming that a new manager would actually want any players on such a list, that he wouldn't have a list of his own, and that the recruitment team themselves would still be at the club. Any manager worth his salt would pick his own players. Just because Mowbray says he is planning for next season, in spite of not knowing whether he knows himself whether he'll be here or not, doesn't mean that they actually are.

A change of manager may not have made a difference, or maybe it would have done. Who knows? You'd have to go some to do a worse job than Mowbray though. Having a new manager in place now would have allowed them time to evaluate the squad in advance of next season. Assuming Mowbray does go in the summer, whoever does come in willl instead go into next season from a standing start. Opportunity missed, but that's not a surprise with this lot.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20039741.mowbray-gives-latest-backburn-rovers-out-of-contract-trio/ Is this the same pay pay structure that affords Ayala a reputed £17k per week, eh Tony? Born yesterday, we were not.

A lot will, yes, but not all. You miss the point. They've scrapped something which was easy to do (order paper tickets online and request home delivery) to something which may not be so easy. And as Rigger says, the justification they gave - to reduce queues - is a nonsense in this case.

This is my take. I reckon he's deflecting the conversation while he himself decides what he wants to do.

Mowbray has had 2 weeks to dream up a strategy to win this one... ..so 2-0 to Coventry.

And what happens if said friend does not have a mobile phone? Not so easy peasy then.

Thinking this through from my own perspective.... Myself and my daughter have season tickets. Occasionally, a friend or two may come along, for whom I purchase tickets online and get them posted home. It's then a case of handing over the paper tickets on the day. Easy peasy. In the new world, I'll now have to either print the tickets myself (a no go as I don't have a printer - who does these days???) or somehow download the digital tickets onto my phone and transfer them over to friends' phones so they can then swipe at the turnstile. They've turned something simple into something complicated.

How the heck does removing the option to have tickets posted out help to facilitate ... 'alleviating queuing times at the Ticket Office and collection windows on matchdays' ?? It's just more cost cutting.

Great read, thanks. Over 60 plus years of watching the Rovers, my Dad reckoned that only Shearer eclipsed Briggs as our best centre forward.

He's on what, 17k a week? No one is going to take him off our hands if that's the case. It'll be another Mulgrew scenario, where we just let him run his contract down whilst contributing nothing, all at the club's expense. Nice one Mogga.

Fair enough. Just a terrible signing then 🙂 My point still stands though, in that he's no use to us.

Please elaborate

On his day, he's a very good defender for our level. He's no use to us though, as he's never fit. Terrible signing in hindsight.

April 2023, probably

Out of interest/morbid curiosity, I checked the early bird prices for T'Clarets. They range from £319 to £455 (adults). Thats potentially to watch Premiership football....

He painted himself into a corner last night with that selection, and had no choice but to do something drastic at half time. He's wasted a quarter of a season with his stubborness and poor decision making. Let's hope that the penny dropped last night, but with several other teams hot on our heels and the likelihood that we haven't seen the last of his idiocy, we will have to go some to nail a play off place. It would not surprise me one bit to see Buckley back as a false 9 on Saturday.

What the heck has gone on with Ayala? I know he's a sick note, but he's just vanished off the face of the earth after pulling up with some calf issue a few games back in the warm up. I wonder if something's gone on between him and Mowbray.

1-0 Rovers win Law of Averages says a win and a goal will come sooner or later. Mind you, I said the same before Bristol.

Perhaps you are indeed 'lost' 🙂 Mind you, most of us are probably in the same boat with regard to the latest 'journey'...

It's his arrogance which gets me. He thinks he knows better than other managers, and in the case of Giles, premier league managers.

I'm going for a 1-0 win, we've got to score eventually even if it's a fluke. Derby will be a tougher proposition.

I don't see what difference it makes whether we finish 3rd or 7th with regard to offering him a new deal. If we go up, fair enough, he deserves a new deal. If we don't go up, either by falling out of the top 6 or losing in the play offs, he has to go. He's had more than enough backing and time.

Only Wharton and Van Hecke in my opinion. I don't think Brereton is good enough.

My mate said the same to me last night. Just to try somethig different, anything to grab a goal.