Hats off for responding but not rising. The level of of personal abuse on this site is sometimes disgusting.

On the pitch, he most definitely is.

Our 99 problems are the reason for tonight. And one man is responsible for those 99 problems.

Exactly this. Coupled with the never-ending mess of a defence and expecting someone else's kids to dig us out of a hole. these are Mowbray's failings down to a tee.

That defence. FFS

The fact that Evans is still even here after 4 years, let alone in the starting 11, is as criminal as the state of our defence.

As they should have done with the supporter base, they should have engaged with the local community around Brockhall to get them on board from the outset. Hardly surprising though really!!

Hypothetically.....what would people's opinion be if the club committed to reinvesting any profit from the sale of the STC into, say, a rebuild of the Riverside? (I don't believe for one second anything like this would happen, btw)

If he had any, he'd be walking out the door...

My thought exactly. We could get smoked here.

Spot on. I was at Camp Nou last year - admittedly this is on a different scale and planet - but Barca have mock ups of their plans for redevelopment of the stadium and the surrounding area. It's all about engaging with the fan base and bringing them along.

This is the worrying bit IMO. Once a business starts to sell assets to raise cash just to pay the bills, it's only heading one way. I wonder if the club are now latching onto latest government initiatives to push through new housing stock applications. I don't know what the situation is in RV, but over here in Chorley, the council are under pressure to free up more land to so they meet their build quota. See Pear Tree Lane at Euxton as an example.

Precisely. My question is as ludicrous as what I was responding to.

So you'd be happy for us to lose every game until say the end of the season? Wow.

Managers don't get sacked on the basis of one game. To think that is naive in the extreme. They generally get sacked because of results over a longer period of time. I want Mowbray gone as much as the next man. But I'd like us to be in the best possible position for when the next man does comes in. Losing games doesn't give that.

Nothing to discuss. You made a statement that you want the Rovers to lose tomorrow. In my view, that's embarassing. Losing one single game won't make or break Mowbray. How about we win tomorrow instead, and then sack him?

Embarassing.

That's a lot of players to potentially replace. Mowbray will make undeserved offers to some off them, for no other reason than to keep the numbers up.

He's not owed anything. He's been handsomely rewarded for 4 years, the upshot being that he's reached his ceiling.

There's not a cat in Hell's chance that Mowbray will make top 6 this season.

I agree. As and when the time does come, it needs someone fresh to shake the place up and inject some urgency.

Let's see tonight then how may times he places the ball on someone's head or toe, or for someone to run on to. I hope I'm wrong.

The problem with Nyambe is that he doesn't stop enough crosses getting into our box, nor does he deliver quality crosses into the opposition's box. Having said that, he probably is the best defender we have, but that just about sums up the whole defensive situation.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Evans in the starting 11.

It's only Barnsley's first win in six or so league fixtures, yet they're now level on points with us. It shows just how poor the league is, and an indictment of just how poor we are considering the relative quality of player between the two clubs.