Sky TV bosses might hate us for TM if we get promoted. They are obsessed with hyperbole and exaggeration of managers to a condescending extent. Tuchel, Conte, Klopp and all those other performing clowns on the touchline next to our static, brooding Tony. I'd actually love him for that.

You are not allowed to say that. We all have to think the same things.

@crimpshine has made some great points in his posts on here over many months and probably years. Always with the interests of the club at heart it seems. I respect his opinion and he doesn't seem divisive. Or do you just like your binaries @JohnGo? 😀

... [Exit, pursued by bear] [Enter shepherd] ... The Winter's Tale Act 3, Scene 3, William Shakespeare

He They certainly peaked about forty years ago. You're right. But they are the eighth best supported club in world football by attendance. https://talksport.com/football/525568/top-50-average-football-attendances-in-the-world-in-the-last-five-years-including-manchester-united-barcelona-and-borussia-dortmund/ I enjoyed watching Holtby. Even if he was underwhelming at times. That pass for us to score right at the end of the game at home against Stoke I think when they were playing for time and conceded a free kick was class. Or that pirouette past two players on the edge of the box on his debut. Met him once. He's tiny.

HSV are a bigger club than we'll ever be. The fans idolised him. He refused to fit in with the rest of the goldiggers in the club. That's why he left. Then he was benched by Mowbray. He's in no way perfect and who knows why he wants to leave. But really. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

If he is just a show pony, you have to ask why? He is the most astute player in our squad. We've missed a trick due to bad management in my opinion. Fancy benching him. The next time we have a Germany or England international in our team will be a long time hence. Unbelievealbe own goal.

I read some interesting stuff recently about the difference between a manager and a leader. In short, a leader is not a strongman just someone you are prepared to get behind. 'Na'then' is the language my grandad used to use. He was strong-minded and fair-minded. Like most Lancashire folk of his generation. If Rovers are looking for an identity...

Some are saying it doesn't matter if Ainsworth is a Rovers fan. Or even that that might get in the way. I disagree. We need someone with the club's interests at the heart of their decision-making. The lad speaks with the same accent as Uncle Jack. Come on. We need some real passion around the place.

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Inertia off the pitch and now inertia on it. It was always going to be this way. It will continue this way as well unless this fundamental problem is sorted out.

This is a news outlet with a current article on the top dogging sites in Lancashire. It's a dispicable organ. 😄

Tony Mowbray Bingo Game https://bingobaker.com/ Fed up as Pukki scores again? Missing moaning to your mates over a half-time beer? No worries. Pass the time by completing the bingo card with post-match Mowbrayisms. And now you can actually look forward to the manager's interview after the game. No prizes. Just the sad satisfaction that we're predictable on and off the pitch. (Post your guesses, if you're brave enough)

We are trapped in the wrong argument again. It's nothing to do with form: TM has to play THB. Like many managers in the real world beyond football, he takes the path of least resistance and drops the nice lad, Ryan, right in it. There is no reason? He means there is no reason fans will accept. Cowardly management. Spins us a line and we end up arguing amongst ourselves about the wrong thing. It's not about the journey, Tony, it's about the destination. And teenage loanees aren't taking us there.

Anyone any ideas? The bloke is doing some research .

Another one, Gav? Rovers vs Bradford City FA Cup semi-final 1911. C/o @FootballWW1

Plenty more photos and facts where this came from. To think what some of these fellas must have witnessed only a few years before. Puts our present day problems to shame. Brilliant website. https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/

Bell had a nightmare there the last time out. A Rovers fan I know sat with Millwall that game. Bell suffered horrible abuse and that visibly contributed to his performance.

It will be harder for the likes of us but for the big clubs which have 'arrangements' with offshore academies that they own and run, it will be so much easier. Feeder clubs whilst we wil be hanging about in the bargain basement locally. A rather negative view but not unrealistic. On the other hand, would Klopp have been appointed post-Brexit?

Exactly the question I've been asking myself. The answer lies in the silence...? City and Liverpool will be OK because they 'own' academies in Europe from whom they can lend and borrow on their own terms.

Transfer rules post-Brexit. What interests me more are the rules for non-British managers. The top two divisions are awash with them at the moment and i will take a lot of convicing they are particularly familiar with the culture of the FA Cup for instance. As for foreign owners after Brexit...

If we have any realistic ambition, our season will be defined by results - not how we play, been there, done that - against the best teams in the division. It won't be a disaster if we don't beat Millwall. Teams lower down the table have shown us respect this season by setting up simply to contain us. We need to earn the same respect against Brentford, Norwich, Bristol City etc. And that means beating them. I reckon we can.