10 hours ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

Promoted teams usually suffer through making too many changes rather than not enough in my view, so in the still highly unlikely event that we go up I'd still be ultra cautious about doing anything beyond adding a fairly small number of players to the squad. Not exactly going full Norwich City, but using an unexpected promotion to get the club as a whole in a healthier state. For me that would need to include giving the manager (who, in this still very hypothetical scenario, would have worked wonders) a fair crack of the whip, but I accept this could be seen as being too squeamish to pull the trigger if we have someone lined up who could take us to the next level. 

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.

12 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Wordsworth Blues, we are (not) here lol

I can't have been the only one , thinking the poor Danes were like Rovers fans, leaving Old Trafford after one of those decisions!

Just think...Gareth Northgate has the distinction of taking Boro down!

You are not allowed to say that.

We all have to think the same things.

50 minutes ago, JohnGo said:

How can it be a red herring. If it’s delayed at Companies House the EFL can’t act on them. They have to get their ducks in a line. Are you a ITK regarding the financial state of the club or just a glass half empty guy

@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?  😀

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[Enter shepherd]  ...

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10 hours ago, Ewood Ace said:

Hamburg were undoubtedly a big club 40 years ago but now they are firmly 2nd tier club. Brereton came from Forest who were also a big club 40 years ago it has no relevance to today.

What we do know about Holtby is that he was injury prone, when he was on the pitch he didn't have the legs and was often anonymous. The only times Holtby looked any good was when he was playing against 10 men.

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.

50 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

A former German international, who by the time we signed him had been without a club for months after being released from the German 2nd tier. 

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.

5 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Show pony for me. The new Per Frandsen. 

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.

15 minutes ago, windymiller7 said:

My eldest daughter's boyfriend works for ADI who do the advertising boards and TVs at most football grounds. He was at Adams Park just after the start of the season on the Friday afternoon prior to Wycombe playing on Sky at  lunchtime on the Saturday. As he was working to repair one of the boards and chatting to his workmate, a voice behind him said "Na'then, that sounds like a proper accent". He turned round & it was Ainsworth. He said GA seemed like a good bloke & took the time to have a 10-15 min chat with him.

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...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/football-league-blog/2021/apr/06/how-did-gillingham-become-the-only-efl-club-not-to-pay-agents-a-penny-football

20 minutes ago, DE. said:

Our current form is so bad that there are going to be rumours of TM being sacked after every draw/loss now. At a normal club he would have been gone weeks if not months ago. We've won 1 game out of 14 and have gone from within touching distance of the playoffs to a relegation battle for goodness sake. I've said for some time that eventually we won't be able to pull up out of the frequent nose dives we enter under TM, and I think we may be at that point now. Problem is, as always, Venky's are far too late in making a decision. Their glacial decision making ability is exactly why we will never be successful as long as they are in charge. 

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.

39 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

So plaudits to the LT?? for printing what many on here have been on about for ages.

Big friggin deal.

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

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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)

On 08/03/2021 at 20:54, den said:

Different day, different bollocks.

Hes not talking to the fans, he’s talking to the owners. For some reason they’ve always accepted this tripe and apparently still do.

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.

7 hours ago, StevenSK said:

Not long now, hopefully we are able to exploit; Depresston 

Anyone any ideas? The bloke is doing some research .

14 hours ago, Gav said:

Its not often a Rovers photograph comes along these days that I've not seen before, but this is one of them, thanks for sharing.

I want to say its taken at the back of Nuttall Street stand?

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/

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

If our support ever got so bad I'd have to consider wether I want to support a club with fans like that.

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.

Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

It looks to me that it'll be a lot harder to bring over players that aren't exactly well known on an international level. Just the pond we'll be fishing in. Good job we got Kaminski when we did.

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?

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Where does that leave our overseas scouting set up ?

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.