Exiled_Rover

Am I the only one that doesn't have a great deal of affection for Dunn? Bit too much of a billy big balls for me who was never professional enough to keep himself off the trainer's table.

I was born in Manchester and my dad was a Manchester City season ticket holder growing up (to my everlasting shame I converted him to being a Blackburn Rovers fan). If we really hire Grayson / Dunn I'm off to the Etihad from now on. 🤣

The fact that he's a Blackburn Rovers youth player, and apparently a fan, has put him on the radar of the fans (and apparently the owners). He's done a great job at Wycombe though - he's eminently more qualified than some of the chancers we've handed the keys to. He's not my first choice, but watching Wycombe beat MK Dons in the Playoff Semi Finals this week reminded me that his teams are incredibly well drilled and will run through a brick wall for him. That's a damn sight better than what we've had since Hughes.

Added to those huge layouts for Brereton and Gallagher: Whatever Ayala was on a week, when every report said he'll play half a season at best (and none of the winter). Whatever Pears was on a week (a 3 year contract to your mate's son who is not actually a professional goalkeeper). Those loans wouldn't have been free either - we're either picking up massive wages or paying a hefty loan fee. The contracts of fringe players that were extended during COVID because you liked them (Smallwood / Gladwin). Mowbray has had it made here.

This is the kind of negative thinking that allows our manager to say we can't possibly hope to compete with the likes of Middlesbrough, Sheffield United or any club on PL parachute payments and remind us that it's not 1994 anymore. We're constantly told the Rao family have more money than sense - they've written off £200m so far and show no signs of buggering off. SOMEONE needs to get in their ear and inform them that a quality managerial appointment will make 95% of their problems with Blackburn Rovers go away. I keep repeating myself, but it's a dream job for an experienced manager with a plan. You literally get to shape the entire set up (as there simply isn't any infrastructure). For me you shoot for the moon with Farke and Dyche. If those both fail you go with Ainsworth.

...his contract ends in June, right?

And look at the results. Ante up for a manager, or continue to watch the club flounder.

Agree to disagree - he's not going to get another PL job. His card is marked with regards to style of play. He'll have to take another Championship club up again if he wants to manage at the elite level

They sacked him after he dragged them to the PL by sheer force of will - he's probably quite pissed off about that.

I'd sack him at the START of a 5 year contract if he'd said this: https://twitter.com/OTDHUFC/status/1524048316648108033?s=20&t=P_qOubP7nw6q2ANHvCGn6g

I don't think the current one is bad for this level either.

*Youth/development of PL loanees who played regardless of how good they were.

I always thought he looked a tidy player in possession, could get about the pitch and wasn't afraid to put a tackle in. He must not have liked Mrs Mowbray's lemon drizzle cake.

He'll get nullified at a higher level. Again I'm one of his biggest proponents on here (like Brereton pre-Diaz), but if you man-mark him with an PL athlete you take 75% of his game away. He's just be forced to run wide into dead ends. His range of passing is good for the Championship, but would be shown up in the PL. Annoyingly he's also a 70 minute man - no idea how that's the case with the amount of training they do, but he's either out of puff at 70 minutes, or has to go hiding for 20 minutes a game to finish the match.

He's cheap because he has zero managerial experience.

I'd be very surprised if Wycombe don't win the final based on what we've just seen.

Keith Andrews is up there for me too.

So much for being Blackburn boys, eh?

Watching Evans jog around the centre circle for Sunderland passing backwards and sideways is giving me a warm glow inside. What a nothing player.

I think it'd be a massive PR coup if they did buy the club and returned it's soul... but then I'm not their Head of PR so they'll never do it. Imagine the two Blackburn brothers restoring Rovers to dignity. They'd have the key to the town (albeit they could probably buy the town outright at this point).

I'll just be £430 richer and have more free time in the winter. I stopped loving this club a long time ago - it doesn't hurt me anymore.

LOL 'talent drain'. It's a terrible backroom staff and AT BEST Mowbray is a middling Championship manager (I think he's significantly below average, but I'm not having that argument today). The players would be in for a shock if Ainsworth or Farke stepped through the door with their backroom staffs, let me tell you.

Someone somewhere said they're the wrong caste. Plus they're not into football, apparently.

He doesn't need to say it - he needs to actually permanently leave the building.

We know that's not true - the Championship is nothing special. Wycombe are drilled to within an inch of their life. It would be a shock to the system to our players if Ainsworth signs (he won't).