I know every post in every thread has to be about how Mowbray needs to go, but that was an enjoyable first half. Much more forward ambition than we’ve shown for months.

I’m in that picture somewhere in the DE Enclosure - got a hailstorm of coins at the end from the Villains in the Darwen End. Cracking game though.

Far be it from me to offer advice to a QEGS alumnus, but I think you are conflating the views of a highly engaged minority with the fan base as a whole. By definition, most Rovers fans aren’t engaged enough to post on a message board like this multiple times a day. They will not “wake up” reading guff like the last few pages on here. I’m not expressing a strident view on the subject because I don’t have one as a fan. But I do as someone whose parents lived in Langho until recently. The residents have real skin in the game, and a much greater potential to affect the outcome than anyone on here. Perhaps marshalling the resources of your school pals to help them might be more productive than haranguing a bloke called Joe on the internet? And I would guess that to get anywhere with your goal of a dialogue with the owners, you’re going to have to tone down the dogmatism quite a lot, because they probably hold views you will find a lot more incendiary than Joe’s..!

I think he will be canned prior to next season but not for performances - who in India cares about those - or even results (Covid, pitch, injuries blah blah). I think he will go for sticking his neck out on duff signings like Pears and Ayala. Overruling the recruitment dept and then his signings subsequently both failing this year and being long term, and thus expensive contracts I think will register in India. He knows he’s busted no matter what happens on the pitch now.

Painful to watch, as has been the norm for ages. Elliott the wonder kid has been desperate for a while now, not a great advert for next season’s loans.

Definitely. That sound we heard when Raya flattened Dack was £15 million going up in smoke. If I was CEO he wouldn’t be playing either.

Can’t think of any better music for the post-Mowbray team to come out to than Barry Gray’s Stingray theme...”Standby for action!”

Thanks Tony. Would anyone take a ref to task over a pattern of mistakes over time?

We were relegated???

The fact that a 26-yr-old attacking midfielder - he certainly can’t defend - has scored only 13 goals in his entire professional career can’t all be Mowbray’s fault. Two scuffed shots in great positions the other night sum him up for me. Sell.

Out of interest, Tony, what happens after the final whistle with regards to the ref and those penalty incidents? Will he have looked at them on TV? Will the Assessor? Would they be discussed? If so, how would those discussions be taken forward?

Complete rebuild is essential IMO as this lot aren’t good enough. I’d sell Armstrong to avoid FFP issues and provide the new manager a bit of a kitty, and if someone wants Lenihan for a few million I’d take that too. Kaminski, JRC, Wharton, Carter, the Crew lad, Travis, Davenport, Buckley, Dolan should hopefully all keep improving. The rest can all sod off. Needs a Furphy-like turnover of the squad, and a proper centre forward, another Danny Graham would do.

Three penalty decisions and he gave the least obvious. I’m beginning to wonder what the point of watching football is anymore when referees decide the outcomes of so many games. We need a new manager, not least to bite the bullet on Gallagher and Brereton, but I can’t see how anyone thinks our players are collectively good enough to challenge.

Rothwell scuffs more shots than anyone I can remember.

Buckley has been our only player living up to their level, but with Brereton, Gallagher and Dack all being hopeless, we should count our blessings they aren’t out of sight already.

Gallagher and Brereton embarrassingly bad. Only Buckley looking up to their level.

I thought that was a breakthrough performance by Buckley, he looked the best midfielder on the pitch.

Buckley, Dolan, Dack, Trybull playing really well, the others playing well apart from Douglas - liability - and Gallagher - useless liability. He had three great centre forward moments and was pathetic in all three, the new John O’Mara. Don’t expect the ref will allow us to win this but we certainly deserve to so far.

I don’t think I’ve seen any of our fullbacks do that - Bell did exactly the same as JRC in the first few minutes against reading and the keeper did a great save from a goal-bound header. Stopping crosses is one of our many defensive weak points imo. I too thought the one on Saturday was a certain goal.

I heard an interview after the Bristol game where Johnson specifically said he had words with Armstrong after the game about him taking all those shots when teammates were better placed. Could’ve been fatherly advice or a punch-up or anywhere in between.

He was, but it was a 2-on-1 overlap, Brereton didn’t track back.

I agree with your summary of the two. Nyambe is very strong 1-on-1 going both ways. Where he goes wrong for me is positioning: too narrow when the ball is on the other side of the field and too far forward when we don’t have commanding possession in our own half. JRC can be more easily beaten but his positioning is generally better and he has far more variety when on the ball.

It’s hard to figure out what’s happened to Armstrong year over year. Last year, I don’t remember ever thinking him overly greedy, and almost every goal he scored was a belter from outside the area. In fact it was often mentioned where were the scruffy goals. Then to go to not even shooting on sight (because for half his shots he has no sight of goal whatsoever) but shooting whenever in range from wherever, no matter whoever is in a better position and however many defenders are in front of him, plus not scoring a single long-range belter almost defies belief. I’ve watched us sell our best players for 55 years but this is one instance where I think if we get offered top dollar we should take it.

That clip only showed the half of it - he also won the ball not far from our halfway line, then got round the back of the entire defence, then played a peach of a pass. Clear as day penalty when you slow it down.

Perhaps no more astonishing than the mantra on here over the last few days of “Can’t see where the next win will come from and it’s one-loss-in-11 Millwall away next” turns into Millwall being complete pushovers rather it being anything to do with us playing well. I really don’t understand why one group of anonymous internet posters obsess over another anonymous group having different opinions.