Makes sense for players of a certain calibre and experience yeh. Of course, it relies on their club getting promoted! But if they do well they could still attract interest from higher up, especially while young. How is your new gig going Joe?

If he could easily compete in League Two, why do you say the best bet for him is a VNL move? Is it that you think he is good enough for it but that nobody at that level will seek him out yet?

Won't happen, sounds like they want him in their first team from now on. Expect we will wait to see the extent of Poveda's injury before making a call on that. Did Scully look anywhere near as fast as Arma?

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19731448.wingers-linked-blackburn-rovers-wait-ian-poveda-injury-news/ Both Ogbene and Scully mentioned here by the LT as being of interest, along with others. Scully is younger with a considerably better goal record, plays on the left or right of the three (usually the right it seems), also 3 assists this season. He seems far more interesting on paper, but Ogbene has been capped 5 times for Ireland whilst Scully doesn't seem to have been at senior level yet. Presumably there is a reason for that, but without having seen either lad I'm more interested in the far better goals record. Depends on cost of course.

There's no need to be rude by calling it nonsense and saying I'm making excuses just because I have a different opinion. Nyambe should have started ALL games he has been fully fit for, as he has long been the best, sometimes only RB at the club and whilst he's not perfect and has the odd bad game, he has never been poor enough for long enough to warrant being dropped. So for me, even if it has only been about 20% of a season, any dropping of him is him being messed around. And I'm sorry you don't understand the nuance that not playing him when fully fit, but forcing him in when not fully fit is a poor way to treat what I regard as comfortably the best RB at the club. It's not a contradiction as you imply. I rate him more than you do, clearly. Just accept that and don't be an ass about it.

Clearly you weren't paying attention when he was being dropped so that JRC, Buckley or even Gallagher on one bizarre occasion could play RB ahead of him. Because that's what I'm on about. No stats about how many appearances he has made (which doesn't show times he was subbed off either) are going to change that. JRC hasn't been fit at all this season, and that's the only reason Nyambe has played every game when fit.

I've said for a while that I think Nyambe is disillusioned and his heart hasn't been in it for a while. I lay most of the blame for that at Mowbray's feet. Most of us know he has pissed him around a ridiculous amount. The lack of a proper backup hasn't helped either, with him being forced to play whilst not fully fit at times due to injuries to the non-RBs that sometimes get preference over him, further straining his hamstring. That said, it's still RN's career at the end of the day, and despite the manager he has to find the drive to make sure his next move is a good one and his career doesn't tailspin.

Tbf, from his comments about how we aren't going to get Klopp or Guardiola or whoever he said, if TM goes, I think he is well aware he isn't at that level. He might think he is a Championship version, I dunno. But I definitely think he believes he is capable of copying their methods to a good extent and effect. He isn't. He also seems to think we are lucky to have him. We aren't.

Unfortunately all of that combining usually means a poor result. Not just under Mowbray either, but historically. Or it certainly feels like it. The ones I expect nothing from on paper, we often surprise.

Unfortunately, if we return the favour with like for like pricing for their fans, we will have to charge our fans the same, unless that rule has changed. Which also means today's pricing was for their fans too, not just ours. Reckon there is a bit more money in Bristol than in Blackburn too. Their £33 might be roughly our £20-25 in equivalent terms.

I'm in little doubt that we would fail to do any better though. Probably take us a couple of seasons to find anyone at all, other than perhaps some loanees.

Prediction - now we have Ayala, Wharton and soon Van Hecke back, a lot more 5 at the back bollocks in the games to come. Results to drop accordingly.

The somewhere else might stop wanting him if he doesn't play better than that.

Uh oh...we all know what that means...

TM very lucky BBD has possibly got him out of jail there, because that was our first shot on target, this late in the game. We might scab a result, but that alone shows the whole approach has been wrong.

Thank fuck we have Diaz, for now

So to summarise the subs... 1-0 down, brings off an attacker for a defender. Also changes formation. Then, brings on an attacking midfielder for a defensive one (not the defensive one who has been anonymous though). Then finally, takes off a defender for another defensive midfielder. Presumably changing the formation again as a result, or at least the 'tactics'. Utterly batshit, incoherent approach. No consistency to it whatsoever. Are you trying to win the game or shore it up Tony? Just fuck off already!

72 minutes, 0 shots on target.

Jesus fucking christ. I'm glad my stream has gone down.

Hahaha that's a bold prediction!! Even bolder than Mercer saying us to win was a license to print money! There will be excuses galore. What it definitely won't be according to the presser, the LT comments fans or many of the FB fans, is Mowbray's fault.

Taking them even further away from the danger players and expecting a slow CB to cover it doesn't seem a good solution to me.

Some of our best attacking options too, in Dolan and Rothwell. If he wanted to go more defensive, Rothwell coming on to play mid would make more sense than totally shutting up shop. He also wasn't, presumably, going to make this formation switch until Poveda was injured..so just bring Dolan on. Makes it up as he goes this bloke.

You've got to be shitting me. He has brought Ayala on for Poveda. WE ARE FUCKING LOSING NUMBNUTS!!! We don't look like scoring, how is an extra defender going to solve that!?

Poveda off with his leg in some sort of strap.

That's probably Mowbray justifying dropping him for the next 6 months to play Gally or Bucko at RB then.