Think Paul is getting his games confused somewhere. I think he means after the Sheffield Utd game on November 5th rather than the Forest game in Feb. (As after Sheff Utd we went on that ridiculous run that got us to second).

I could see a potential big walk up on Saturday if Sheff Utd don't win tomorrow, but still dont think it will be anywhere near selling out. If we could hit 20k it will be a success in my opinion.

Not a chance it will sell out. Even if all available tickets did somehow go, there is still the Blackburn End Upper and the other half of the Darwen End Lower to open up yet.

Wonder when we will close the Darwen End lower to home fans for this game due to lack of interest? About 7 seats sold in there for Saturday looking at the online planner...

Correct. Bristol City - Get a ST holders details to claim a £10 ticket Derby - £20 Blackpool - £25 Stoke - £25 Bournemouth - £10

What did he say?

He's been on the bench last two games.

The original death spiral. 9 defeats in 11 after we were sat 7th and 2 points off the play offs in Janaury. Didn't sign any defenders despite being low on numbers, sent Paul Downing out on loan on deadline day, next game Lenihan gets injured and we're left with Mulgrew and Rodwell as a back two, with Magloire playing a couple of games.

Nice idea but there will be no response.

Peterborough 3 Rovers 0. A Good Friday on the ale is the only reason i'm bothering with this.

All those loan signings were pointless in the end though. If we had played Travis from the start over Reed, we might have finished 18th instead of 15th, or if we had played Wharton all season over Tosin, we might have finished 18th instead of 11th, or Dolan all season instead of Elliot we might have finished 20th instead of 15th. There is no prize money per place at this level so we would have been better off playing and growing our players rather than achieving nothing with everyone else's.

Not a chance Mowbray is going to West Brom.

Isn't Ainsworth our of contract this summer?

Said it before, but Middlesbrough under Mowbray were 3rd at Christmas one year and finished 16th. The year before that under him they were 2nd at Christmas and finished 7th.

Forest still have to play Bournemouth though, and all Bournemouth's games are against sides in the top half. I wouldn't rule it out.

Not quite. 4 in 9 home league games from August-November.

Would rather that than the manager sitting there sulking on the sidelines because we have managed to come back and win 3-1 after being 1-0 down at half time.

I know it happens all over the game, but at least it would finally put to bed the honest, humble, 1970s working class nice guy manager theory's to bed. Anyway, as long as he isn't here next season and we get a fresh start I will be happy whoever he takes with him, as the last 3 months have shown the November/December form to be a blip more than anything. August-November and January-now is what you usually get under Mowbray.

Who runs the official site these days? Misleading headline here.. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/april/01/roverstv--watch-rovers-at-the-ricoh-/ Rovers TV headline saying how to watch the game live tomorrow if you can't make it, only to say you can't watch it 😆

Remember going to Port Vale and Barnsley in that run. Horrible games, was also at Tranmere where the fightback started. Again like others have said, and it was probably because i was a lot younger but i always thought we would go up in that season. Still, it's a good thing Dalglish did lose those 6 in a row so it can be pointed at every time Mowbray goes on a ridiculous losing run.

I've seen some cruel pranks before, but this beats the lot.

They beat Sheffield Utd 4-1 at home but then lost to Hull 2-0, so they seem a bit hit and miss. They will however hammer us as Mowbray won't have a clue what to do with our starting lineup. Coventry 3 Rovers 0

Lowe and Benson were here prior to Mowbray weren't they? Or did they all sign contract extensions at the same time with Mowbray?

To be fair i said he was bang average at his absolute best, i do share your views that most of the time he was abysmal. I didn't really factor in some of his comments over the past 5 years, as all managers speak mostly bollocks. That 1995 one though, yeah that's a fair point. Shows the kind of man he is in my opinion. He's not the honest, humble 1970's "football" man that he and a lot of others would have you believe.

I'd probably give Mowbray a 5 or so. Breath of fresh air when he first come in, but I think a lot of that can be down to following Coyle. I don't blame him solely for the relegation, but as said previously 2 points adrift with 15 games to go, I personally think he should have got us out of it. So that's one strike there. League one after an uninspiring start he changed it around and got Danny Graham involved which saved our season and secured a pretty comfortable promotion in the end. Whilst of course promotion is the aim, you don't get to see your side win many league titles, so it was poor just to laugh that off like we were better than that. There's a reason the 75 title winning team still gets talked about to this day. That was the first sign for me of Mowbray not really being a winner and being a "just enough will do" manager. 18-19 again started well, a bit inconsistent but found ourselves a couple of points outside the play offs after a superb January. Clear as day a centre half was needed in that window as we only had Rodwell and Downing as back up to Lenihan and Mulgrew (who was slowly losing his form). Not only did he not bother sorting it out, he let Downing go out on loan on deadline day. What followed was a Lenihan injury in the first game after the window shut and 9 defeats in 11 games that destroyed a promising season. "Defenders are coming" 19-20 started with a bizarre transfer window of promising defenders only to sign Tosin on loan, who was decent don't get me wrong, but nowhere near enough to what we needed. In his own words "we sold our goalie to buy Sam Gallagher" which again was another odd decision. Even odder that he had no plan to replace Raya and settled for another loan who was bang average at his absolute best. Our captain Charlie Mulgrew played the first game, had a stinker and was promptly sent on loan only playing one more time for us over the next two years before leaving on a free. The first game against Charlton was the end for me with Mowbray, a dreadful performance with Gallagher bumbling around up top replacing our player of the year the season before, Rothwell left on the bench despite a brilliant end to the previous season, and despite being 2-1 down at home to a side just promoted, he sends on John Buckley for the last 10 minutes leaving our £7m striker sat on the bench. The season as a whole went as expected, plodding on until getting in a good position, before not knowing how to cope with dacks unfortunate injury. Covid disrupted the season and we finished in mid table never really threatening anything. 20-21 looked great on paper, a big squad packed with talent. Strange season being behind closed doors but a great start, followed by more inconsistency with Mowbray not having a clue of his best 11 ended with us a few points outside the play offs as usual in January. 2 wins in 17 followed and we finished 15th for the second time in 3 years. Cracking "journey" so far. This season I think most feared the worst. A promising but inconsistent start saw us in 10th before playing Fulham at Ewood, a record home defeat had me close to giving up entirely. Somehow that result galvanised everyone and the next 2 months were incredible and gave the feeling that something special could be happening. However as we all know, January was crying out for one solid striking addition to push us over the edge. Mowbray didn't bother because "we don't play that way" and of course just like two years ago with the defender situation it came back to bite him like we all knew it would. A club record 5 games without a goal followed, with only 6 been scored in total since the new year. Now of course we could find a bit of form that still makes us finish in the top 6, which all things being considered would be a fantastic achievement and would probably bump up his score a bit. I will be amazed if that happens though and feel another 11th place finish coming on, which would be a total failure to where we were at Christmas. Player wise he's been hit and miss, Armstrong, Dack, Kaminski and Diaz eventually have been great signings that will all end up in profit for the club, there have been howlers too like Gallagher, selling Raya for peanuts, getting Harrison Reed in and telling him to learn off Smallwood and Evans. Travis, Buckley Wharton and Nyambe have all come through in his time and become important players, a shame one will leave for nothing in the summer. So, barring a promotion this season, my main memories of Mowbray will be a great night at Doncaster, a brilliant two months in 2021, long ridiculous losing runs that never seem to end, a record home defeat, and a record run without scoring a goal. At the moment 5/10 seems more than fair. He hasn't finished as high as Bowyer yet, and in my opinion Bowyer inherited a bigger mess of a club than Mowbray did. (He also kept us up.)