There always has been a strange bunch that would clap the team off even if we lost 7-0, then go mental if a player dares not acknowledge them.

It's a nice idea, but there's no way our current crop of millionaires are going to listen to someone like Ainsworth who had a pretty average playing career, and only a lower league managerial career do far. It would go the same way as Jones as Stoke.

I just want a manager, who will set up the team properly, play everyone in there correct positions, look organised, and have a sense of urgency about them that looks like they want to win the game they are playing in. Everything at the minute just looks like everyone is going through the motions, playing such slow, predictable football, and then a shrug of inevitability when we go behind. Burnley are 5th in the top flight, Preston are 3rd in our league. Nothing is going to change any time soon either, it will be talk of "regrouping and coming out strong after the international break" and no doubt a tweet from captain fantastic stating how "today was disappointing but we'll learn from it and bounce back". No we bloody wont! I usually despise international breaks but I'm glad we are not playing next weekend.

Theres Belushis (sp?) Right outside Shepherds Bush tube station which is the designated away pub. Anything else is home fans only though where you have to show your ticket to get in.

Yeah i'd say so, although Luton haven't been to Ewood for years so I imagine a lot were "ticking off the ground". If we play them for the next 5/6 years at this level I doubt they will bring half that. Our away supports holds up pretty well for me. Draw seems the favourite result here, would leave us with W4, L4, D3, Exactly where I thought we would be going into the October international break.

I think someone else might have mentioned it, but I don't think it helps Dack that the personnel around him is constantly changing. He's still our key man for me, and I think if you got Rothwell & Holtby in the side around him on a regular basis, not for one game every five then it would help him out tremendously.

Out of interest, would you have Rowett here over Mowbray? I don't really have an opinion of Rowett either way, think he's pretty average who will probably always get a championship job. Can't say I would be overjoyed or disappointed if he rocks up here one day.

Can't be long until another club takes a punt on Rowett. I think him and Monk will have managed every club in the championship between them by 2022.

I genuinely think that a starting 11 of.. Walton Nyambe Tosin Williams Cunningham Rothwell Travis Holtby Downing Dack Graham Being given a run of games without the constant need of chopping and changing would end up being a decent side that could finish 10th and upwards.

It's a great store is Terrace. As official partners though, any chance you can have a word with them and ask them to do a phone case in "Blackburn 88" ?

That's a pretty sad line up considering we have spent £15m on strikers over the past 12 months and not one of them gets a look in!

If I was Dack I'd be waiting until the Summer to see what options there is, I don't think he will want to be playing mid to lower table championship football until he is 30.

We have only scored more than 2 goals in a game at this level 4 times under Mowbray in 71 league games. Hit plenty of 3's and a couple of 4's in league one though.

Danny Graham got one last season, before that I imagine it must have been Rhodes.

So your answer to us scoring no goals, is to play no strikers? Going off what i have seen from our strikers so far that actually could work! I'd personally like to see Nyambe at right back, Rothwell right mid, Downing left mid with Travis & Holtby in the middle.

I said it a few days ago, but it certainly looks like we have gone back to the 2013-2015 period of "stop moaning, we're only x amount of points from the play offs etc etc" Winning one, lose one, draw one. I see this kind of ratio happening for the rest of the season to be honest, we'll be x amount of points away from the play offs until the end of time. Still,better than the 16-17 period under Coyle I suppose.

At the risk of derailing the thread, with him stating that the entire midfield was out with injury I reckon it was the one the year after. https://www.11v11.com/matches/tottenham-hotspur-v-blackburn-rovers-12-february-1994-21550/ Mark Atkins also assisted Gallachers goal in this game with the fine through ball mentioned in the original post I didn't get on the highlights but I remember going down on the train to this one with my mum, I'd have to see the goals again but I think they were both down our end in front of a really big away following. Anyway, Brereton....

I think he is thinking of the 2-0 win at WHL in 93-94.

If I was Rothwell, I wouldn't want to tie myself down here. I always felt Mowbray was playing Rothwell at the end of last season through gritted teeth, and only did so IMO because them last 6 or 7 games were like glorified friendlies, if there was something on them there is no way Rothwell would have been starting, as shown this season, one start in nine. I'd say already that our squad for next season looks worrying, we are still going to need a Goalkeeper, two new full backs, two new central defenders, a winger that is actually a winger, and maybe two forwards to replace Graham and maybe Dack.

I wouldn't read too much into it, he needs to get used to the "intensity" of this team apparently.

Yeah, only Dack would get close, but I wouldn't swap a front two of Newell & Speedie to accommodate him.

I saw Rich Sharpe point out a couple of interesting stats over the weekend, and after some digging found some of my own that show the "Character" of Rovers since Tony Mowbray took charge. Rovers haven't scored an injury time equaliser/winner in a league game since Fulham away in March 2017, the only other one in Mowbray's tenure is against Cardiff at Ewood in the same month We are yet to score an injury time winner in the league since Mowbray took charge (Last one being in February 2017, under Coyle, against QPR at Ewood) We haven't come from behind to win a game since April 2018 against Peterborough We have only come from behind to win a game in the league 3 times since Mowbray was appointed, Bristol Rovers home, Peterborough home & away in 17/18. In the 58 games since we came from behind to win a game, we have conceded the first goal 25 times, losing 19 of them. We haven't come from behind to win a game at this level since November 2016 which was under Coyle, against Brentford. The last time we conceded at Ewood park and won was New Years Day last season. Pretty damning stuff I would say, it generally means that if we go a goal behind, you might aswell go home as this lot aren't getting back into it. The signings of Cunningham, Downing and Johnson have no doubt helped the side to see games out when we are in front, but the lack of response when we go behind is really concerning and something that needs addressing if we are ever going to improve beyond a lower mid table side.

In years to come "that 15 minutes against Luton" will be as fondly remembered as "that tackle by Myles Anderson"

I really hate the argument that "Huddersfield relegated us single handedly". Proper shifting the blame, loser talk. They looked after themselves and I hope we would be in a position to do the same to someone else one day. I blame Venkys, Coyle, and even under Mowbray we had enough opportunities to get ourselves out of it, I'm thinking rotten performances against Barnsley & Bristol City at home, Gallagher not keeping the ball in the corner against preston, not attacking a poor Wolves side with 3 games to go etc etc. I'd completely forgot about what Huddersfield did until I just read it, and couldn't care less what they do this season.

Difference being Hughton has won promotions at this level, kept teams in the premier league, and has probably had a better managerial career than Mowbray. Hurst has done nothing.