Mattyblue

I would presume he will be. Nyambe last signed a deal as a 21 year old academy grad. Whilst Pears was signed as a senior professional on a four year deal (and that’s without even going into the Boro/family links).

There will be plenty of posts on this thread about how it’s all over. And personally I see us finishing about 9th, just not enough quality, bottle or managerial flexibility for me. However, in the quest for balance, the international break has come at the right time. We need to re-group in April, with hopefully a post South America unscathed and relativity fit BBD. We’ve seen these post Christmas death spirals time and again, and we often rebound with a decent April… all is *just about* not lost, but we’ve certainly lost any margin for error.

More flat pitches. You get five full days, so great for the coffers of the WI Cricket Board, terrible for the Test game…

Any Rovers fan that thinks we have had a more ‘damaging’ appointment in our entire history than Ke*n needs their head examining…

Of course finishing in the play off places doesn’t ultimately mean anything if you don’t finish it off. But you without doubt can be competitive in this league without parachutes (this basket case of a club seeing its form fall away post Christmas every season is a different issue, but it obviously not merely due to budgets, as the top 6 shows).

I see no evidence of TM ‘losing the dressing room’ What I see is the standard post Christmas slump. Normally it has us falling from say 9th to 17th, season finished by February. This time it has seen us drop from 2nd to probably 7th by this afternoon, one of the biggest prizes in football rapidly drifting away, so obviously it feels much worse, but it is par for the course for this manager.

Thing is Gav, you are trying to have it both ways here… ‘Can’t compete with Fulham and Bournemouth’ Ok, bit defeatist, but see the rationale. ’So what about QPR, Luton, Huddersfield?’ ’Well, err, they won’t go up’

Not quite like for like. That was a bad but brief slump. Plus we had undoubted quality to turn it round. This has been going on for three months and we have nowhere near the quality of player these days.

Four at the back according to Sharpe…

Your pals may have conducted themselves in a ‘proper manner’… plenty more didn’t.

*Bit*

They clearly do not know the football business, we’ve 12 years of evidence on that score…

When have you praised TM, Jim?

Not sure he looks in any worse shape than before. But let’s have it right, he ain’t exactly going to have Ryan Giggs/Teddy Sherringham longevity…

Exactly. All the pearl clutching on here since last over a bit of a fracas in the dressing room and a manager with the hump is just bizarre. It’s professional football, adrenaline will have been pumping with an unexpected place in the Premier League on the line, potential life changing situation for this group of players, it wasn’t a bridge night at the rotary club.

I think he’s done fine when called upon. But he’s largely been a squad man (started 7 games), so I’m struggling to see how he would go down as one of the main heroes of any promotion.

We lose, he gets the blame. Fair enough. Shit selection, stubbornness, all on TM. We win, not only does he get no credit for the turnaround, as it’s all due to the dressing room shop stewards staging a revolt, but *checks notes* his body language is disrespecting the club, and as a fan, disrespecting me, due to him sitting in the dugout for 45 minutes with a face on. I’ve always defended this place, as yes it’s on the negative side, but still a place for a more cerebral exchange of views than Facebook etc. But sorry, some of you have lost the plot these last few weeks…

Repeat after me - ‘No More Bundles!’

All very odd and confused marketing this. We got a few in there for QPR/Millwall because that was the only place for the Double Decker offer, so there was a bit of an incentive, but still only numbers in the hundreds. They then were going to open it for Bristol City, then didn’t bother due to ‘lack of demand’. Now they are going to. With no ST holders in the DE to bump up the numbers, and no specific offer for that stand, there’s in all likelihood going to be a hundred or so folk rattling around it - so why bother? Want our fans back in there? Fine. But it needs a real marketing push of ST sales in the summer, not this mish mash of an approach.

Social media addicts in fishing for serotonin boosting ‘Likes’ shocker…

In what way has Johnson been pivotal this season? Offers a bit of experience in a side lacking it, but to say he’s had more of an impact than Dolan, Khadra or Rothwell, don’t get the logic.

Bit of common sense down there. Hallelujah

Though saying that, even though the club was stating Blackpool would be Cat A to try and push floating fans towards that shite Final 5 bundle. I’m sure I spotted the big screen last night showing prices for it starting at £25, so Cat B. Which would be the best you could hope for considering there will be a sizeable away contingent Swag will want to fleece…

Personally think a few of you are looking far too deeply into Mowbray just being his usual fairly strange self (no surprises as some on here have totally lost the plot in regards to TM). He’s often had a face like a smacked arse, even after a win. He’s a pretty arrogant fella and has obviously had his nose put out of joint by whatever went on at half time. But so what? That’s part and parcel of the game, a feisty dressing room is no bad thing, we are at the business end now and I’m glad to see the players still want it.

I was feeling elated walking up Livesey Branch Road, as was everybody else bouncing up the hill… then I read this thread. TM ain’t the only ‘odd’ one.