Mattyblue

I’m no planning expert, so if anyone that is wants to put my mind at rest to what’s currently lodged with Ribble Valley Council. https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/site/scripts/planx_details.php?appNumber=3%2F2021%2F0175

I know. My point being, he shouldn’t even be comparing this non competing mess of a side to a progressive, automatic promotion chasing team in the first place.

What has a team chasing automatic promotion and losing an odd game as they do so, a totally normal turn of events, got to do with a team in their standard position of mid table chasing nothing in particular?

A new broom is desperately needed throughout the club. It has all become terribly stale and in the post-Covid world all businesses have to be nimble and innovative. I just can’t see that being possible with Waggott and crew at the helm.

‘Yet I feel the negativity, potentially from yourselves, because I understand the expectation that I brought to this football team, not to the club, because this is Blackburn Roversand I understand Blackburn Rovers historically should be fighting in the Premier League’ Noticed how he’s partially rowed back on his comments from Wednesday. On the ‘negative’ part, It’s not the media’s job to be positive or negative, but to prod and probe and hold those in positions of authority to account. The LT/Radio Lancs should never be a PR arm of the club.

Probably the first time I won’t pay this season. It’ll be Andy Bayes for me then as he describes the match off an ifollow stream from a Blackburn studio. What odd times we are living through...

That’s AFC Fylde’s ‘EFL by 2022’ motto in tatters, then...

Forget that, target has to be 50/51 from now on, and that’s with all the top sides to come in late Feb and March...

We are seeing standard behaviour as a manager gets to the end of his shelf life. Confusing tactics, constant changes of side and system, increasingly odd interviews, poor body language. It’s a bunch of players that are no longer responding to their manager, it happens, 4 years is an age in the modern game, and the side is now merely treading water, the team is crying out for a new voice. It is amplified here because these situations drag on much longer than they do at normal clubs.

This thread is 99% pointless as we all know he’s ‘well protected’ within the club, and I doubt that the owners give that cash black hole of a football club they own much thought outside of the annual Pune summer summit. But I suppose they are partial to an odd decision out of nowhere, I remember folk thinking that Bowyer was in situ for as long as he wanted, until he wasn’t, and Lambert had arrived within hours. Difference being GB didn’t have allies in executive positions...

Take it the Journey-ometer is now back to year 1, game 1? As our famed ‘possession based game’ seems to have been replaced with ‘young centre halves hoof it forward’

Hang on, hasn’t he been saying the exact opposite since he’s been here? That Blackburn Rovers should be aspiring to do just that? Getting to the divide and conquer stage with the fanbase, as he knows his belittling of the club will go down well with many a modern fan and useful idiots like Dunn, lowering expectations ever more.

Amazing that the owners fall for such thinly veiled arse covering. Presumably they’ve signed off on the Cat 1 academy, the non-sales of playing staff, the PL loans, the BB/SG style signings over the years because that’s how they’ve been sold ‘the build’/‘the journey’. Now they are being told that we are still at square 1, but no recriminations, they’ll in all likelihood tell him to crack on for his fifth full season when they next have their Pune get together. Forget hitting targets, forget tangible improvement on the pitch/in results. And folk think managers wouldn’t want to come here?! It’s a dream gig as Championship jobs go.

Good thing about being on a journey, is you can re set the milometer anytime you want... ’“I think we’re really only 28 games into this journey, not four years” https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19095433.tony-mowbray-says-rovers-promotion-journey-just-begun/

He’ll be telling Tam to ‘slow down’...

He shouldn’t worry about that, doesn’t matter how many times we stink out the place on Sky, the same old ‘has his teams playing good football’ tropes will be trotted out next time we’re on...

It’s the change in demeanour in recent weeks that is interesting. A real sense of him losing that ‘jumpers for goalposts’, ‘Mr Football’ routine, currently it looks and sounds like a bloke going through the motions.

There’s a chance 50 points plus could be needed this time - indeed 51 of them weren’t enough for us...

Oh I didn’t get the impression that he expects to be potted, but that he’s bang out of ideas and would be on the verge at a normal club.

He is half American, so no surprise. The easier paced MLS may help him stay on the pitch. Even mid 30s, overweight Rooney looked fitter than half of them on the clips I saw.

I don’t listen to many Mowbray interviews, as they usually all follow the same ‘point(s) in the bag move on’ (or no points, move on) routine with no discernible change in tone - but that Radio Lancs interview was something else; a bloke kind of knowing his race was run, struggling to get a tune out of his players and pretty much asking to be put out of his misery. And he would be at normal clubs, but here we just stagger on, which leads to this total confusion and malaise you witness on and off the pitch on a match day.

Pretending that Warnock and McCarthy were still unemployed and you were asked by 10 Rovers fans this weekend ‘well who could replace Mowbray that would be any better?’ Mention those two and the majority would reply with something on the lines of ‘shit football, wouldn’t want that here’. Putting to one side the total denial that they must be in if they think they are actually watching ‘good football’ at Ewood Park, it shows how absolutely nothing has been learnt 10 years on from a certain sacking...

I would say they are very ‘soft’ critics, win against Barnsley and half of those on Twitter/LT will be giving it the usual ‘League 1! ‘Stable’ ‘who we gonna get?’ ‘Spoilt fans’. But as you say, it’s all just noise and there’s nothing to suggest those in Pune or their representative on Planet Stability are in any way preparing to pull the trigger...

I would say he’s still miles ahead of those two (and a lot of other managers too) Totally anecdotal obviously, but Im on a WhatsApp group and the performance and tactics were absolutely pilloried last night - but was TM seen at fault or even mentioned? Not at all. If that’d been Kean or Coyle or Lambert or Bowyer, said managers would have had both barrels. As would Allardyce. His halo has slipped in recent weeks, but he’s still as Teflon as any manager we’ve ever had.