Mattyblue

For the LT, this is pretty damming (Sharpe’s verdict piece)... ‘During a bizarre, nine-minute period in the second half, between the introduction of Adam Armstrong, the final piece of the cavalry, and departure of Bradley Dack, seconds after he was denied from six yards, they had a back four, albeit one including two central midfield players, and then a front six, with very little inbetween. There were quizzical looks over to the touchline for direction, Harvey Elliott and Joe Rothwell not appearing to know what was being asked of them, and as the game slipped away, the body language didn’t look like that of a team about to launch a grandstand finish.’

Buckley is a £10million player and we were heading for automatic promotion after losing at Watford ... think you can stop hanging on the every word of the Football Man.

Other clubs, neutrals? I’d say a fair chunk of our fanbase too! But yes for those who don’t follow closely, part of it is down to longevity. ‘4 years in a Championship job? Obviously doing a great job’. They are not to know of the dumbing down of expectations and standards and owners that tune in one day a year when Chief Ex and manager make their annual show of fealty in Pune.

I don’t expect my manager to be a performing seal, and maybe it’s just a coincidence with the personalities of the managers we’ve had this past decade, but every incumbent seems to spend most of their time attached to the bench, in contract to their opposite numbers who spend the game encouraging, cajoling and yes, often getting in the ears of the officials. To me it just seems to sum up the malaise that has enveloped the club under this regime.

BBC Breakfast still calling them Chorley Town this morning 🙄

Fair play to them, fantastically run club... but it will be another nail in the coffin for the Rovers fanbase.

‘Alexa - what is the definition of an anti-glory hunter?’

No dream, my friend... https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/breaking-blackburn-rovers-nyambe-contract-19571078.amp https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18938623.rovers-director-outlines-january-plans-contract-talks/

Ched signing gone down well... https://www.pne-online.net/forum/index.php?threads/ched-evans-signs-on-loan-confirmed.3432319/page-2

At what age does a pro not need first team football?

No. We now have one team covering both Ewood and Brockhall... with obvious results.

If they are such ‘great’, ‘optimum’ owners why is the biggest reservation of the likes of phil, Wood et al on the issue of TM going always; ‘I’m really worried who Venky’s would replace him with’ ?

The Charlton and Southampton away games in the relegation run-in in 1999 were both shown at Ewood. I’m sure there’s another too, but I can’t think of it.

You may be thinking of the old This is Lancs site. Lancs Live is run by Reach (new name for the Mirror group).

I would say outside PL towns and cities that’s the case everywhere. I’ve noticed a real drive towards glory hunting with youngsters in the social media and online gaming age... closing stadiums for a year + won’t have helped one bit. Like TV money and everything else, Venky’s chose the very worst time to put us in the wilderness for a decade...

I was sitting in the Riverside for the Derby first leg. I can still remember the two lads down my row leaving at 2-0 down, ‘f*cking play-offs again’

His fall down the leagues begins. Won’t be the last to piss away his talent.

Rovers of the 80s were everything this present incarnation isn’t. No brass, but doing everything it could to upset the odds and compete. A club bursting with pride, both local and professional. 2020 BRFC; billionaire owners and can’t even keep the ground clear of weeds.

I know we aren’t ‘every club’, I posted that very view earlier today. And I certainly have reservations on potting TM on that basis. But for those that believe we now have owners that have learnt their lessons and are bankrolling the club surely they shouldn’t be scared about replacing an underachieving manager? If they are, then obviously they don’t actually believe the owners have ‘learnt their lessons’ at all...

Of course, as it is for every club. Just think it’s a bit of a curious juxtaposition that the very same people usually lauding the owners on said groups are also the ones sounding the alarm that the club couldn’t possibly appoint anyone better than Tony bloody Mowbray...

Noticed some of the Facebook groups looked like they ‘turned’ last night, but looks back to business as usual today... ’Stabilised the club’ ’Who we gonna get?’ ‘small club’

10 years in and some of you still haven’t worked these owners out and think he will be under some pressure, that a ‘board’ will be discussing the alarming drop off in results. ‘His position is untenable’, ‘let’s give a new manager time to settle in’. A thread talking about replacements has been started. Perfectly understandable, that’s how football works, especially in the Championship, however it just doesn’t here, and you are all going to be getting more and more wound up. I remember last season on a similar death spiral, a fan asked Waggott about TM’s position, he merely laughed. The ire needs to be pointed at those that oversee this dysfunctional football club, alas they are now even more popular with the fanbase than TM at his peak. Whet a state of affairs.

‘Don’t know where we go from here’ . ‘It’s not good enough. ‘Something needs to change’.

The Warren Lucy comments were interesting, obviously checked himself just in time from saying what he actually wanted to say, though maybe an insight into what folk working at the club are feeling behind the scenes...