Mattyblue

Seen plenty of the prominent members of the Rovers fan Twitter-ati all pretty much saying ‘but who possibly could be better?’ It’s Tony bloody Mowbray for god sake! He’s a nice bloke and not a bad manager, certainly better than some of the tripe we’ve seen in recent years, but it’s a good example of how we’ve dumbed down our expectations as fans and seen our club run into the ground if Tone is as good as it gets...

No transfer/wage budget, kits, season tickets for the next campaign, then, if a country halfway round the world doesn’t open it’s borders sharpish? We in 2020 or 1920?

If you think we put in decent performances at Barnsley and Wigan then you’ve lower standards than me..

Still don’t get your point? He’s largely managed clubs the size of Watford and Fulham, or in third rate leagues abroad, not exactly Klopp, is he?

There won’t be a ‘next step’, if by that you mean improvement. That’s ship‘s sailed with the piss poor transfer dealings since promotion. A next manager will need to be someone who can work on a shoestring/in an embargo. Can Mowbray do that? Would he even want to? If not, what would be the issue with a McCarthy?

‘Results colouring the view of the performances’, well until we get points for 70% possession garnered by passing the ball around our own half then that’s kind of what fans will do...

Not true at all there, Gav. McCarthy constantly had to sell his best players whilst bringing in free transfers (he had a net spend of about minus 15 million, no luxury £7million signings on young forwards there) and kept them largely in the top 10, with play off appearances ... look what has happened to them since for evidence of how well he did.

But what if he Jokanovic uses Bupa, can he come then?

‘Club in East Lancashire’ your new phrase? What’s the location of Ewood Park got to do with anything? He’d have a nice pad in Cheshire or Manchester with the rest of north west football, not going to live in a flat above John’s Cut Price at Mill Hill, is he?

No longer able to tempt a manager from fecking Millwall? Nicely sums up the wrecking ball these owners have put to this club this past decade.

Why? Because keeping him as manager is what he thinks the club will do. He goes at the end of the season and he’ll be all ‘Correct move for all involved. Time to move on’.

Why can’t you compare the motivational skills of managers and work ethic of teams just because they are in different leagues? You don’t need to be an elite footballer or manager for those. Sheffield United are a prime example of how far mastering the basics of the game can take you, in their example from mid table League 1 to challenging for Europe in 3 years...

£12 million down the toilet and now we return to the late Bowyer era sell off of the silver. What a total mess, yet where’s the accountability?

He also said there wasn’t a big gap between the teams yesterday, so two examples why I pay no attention to the waffle that managers who are losing the plot come out with...

And Travis

The problem with Bowyer was he was learning first team management with us, with an upper Championship squad, which was a great opportunity for him, by the way and he dealt with all the off field BS excellently. Unfortunately, on the pitch we were against the clock with parachute payments running out, an embargo incoming and a good set of Championship players not far from being broke up. We needed promotion then and there, a Warnock, a McCarthy to give us the best chance, alas the slow motion crash happened anyway...

The with teams still dropping plenty of points, even a couple of draws would’ve been ok with Cardiff to play on Tuesday. Makes those pathetic capitulations even worse... though exactly why we won’t do it.

Been settled a long time down south too, you can tell that with his softening Blackburn vowels! (Though I think he was a QEGS lad, so that might explain it ) Hang on, just found this... ‘It has been a really difficult decision to finish playing football. It was all I ever wanted to do since I was at St Augustine’s School in Billington, and playing on Pleckgate playing fields.’ Pleckgate? My owd stomping ground, no excuse then!

Like Leeds are even close to an Arsenal or an Everton. (Or another at least half dozen clubs) Obviously in Wakefield ‘Spoons at 6am old Waccoe.

Amazing that for such a supposed ‘massive club’ (so massive that they struggled to keep crowds over 20,000 before Bielsa, and that was as the only club in one of the UK’s biggest cities, by the way) they have to keep telling all us fans of inferior clubs how massive they are...

I can see it now - ‘Got a promotion under his belt, get behind ‘im FFS!’

You wouldn’t have dared to say that if we weren’t behind closed doors. CP would be chinning you on the Aldi car park...

Of course the great contrarian would even use a different term for the game itself

Fun fact... the National Lottery was launched that day, the Darwen Blues 007 bus stopped on the way back from Ipswich for tickets!

You must have walked in the wrong direction as there’s Blues Bar in the Blackburn End, The Fernhurst right outside the Darwen End, Ewood WMC outside the Jack Walker stand, and about 6 on Livesey Branch Road (the hill going away from the ground).