Mattyblue

Doesn’t matter that it’s complete nonsense, it will be part of their mythology now. File it with ‘plastics’ and all the rest of it.

Ian Herbert of this parish doing the preview show on Radio Lancs as we speak...

Wasn’t it Ben Summer who used to post on here? @Ben-2000 I think was his forum name.

To be fair, he has them top of League 1 now with one of the smallest budgets (obviously it’s still October).

And to make it worse we haven’t actually SOLD 4,000+ tickets. The club has been handing them out free in Blackburn town centre, wish I’d have known, would have saved us a few quid. https://www.pne-online.net/forum/index.php?threads/and-they-say-we-are-obsessed-with-them.3429092/page-11

No, but I could imagine Bowyer saying it, which seem apt at the moment.

Churchillian... “I’m sure on Saturday, we might get beat and they might be better than us, but we’ll be there competing.”

‘Option’ being ‘I ain’t going back unless Mowbray’s sacked.’

Then we stay as we are, a club in suspended animation for evermore, as these owners don’t look to be going anytime soon.

‘Management Consultant’, whet else!

Yet nowhere to be seen on here, still a very shadowy character... https://www.rovers.co.uk/club/whos-who/

Of course, 11 years ago were a normal football club with an empowered main man like John Williams making decisions. We lose 3-0 on Saturday, then what, at this empty shell of a club?

Not a chance I’ll watch it and I’m not the only one thinking the same going off social media. Record crowds for the T20 blast this year, all they needed to do to build further was to get some matches on free to air TV and ride the World Cup momentum. Instead they’ve ripped up 150 years of history and regional identities, for what? 20 less balls? Do me a favour! #boycottthe100

Over 4,000 sold so far the club has tweeted. We should be selling those kind of figures for our only daytime local game, but I’m still pleasantly surprised.

Thought we’d gained a 100? 8,600 from 8,500? https://www.rovers.co.uk/contentassets/d47edf0f19cd47dea3a73e898f8da69c/ff-minutes-9.9.19.docx

We all have opinions on what Mowbray should do and my first one is to ask Mark Venus what exactly he offers the club besides a jarring reminder of Paul Lambert? He seems to evade any of the criticism. Some serious mental gymnastics going on to absolve TM there. Why should the assistant manager be singled out? And the fairly low profile coach that is MV gives a ‘jarring reminder of Paul Lambert’, how exactly? Players, Venus, who next to blame apart from, ya know, the manager? The PA announcer? Groundsman?

‘I’ll support them evermore‘ too. But for me supporting ‘them’ is wanting the best for the club, not blindly backing Tony Mowbray, who is just passing through like the rest. For the good of the club it’s looking like time for a change.

Would agree with most of that Rev, but sorry I’ve not seen anything that suggests BB will be anywhere near.

Now or the summer it’ll be a nice pay off either way with the contract he signed last season running until 2022.

I’d be amazed if we had 3k. Anecdotally, the vast majority of folk I know that went last season aren’t bothering.

Well obviously you can’t change all the players. So you change what is possible. Fresh regime, fresh ideas.

Exactly, ergo looking like time for a change again.

Why is it unnecessary?

Recruitment no question. But the last 18 months were poor performance wise. Trying to just stay in games and have ‘a right good go’ in the last ten minutes. No hard feelings from me, he was a bloke learning his trade at a pretty high level, but lets not get the rose tinted specs out, his sacking was overdue.

As I’ve said before, relegation was the best thing that could’ve happened to Mowbray. We are now plucky little Rovers, forever ‘in transition’ in a higher league. Even though we had a Championship budget that blew everyone out the water in League 1. If we’d had stayed up at Brentford and trundled around in 15th to 20th since he’d have lost the fans long ago, instead there’s barely a murmur.