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Appleton, Ince et al were shit, doesn’t mean there are NO good young managers that could do a job at Ewood.

What nonsense.

Just now, 1864roverite said:

Mowbray has worked a miracle at Ewood and yet so many judge him in ten negative sense. Where are the young hungry talented managers that can do better? Where are the players that can somehow be bought with the vast amount of cash we find ourselves aflush with?

The stock answer is this, TM is the man to carry on the rebuilding work, we have seen nothing but gradual success since he came in to the club. What is the issue with progression?

Some fans expect more but we pee with the todger we have got and that means walk before running.

I believe with a little bit of tinkering and a better centre half such as Hanley, Rovers can progress to the top 6 quite easily with this squad and the young raw talent we have coming through. 

Some fans need to believe a bit more, support and get behind the team both on and off the park.

People on here can say what they like, what does if matter if they don’t blindly support Mowbray’s approach? It’s an obscure Internet forum.

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

God I would love if wr do very well this season. The word eating here would be good. 

I see the papers are linking Rakeem Harper with Liverpool and juventus. Remember him? Another singing that people said was useless before they even watched him. 

I’d love us to do well too... just because I’m a big Rovers fan.

Who did?

I remember most people after seeing him saying he was extremely raw and not ready for first team football... which he wasn’t.

‘Easy like Sunday morning’

3 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

Lads this really isn’t difficult. The manager has said he wants to get in the top six this season. The players are saying the same (see Downings interview). Top 6 wasn’t our target last season. The season before they put their neck on the block saying they HAD to go up and they did....

Get off their backs and let them get this window over and the season started. If they are nowhere near the top 6 come Christmas then there won’t be a single Rovers fan happy because top 6 is the the absolute stated aim and we are all Rovers fans first and foremost. 

I’ll hold you to that as I’ll expect you’ll have every excuse under the sun as to why we aren’t up there.

Though I don’t see why you are tying your colours to the mast, as for me we shouldn’t expect to be close to the top 6 at all unless a boat load of defenders and a quality striker emerge in 6 weeks.

The squad currently isn’t good enough and most fans I know don’t have a slightest hope for promotion with it.

What will annoy me is say we are bottom half around Christmas, is the Beetlejuices of the world telling us to ‘be realistic’, ‘we shouldn’t be expecting play offs’, ‘we are where we are’, ‘we can’t compete’, ‘get behind the lads, sooo negative’.

When it is Mowbray and the players making far more of a song and dance about promotion than the fans, we are realistic looking at that squad that’s why we know we ain’t going up.

It’s a bit like ‘turnovers’ which inexplicably seems to have found its way into football speak from rugby union...

Did a job in league 1, now he’s moved on back to that level.

Fair enough to me.

No standard scarf for old fart signings...

At least it’s 12 months, so the usual payoff won’t be required.

Mwahahahaha....

https://www.pne-online.net/forum/index.php?threads/cheeky-plastics.3428475/

Good job he told them to 'slow down' last summer, ay!

Bloody hell didn’t realise I had a reputation for being a sad bastard!

Oldham at home.

2 hours ago, ChrisPriceBaldSpot said:

Let's say they do. Would you take the offer? 

If it let us build a strong core to the side that could propel us to promotion then it would be worth considering.

But I just couldn’t see the funds being made available.

Just now, ChrisPriceBaldSpot said:

If we got offered 15 million for Dack I would take it. Rothwell to play in the Dack role, Chapman and Armstrong out wide. Use that money along with what we have, to bring in 2 centre halves, 1 being Hanley, a winger, a striker and a right back. 

Because Venky's would allow that?

Salford and Sunderland will be on more than us.

Yeah the club does do them regularly.

Especially in mid to late July (you'd think) with school holidays starting.

I've noticed that every season there seems to be more and more back to back home games (and vice versa).

Cardiff away on Good Friday.

So much for local fixtures when there is little public transport.

At least it isn't as bad as two years ago when it took me a minute to realise we weren't listed in the Championship fixtures at all...

Sky Bet sponsored club with a Sky pundit as co-owner appear on Sky as soon as they possibly could... go figure!

Wigan away midweek AGAIN!

Too much to ask that our only two Lancs away games can be on a weekend?

It depends. They don’t normally release sales figures week by week like they are doing this time.

Do sales always start low and then a shed load of folk renew just before claim your seat deadline? Possibly how it always occurs here. Especially this season as there is no early bird period and then the price hike, so even less need to rush to renew.

Or they could be down like for like and we are looking at sales akin to the Coyle season as we are a fair way away from 10,000 sales with 6 weeks to the season.

But we’ve no idea without that comparison to previous years.