2 hours ago, Richard Oakley said:

If he can fluke a promotion, we definitely need him here.

Lorient fluked promotion because they had a good start to the season and when they finished the season early because of covid, promotion happened because of how they worked out the points. If the season had finished normally, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been promoted as results were going the wrong way at the time and they were dropping down the table. 

3 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Surely Rovers > some random French team though, yeah?

This is not some random French team. It's the team I've watched every time I could for the last 20 or so years. In the last 10 years I've probably watched them more than Rovers. I've stuck with them from the days when they had Kevin Gameiro up front with Vahirua, through days in Ligue 2 when they lost all their decent players and really struggled back to their fluked promotion last season. I think I probably know more about their players than I do Rovers' nowadays. They're certainly easier to watch. Rovers have my heart but not my interest

10 hours ago, Ulrich said:

You don't want to go to France🇨🇵,i find driving🚘 straight through the best option. 😂😂👍 Anyway surely rovers needs come first 👍 and your reaction tells me you think he's done well too. Out of curiosity do they play well under Pelissier? Does he have them over achieving?

In normal circumstances I spend about 10 weeks a year, sometimes 13 or 14 in Brittany. I dont think Pelissier would do well at Rovers as it's a very different set up and I haven't a clue  whether he speaks English. Any manager that can get his team, in the relegation zone, to beat PSG with most of their big stars playing has to be doing a good job. They're still hovering around the relegation zone but did well away at Marseille yesterday, only beaten by a late goal.

I'm not sure for me that Venkys Rovers do come first. I feel less connection with the current set up than I do with other teams I'm interested in in other sports or playing football in other countries. Do I want Rovers to do well again? Yes of course I do. Will I be back at Ewood? Not for the foreseeable future.

Being a Rovers fan ceased being a joy even before Venkeys turned up. It ceased being even something I enjoyed shortly after their arrival, and although I persisted as a season ticket holder, they lost me when they closed my stand and appointed Coyle at the same time. Either of those and i might have hung on but both together was too much. I still follow scores when were playing and theres always part of me that rejoices in a win but I no longer feel the connection that took me all over the country. I no longer plan my life around attending Ewood. I no longer go to youth games. I no longer know who we're playing over the next 6 weeks or enter the entire season's fixtures in my diary when they come out.

Leave Pelissier alone. Lorient are my team when I'm in France.  My husband has been watching lorient for nearly 30 years and I've been to the Moustoir countless times. 

Good to hear from you bob

Dis 

Paying for the best managers is often a saving. You get better results, a better league placing, more fans paying more upfront for season tickets, more merchandise sold, more tv coverage so TV income, better players will sign, leading to more interest and improvement all round until your manager reaches the end of his shelflife. Its not like other jobs where the manager facilitates the running of the club. He IS the club's front man. He's what players, public and media see. He makes the club's statement of intent by who he is.

Well, we didn't see that coming did we? In fact I'd just finished saying to my husband, who read out a comment saying Rovers were beginning to dominate, that Derby would score and lo and behold they did

3 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:

Which one, Gumboots?

I try not to say in case I taught anyone on here😆 There are plenty on here who know which one

55 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Swearing is just words. It's an inane taboo carried over from past generations that adults shouldn't fixate on.

Not fixated. Just think it's a barometer of what's going on at the club. More failure, more rubbish spouted, less interest in actually winning a match, fewer goals scored, more lies told, more underhand schemes hatched = more swear words on message board.

1 hour ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Does the occasional swear word offend you?

I taught in an 11-16 high school in Blackburn for nearly 20 years and so of course it doesnt offend me. However, this is one of the few message boards where swearing wasnt commonplace. In this thread it is becoming more prevalent so I just made the observation that this might be an effect of Mowbray's still being here. Nobody is listening to us and it's driving us mad. I've even been tempted to swear myself at what he's saying and doing here and those of you who know a bit more about me will know that's not like me at all.

5 hours ago, JHRover said:

I've been impressed with Derek Adams since his Plymouth days. 

But he isn't from Blackburn nor did he used to play for or manage us so probably rules him out.

He'd also cost some sort of compensation which probably means a no from Venkys

Still think Chris Wilder is the one and that he would come here if the right offer was made - control over transfers, allowed his own coaching staff and left to get on with the job. Didn't exactly have it easy with the owners at Sheff Utd.

Someone in the Championship will get him soon. Why can't it be us?

Because our manager is going nowhere

Well, it works for the government, lie after lie after lie, so I suppose you can't blame Mowbray for trying it too. 

50 minutes ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Tony's latest utter bullshit ramblings

 

“I don’t know how the league is and how the other teams are doing, because I don’t look."

Dont forget, Tony, that fans do look, and do know how perilous things are. Dont just expect them to fall into line and renew their Season Tickets. Stop treating them like ignorant little people. Stop assuming you have carte blanche to run the club into League 1 and won't face any consequences. In fact, just take your myopia and leave our club. We want someone who knows exactly where we are and has a clear view of how to get us out of the mess you've created.

To be honest, I dont mind their moving matches to avoid clashing with the funeral, although, if it were up to me, i wouldn't bother. However, I've just seen that Sale Sharks (and i presume others) are not posting anything other than required content on their social media till after the funeral. Now that, to me, is definitely taking it too far. I and many other people i know, have gone back to work a day or 2 after the death of close family members. Why suspend normal life for a 99 year old most of us have never met? By all means respect the time of his funeral. That seems proportionate. Anything else is, for me, OTT

All this about shelving plans. Is our old friend Shaw back on the scene? 😆

For goodness sake, we DREW! Yes it's a better result than losing, but you'd be likely be relegated if you drew every match. I'm not a Mowbray hater, but I am firmly in the Mowbray out camp because he's outstayed his shelflife here. Most managers don't get half the time he's had, even if their results are better than Mowbray's.  

To answer the question nobody asked, 'Yes, I do still want Mowbray gone'

I'll be very jealous if you get their sacking as a birthday present. I asked for it for mine on Tuesday and didn't get it

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Would you take Rosler as Mowbray's replacement?.

I'd take the tea lady as his replacement at the moment. At least she serves a purpose

25 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Is Waggott a Teesider? 

No I misread the post. I assumed it was an attempt at Mowbrays accent which is very much the County Durham side of Teesside accent. That'll teach me to read posts properly

Sounds nowt like a Teesside accent.