4 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He's a knobhead if his first 25 mins is anything to go by.

Yeah he was always very arrogant. Probably why he became a referee

1 minute ago, Tugay-is-God said:

A classic BB tumble there, the referees are wise to it these days

It meant he didn’t get pretty blatant penalties Huddersfield at home and Hull away last season. The boy who cries wolf 

I used to teach Josh Smith. Not the best behaved student and was also the ref when we lost at home to Forest last season 

I know clubs have extensive scouting systems and don’t base who they sign on what a manager says in the press but I never fully understood why Mowbray was talking 16 year old Phillips up so much this time last year 

I know this is just one fan’s opinion but my Barnsley supporting mate who told me Hedges wouldn’t get in our team has said the following about Brittain:

“You can have him. No composure, pretty poor touch but just has one trick he does over and over again which can give him some joy.”

Does anyone know if having the international flexi ticket gives you any season ticket holder advantages such as priority access to important away games or Wembley finals? If not, I’ll probably just buy 4 or 5 games on a game to game basis 

24 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

No mention by Kean of Orr having injections to play, the player named is Dunn.

My initial rose coloured view on seeing the Pod is waning fast.

Another thing about that Swansea game: Olsson played left back so why was Orr asked to be the hero because Givet wouldn’t play left back? 
 

I also don’t believe the cricket ball thing happened and wasn’t picked up by cameras at the Wigan game 

5 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

No mention by Kean of Orr having injections to play, the player named is Dunn.

My initial rose coloured view on seeing the Pod is waning fast.

Yeah and in the part 1 podcast he talks about how he ended up in prison when he was just trying to break up a fight. Bad things seem to happen to him but it’s never his fault

Many players when looking back at their career have a fairly sketchy memory of games they played but Orr was very flexible with the truth.

The Givet Swansea game wasn’t 1-0, it was 3-0. Remember as well that Givet denied refusing to play when it was reported at the time. https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2012/apr/18/blackburn-gael-givet-refuse-play
 
The Crystal Palace game under Berg was 2-0, not 5-1 as Orr said. We also weren’t top of the league at the time as he claimed we were.

Orr also made out that we had just been on an eight game unbeaten run before that Peterborough game.

The Shebby stuff is terrible to hear but my opinion of Orr and Kean didn’t really go up whilst listening to the podcast 

15 hours ago, Mellor Rover said:

For what it’s worth, with the fixtures left, if we did somehow win all 3, I think we’d make the playoffs. 

Problem is we’ve won 2 in 15 is it? So not happening.

Would probably need a decent goal difference swing as well. I could see both Sheffield United and Luton ending up on 72 points 

Last weekend I met a few mates who support premier league teams (Liverpool, Wolves and Leeds). They don’t pay much attention to the championship but whenever they have glanced at the table they have seen Rovers in the top 6 so were surprised at how much I wanted Mowbray gone. I reckon there’ll be a lot of that amongst fans of other clubs and the media next season if he does go and we start poorly. “Blackburn fans will now be wishing they kept Mowbray” 

Cheers for this. The lack of Dack stats confirm what many of us are seeing. He isn’t making loads of mistakes but the games are mainly passing him by 

9 minutes ago, booth said:

The big difference for me is we had a few players out so TM decided to completely fuck with the team rather than just swap like for like and bring in some cover for BBD. Then he forgot what made them successful in the first place. He did pretty much the same last season. His persistence in playing Gallagher means that most of the time we're playing with ten men.

I think the “like for like” made him sign Hedges and Giles instead of a striker as he wanted “wide forwards”, not centre forwards. He ended up just signing non scoring wingers. The wide forwards thing only looks like working when Brereton is one of them.

4 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Both he and they have bottled it it's as simple as that and it's a collective thing.

This seasons best spells were built on hard graft, pressing, getting after teams and not being intimidated by anyone post Fulham. A basic system was applied that suited this group of players but in recent times we've gone off kilter. He has reverted to type over cautious and worried about trying to outfox opposition with silly selections.

Today was a prime example as was Derby 1st half and Coventry 1st half, he has no bottle and prefers his teams to plod through first halves hoping to nick something or get in 0-0. We've seen it all before and that's mostly how lge 1 promotion was gained. He tried it last season being possession based and now whilst it isn't back to that totally they've clearly been instructed to slow it down. Hang onto the ball across the back. pass it backwards from the middle and look to hit the channels.

It doesn't work and doesn't suit this team but yes as you say too many aren't putting in the shift but what's he saying to them ? His unambitious nature is bound to rub off as will them being told he's happy with them despite results, only weeks after he's questioned them and blamed it all on them.

They've all lost the plot but he's the leader and the man who should take responsibility for all the messing with the team. He doesn't and never has but good managers do if they want to protect their side from pressure. 

The big difference for me in the second half of the season is the midfield. Travis, Rothwell and Buckley were an excellent midfield trio before Christmas. Travis has probably gone from the weakest link in that trio to the strongest as the team’s form has dipped. Rothwell has been less dominant since January and Buckley is struggling to have the same impact and although Mowbray and analysts will tell us he was a false 9 when we were on a winning streak, my perception is that his average position was deeper than it has been since January. First half today the defence had to go direct because a central midfielder was not giving a viable alternative. Buckley and Rothwell’s decline has also led to us not pressing as effectively 

5 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Coyle appleton kidd Ince were barely here for over a year. Some less. Mowbray has had 5 years. How can we judge a manager on such a short space of time compared to the luxury Mowbray has been afforded?

Yes but although Mowbray shouldn’t have lasted as long as he has, he lasted longer than all those managers because he was doing a better job then they did 

21 minutes ago, rigger said:

Personally, none of the managers you mentioned have made me stop going. Mowbray has.

I don’t want to come across as sticking up for Mowbray but why did you continue to go under Kean and Coyle but not now? 

15 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

One of the worst? I can name six worse.

Yes. I’ve only been following the team since 1992 but Harford, Kidd, Ince, Kean, Appleton, Coyle were all definitely worse.

Mowbray does however need to go. Remember January/February time when he was linked with the vacant Ipswich and WBA jobs? I don’t know how serious the links were but how perfect would it have been for them to have paid us a little compensation back then and us to have been forced to get a new manager in for the last 3/4 months who couldn’t have done any worse? 

47 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

That’s it. Getting hammered by last place Posh. We’re a laughingstock.

I am convinced any manager in Championship could’ve kept us in playoff places. 

Apart from Warburton 

There were quite a few occasions where both Diaz and Dack were looking along the line and screaming for the ball as if they didn’t understand they were offside 

6 hours ago, TruRover said:

Disagree - if we want anything out of that game then we need travis. In my opinion he has been our standout player in the last month or so. Has clearly up’d his game from just a defensive midfielder - now seems to be one of our main driving forces and often looks for the forward passes between the lines. 

That’s my whole point though. If he is such a standout performer, I don’t want him suspended for Millwall and Bristol City 

11 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Could have been a straight red on another day.

I think we need to rest Travis against Fulham. One yellow card away from a two match ban and I would say he’s highly likely to pick up a booking against that Fulham midfield 

Am I the only one who thinks there is something not quite right about this Markanday injury? Feel like he was never going to be ready until next season but we wanted to make a big deal out of giving him his debut and have then made up an injury. Maybe I’m still stuck in the Kean days mentally 

Just now, booth said:

Why did he bring off Dolan?

I thought Dolan and Gallagher both weren’t great second half and was calling for Butterworth or Khedra to come on for one of them with 20mins to go. 

1 hour ago, 47er said:

Brentford want Rothwell, presumably for free.

https://www.footballinsider247.com/brentford-set-sights-on-signing-blackburn-rovers-26-yr-old/

I’d rather have Rothwell putting himself in the shop window all season to leave on a free at the end of the season than sell him on the cheap.

I don’t want to turn this into a Brereton thread but he really did in my opinion show very little potential in his first 2 years here. I would have bitten a team’s hand off if they offered £1million for him in the summer. I am flabbergasted and delighted with how well he’s playing this season despite him not being that influential today. I always had more time for Gallagher because he was a good player in a poor team under Coyle.