Let's hope not.

I would think Armstrong is more of a candidate for a substantial, late bid.

Mowbray has been unable to set up a defence at any club he has managed. I'm not buying the conspiracy theories.

No, no, no, everyone else is very naughty for playing the game with agents and getting deals done. We are going to teach them all a lesson by having a sh*t defence (again). That'll show them!

Well we were reportedly set to shell out the best part of a million on a defender. Okay, that's not mega bucks, but it's still competitive in this division. It's not all about the money, anyway. The way we always fold when there is something riding on a game epitomises the mentality instilled by Mowbray. We do not have enough grit or a belief we can succeed. As others have pointed out, our recruitment process appears to be too slow and on a one a time basis. Re - the distant owners, I am just relating my points to the fact they are physically "distant". Sorry if my reply came across as abrasive. I wasn't aiming it at you personally. Just my take on it.

The purchases of Gallagher and Brereton show we have enough money to compete. The distant owners would not be an issue if they installed a fully functioning, competent chief executive, (who in turn would appoint a suitable manager). Mowbray has now instilled a toleration of mediocrity into the fanbase. We are a club devoid of ambition.

He used to play violin for The Electric Light Orchestra, and Tony's a big fan.

Well we do need someone to fill the obligatory 'Tony's old boy' role now Downing's moved on.

Just what you don't want, Tony calling to waffle and talk in riddles for half an hour while you're having tea.

As long as we are such a soft touch in defence, and fail to win key games, (ie when the pressure is on), it would take Messi or Ronaldo to give us a chance of top 6.

After taking a small club from the brink of relegation to non league football to the Premier League, I think he can be forgiven for one relegation.

The problem is that the hole at the bottom of the bucket keeps getting bigger, ie we can't defend and are showing no signs of improvement in that crucial area. We currently have no goalkeepers and only one decent centre half on our books. Okay, we got slightly more points that last season and finished marginally higher up the table, but not enough to claim tangible progress. That constitutes treading water, in my book. By default, I reluctantly agree with your last sentence, but only due to the point I made about the ignorance of the owners and the chief executive they have installed.

They will stick with Mowbray through ignorance and because they have not appointed a suitably enlightened chief executive who could make an informed appointment. It's abundantly obvious that Mowbray has reached the end of his shelf life at Rovers, and that our direction of travel under him will very soon be backwards. That's what happens in this game when you attempt to tread water. Suitable candidates to take us forward are out there, some of them obvious, (e.g. Hughton), some less obvious, (which is why you need a real chief exec, rather than a hired goon for window dressing), to pick the right one. We are snookered.

Myers' tweets about Rovers are very patronising. The subtext is how grateful and accepting we should be about watching mediocre Championship football. He evidently sees that as our station.

Well Neil Warnock would've come, and whatever you think of him as a person, he is definitely a good Championship manager. The problem would be that any appointment would come from the bottom of an agency's barrel.

Ainsworth would be a good shout. Won't happen though. Tony is nicely embedded.

.......which usually means a no show, when there is something riding on the game. Time to buck the trend.

Translation : Fewer and fewer fans in the ground watching boring rubbish and an inevitable, gradual decline.

"You're not good enough for the top two, lads". Truly inspiring.

Correct decision for me. No attempt to play the ball. A pre-meditated decision to go and boot someone, (almost a carbon copy of the Exeter player in the Play Off Final the previous evening). The fact Mowbray seems to be saying he won't appeal says it all. At least Brereton's finally made his mark!

….and don't forget to ask Neil Yardley for his pre-match playlist, so we can listen to exactly the same tracks at exactly the same time they are played before every home game

….. and fix a model of Gallagher onto the right wing.

Gallagher is going to play right wing from home.

Mowbray's tenure is reminiscent of Bowyer's, except he has spent more money in the transfer market. I expect he will eventually leave under similar circumstances as, in my opinion, like Bowyer, he clearly isn't going to take us up another level. He's stabilised the ship, fair play, but at some point it is likely that we will stop treading water and start drowning. Many of the players we now need to ship out are his own signings. For all his talk of a long term plan, if he is here in ten years time we still won't be in the Premier League, or anywhere near it. His one promotion from this division pre - dates Owen Coyle's. Enough said. Add to this, some of the football at Ewood has been dire and is not going to fill empty seats anytime soon.

If Bennett really has had flu for "three weeks" he will be close to death! What a load of rubbish, Mr Mowbray (surprise surprise).