If we have genuinely given in to a player request to come back but he can’t play or won’t be sold then we really have lost the plot.

Mulgrew. The only thing that makes sense is that we have been able to secure a transfer fee from a Scottish club. Back to Celtic as player coach? Maddison. Just can’t see it on financial grounds. Rhodes. We need his goals but has he still got it and do we need the aggro that’s his ‘game’ brings?

Don’t worry mate. I understand why you wouldn’t see it.

Just imagine if Raya ends up in the team that wins the Championship and ends up playing in the PL! Now that would show up our goalkeeping department.

Good morning to you too. Do you have a different suggestion? Of course you don’t. Your default answer is that Mowbray is the best manager little old Rovers could ever hope to get.

Only 3, only 4, only 5*... It’s the Bowyer days all over again. We've needed a change for so long people are now fed up of saying/hearing it. So we just carry on. What is going to swing things to force a change? It’s not palatable and it’s not the done thing and some won’t like it but it almost certainly will take the fans to turn on Mowbray and make him walk. Instead, all that happens is what has happened: we win a few games and “we are right back in it” and fans are back gloating “where are all the haters now” - and round and round we go. We need a manager who can turn games like yesterday from a draw to a win and we know that isn’t in Mowbray’s armoury - his teams have no mental strength let alone ability/appetite to win a tight Championship game. Yes he wants it but he can’t deliver and is more than happy instead to protect a point. Preston were not a great side yesterday but we just didn’t have enough to get past them. So it’s down to the fans. But who is going to be the first to do so without being put off by being shouted down, swore at or worse? Some folk on our terraces even defended Kean at the time and our fans will be divided once more. Of course, the alternative is just to shrug and watch games in muted silence and walk home afterwards but is that what anyone wants for a pastime long-term? Because the long-term is exactly what Mowbray has been given. *May even be 7 points after today.

Signing players is a six month project for us. From getting in the door to (potentially) featuring regularly. Football is a confidence sport. Imagine the high of a club spending £7m on you and then being told “you aren’t ready for our first team yet”, or being courted for 18 months and then in the negotiations being told “you’ll need to get past Mulgrew and Williams before you will be a regular”. Or being brought in, doing well and then being “rotated” out of the team to play someone else. Confidence-crushing, deal-breaking and career-stunting. Mowbray is a throwback from the old days where you could quietly sign someone and then get them through the “reserves” and graduate them to the first team. However, the game has moved on, for better or for worse, and with the huge rewards and penalties for being in or out of the PL managers now have to use the windows well, and get players straight in and performing, and then ride that momentum. Fail to do that a couple of times and you are out. That’s football management. Except at Rovers.

Nice touch when he ignored Neil and walked over to the Blackburn end and took off his jacket to reveal his named Rovers shirt. Even better, the photographer got a shot of him in his Rovers shirt in front of the JW, and he stopped her and got her to get a photo of him in front of the BBE as well. He absolutely loves this club.

They should have stayed for the second half.

Not much can really be said about today’s game. But I’ll have a go... The team pretty much picked itself and there were no real controversies in the starting line up. The substitutions also picked themselves due to injury (is that another incoming transfer fee gone for a burton now?) and although I’d have brought off Gallagher not Holtby it had to be Graham who came on next. The only real gripes would be the continued and stubborn insistence on trying to get a tune out of Gallagher out wide and maybe having a more effective full back cover on the bench. Our problems are more deep rooted than just this game though, because of the squad Mowbray has assembled and his inability to play them correctly or motivate them. We have no bite and aside from the absolute gimme from PNE’s defenders (thanks) we didn’t really look like scoring. We need a goal scorers now and fast. Our over-reliance on Dack all this time to paper over the cracks of two failed big-money strikers has now been badly exposed. The fact is though that without a big change - a new manager, or a huge, and unlikely, talismanic signing - nothing is going to change. The referee. Oh dear, the referee. His one-eyed view of the decision making part of his job was evident from early on and he never got to grips with, let alone clamped down on, the PNE histrionics. Every marginal call went their way and many of the less marginal ones - incredulousLT - still went to them. It only got worse after the first chorus of “You’re Not Fit...” as he basically F.U.’d his way through that second half. Not a single yellow card for a Preston player despite some bad fouls (practically GBH on Evans and Johnson), persistent fouling, time wasting and diving (including simulation for the attempted-robbery of an early second half penalty - one worthy of being marched to the security office while awaiting the police on a charge of petty theft) says it all really. I expect our disciplinary record will be worsened after Paul Gallagher quietly removed the bottle of Lucozade thrown on and nonchalantly handed a coin or similar to the fourth official. The upshot of a failure to assemble a decent squad worthy of £20m of spending (astonishing really - money some clubs above us can only dream of) or to spawn a lucky smash-and-grab winner means we are now 5 points off sixth (while PNE are 2) - but which will become 7 and 4 respectively if Swansea beat rivals Cardiff at lunchtime tomorrow. Back to the drawing board but I expect we will just see more of the same for the foreseeable future. Over the next five games we play three teams who we are in and amongst and we don’t do well when the stakes are high. After a tough game away at Sheff Weds we could be looking up at both QPR and Boro, needing to beat both to stay in the top half of the table. All in all, it certainly wasn’t a stale game today and a neutral would have been entertained. However, we need to get a couple of wins from somewhere, fast, and I don’t know where they are coming from.

This referee really is crap but we are seeing exactly what happens to officials when there is a full away lower tier. This game has had more away team decisions than any I can remember.

Mowbray is getting the absolute worst out of Gallagher. And it’s undermining all the good work being done by Nyambe.

If you get any bites from that one then you deserve a medal!

Not a team to complain about but not one to get excited about either. I just hope they play with a bit of pride. I would take a draw right now.

Yeah, it would be much better if nobody did that. The very nerve of a player trying to bring some excitement to a game. ”He might as well be more like Smallwood” - you’ve spent too much time around Mowbray. We have so many bigger problems than an attack minded player trying to pick holes in a defence. Something you make it sound like he never succeeds at. Lets get the goalkeeper and defensive positions sorted first and give players like Rothwell a platform to build from.

??? Open invite for PNE fans to go in the home ends!!! Waggott evidently does not care about Rovers fans and only about money. ?

He’d get you all upset about a two-storey extend he was planning and the get double-glazing for his shed. ”The windows are coming” And yet in the same breath he talks about other clubs hiking up their prices “because it’s Blackburn Rovers.

Not sure he’d make much of a poker player. He’s the kind of bloke you wish was your next door neighbour rather than the manager of your football team. A nice chap.

True enough. No wonder finishing second in League One is seen as some kind of achievement.

You just haven’t got used to how we play yet. You need to “get real” and “give it a right good go” to “see what he is trying to do here”. Or if all else fails take a lead out of this fella’s book... https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/14997890.owen-coyle-smart-turn-draws-wins/

@Revidge Blue

Wow - harsh question 2. Can you blame any player for their performances under Kean? Any player who left was a mercenary, and any player who stayed was... an unwanted mercenary. Was he ever really a “superstar”? He was great for us for a while but we he have been great elsewhere once he broke the Ewood spell. In any case, he was a top flight player for 9 years at Rovers, who contributed fantastically including some of our most memorable goals/moments, so deserves a bit more respect. Such a shame he will be most remembered for ‘that header’.

One for the dads...

Loved Pedersen. The idea of him coming back now is ludicrous.

Just glad they put it in the “news” rather than the “sports” section - avoids confusion.