Got to hand it to the players. They really are trying hard to get that goal. Fine margins at the minute. Brum now 2-0 up. Only four points above 21st - if we get this point.

The player in a better position to score. Like in the first half today. Took on a poor chance when he had a better option. It’s a very unhealthy sign if he himself thinks he is the only person who can score - and another symptom of you-know-who. No doubt in my mind that he has an instruction to only think about shooting.

That’s because Armstrong plays for Armstrong and not Rovers. Need to get the cash for him this Summer.

Good advantage played by the ref. Should have been a yellow for the challenge on Nyambe. Another goal for the shoot-on-sight-lad who won’t be with us next season.

Really useful having Armstrong laying on the ground while Cardiff score. Mowbray is going to relegate us.

Why the hell does Armstrong not PASS??

Nope, I posted first. Pretend tributes undermine real ones.

He’ll be absolutely pissing his sides that you’ve bitten.

Big let off there

I know you are looking to start a row, it’s what you do, but regardless of the rights and wrongs, it has become utterly meaningless and is simply routine at this point. It undermines any other genuine tributes.

Seeing Mowbray stood at pitchside after this last week should serve to remind us all that he is completely untouchable. Doesn't matter if we lose again today, he won’t be sacked. Oh, and taking the knee just undermined the whole 2 minutes silence.

And there’s the rub.

Is it the right thing to do to dig him out in public? Something he seems to do with young players (except Brereton). Instead of taking on board his pearls of wisdom, they refuse to sign new contracts and then leave!

If the players are reading this garbage it’s no wonder we are in the state we are. It’s NEVER his fault.

Very well summed up. Numb is how I feel too. I don’t buy the match passes out of excitement, anticipation, or even hope. I do it out of habit and some warped grim sense of loyalty. That, underneath it all, my club is still there. I’m numb to Mowbray’s football; his self-marketed brand of “doing things the ‘right’ way “; his inability to recruit, select, organise, motivate his players; his inability to do anything to change a game once the whistle goes - including substitutions (which seem more about giving players game time than any kind of tactical acumen). I’m numb to the fact that he is unsackable no matter what, and tells us he doesn’t want to be a burden but makes himself one anyway. I’m numb to the way Waggott’s policies have treated fans; the price hikes, the “matchday tax” for tickets to a stadium two-thirds empty, the lowering of quality and standards (stadium condition, area upkeep - I don’t care if it’s not Rovers land, sort it - our awful pitch), the distasteful way that the “improved training facilities” have been “announced”, the lack of clarity around how he will protect our Cat 1 stats apart from saying he will. Well, sorry, I trust that about as much as I trust Venkys to absolutely respect Jack Walker’s legacy. I hate the way he says one thing and does another. I’m numb to being treated like an idiot to be duped into such schemes as paying £400 for a lottery ticket to win a £10,000 jackpot - after I’ve already bought one. I’m numb that we are totally reliant on the Raos to keep this club afloat. A total mismanagement of a club for over a decade that has left “our future”, at best, something to try not to think about and at worst fucking frightening. I’m numb to the reality that one day they could wake up and decide they’ve had enough and that’s that (when will it be a full 10 years after Kean signed his last contract - might be a date to look out for?). Where is the hope, the optimism? I’m not talking about the fake optimism that some fans will start spouting about if we beat Cardiff, I’m talking about next season and the season after that. Where is the planning? We can all see the contracts coming to an end. Where is the marketing about welcoming fans back to Ewood, about assurances over safety or access, about a pricing strategy designed to get the stadium as full as it can be following a hiatus of over a season. Or at least keeping everyone informed about why they can’t do any of this... yet. Forget free shirts, what about a bit of communication and engagement? Worst of all I’m numb to the truth that nobody at the club has the best interests of the club at heart. Not one of them.

If only we were that kind of club. (Supporter) Loyalty isn’t valued by Venkys or Waggott. Stuck around for L1? Here, have a price rise but don’t worry we’ll lie to your face about it being an early bird discount to make you feel good about it. Care about Jack‘s legacy? Hey, so do we! That’s why we are carving up Brockhall for housing as part of our ‘absolutely respecting the legacy of Jack Walker’ initiative. We were just about to announce it, right before the leak. Carried on buying a season ticket every year even when we backed Kean following relegation? Don’t worry we didn’t forget, that’s why we gave you... Owen Coyle. Value the club? So do we! That’s why we chucked £200m on it chasing failure. Here, have a free pie. Think your loyalty deserves better than crap football, losing matches, relegation form via the worst runs in your history, and being patronised by Mowbray? Hard luck peasants.

Welcome to the board. In and of itself, it may just be one of those things, maybe it’s closer to home for him. But with everything else going on it’s just another example of how badly run we are. Personally, I think he has moved to get away from the crap here. Even getting the blame for the state of the pitch, despite its overuse for training. The fact that a staff member would even think of having to move from Rovers to a club like Fleetwood to progress is pretty damning and a sign of how far we have fallen. Like everything over the last ten years though, the real measure is who they replace him with and how they perform.

Lol

This is a must-win game. Does Mowbray even care though, or is he another one of those comfortable that Sheff Weds, Wycombe and Rotherham are automatically going down?

In football everyone looks after themselves. It’s entirely possible that Woodgate could be reporting to Mowbray at some point in the future (at least in his). Either assistant manager and manager or manager and DoF. They never badmouth anyone, and will always keep up appearances. Even Warnock signed El Hadji Diouf not long after calling him a ‘sewer rat’!

Have to admit, I was totally duped by the “I’ve heard that he’s going today” crew. I was certainly waiting for some news this afternoon. Really should know better but some of the posters involved are people I respect. More fool me. More likely that Mowbray is expecting to go soon, maybe even cleared his personal effects from his office, but there is nobody able or willing to pull the trigger. Waggott has absolutely failed in what I expect to be the responsibilities of a CEO: to protect the club’s standing while aiming to make the club the best it can be. Maybe that isn’t in his job description but it’s in the title. We are now all waiting for something - I expect that includes both Waggott and Mowbray too.

People are literally just so far removed from reality.

But surely not part of a plan before they arrived...

All reasonable counter-arguments, but I think you are using normal logic and the law of averages. One final worry... This was Hull City’s final six games of 2019/20. After 40 games they were 19th. Six games later there were 24th.

(I’m not stalking you honest!) Not for me. IMO Tony is a spent force, bitter and holding our for a pay-off, while taking a wage and saving up for his kids to go to university. He’s old school and has a view of what football should be instead of what modern football is. He believes in loyalty and hard work, and being a benevolent dictator with dissenting voices moved on and an ethos of trying to keep his players happy and onside. The training ground land sale combined with errant owners smacks of opportunism. The only way it possibly fits is if it’s part of a plan by a certain agency that happens to have influence in who ends up as manager at Ewood. But then why now, not earlier? A ten year sting with lots of different actors coming and going at just the right time to create the right conditions in the fanbase to accept anything Uncle Tony tells us? Sounds unlikely. All of this stops though if Venkys listen to the right people and act. Such a shame they alienated John Williams or they could have used him for consultancy. Still could but they would have to swallow their pride.