Nobody has said anything of the sort. Keep posting your opinions. Make them legible and put a good argument forward. Don’t turn it into ‘positive’ v ‘negative’ or the board goes to ?.

I don’t think you can really put it any more clearly than that.

He quotes who he wants He quotes when he waaaaa-aaants @chaddyrovers He quotes what he wants (Usually off of Twitter)

I’m afraid that nerve will always be raw. The fact that fans of other clubs never seem to get why he was vilified and why we resorted to protests is also a trigger. Even worse some fans still think he was treated badly!

First and third paras ?? Second para ?

McCarthy and Kean should not be uttered in the same breath. I suspect you are one of those who has no idea of the extent of Kean’s time heat so trust me when I say: don’t even go there. The comparison you should be making is between McCarthy and Allardyce. The similarities are there for all to see. Dire but effective (over a season) football, brash confidence to the point of arrogance, leaving and it all falling apart because the job done by each wasn’t valued and because they were replaced by poor appointments. Although Hurst did have potential and, to some extent, pedigree. The reason their job wasn’t valued is because of the nature of football, the ebb and flow, the ups-and-downs. Fans can accept good and bad times (again this doesn’t apply to Kean) - but their patience will wane after too long a period of stagnation (which some fans call stability). We have had some interesting phases of recent management which I hope Ipswich are wise enough to avoid. Ince - the last mistake of the old regime. Was given the role on the basis of being the next Mark Hughes but he was found to be well out of his depth. Shouting at players and giving it the Big I Am will impress L2 players but not PL ones. Should have gone sooner. Allardyce - steady, effective but would put in some awful displays and virtually write-off most away games. At first fans appreciated his influence after the Ince debacle. He wasn’t universally liked, it’s fair to say, but most fans begrudgingly accepted his results if not his methods. He was exactly what this club needed until the new Sky deal came along (which is only about 30% hindsight). Kean - should never ever have been near a management job, let alone a top half/mid-table PL one. He was hired for one reason and one reason only - and it wasn’t for the football. He is now in footballing backwaters. Bowyer Mk1/Berg/Appleton - a ridiculous period for the club. So much boardroom infighting and interference it was borderline neglect. Berg had potential but never had a chance. Bowyer Mk2 - steadied the ship but in truth benefitted from the calm caused by the breakup of the boardroom - and had far more power than he could ever have expected. Papered over the cracks and by default squandered our last chance at a PL return. Nice chap but not the answer. Lambert - saved us from relegation even after selling our star striker, relying on loans and freebies, and allegedly having promised reneged on. Don’t blame him for going but it also meant a very experienced and respected back room team going as well. Coyle - an outrageous appointment from the same stable as Kean who - to add insult to injury - had a single previous success on his CV: promoting our 6-fingered cousins down the road to the PL. After terms with Neil Warnock were (allegedly) all but agreed our FD/CEO went on holiday and the cheap and fearful FKW joined instead. Our fate was sealed in June before the season had even started. Signs of a return of the dark forces. Mowbray - a very underwhelming appointment who (looking at it objectively) lived up to initial expectations by not saving us from relegation. As it turned out he was exactly the right guy to have the following season and he has turned the club around. You need to hope that Lambert gets to do the job he is appointed for and try to ignore any Norwich connections. I’d also suggest you need to accept a return to consistency rather than a bounce in the short term. Lambert will introduce a level of professionalism that was maybe too big a job for Hurst. I just home he doesn’t come in for Bennett or Graham in January as his lieutenants. He hasn’t previously though so that’s unlikely. You might wish you had appreciated McCarthy a little more and that your chairman had backed him with funds. Most non-Ipswich fans will probably feel for McCarthy because of his previous record and being able to keep going season after season with no money. Perhaps you will have a different view. I maintain though that it was nothing like the Kean situation.

Never change Chaddy. ?

It doesn’t make them right, it just provides a different opinion. Enjoy your day also!

Chris, if you take nothing else from this post, please don’t dismiss the bit in bold. We all get that you will take what Mowbray says as being the final word on any matter but that isn’t the case for everyone. As fans, we are allowed to disagree with Mowbray. We don’t need to have any scouting, coaching or management credentials to do so, that’s the beauty of a messageboard. Even TM would accept that.

Agreed. If we have loads of money left to spend then we should be all over a Reid deal.

I know Reid is only on loan but it would be such a waste for him to go back to the bench. Maybe he is playing for a contract or to get noticed but he really is a bright young thing. As prospects go the energy that Reid puts into his game is what Brereton lacks.

Armstrong was here last year so he is one of his own and gets in the side regularly. Palmer and Rothwell barely get into the team. Brereton and Reid are played out of position. They may well be energetic and young but he prefers Smallwood, Evans, Graham, even Conway ahead of them. So he isn’t actually using these players. Despite our good start there is a danger that Mowbray’s intransigence will cost us as teams work us out.

So are you! You regularly use random fan tweets to back up your opinion.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/17008496.tony-mowbray-on-whether-he-feels-rovers-are-a-striker-short/?ref=mac Well, there you have it. We are a striker short but we play a £7m striker out wide. Surely he should have mentioned our lack of width meaning we need to use players like Brereton and Armstrong, and even Reid, there? Or does he really see Brereton as a wide man? In which case we could have got better for less cash.

Wooosh! Wooosh! If it weren’t so sad it’d be funny. And you used the word ‘clearly’ when in truth it couldn’t be any more opaque.

So Brereton’s failure is down to Mowbray’s style of play and attitude, his own attitude and his role in the team. And his agent. Interesting.

Only if you also believe that Northcote and The Chippery should be judged equally. If you pay more for something then your expectation of the quality increases. If an expensive restaurant served something that you could expect to get in a chip shop, would you be impressed? Or would you feel short changed? The line isn’t the same for both. Likewise with players. Expectations rise with the price tag. It might not seem fair but that’s life. Value for money is important. Unless you are a club like Man City, you can’t afford a £7m mistake and the price tag makes the investment higher and risk greater so we need to sell Brereton for £10m to recoup our costs. Conversely Dack has already paid back his fee and will hopefully make us a tidy return - unless we gave Gillingham so huge sell on. There is no getting away from fees in football. As much as we’d like to it’d be naive to pretend that a huge transfer fee doesn’t raise expectations.

Of course it is part of the discussion when judging the impact of a new signing. If he had come through the ranks or cost say £500k he would be given much more leeway. Where I would concede is that this is not Brereton’s fault that some idiot spent £7m on him but by your logic he should not be feeling any pressure or expectation due to the fee anyway. That said, if he was currently playing without that pressure then I would be even more concerned.

....and breathe. The only reason you think spending £7m on Brereton rather than on 2 or 3 decent signings is because we did it. If we hadn’t signed him because he was £7m you’d have been arguing black and blue that it would have been madness to do so. Having any kind of debate with you is like... ”I wish it was Friday” ”It’s not Friday it Thursday!!” (sic)

“The price for me is really irrelevant. I know it’s not for the bigger picture for the football club but...” That’s the problem though. £7m IS big money for Rovers, and the rest of us. Unless he finds form soon that’s going to be a bitter pill to swallow. £7m for a prospect is very unwise as a Championship club and it’s looking like it was a huge gamble. However, the main problem as a fan is that we can see holes on the pitch with square pegs still in round holes. £7m could have gone a long way towards fixing that. It’s the anti- Jordan Rhodes argument just without the goals. https://www.football-addict.com/article/blackburn-rovers-fc/tbrfootball/5bd1868ce6094065cc5fcbaf/form-of-blackburn-rovers-man-proving-nottingham-forest-right-to-cash-in

And drop Evans or Smallwood? Not happening any time soon unless one of them gets injured. It’ll be interesting to see if Rodwell signs a new contract in January - and whether that changes anything.

We’re all on the same side! But it’s nice to be nice...

When you make a well constructed post Chaddy, it’ll be a red letter day. Hell, I’d be happy with a well constructed argument! And nobody mentioned cards.

I’d love to have a gang of friends, Chaddy but, no matter how much you display your victim complex, we are all on our own - except for all being Rovers fans. Nobody is ‘on my side’ - if anything you get the band of brothers treatment and I’m usually given the stick. There is no gang, there is no pathetic game, you just need to be as happy to take a bit of ribbing as much as you are happy to give it.

So now you’re saying Brereton and the rest of us are all playing but you’re not? And you knew all along?