Some folk really seem to want to belittle our great club. I guess it is supposed to make us grateful that such an esteemed bloke as Mowbray stoops to be our manager. It’s back to front!

Derby are the only Championship team left in the FA Cup so we’ll likely see all 8 quarter finalists from the top flight. No ‘Magic of the Cup’ this year. Wonder if this will become the norm as the rich PL teams who have no chance of the top 4 take it more seriously.

Surely Brereton was bought as the successor to Graham. Just a shame that Gallagher was bought as the successor to Brereton.

A principled manager who was being forced to work under circumstances he didn’t agree with would walk. Ergo, Mowbray is happy with the (alleged) arrangement of not being allowed to buy defenders. Or he genuinely thinks we don’t need to spend money on them and would rather use what he gets to try to buy goals rather than clean sheets.

You’d think someone whose job it was to think of these things would have thought of these things. One has to conclude that the policy is lower volumes, higher prices. Making £17 from one person buying in bulk is better than £20 from two people buying as a one off. I guess we just don’t have the room to accommodate everyone so have to have these disincentives - a bit like the ‘last-minute-tax’ to avoid huge crowds at the ticket office and concourse.

He’s going to be pretty shocked by the wages players want too.

He doesn’t half know how to insult our intelligence.

He’s stronger than Raya in the height department, you say?

I take it the Derby game won't be on the red button so Derby can flog a live stream? Well they can piss off. “Why pay once when you can pay twice?”

Indeed.

Escalated quickly though!

More claret than blue, is that what you mean? To call Chris Sutton Vin de Table is well wide of the mark, I’m afraid. Collymore on the other hand...

This made me chuckle. Meta! Even more meta if he screenshots this...

Personally I’ve been less than impressed with Holtby. We don’t need Dack and Rothwell and Holtby so my guess is Holtby was Dack’s replacement

What has Holtby done to warrant the number 10 spot ahead of Rothwell? For me Rothwell has something about him but we aren’t getting the best from him. However, he is forever being played anywhere but that second attacking spot.

One extra player in a position we are already well stocked in. With Dack our we can accommodate some that will now have to be shifted or dropped.

Yes. I think we should aim for better but that’s not likely with Mowbray. If we play Armstrong in the middle then we completely waste Gallagher (again) and Mowbray has learned nothing. It also means we need to find a left winger from somewhere. With the poor mix of our forward players, I think that bringing Dack back makes us less balanced and we are back to square one.

So we should have replaced him like for like with Dack as the number 10 then, instead of playing him out wide, as we do with every other central player.

I’d forgotten about that amid the excitement. Absolutely had the goal gaping and headed it straight at the keeper.

Funny you point this out. Even before the game today, Neil Yardley tried to rally the fans to get behind “Tony Mowbray’s blue and white army”. When did we stop being proud of being “Blackburn Rovers”? It’s like the club didn’t exist until he got here. Very divisive to make it all about the current manager. I see Jack also has now been dropped and it’s just Mowbray’s flag at pitch side.

For a player of Rothwell’s skill and ability, it’s pretty damning that Mowbray and his staff haven’t been able to develop him. He certainly hasn’t had the kind of patience that Armstrong has enjoyed, let alone setting up the team to get the best out of him, a la Dack. Although, I can’t think of many players who have developed under Mowbray. Travis, although credit for that goes to David Dunn of all people, and Nyambe, who looks to be turning into a very capable right back (yet was sacrificed today), and the aforementioned Armstrong, who appears to be a Mowbray favourite, given how long he was given during his barren spells. Three players. There are more that have left the club in that time, let alone ones who are not yet near their potential or even past their best - or even just plain average.

He’s an outlet though and he carried the ball in a forward trajectory. What I’d like to see is players showing for the ball and giving him an option. You don’t need a tin hat. He’s largely disliked on here anyway. Mowbray is clearly undecided and that’s good enough for plenty of folk. Prediction: he won’t be here next season.

Armstrong has thrived on taking on Dack’s position more centrally. Rothwell would surely be better in the number 10 role and can frighten defenders with his dribbling forward. He can drop into midfield and carry the ball 20 yards on his own. Gallagher has to play as a centre forward to be effective, and for 5 million other reasons, but continues to be played out wide. Samuel has looked a handful when he has played recently and needs a run of games. Or needs to be moved on. Brereton also has to go to centre forward but he will never play alongside Gally in a 4-4-2. (Why buy both). Still feel the “hasn’t settled” excuse to move on and try to recover some of the outlay back is the best option. Buckley is emerging as an option in the middle just ahead of holding midfielders. Holtby seemed to be hot and cold but also needs a settled run of matches. I don’t expect Downing to stick around but he could I guess. It’s looking more and more obvious that Dack was on his way in January but, as he’s going nowhere any time soon and to get a fee he needs to play, when comes back, how do we accommodate him? Discuss.

Forget Mulgrew. He’s never playing for our first team again.

He’s such an inspiring bloke.