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Sounds as close to a win/win situation as we might get! Key thing though remains the head coach/DoF appointments. This will totally shape the season/s ahead.

I can only think it's a pseudonym being used by the chap seen in the middle, here. He insists on bringing his own assistant/wing man with him, and his own official confused apologist. Possibly not even the worst option on our list of potential candidates.

About bloody time! What a shambles. Next is the bigger decision, that will set the tone for our summer rebuild and next season...

NO! Please don't make me go back there in my mind! Such a dark place. Yet, in many ways, it was so much better than where the club is now. The good old days of Peacock and Dailly, eh?! 😆😪

Assuming Dyche is 'pie in the sky' then, for me, it is Farke or, as backup option in the likely scenario Farke rejects an approach, Ainsworth. I honestly can't see another realistic option that would inspire any form of interest for next season or be much of an improvement on Mowbray (who I increasingly suspect we may end up being stuck with, anyway). What a bloody sad state of affairs this is, that we have become such an unappealing draw.

Any chance Mowbray will fuck off after this match?

Whilst I hope/wish you are right, I just can't imagine it at all. Just need to get these games out the way.

So, in my mind, it is win today or the last bit of (realistic, if not mathematical) hope of a playoff place is gone. Is this fair? From Mr Beaten Down from The South West!

Ah ok, that's that then! Cancel the pressure washer.....!

Has anyone seen any confirmation or detail about this? Lots of headlines about FIFA "scrapping" (and replacing) FFP, but no idea what it might mean for us. I am guessing worst case scenario it will be a handsome pay rise for Waggott, Mowbray and Venus; Best case - pressure washer in on a two day loan to clean a bit of the moss off the stands. Extra £500 per week each into the offers to our out of contract players. Probably, realistically, it is just causing some urgent Board-level discussions regarding a likely required shift in the now standard FFP 'excuse' for Rovers' failure to spend money from our billionaire owners in the transfer market/contract renewals, year after year. Any thoughts?!

Who do we want to win/lose thus evening? I can't work out if I want the others in the playoff zone to slip up, or prefer to see those outside it drop points?

Yep. You couldn't make it up! Tony can, though. He might just be pranking us all really early for April Fools Day? Or, more likely in his case, he is very late realising action was required for April Fools Day 2021.

I'm spending half time desperately trying to discover something on the Internet to link Mowbray to Putin and get him sanctioned. So far the closest I am getting is a connection to Pulis, which is almost the same, but I do think we have sufficient, and growing, evidence to at least get TM sectioned.

This is the performance of a team with no confidence but also with no sense of what they are set up to be doing. It is absolutely mind-boggling what Mowbray has done here.

It's getting beyond embarrassingly bad now. The whole lot of them should be ashamed of this. As for Bradley Johnson as a False 9. Is Mowbray actually taking the piss??

Right now how I feel is fuck the lot of them. Mowbray should be out tonight. There is absolutely no justification for him keeping his job. But as for the players; any of them not sticking around, I couldn't care less. This is a team of losers. If they are going to become something else they will need a different motivating from a new manager and, some of them, different motivations. If they can't commit to this club then don't play. Furious at what we've become.

It is purely Mowbray who is responsible for this shit.

This decision by Mowbray is even more insane than all those times he has played Gallagher on the right. The only way Giles is useful to us is on the left. Although, let's be honest, no-one is going to score anything he swings in, anyway. Hopeless.

😄 Sounds like Tony's kind of plan. And by then we will DEFINITELY need a right-back so he'll be a perfect fit.

Agree. Didn't expect anything, got nothing, goal difference impact could have been worse. The issue for me is, again, we looked to be totally clueless in possession and going forward. One shot on target. It was a pretty horrible performance.

He is. I don't mind that in a manager - if you've earned the right.

I honestly don't understand this at all. Tombola Time? If Giles is to be in this team it can only be in Pickering's place. And I'm sure he would be much better there than Pickering. But his strength is crossing and we have no-one to cross to. So why is he even at the club? It's all totally devoid of any sense or strategy.

Including manager. We were screwed before the players got on the pitch.

Yeah I can't watch any more of this. It's a terrible, nonsensical line up set up to give us no chance at all if (once) a goal is conceded. Its awful to see.

FFS that's that then. Game over, surely? Van Hecke, Kaminsky, Lenihan all not at the races there. Gifted.