Score or you’ll get a fag end in your eye!

Well I don’t know him, just an ordinary fan. Good news that he won’t hang on for a pay-off but bad news that he doesn’t realise his race is already run. Makes the good news irrelevant! If you’re right of course!

That big unit Boyomo? Is he not improving?

Sorry then, never heard of Oaksy I'm afraid!

The evidence is that he chooses to buy as many mid-fielders as he can get his hands on and ignore the defence.

Ignoring the smarmy nature of your reply to my politely-made point, there is no evidence in the in the club's transfer record that can help you! The evidence shows that his transfer record is poor and that he was quite likely to have wasted a lot of cash on a lemon, given the chance. But, if he was leaned on by the owners and has allowed them to usurp his managerial authority, then he doesn't come out of it that well either does he? Integrity eh? I note you ignored that point.

Its entirely possible rather than pretty likely isn't ? We have no evidence. But it looks bad for him either way.

TBF I don't think we stood much chance against Villa.

Isn't the point really that we had £7M to spend and we couldn't find a better target than Brereton? Now we have nothing and there are gaps everywhere, striker being one of them! Sheffield United seem to have managed without spending that much on one player. So did Burnley and they too went up. What's the key difference between them and us?----the quality of the manager!!

Your's is fair point too and probably all of us fear what sort of blunder Venkys could make with next appointment------ but we can't go on like this. I suspect Johnno is in the owners sights and that's why he was promoted--to give him experience in a first team setting. That too is a risk in that he's never been a manager before but its a risk I could live with. He's not a chancer like Coyle or Kean, he's been around Ewood a long time, on and off, so I think he would genuinely have the club's interests at heart. I'm not ruling out an outside appointment and posters have suggested several good choices, however Venkys usually let us down in this area. Conflicted or not we won't succeed under Mowbray, he's had his chance and blown it. Alternatively since we will never prosper under Venkys anyway........

A bit of a beat-up eh? Does anyone actually know he cried? Was there such a crescendo of abuse directed towards the lad? It seems to me that this is deflection. Instead of hearing about another poor performance from Brereton, the discussion is about disgusting Rovers fans, (of which there are some but no more than anywhere else).

But you are uniquely placed to see beyond what we ordinary mortals can see! Tell me that isn't arrogance. Tell me you respect other's views!

When I wrote that we are "in the shit" I wasn't thinking of right now, our position in the league etc but rather the end of the season. We are clearly weak in several areas, we are reliant on loans which can be terminated and we risk losing some players we'd need---eg Lenihan, Nyambe possibly, Dack when he's fit, Travis, and so on. Several of our players are at the veteran stage too. Two we can't sell but cost £12M between them! We will never see that again! So, all in all, after 3 years of supposedly building up a squad I think we are farther way from ever from achieving it. We face a massive rebuilding job for next season or we throw in the young ones and pray. Is there anyone left who has the confidence that TM can manage this situation which he has himself created? That's the whole point for me. Who is going to take us forward and when do we start planning for it? Who at Ewood is even thinking about it?

Modelled himself on Evans as per instructions! Not the same player at all. But if TM is as good as you think why are we in the shit? After all, he's improved the squad so much---2 points out of 15 is it? That £12M well spent?

No, by insisting he plays as boringly as everyone else. What about Paul Johnson---any improvement in him? Most of the ridiculous views on here are your's.

Rothwell, Chapman, Bennet,Travis,Bell--all look worse than they did when they first came. No improvement whatsoever in our £7M striker, and Gallagher is the same as when we first had him on loan. You mention Raya but TM put the blame on him for our defensive woes! Care to criticise the manager for that or is he right? Nyambe---was left out for so long I thought he was on his way. Bell should be. We obviously disagree but he's had 3 years, the owners have backed him and we are in poor shape. Al the excuses you make will not change that.

What a crock! I think it might be you who's biased!! We should be further up the league with all that manager-inspired improvement. The guy's a genius!

Yes, fair comment.

Has any player improved under Mowbray? They all seem to go backwards. You could make an exception for Dack I suppose but he was good when he came.

There's only one change we need imo. The rest will follow. Sorry Husky, I dived in without seeing your post!

the problem being "improve the squad".

I cannot remember us being so consistently boring as we are now in my time of watching. Big Sam had his critics but there were always exciting moments and we often won! People blame the awful atmosphere at Ewood on the stayaways but , honestly, what is there to cheer about? The fact that the Club still exists?

Playing players in their positions would make a big difference surely?

Amazingly he looks like he's led a hard life!

Chicken feed for us! No, he's not that good but everything is relative and, right now, his loss would be a disaster. We really are in a mess. 3 years of TM, all that money spent and we are farther away from the Holy Grail than ever.