Sorry wouldn't want Barton anywhere near our club. He's a thug.

Fantastic game! Loving it even though I don't fully understand the rules!

Oh! Didn't know that. You have me guessing now!

Someone did once advocate on here that we should give him a 6year deal!. Doesn't post anymore.

Well it takes a very special manager to outdo Kean! What a gem we have.

Preston are only better than us because of him! (ToMo I mean).

It will on here!!

Problem is, it would give Mowbray another few months in charge. We're back in the Kean situation where we had to ask ourselves "Would it be better to if we lost?" Never thought I'd have to face that particular conundrum again.

Nice to know we'll be competing! Who'd have thought?

I think we'll be humiliated. If so, he must go.

The Club feels like its dying, somebody please do something.

I agree he seems very pleasant and we were all desperate for him to succeed. But he hasn't and times up.

NO I wouldn't and that's a real worry because, if so, we couldn't improve the squad with him still here. That's why I wrote about getting a new manager, striker and centre-back in the New Year. It is possible that a new manager alone could pull the squad together and survive. Depending on the manager. Certainly there is a hopeless and resigned atmosphere around the squad right now. They've given up on him. I know we are not in the relegation zone right now but that's where we are heading.

If we don't get a striker who can score and an "uncompromising" centre-back in January and a new manager, I think we will go down. Next season our big local derby will be against Accrington. Never thought I'd live to see it. A scandal.

I've voted for Mark Hughes but knowing there is absolutely no possibility that will happen. Heart of hearts we all expect Damien to get it don't we? Hughton is a good shout though.

My worry is that Mowbray will stay and the best players, including our young ones, will go.

Better in my view, didn't have much money but bought well, then the owners sold them on him.

Sparky for me, best manager in my lifetime. Dalglish was great but he had the dosh to do it with. Hughes didn't.

You mean "Bowyer"?

I wish I could be as confident.

Very few players improve under Mowbray, most go backwards. Its probably because they are in the wrong position but also because, in his anxiety, he's coached all the fun out of it. He's hardly the "go out there and play is he"?

We were bound to be relegated when Venkys sacked Sam. No "due" about it.

The Darwen End is though!

Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that the problem is the owners and the manager. We will not get promoted with him. We will wallow in the lower reaches, possibly avoiding relegation, possibly not, as long as he is here. Not going to bore everyone with the reasons for that judgement, we all know them.

The key issue for me.