So between the lines he's absolving himself yet again, implying he's coached the team to play good football but they aren't good enough to turn it into wins. Well maybe it isn't the right brand for these players then, no ? The guy is a complete fraud he's given himself yet more get out of jail cards with this statistical possession football. All it needs it craft and skill to turn it into winning football apparently, but we haven't go any. He bleated years ago defenders were coming but they didn't. He then said we need to be looking to replace DG and Dack if he left. The owners backed him, he brought in Brereton & Gallagher. Next excuse was team is too young it's lacking experience and leadership. Owners backed him and allowed wages for - Downing, Johnson, Holtby and now Trybull and Douglas. A defender came in the shape of already unfit 3 year contract Ayala, he played shite then disappeared. Now it seems he thinks all we need is craft despite having the likes of Elliot, Dolan, Brereton, Holtby, Armstrong in his ranks. No Tony your team was sussed after the first few months this season it's as simple as that. And your bull was sussed by fans a long time before that. You are the most fortunate manager in this division working under this ownership. Covid might have made your job that bit harder, it has for everyone but it's made your matchday experience a lot more comfortable !

That's what it is great, great description. EXCUSE CULTURE/MENTALITY All comes from the main man he gets them in every week before a ball is kicked.

I notice quite a few now saying retaining Downing for another season was pointless. Pity it wasn't a belief held as widely in summer ! Quite simply another old pals act there. Ok son you've no club nobodies come in after we've waited around so here's ten grand a week take it or leave it. Utterly utterly pointless he was never going to contribute the same this season the signs were there last. So so Mowbray though. Now why wasn't that wage put elsewhere ?

We had momentum but it was lost the min Waggot and ToMo applied the brakes and their methods after promotion. That should've been the catalyst to get the club really going again. Instead all they had was a 'job done' attitude. It was discussed on here at the time the surprise they weren't going a bit more ambitious. Somehow 7 million quid went into Brereton and they dished out contract extensions left right and center. To players who'd managed one good season in a league below most of their levels. Looking back now it was quite simply all about settling in and protecting everyone's position. You even had Mowbray telling everyone he'd had to lower the owners expectations. WTF it was basically an admission of not being capable of anything else.

I genuinely think he's either taking the piss now big time with the tombola nonsense. Or he knows his card is marked and is doing right by his cherubs. It's bollocks whatever it is.

Why are players so weak and fragile these days, it's not just him it's the majority.

It's because of the drones we win the possession stats every game. At least that'll be the line to Pune.

I think certain players tell Mowbray when they are and aren't playing !

Except quite a few on here know him but even if you're judging him on his posts i can't see where plant comes into it. He's often been known to take some middle ground down the years but he's also a critic when needed. There's quite a few others who'd get the finger justifiably pointed at them before him.

One thing you had to respect about Keegan is he was an all or nothing kind of guy. Driven by his emotions too much but if it was crap he'd say it was crap and when he knew the game was up he held his hand up and walked. Football badly misses characters like him and their do or die style football. We had some great set too's with Newcastle in his time there. They were always like cup semi finals no matter what league position. Remember him going to to confront hundreds of angry Geordies on the steps at St James park when he was going to sell Cole ? Imagine someone having those kind of balls now, our fella hides at the back of the dugout in games when it ain't going well.

Aye and he's been around a lot longer than his accuser !

Surprise surprise he's blowing up the opposition again.

Nice one. Posted some of this a while ago and after reading it the picture was clearer about the price rises, cutbacks and ground capacity reduction. Squeeze what you have is his mantra, only it doesn't seem to apply to the football side of it where millions have still and are still being wasted.

Very much doubt he's one of 'the plants' to be honest.

There definitely seems to be some difference between the recruitment dept and the manager on some of these. Looks like a bit of foot stomping there from Mowbray putting one over the recruitment lot. Should have been one or the other with the Greek lad and Pears so now we have another wage being wasted.

As per one of the above posts regarding the Academy and what is and isn't done lower down . What is done at CEO and boardroom level is the finance and that's where a lot of the concern lies. It's ok trying to say this happens at this stage and that won't happen until this is ticked off etc. The real worry is plans get passed, land gets sold then the numbers for what they claim to want to build don't stack up so it has to be downgraded. Or even worse they start the work then find they can't fund it all. I really don't see how anyone wouldn't have serious concerns on that without a detailed plan being put forwards and costings from the off. Given the nature of what we've seen under this ownership, look at the ground and pitch for a start. Once a sale goes through, the money comes in then the numbers start getting shuffled at boardroom level between here and India is when the fun will really start. I don't care a jot what Waggot says because if he retires or is sacked anytime in the near future it renders his words meaningless. This is a guy who won't even hear of criticism of his football manager despite the alarming slumps we keep seeing. I'm absolutely certain that pair would sit there and watch us slide to relegation and do nothing if it meant protecting their own interests. Guys just a salesman at the end of the day he isn't a Blackburn Rovers fan.

Iv'e thought for a long time that there is a 'we bring one in, you bring one in' policy at Rovers. Going way back before Mowbrays time. Transfers here in and out never stack up properly at least 50% under this lot don't make sense. Not saying that because they've all turned out to be crap, they haven't but we rarely seem to get what we actually need. Also the dot joining can be alarming at times. Not saying there's owt dodgy with this present one but there is 100% an old boys network at play. Shows a manager not very confident in his recruitment if he has to keep doing that. Still waiting for him to sign someone from Boro who ios young enough, fit enough and good enough to play every week in this league.....

I believe he did once away at PNE ? He scored 2.....then went back to being shoehorned in as a right sided forward/winger/defensive wideman

1 -1 Play ok for one half, hardly a shot on goal or a corner but the stats will be good. Performance manager happy again and bemoaning how good Bristol are and how small and years behind them we are. Facebook is awash with sympathy for the hard luck stories, would've won if Dack was playing etc etc On we roll.

Neither were what we needed at the time and the fact they are still scrabbling around loaning defenders backs that up 100%. Throw in we still only have one reliable goal scorer as well shows how misguided it was. There's no hindsight to it either most said at the time 'what about defense' and it still remains unanswered properly. Rather ironic there's rumours he's under scrutiny for giving Ayala 3 years after being advised not when he's got away with the forward flops for so long. I still don't think BB was a Mowbray signing but Gallagher most definitely looks like he is.

They need to get away from silly philosophies and midtable mentality. Until the team gets a bit more robust and balanced and there is a real belief around the place then nowt will change. It's been firmly established now with this regime that second best is ok as long as the stats are ok. Totally the wrong attitude if you want to get somewhere but those overseeing it i genuinely don't think they do. By that i mean i think they want to win games and do better than we are but just enough is enough. The risk of going for it and falling short outweighs the risk of just meandering steadily and hoping something goes right.

And so to would be the downscale to the Brentford model which these 3 aren't even capable of overseeing. Then we can get back to the Blackburn Rovers model and making the most of the fantastic set up we have. And the backing thats provided 7 million quid and 5 million quid funding along with loan fees for kids from top clubs and resisted selling our own. Otherwise next thing this lot will be recommending a 12 thousand seater out of town flat pack stadium.

Sod romance and sod nice uncle type guys who say hello to the tea lady everyday. A winner is what is badly needed, someone decent but who would trample his own kin to get 3 points.

I get the concerns and all that but i just think we are heading for desperately needing a change for changes sake. I'd feel a lot better if it was Hughes than some of the potential dross the Venky/HSH roulette wheel might serve up. I presume a few might feel the same even if he wasn't the first name on their lips.

Hughes hasn't managed at this level yet has he ? So a bit unfair to write him off because he flopped at a few struggling Prem clubs. He only has himself to blame really as he seems attracted to anything offered as long as it's top tier. Maybe his true abilities lie at a club like this where he might be able to almost start from scratch and mould a solid side. Look at Souness before he came here, ok different era so look at Mowbray before he turned up here. Makes Hughes cv look like Pep. At the very least i doubt he'd be worse it might turn out a sideways step but at least it's a change. Chance of a new manager bounce and the chance for some of these players to play under a bigger name. All i pray for at the min is one bloody good season and a genuine good finish position. Sick of excuses and bull, just want to have a real go for once. Not be stuck in a permanent confused experiment.