The few who've said all along he's just after getting himself to his pension here are turning out to be correct. Wonder if his kids are in an expensive private school or something and he's banking on being here till that finishes. He certainly seems to be getting ready to dig his heels right in and to hell with everybody else.

Trouble with Mowbray going upstairs is it'll have to be his man in place below him, same as above him. Think it sounds like he's hinting at that with his don't throw it all away comments. What he really means is don't sack all my staff and start again with someone else if i go. That means Venus fly trap in the bosses chair - just look at him on the touchline with TM back seat driving at times this season. Or failing that Johnson, who would be Tony' puppet. Then he'd have to find another pointless role for Mark. He has us by the nuts whichever way you look at it, the man has been struck by Tony Blairs god complex i can see it now.

They'll probably never look worth the money but i believe both Brereton and Gallagher would thrive under a different manager with a more sensible approach. Armstrong might not and not sure about Dack but that's where we are at. 4 totally different forward players but do any of them gel or compliment each other ? Not so sure they do but it's a classic example of Mowbrays muddled thinking. Any team at this level that could set out a forward line of Armstrong, Dack and Elliot should be frightening the opposition. If it was built on the base of a solid defense it should thrive. Tony Mowbray = All the gear but no pigging idea.

He's another he certainly seems unsackable. How many managers has he held his clipboard under ?

I think it's every manager who has HSH/SEM connections is unsackable, at least for results and insulting fans with backside covering waffle. That's the common theme here and why there's always a 'put up and shut up' attitude towards fans, usually fueled by certain media who are doing favours.

Kidd - Tried a brand of tip tap football that the players weren't good enough for. Played us into relegation. Kean - Dumped Allardyce's percentage football overnight for an on the floor brand. Plus tried to accommodate certain players in daft formations to complement their revolving door make %%% policy. Played us into relegation. Coyle - Dumped Lamberts semi percentage game for a more open brand of tip tap and over lappers. Bizarrely still got goals out of Gallagher and Graham with it but assembled the worst defense in decades - Played us towards relegation. This style of football has never turned a previously bang average side into promotion contenders. Suffer a few injuries and it takes you directly the other way, that's what we've seen. To either heads above water or challenge with this you need a scorer the calibre of Rhodes and tailor it to him. There's no plan B either simply because there is no target man, once DG had gone that was gone. The style of football as much as anything else is what is costing us dear. It cost us a decent stab at the play offs after lockdown last year. He's dragged us into a hole now and clearly has no plan to get out of it.

HSH supply the managers i'm not sure Senior had much to do with it at all. He was just parachuted in as a consultant to get rid of Coyle, then he was a head to roll upon relegation. He might have tried to put his name to it but really do we think they would listen to him when they've never listened to anyone else ? Iv'e been told all appointments are done well away from Ewood and even the directors didn't know who was coming until the day before they arrived. That was from someone who was involved. Same thing will likely happen again, probably after Venus has stood in for a while.

And friend of Derek the Preston plonker.

Is he only just now addressing the classroom issue ? Has the building suddenly sprung up another storey on realizing he'd missed something off ? Snake oil salesman, where was this effort in trying to get fans back in after promotion ?

Very very easy to do when you have the inside of a club all to yourselves and ownership thousands of miles away.

Natural materials ? Hmm wonder if Mr Get Real and Flitcraft are pitching for it ?

That applies from top to bottom here and it's either the void between here and India that allows it. Or that middleman who seems to have carved out a nice comfortable niche for himself. Still waiting after all these years to know what it is he really does and how much it costs. Why does he allow the manager to run a charity, players to be paid whilst getting fit to further their careers elsewhere, allow frequent signings from Mowbrays old club, stand by whilst results are poor and the manager runs his mouth off in the press, allow the stadium to turn filthy and the so called CEO to run around Brockhall with a tape measure and calculator ? Just what does he exist here for and why does he hide ?

He keeps saying this but he's coaching his team to go sideways and backwards at the pace of a turtle. There is no attacking football or defending by pressing it's just going through the motions. Easy street football, i'm really wondering now if he is deluded or just an outright bullshitter who knows he can get away with it.

I think he was a panic signing to be honest, not played since last Jan. Turns us down for big money elsewhere, that breaks down and he ends up here, defenders are coming and all that. Looked fragile when he has played. Probably getting himself fit to go elsewhere in summer. This place is still a vehicle for agents and players imo. That will never ever change under this ownership.

So the suspicion is Williams is being protected for his own good so he can further his career elsewhere ? AKA Galdwin & Smallwood who benefited from Mowbrays genteel humanoid approach. What is he running, his own football charity ? If there's even a grain of truth to it it stinks, again. It's a tall order but would be in no way surprising. Mind you now it's been mentioned on here i wouldn't be surprised to see him back sometime soon. There's a habit down there to react or comment on what comes out on here.....

I know it was a good few years earlier and the pull of the Prem but he got McCarthy, Santa Cruz, Bellamy, Savage and Samba in for about the price of Brereton & Gallagher. Football is crazy but it does show he was a good judge of player in his time here. Throw in Nelson and Bentley etc, hell what a manager !

He knows we aren't getting the 20 million for Armstrong to make it worthwhile. He knows there won't be much left selling for a more realistic price after everything is taken out. He knows he isn't likely to get much if any of it so why is he playing this card now ? The owners for their part have stood firm so far and kept these players. Presumably so he can mount some kind of attempt at a play off spot. To me this is classic Mowbray putting the player first as usual. He needs to be gone and we need a real points driven manager not a players fairy godmother.

So the suit is pushing for selling half the training ground and the manager is now pushing to sell players. Makes me wonder many things.

Best we condition ourselves from now on just to shut our ears and get on with it. He's going nowhere unless Mrs D pays any attention beyond the balance sheet. There'll be no Coventry here he'll brazen it out if we don't win again all season. Sell a few players - the line he's pitching now - then he can hide behind another rebuild job. Can't expect us to go anywhere if we sell our best players after all. Sacked from Celtic, Boro and Coventry in last 10 years but untouchable at Venky Rovers. We need to just see out the season now and pray summer is kind to us. Then it'll be give him 10 games/christmas/the window rinse and repeat. Sooner or later if we don't kick on we'll implode again you just know it's coming. I said his fabled journey could well be one that sees a lot of the players under him sold. One wonders if those with their stamp on them get any benefit.

So he's moving the goalposts again i see, he's beginning to sound like Lambert did now. Same soundbites except this guy has supposedly been building a top 6 capable squad for the past couple of years. And has had backing that would see some other more clear thinking managers knocking on the door of it now regardless of covid/injuries. All he's doing is trying to get to the end of his contract by bluff and bluster. No way in hell should he have to lose the next 2 or 3 to be sacked has he not registered the last 5 defeats in 6 or something ? He's well on his way to making himself public enemy number one now. Some going that considering how popular he was. This is what getting far too comfortable gets you.

The Preston paper clip shuffler.

Good old Derek Shaw got his way with the Appleton appointment and we ended up paying compo. Although Crappley - like that other toss pot who'd never heard of his agent - claimed self representation. I think we all know that's bollocks and Shaw was another on the tantric christmas card list. Nice work by the Preston shyster whilst he was here he upset Blackpool, got his puppet into Rovers and all on the back of costing the club 2.5 million for Bergs 5 mins in charge. Then he sued the owners on leaving, also hung around like a bad smell until Rhodes had left. Another deal he was thought to be heavily involved in when JR was prised from Huddersfield. Fair to say i don't send my best regards to that scumbag.

Well i think i predicted us to produce that backs to the wall bounce back win in the last 3 now. So in this i'll assume we'll be on the wrong side of another narrow defeat. Good possession stats, create next to nothing, miss a good chance, pull one back late to make to 'acceptable'. 😬 Reading 2 Rovers 1

All we want is someone with a winning mentality who can organize a balanced first 11. Can't win all the time everyone knows that but runs of winning only 1 in 6 or losing 5 in a row should be unacceptable. A complete change of mentality is needed as we just seem to have a shoulder shrugger. You win some you lose some attitude and a real excuse maker, all we ever hear is the good points of the opposition we should fear and every sob story in the book as to why things don't go better than they should. It's rubbed off on the players that's clear. They know a bit of effort in a jumbled system and lose narrowly it's ok with the performance based manager. What kind of way is that to try and get in the top 8 and stay there ? It's blindingly obvious on several fronts why we instantly fall away all the time. Attitude.

Like has been touched on many times and even has its own thread they can't even keep the ground clean. Or maintained to a decent standard !!!! Been a downgrade on how they maintain the pitch since the Prem days and god knows what else has been neglected. Again the twitter & facebook sheeple need to look beyond empty promises, need to really base their opinions on fact and what they've seen with their own eyes. Why will this be different and what has prompted it to be so important all of a sudden ? To me they just wanted to get the planning passed then either flog the land for cold hard money. Or maybe get it on the balance sheet to borrow against in the short term. Also need to realize Waggot is a corporate salesman, that's his job that's what he is. He isn't a Rovers fan or a high end football director he strikes me more as a box ticker, trouble shooter yearning to finally do something radical to justify himself to Pune. I don't think he's corrupt or in cahoots with anything shady he's just doing what comes naturally. Trying to come up with money making schemes etc.