He's basically wasted the last couple of years budget on a failed experiment of transition to possession, then stats based possession football. We've regressed as a consequence and don't even look the solid upper mid table outfit we were a few seasons ago. Now it's going to have to be reset again and dumbed down even more whilst the 'identity' he's been trying to stamp on them will have to change again. The fella is 100% taking the piss and has been for a long while, he'll do and say anything to stay in his wages and look after his pals. There's been enough from this dysfuntcional ownership for a more organized driven manager to establish us within at least touching distance of the top 6. Only this dysfunctional ownership though would ignore the obvious and keep rewarding under achieving.

That's the problem though when you are the gaffers love child it was the same with Lowe. They'll keep trying to fit you in somewhere just because you are good to have around. If Bennett was used properly, not regularly, just properly in his real positions he'd probably still serve a purpose. I agree the time is right to cut him loose but we are going to be very light on any experience next season. Mowbray/Venus/Lowe/Benson and a bag full of kids being rotated weekly is relegation guaranteed imo.

I think for half a million + per year most of us would make that sacrifice or use our wallet to arrange something more suitable. This sob story writer could afford a bloody helicopter shuttle ride if he wanted. Lets face it he in't kipping in his car when he isn't home. My mate drives an artic for Asda and sleeps in his cab 3 night per week for a fraction of Mowbrays salary or lifestyle. Does he moan and cry about it ? Well yes he does but only when he's had a few pints, then he just gets on with it. He doesn't go into the Asda news saying how hard his life is and how he's missing his kids growing up ! For nearly 2 years now Mowbray has worn the look and talked the talk of someone who's ready for an easier life. Then he must wake up and think hang on, i'm at Venky Rovers i already have it.

Evans, Trybull and Holtby gone so that's the base of his possession game gone.

Freebies and loans at max 10k pwk will still be a goer i would have though. Seems like they might be cutting or culling all those on that or more to come into line with it anyway.

Well the rumour seems to be he's turned it down because more is being offered elsewhere. Not sure whether that sends a good message or bad one but if they are sticking to their guns, saying we only rate you at X amount per week that's fair enough.

They'll have to keep some experience in there after finally cutting off Evans. Johnson and Bennett will probably stay. Don't particularly mind Bennett staying but do mind the muddled messiah putting him in at RB. Called it ages ago that he'd end up there and Nyambie would be off so we'll see.

Mowbray asked for experience to compliment the young team. He wanted some who'd seen it and done it. So he got the nod to sign Trybull, Douglas, Ayala and bring Downing back. They all flopped, he flopped. There's no denying he had the backing though to 'go for it' that's what this season was suppossed to be about but he didn't go for it. He's telling players in the last couple of games to go out, play with freedom and just go for it. Most of this season and last he's been telling them to sit back and keep the ball in our own half. Absolute fraud he is.

Yet another reason why that wet wipe manager should get the shove. Totally wasted the last 2 years backing, now we have to go through this shit again. Absolutely diabolical he remains stood there the aloof goon.

We have to learn to realize all managerial appointments and sackings are decided well away from Ewood. Done by the owners and their advisors, affiliates of the old you know who crew these days by the sounds of it. So nobody around Rovers knows anything other than speculation and hearsay. If it was ever going to happen it would be decided thousands of miles away then relayed here. They'd probably hire in someone else to do the dirty work as they have in the past. They take the hiring and firing decisions regardless of what anyone at the club might say. If a director wanted rid of a manager and they liked him the director would get the chop instead. Other side of the coin is even if a director said a manager should stay but they'd decided otherwise then he'd be gone, regardless. Mowbray for some unfathomable reason has survived where Bowyer didn't. I expect the carrot of him and his pals promising big money for Armstrong is the key to that. In GB's case i think others were handling all that and his word was weightless. Just imagine if he rakes in 15 million this summer, cuts the wages budget further then gets a contract extension ? Because it's very realistic and i'm sure it's what they are angling for. Then into next season and not winning for ten games at some point which is surely to happen again under him. They really wouldn't be able to afford to sack him then, so we have Kean mk2 scenario. It really doesn't bare thinking about and the only sensible thing to do is do the deed now. Let someone else rebuild it lean and mean even if we have to just consolidate again for a season.

Selling or letting go good academy graduates on the cheap or at end of contract isn't the Brentford model or what the academy is there for. He could be the 3rd one now under Mowbrays tenure and it isn't a good look. Say what you want about them individually but all were/are good enough to form part of a good squad. Non have returned big money back to justify their development.

Fully expecting you to reveal yourself finally after all these years as the love child of a certain A Nixon !!!! Joke, by the way. I seriously hope you are right Paul, i'd never doubt you again.

That's how he and his buddies would like to run it, slap in the middle of the division. Rotating 50 players every 5 games. They've all but totally brainwashed anyone who'll listen that's all we are capable of.

And PNE These are the only comparisons that matter. The Mowbrayism ares where he regularly drags up the clubs with parachute money. Or he'll point to Derby, Sheff Weds as the other side of the coin. We are all at different junctures with those and bear more similarity these days with the Prestons and Barnsleys.

They never see what is staring them directly in the eyes their heads will be buried again. They'll just sign off the budget and leave these self servers to it. But of course it's always bad advice that catches them out.....

A difficult season for anybody and everybody, injuries and bad pitches a plenty around the league. Only in Blackburn though you'd think at times. Top 6 was always a long shot but fully expected us to be in and around top 10. Strongest squad we've had since Bowyers 40 goal strike force season. Like that one mentally too weak from top to bottom and rotation that would make your average bingo machine blow a fuse. D minus Change needed urgently and no better time to do it. Coventrio get gone you're busted flushes who were exposed after lockdown LAST season.

It's the perfect scenario for him he'll take all the credit and flaunt it to the eyes of the owners. He'll then make a thousand other excuses when there's barely a quid spare from it to re-invest. Then he'll sign a dolloper from Boro on big wages.

Has he been sacked, stepped down, walked out, resigned yet ? Has the root and branch started ? No, close this thread, stop with the Nicko style bet edging and prepare for a rough summer. Groundhog season next season...or worse. We've won 5-2 and i'm sick to the back teeth already before the summer has begun.

It is a youngish side to be fair and one that should have been starting weeks ago. Could very well be next seasons starting line up minus Armstrong and THB, poss Nyambie as well. That's a very sobering thought. Mowbray out.

We are seeing the great reset now, no not involving covid and govt but involving Waggot, Mowbray and their PR company. The journey to the top 6, that started this season and has so called been building the last 3 years is in fact the journey to avoid relegation from now on. Some of our own fans need beating with uprooted saplings i swear. How can you even begin to tolerate this shite. Then again most won't it's just the daft social media era that allows this kind of propaganda to take hold and become fact. We are firmly in Kean/Anderson territory now make no mistake, punch ups in the stands coming next season. Club dumbing down going into overdrive whilst a bunch of chancers cling onto their big salaries bleeding the club. I mean they've tried to sell half the training ground FFS, what more do people need to see the red lights flashing. The crowds next season and their reactions will tell the real story not some facebook clowns who put a manager above the club.

We've recently only got around to having center halves who are center halves. Albeit 1 of them has had to grow into it but he's a bona fide defender now. So it would be very Mownrayish to now stick people at full back who aren't really full backs. Then ask then to perform like top level wing backs !

But he's spent months bemoaning we don't have parachute money, 100 million etc and we can't compete with those above us. He's puddled !

The only pressure was when the local journos starting relaying to him what fans were saying. It dawned on him he'd be rumbled as the bog average low budget manager he is and he didn't like it one bit. I think that's all it was and nothing from the inside at all other than worrying the owners would take notice of the local rags. That was all swiftly nipped in the bud by the looks of it.

We knew that one was coming.

I'd say County rather than Country, very North east of Yorkshire to be precise. Offices that say HSH over the door probably.