6 minutes ago, tomphil said:

He's an arsehole that's what he is, a very very lucky one, to have such idiots filling his bank account every month. Whilst he sits there insulting fans intelligence and dragging moral into the dirt before next season.

No other club would put up with this, none.

 

As I remember being told at school many years ago,

"Don't call him an arsehole; an arsehole's useful."

"Not one that big!"

I've just looked - probably for the first time - our last three fixtures are against Huddersfield, Rotherham & Birmingham!!

So the manager's motivational speeches will be needed as never before. Oh sorry; I forgot; he doesn't do them, does he?

Just now, booth said:

I can't see Rotherham getting 11 points but it's next season we should be very afraid about.

Especially if Mowbray & his pal Waggott are still around.

On 11/04/2021 at 01:44, AllRoverAsia said:

Everton scout actually said:

''In fact, it is not about launching shots and making unnecessary attempts at goal, 65 shots have been on target and he leads the table for most shots on target per 90 minutes with 1.99 shots on target''

He's a head down player, doesn't really always see what others are doing, gets a glimpse of the target and shoots.

He's not told to do that, it's the way he is and always has been in his career.

For what its worth he is 3rd on the Rovers 'Assist' list, way behind Harvey E. and just behind Ryan N.

I do think he's a greedy bugger. Thank God.

That's why my Geordie pals told me that Benitez let him go so - comparatively - cheaply. They thought Rafa saw him as a good Championship forward but was one of those who couldn't make the transition to the Premier League.

48 minutes ago, Proudtobeblue&white said:

They don't give a shit, the LOONS are clueless. Our club is just a number on some awful accounting sheet. It was a vanity project that turned to disaster as soon as Sam was sacked. No reason why they should continue to haemorrhage (yes spell checked) millions, save for the fall out of leaving/pulling the plug. Hopefully folk would go back to investigating their purpose. They spend money to prevent the truth.

Can anybody on here please explain to me why, if the owners were so ruthless as to sack BFS after one bad result - that Man Utd game - they've been so incredibly lenient with Teflon Tony?

1 hour ago, 47er said:

Supposing crowds are allowed back in, how many season tickets will we sell?

We are not free of relegation yet either remember. 

I'm getting increasingly disinterested in all things Rovers, more than 70 years after I saw my first game. Venkys are wiping away my history.

I'm with you on this one, 47er. The word I've used to describe my relationship with what I used to call, "This Great Club Of Ours" is 'divorced'. Obviously the pandemic and the truncated season's part of that; but until the Trust sold us to our present owners, I always felt that the club was in good hands, run by Boards who had the same sort of affection for it as we, the fans, have.

Now, it feels that we're in an era of benign[?] neglect, with owners that do the bare minimum for us, and can't be bothered even to sack the manager for his bizarre tactics leading to pathetic results.

I'm sure you, 47er, will doubtless remember Al Read, the comedian from Salford, on the wireless [old meaning!] in the 1950s. One of his monologues was as a football fan who wouldn't go to watch his team who were on an unsuccessful run like Mowbray has us on at present.

"Why would I go and watch them?", he asked. "They never came to see me when I were bad!" Which is just how I feel about Mowbray's present team and tactics.

2 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

How can Tony watch this guff week in and week out and then have the cheek to say we're playing well? It boggles the mind.

The thought that's kept going through my mind this weekend is that, if Quality Control in the main part of our owners' 'Empire' is as abysmal as it is in our part, thank goodness I don't eat their chickens!

1 minute ago, Mike E said:

Trying to be positive and work out how to get the best out of what we have, I'd go 4231.

                   Kaminski

Nyambe  Lenihan  LoanKid?  Bell

              Travis    Rothwell

Elliott            Dack         Armstrong

                  Gallagher

I'm thinking high line, with Bell and Nyambe only using their immense pace to catch failed offside traps, or break forward on counters. Otherwise, they should both just sit in a flat back 4.

Travis to play the Savage role, give it to Rothwell to burst forward like the Dunn of the Souness era.

Gallagher to be the targetman, just there to hover up top nodding balls down for a free-roaming trio, or to get on the end of any crosses.

Is that a plan?

Maybe; but far too subtle for TM!

11 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

I am with you there , that's exactly how I think it will pan out....maybe in bottom 5 ...

So long as it's not the bottom three!

I'd been shouting for Pearson for weeks now - long before Bristol City recruited him.

Now that he's unavailable, how about the latest Rovers' Old Boy to actually win - scuse me for splitting an infinitive! - win something?

And with apologies to anyone north of Hadrian's Wall: it may only be Scotland; it may only be their League Cup; but could we do worse than Callum Davidson? I can't remember Alec Neil actually winning that much - I may have forgotten; I've been on a cheaper Red tonight than I'm sure Mercer would ever consume! - before he rocked up at Deepdale.

3 hours ago, Waggy76 said:

That is the worst possible outcome ..

How's a 1-1 draw the "worst possible outcome"?

Wouldn't a 1-0 defeat be worse than that? Or losing 2-1? And so on, ad infinitum.

17 hours ago, Angry_Pirate said:

Who would have thought that after an entire year without being able to attend our beloved Rovers, I would feel so unattached, disinterested and numb at the thought of watching us again.

Cannot wait for this season to end, hopefully with a change of manager and not a change of League.

I usually bet on Rovers to lose - as i bet for what I don't want to happen - I really don't know if I'll be betting anymore under this regime.

It's only now - 1.00 pm on Thursday - that I feel strong enough to read through this thread.

I totally agree with your first paragraph, Pirate; you sum up exactly how I feel. The phrase I've used in conversations with friends to sum up how I feel these days about the club I've been following forever is "that I feel divorced from them."

I don't 'do' iFollow - far too technical for this old fogey! - and I must confess that, for the first time since probably the Jim Iley era, I completely forgot that we were playing last night.

I'm bemused by what's going on at Ewood and, behind the scenes, with regard to Brockhall. It feels like we're directionless at every level of the club; and, as for our owners, well, why can't they be as ruthless with Mowbray as they once were with BFS?

I remember, probably three years ago now, being taken in by the public image of Mowbray as a competent 'Mr. Nice-Guy'.

To my embarrassment, I recall comparing where we were at that time with where we were at the time of the first game I remember attending at Ewood in November 1953 and said something about both teams being where was appropriate for a club of our size in a town of our size: mid-table in Division Two/Championship.

How naïve of me, eh? With Mowbray bemusing all of us with his team selections - and those selections almost invariably and inevitably being less than the sum of their parts - we seem, at best, doomed to float around where we are at present.

And, put simply, it isn't good enough for us.

6 minutes ago, Carbz said:

Not sure if there is even any point changing the Manager until the end of the season now. We are that far behind we might as well give him till the end of the season.

To do what? See if he can get us into the relegation zone???

3 hours ago, Proudtobeblue&white said:

He should come on here for suggestions?

Yes; but will they be:

1] polite; and

2] about how following a team he manages drives you to drink?

Well, that's my excuse, anyway!😉

29 minutes ago, matt83 said:

Losing interest in Rovers more every game by the time the gates reopen won’t be interested in going whatsoever. 

Possibly the saddest post I've read on here in some time.

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

...

It's on the owners to bring about a change in management.

Hope you'll accept an amendment to your post, Exiled_Rover.

3 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

I'm sure they have groundsmen hired? What are they missing that other clubs have? 

It's horrendous 

If they haven't already, why don't they whack a bid in for Chorley's groundsman??

14 hours ago, tonygreenbank said:

Feeling very frustrated tonight along with most on here but my frustration is based on not winning that game. We should have won after dominating the majority of possession and attempts on goal.

Over 90 minutes lots of things happen on a football pitch. Some moments of exciting play and some moments of careless and mistake ridden action. A stupid error by our goalie, his only mistake of the match, cost us the game. We could and should have had 2 or 3 goals in that second half and they defended manfully throughout.

Most of the game I agree we were slow and played in front of their defence but despite playing below par we should have won it.

Disappointed in Travis and Dack who didn’t get going and nobody really stood out for us apart from Dolan and occasionally Elliott.

As for us long suffering fans, going out in Round 3 is always so disappointing and something we’re used to.

Another Saturday night ruined.

And you forgot about The Dingles crabbing a win against MK Dons, tony!😉

16 hours ago, bazza said:

Nigel Pearson for me.

Totally agree with you, bazza. He's hard, yet intelligent and above all a man who doesn't suffer fools gladly; that's a mixture that, imo, we need behind the manager's desk. Additionally, although he's a few months older than Mowbray, his image is of a man who isn't dictated to by events. I can't imagine him signing his mates' lads, for example.

See this from the Smoggie-land evening paper: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/eric-paylor-nigel-pearson-mans-9611087

Admittedly, it's almost 6 seasons old; but I wouldn't look beyond him in the search for the manager to put the 'Great' back in the phrase, 'This Great Club Of Ours.'

What I find difficult to comprehend is, if BFS was sacked within 48 hours of the notorious defeat to MUFC, why displays like today's - and goodness knows there have been enough of them - haven't provoked a similar reaction by our owners towards Mowbray?

Do they not realise that their 'investment' is depreciating with every game like today's?

I know that nobody's allowed in to watch a 'live' game at the moment; but, really, displays like today's provide no incentive for fans to return to fortnightly attendance at Ewood once the All-Clear in the war against Covid19 has sounded.

1 hour ago, blue_n_white99 said:

Derby got beat by Chorley

Simplistic comments like this are REALLY annoying. That may be what the history books show in years to come; but to put it on here as a point of comparison with our performance and result today is cheap.

The full facts are that Derby County, whose squad was decimated by Covid19 and played their youth squad at Chorley, lost that game.

There can be no comparison between the result at Chorley and the unmotivated performance that the 10 players in blue and white and a Reserve goalkeeper put on this afternoon.

If it sent Mowbray to sleep - as it appeared to - then that surely shows he's no longer fit to occupy the manager's office.

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

mowbray is very lucky the fans can`t attend,even the happy clappers in the jack walker stand would have turned by now

True; but he's even luckier that we've got apathetic owners who are, apparently happy to keep paying him to 'manage' displays like today's.

On 29/12/2020 at 23:05, m1st said:

My own personal Hell is that I have an old schoolmate who emigrated to New Zealand and supports the 6-fingered ones. I KNOW, that when I wake up tomorrow morning, there'll be a cheery message from him celebrating yet another crabby win for them and yet another crappy defeat for us.

What I do not understand is why our owners should want to keep hold of such an under-performing 'asset'. There's nothing we can do about it, I guess; but I can't help wishing that, if they aren't going to put some money into us, they'd sell us to [b]someone/some organisation that's interested in their football team progressing, rather than being allowed to regress.[/b]

And now I'm living in a new circle of hell; dreading the message from NZ confirming that the 6-fingered ones now have an owner with the sort of specifications I alluded to above.

My own personal Hell is that I have an old schoolmate who emigrated to New Zealand and supports the 6-fingered ones. I KNOW, that when I wake up tomorrow morning, there'll be a cheery message from him celebrating yet another crabby win for them and yet another crappy defeat for us.

What I do not understand is why our owners should want to keep hold of such an under-performing 'asset'. There's nothing we can do about it, I guess; but I can't help wishing that, if they aren't going to put some money into us, they'd sell us to someone/some organisation that's interested in their football team progressing, rather than being allowed to regress.

6 hours ago, 47er said:

I haven't got anyone in mind Tyrone because there isn't anyone other than the youngsters and the January transfer window. This is a position best saved for experience rather than enthusiasm.

However,  we knew Ayala was injury-prone when we signed him and we knew there's always a potential sending off or booking around every time Lenihan plays.

So, for me, its  about prioritising the defence and building from the back which we don't do.

We risk derailing what looks like a very promising season.

If I were TM I'd be scouting for centre-back replacements in January and hoping we can limp through without too much damage till then.

 

 

Yes; it's really got to be, "Defenders are coming" in January!