The referee was embarrassingly inconsistent. Kane should have been cautioned for a cynical, technical foul early on and we he was then cautioned later on would have been sent off. Buckley was lucky as his two indiscretions were both yellow cards again highlighting an inconsistency. His performance was summed up at start of the second half kick off. He made the Coventry player move the ball a few centimetres on the centre Mark drawing unnecessary attention to himself before the second half had even kicked off. And the ball was certainly going to be kicked backwards anyway. Absolutely pedantic and it spoke volumes about his performance. That said he denied Coventry what looked to me like a clear penalty which could have resulted in a defeat for us.

Would Mowbray play nurse Ratchet? ☺️

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/blackburn-rovers-mowbray-coventry-inexperience-21881381 So now Mowbray has thrown the young players under the bus. If this really was the case why didn't he put Bradley Johnson on instead of Davenport. He's a walking contradiction who just brushes things away and blames everybody except himself. Him and him alone has the responsibility for results.

At each of our corners Coventry kept two players up. Any guesses how many we kept up for theirs?

The protests about Kean told me a lot about our fan base. Anybody with Rovers at heart should have been protesting or shouting for him to be sacked and put pressure on the owners. Instead of being a united club it caused rifts. I witnessed it outside the ground when we were ridiculed for having the temerity of wanting something better for our club. In the ground many of us were told to 'get behind the team' when shouting 'Kean out'. I still maintain getting rid of him early in that relegation season and getting a proper manager in would have kept us up and an opportunity for someone to build. Probably the only truth Kean told was the 1% jibe. That's history now but looking to the future Mowbray is bomb proof, no pressure from the supporters or anywhere else and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he got a new deal.

Did anybody notice that the new clock kept running at 45 minutes up until the referee blew his whistle for half time? Somebody will get a rollicking for that as the regulation is that the clock must stop on 45 and 90 minutes so the referee won't be pilloried if he plays over the announced stoppage time. I wonder if Waggott was operating it?

Today was something I have witnessed far too often under Mowbray. I think the phrase 'game of two halves' came about because of his teams propensity to perform differently in the same game. In the box seat, two up and relatively comfortable and half time kills us. We were full of attacking intent in the first half with our wing backs causing them all manner of problems. In the second half they barely crossed the half way line and we, to all intents and purposes played a back five. Robins did a number on Mowbray as he changed their shape at half time and the controlled the midfield. For me it was crying out for Bradley Johnson but instead we got Davenport. I'm so fed up with this bloke now as I really believe he is costing us vital points which is essentially down to his tactical misgivings.

I have seen Burns play quite a few times and believe me he can look after himself, amongst his attributes in my opinion is his strength a physique. I refereed at that level when coming through and also at reserve team level and the pace and tempo of both are like chalk and cheese.

He has gone to play in a glorified pub league. How many players over recent seasons have we sent to non league only for them not to get game time, not adapt and return to us no better. It's a pointless deal that with do neither Rovers or the player any good.

It's a bit of a phenomenon that Rovers just can't see. I think I saw a comment from Waggott saying something about the cost of getting merchandise to Chile but that is all I have seen. Surely Macron must be interested in this and have clubs who wear their kit out there. There will also be lots of sports outlets who work in a commission.I I see this as pretty much a free hit for Rovers but still they appear to be dawdling.

In professional sport it's essential I think. Prior to his Chilean sojourn in the summer I saw very little confidence in his overall game. Now he looks like he's got his acceptance speech ready to receive the Ballon D'or. 😄😄

Absolutely not. It appeared in the national press during the early part of this year that his mother was from Chile and according to one of our Chilean posters it also hit the South American press. I don't know anybody who dreamt this could have happened but for me there was an almost novelty value in the story. He went so they could have a look at him, they clearly saw his potential and had the nous to turn that potential into far more than our esteemed management team could have dreamt of. I remember Mowbray praising Brereton who he said travelled well with the ball in training. He couldn't get that out of him in a match though.

Don't you think it's because of what he's done for Chile that we have a reborn, revitalised and confident player. His stock has risen remarkably and we may cash in on that but the Chilean coaching staff deserve huge praise for getting something in a few weeks that Mowbray and his dullards couldn't get in nigh on three years.

The rise of Brereton has to be one of the most remarkable stories in our history, it's Hollywood material. I don't know who the manager of Chile is but the summer transformation has been remarkable and he has to take lots of credit. I wonder if he fancies a summer job to improve some of our other players ☺️

That's harsh mate. The keeper would have been expecting him to shoot across the goal and the finish at the near post was clever and shows how confident he has become since the summer.

Dolan is pictured training today.

I can see lawyers getting richer with this one.

It's a myth that he was crying. He simply had his head in his hands which was probably a reaction to an abject performance. The myth is perpetuated by some who use it as a weapon against anybody who was critical of him.

But one bloke isn't representative of the vast majority. There has been criticism of Brereton mainly written but very little that has been audible at any ground. He was banished to the under 23's not too long ago because he was poor. I'm delighted for him and happy to admit I was wrong about him.

BBC News - Footballers demand compensation over 'data misuse' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58873132 This could ba really interesting development in the way data is used, collected and, according to this abused.

What about the poor standard of coaching at Rovers? Chile got more out of him in six weeks than Rovers did in two and a half years. And that was international not club football.

I didn't rate him and you know I'm delighted he has come good so I am happy to be wrong but for over two thirds of his time here the empirical evidence is that he was mostly poor, occasionally average and rarely good. He was sent to play with the under 23's ffs. So I do know who I am.

Agreed. I don't believe he is anywhere near as thick skinned he would like us to believe. I recall him exonerating himself early from the potential sale of Brockhall by saying 'it's above my pay grade'.

Absolutely correct. Somebody at Ewood has seen some comments on social media about Mowbray eulogising about the Blackpool fan's and this is just damage limitation. I wonder if he said what he did because the fans had the temerity to shout 'Mowbray sort it out '.

I'm for anything that increases the crowds but for me it's not radical enough. The real screw up from Waggott was not being creative enough with season tickets mainly on price but also flexibility. His silly structure for season tickets hasn't given him much room for manoeuvre. Still it's another admission from him that he got it wrong.