Just now, blueboy3333 said:

 

Ternent should have chinned him when he caught him listening in to his team talk!

And Ternant ended up with a bloody nose from that after Blackwell nutted him.

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Personalised it, lol. Get over yourself. 

You're one of the biggest moaners on here, yet you are criticising warnock for being annoyed after his team miss 2 penalties in extra time in one of the biggest games in the clubs history. I would love to see your reaction if one of our players missed such a  penalty 

As I intimated earlier you need to grow up.

Just now, blueboy3333 said:

Most of them are. They'll do and say what benefits them and the team they are paid shed loads to manage. There's not much integrity in football management it would seem.

I have met a few genuine managers but you are correct in your generalisation. Warnock however was the worst example I ever came across in nigh on fifteen years.

Just now, 47er said:

He got Djouf thrown out of Rovers. I blame  Venkys most for not standing by their own player but I suspect they were glad of the excuse. After all they were getting rid of everyone else! Totally cynical of Warnock.

Gets results but couldn't ever like him.

Would have had him instead of Coyle I admit but would have had the Queen Mother ahead of Coyle.

 

He then signed Diouf for Leeds having called him a 'sewer rat' after the Givet and Mackie incident. Warnock is a walking hypocrisy.

Just now, Oldgregg86 said:

Why. That's exactly what happened

I know that. He personalised it by saying lucky for me because I didn't want Warnock.

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Lucky for you coyle got the job instead of him so 

What a childish thing to say.

1 minute ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

I like Warnock. Speaks his mind. So what if he likes a moan don't we all. 

If he was manager here we would all love him and defend him to the heights 

I wouldn't.

There are lots of players and managers, current and ex who dislike him. He is a nasty piece who is prone to the odd bout of cheating.

1 hour ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

He should have shook hands with warnock first, that's the etiquette. I can understand why he was pissed. Although it wouldn't take much after missing two penalties in extra time. What a finish to the game 

It wasn't the fact he didn't shake hands hands with Warnock that riled him. Quite simply it was that Warnock team lost and the circumstances. Warnock is a nasty piece of work and has a litany of previous for upsetting opposing managers, players and supporters.

I honestly don't get this handshake nonsense between players and managers. The fair play handshake happens and then some players spend the next ninety minutes trying to get each other booked, diving and haranguing the referee.

The EFL would be better off investigating real corruption in football.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43617974

47 minutes ago, philipl said:

Just rubbish referees?

Clattenburg was the original nomination but he took the cash on offer from Dubai. The FA tried to get a late nomination for Atkinson but it wasn't accepted.

Of more worry is the fact that England can't fill the ten places available to be FIFA referees. I think there are only seven referees for ten places and included in this are the likes of Atwell, Tierney and Madley. It's a real indictment on the FA and PGMO that this has happened since 2000 when the full time list came into being.

Just now, DE. said:

Mick adjusts his style for the players he has at his disposal. Nobody could get a team as limited as Ipswich playing entertaining football. He's done a very good job keeping them stable and secure. It won't be a surprise to me if they're on their way to League 1 this time next season. 

I agree. It seems like there are a number of deluded Ipswich fans who think they will become the new Barcelona overnight. There are lots of similarities with some Rovers fans and Allardyce here.

56 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

no thanks. 

don't want to watch hoofball football

McCarthy's style, tactics and philosophy are out dated and not what we need

As opposed to the total football from Mowbray? McCarthy has done well in jobs at Wolves and Sunderland and despite having nothing to work with at Ipswich kept them as a stable Championship club. He also did well for Ireland in major tournaments.

11 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

As Blueboy said, if that was Bradley Dack on Thursday and we didn't get the penalty, people would be going ape......

 

We probably would but Bradford, Shrewsbury and Wigan fans would be screaming no penalty and accuse Rack of cheating.

'Twas ever thus.

2 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

They reached the correct decision ultimately, it was a definite penalty.

Technology can easily work in football, it just perhaps needs a different format (i.e. like in other sports).

I haven't seen the incident but I have seen as many opinions to say it wasn't a penalty as there are saying it was and therein lies the main issue for me. VAR is fine for matters of fact such as off-side or the ball crossing the line. When it comes down to an opinion there are so many grey areas but the stakeholders are expecting black and white. I also think it is taking some emotion out of the game. Imagine the Championship play-off final and in the last minute fans are waiting several minutes for the VAR to come up with a decision that could determine a game worth over £150m. For matters of opinion the decision should be instant in my opinion and we live with the consequences.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11676/11301477/adam-armstrong-interview-leaving-bolton-for-blackburn-newcastle-hopes-and-taking-advice-from-wayne-rooney

Does anybody know if it's a recurrence of his hamstring injury?

3 hours ago, speeeeeeedie said:

No question at all. England will be there. 

It's not the first time it's happened, nor will it be the last. The British government won't do anything. Nor can it in it's current weak state. Russia's status in the world should be debated, but in the non football section of this forum.

Russia will be on its best behavior this summer. Streets will be clean. Stray dogs will be gone. Beer will be plentiful. But you still can't pay me to go.

 

England will be there simply because the FA are looking towards a big pay day.

They still have the over priced Wembley, several managers and countless Chief Execs NDA's to pay off.

Just now, meadows said:

I asked who were the main offenders. I think this tells a bit of a story!! I suppose you could be kind and say “taken off to keep fresh for weekend.” Hmmm. 

I get the need to give some of these players game time but what about the younger players who got us to the semi-finals in the first place? This was an opportunity to win a relatively prestigious competition and some egotistical wasters don't show up.

Hopefully it will give Mowbray the ammunition he needs to ship them out over the summer.

It would be great if he could hit the ground running when he is finally off the leash but I think some fans need to temper their expectations of him. It will take time for his touch to return and he will be tentative when having to run at full pace. I guess also that Mowbray would be wary about throwing him on from the bench without a thorough and intensive stretching session given how he got the injury in the first place.

1 hour ago, K-Hod said:

I’ll be honest, I don’t think Monk is that good and he’s another one that’s a good talker but not much of a doer.

And in his fledgling managerial career he has already had four clubs. He looks ready made to be another manager who makes a lucrative career out of being a failure.

Just now, blueboy3333 said:

And play who on the left? Bennett was played wide left to do a particular job which he did brilliantly. He also scored. He can't be everywhere.

Armstrong has played on the left several times for us and a lot in his career. Perhaps not his favoured position but he could have freed Bennett up for the greater good. 

1 minute ago, Stuart said:

Something that the “hindsighted” amongst us were saying before the game.

We should be looking to shore things up with DMs, with the game sewn up, not start them and the later bring on attackers. It’s a negative tactic which plans for failure.

Without Dack we’d have struggled today.

Agreed and on form alone Bennett should be in there ahead of the other two. His mobility, willingness to get forward and tackling should have seen him starting there. I honestly can't recall the last time I remember Evans having a half decent game.

Just now, jim mk2 said:

I thought Mowbray's weaknesses as a coach were exposed today. Cook changed his team to devastating effect, bringing on Vaughan who gave our defence a torrid time, even Lenighan found him hard to handle. Mowbray failed to see the danger and only made changes when it was too late. His substitutions seem to be by rote too, with the same players always taken off. 

It could as easily have been Smallwood rather than Evans going off. Both were poor and second best to Wigans central midfield. We only looked to control that area when Bennett moved inside. Smallwood was out on his knees in the last ten minutes and lost possession several times and gave cheap free kicks away.

In my opinion Mowbray got it wrong by playing those two from the start.

7 hours ago, old darwen blue said:

Tony Mowbray remembers the flurry of text messages from fellow managers inferring he was a “glutton for punishment” upon taking over at Blackburn Rovers. The doubters have long since dried up.

The 54-year-old spent a rare day off at home on Teesside on Thursday, one which coincided with his sons’ snowbound school being shut. He, and his family, spent it sledging together and it is tempting to suggest this was the only occasion in recent months in which his fortunes have gone downhill.

Mowbray has just marked a year in charge at Ewood Park with his side at the summit of League One and hosting third-placed Wigan Athletic tomorrow in a fixture pivotal to promotion hopes and also laced with symbolism.

That was not the plan, of course. The frustration at being unable to save the club from relegation on the final day of last season, despite accruing 22 points from his 15 games in charge, losing just three, has been channelled into trying to return at the first attempt.

The push is underpinned by experience and common sense. Mowbray stressed the importance of keeping the likes of Charlie Mulgrew, 31, Danny Graham, 32, and the 27-year-old Corry Evans, while acknowledging they probably did not envisage themselves in English football’s third tier, and with some clever recruitment, plus an infusion of youth, progress has been made. The central defender Mulgrew and striker Graham have each scored 12 goals this season.

Mowbray likens the club to a vessel that is no longer floundering but must continue to stay on course. “It is going all right,” he said. “We haven’t achieved anything yet, but we seem to have turned, if you want an analogy, this tanker around from facing the wrong direction.

“Blackburn Rovers shouldn’t be in League One and it was a dangerous time to be relegated. We had 12 players out of contract, none of them re-signed basically because of the salary drops from Championship to League One, so we had to rebuild the squad.

“We managed to keep some key players and, if we are being honest, they would have liked to have seen what was out there in the world for them. They wouldn’t see themselves as League One players, but I took a pretty firm stance. They were going to have to be the backbone of the team to try and get us up.”

Mowbray would have walked away last summer if the Indian owners, Venky’s, had not backed his vision. He had enough of crisis-management and working on a shoestring at Coventry City, a spell that ended with him resigning in September 2016.

New signings were made, among them the midfielder Bradley Dack from Gillingham for £750,000, Blackburn’s leading scorer with 14 goals and four assists, and Venky’s financial commitment to keeping Blackburn as a Category One academy has helped to nurture talents such as the home-grown defender Ryan Nyambe and Barcelona-born goalkeeper David Raya, who has been in the system for six years. Blackburn’s under-23s are top of their league and the under-18s in the quarter-final of the FA Youth Cup.

 

Mulgrew has scored 12 goals this seasonPaul Currie/BPI/REX/Shutterstock

“I did have some experienced football managers texting me saying; ‘You are a glutton for punishment to take on Blackburn after Coventry,’ ” said Mowbray, whose side have scored more goals than any other team in the division and lost just once since October. “But it is in the belly, really. Every football manager thinks he can turn things around — we all feel we have some magic dust to sprinkle on a team.

“But if the support level wasn’t going to be there, I would have gone in the summer. I had been at Coventry with no money, no facilities, no revenue. You are left with no backbone and no foundation. I didn’t want to have to add 20 players and build from nothing.”

One aspect that is being pieced back together, bit by bit, is the relationship between supporters and the club. There were 12,000 at Ewood Park for the most recent home game, a 2-0 win over Bury, a number that reflects the erosion of trust caused by Venky’s past excesses.

It was a home defeat to Wigan in May 2012 that sent Blackburn hurtling through the Premier League’s trapdoor in front of a mutinous crowd of 26,000. A victory tomorrow would take the hosts nine points ahead of one of their rivals, who have four games in hand, and Mowbray recognises the fixture’s importance.

“Football is all about expectation whether you are Manchester City expected to win the Premier League or Blackburn expected to get out of League One,” he said.

“The away support has been fantastic. We have virtually sold out every ground we have been to — even Wimbledon on a Tuesday night at the end of February we took a massive allocation.

“The home support has, at times, been anxious but only because they are desperate for the team to do well. That’s fine. I understand that. When I think back to us beating Shrewsbury, one of the teams up the top all season, there was a huge waft of support behind the team, and a unity between the football team and supporters. I’m sure Sunday will be the same.”

It took Leeds United three seasons to emerge from the wilderness of League One, Sheffield United six, so Blackburn’s past counted for little. Promotion would be a step forward, but no more.

“We wanted to stop the decline,” Mowbray said. “Sometimes it is hard when a team’s morale is down, you lose good players, the fans are not happy and it’s not a good environment in the stadium. To get people believing again was a test really. Now we must push on.”

Thanks for posting that ODB. An enjoyable read and interesting to hear he was prepared to walk away in the Summer if he wasn't backed.