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Don't know but JFH would be such a left field and surprising appointment you'd have to guess at some agent influence somewhere. Just as TM seemed a totally random appointment at the time with no rhyme or reason to it but presumably Honeyman got him the gig.

I don't know when the contracts of the current coaching staff end. If they're all up (like Mowbray) that would be one less potential hurdle to overcome.

I'm sure Farke would be interested IF - The salary was tempting - The budget was workable - He could pick his own staff Whether those conditions could be met remains to be seen. The longer the Club delay the bog standard message of thanks to Mowbray for his service, the more nervous I'm getting.

Promotion? If you have a light bulb in your house and it stops working, do you sit there in the dark because you're worried if you buy a new one, that may not work either?

Great Post.

This shouldn't really be too difficult should it? The two outstanding candidates (Farke and Dyche) are out of work. There's no need to go trawling through a list of inferior candidates. All we need to do is to get our CEO to persuade them to come and negotiate the terms. Oh wait..........

It was his decision not to sign a back up striker in January and it was obvious if anything happened to BBD we'd be screwed as no-one else was scoring.

I'd be done if Mowbray stayed and I'd be done if Appleton was reappointed. I know the latter now has the same rosy managerial CV as Mowbray did when he was appointed of being out of work having jumped from a League One Club before he was pushed but nevertheless surely even Venky's wouldn't be crazy enough to reappoint someone they (rightly) fired off after just 67 days. I thought Appleton was terrible when he was here (will never forget the Millwall quarter final) and seemed a very unpleasant character to boot. Didn't he offer fans who were complaining out after one particular defeat? The only thing you'd say in his defence was that he was sacked after a run of five wins from fourteen games and Mowbray took us on a similar run (or worse) every season in the Championship and survived so Appleton might be forgiven for thinking "What's the difference?"

Lot of collective amnesia on here today, we're barely 24 hours on from an absolutely pitiful capitulation both in terms of yesterday's game and the second part of the season, and already people seem to have forgotten how poor the last four years have been. Even trying to make out "It wasn't that bad really." Yes it was. And he hasn't actually gone yet. I will refrain from popping open the bubbly until the Club have commented on his employment status and he has physically exited the building.

Of course it is. If you can afford to spend more on wages for the squad, theoretically you should be finishing higher in the table.

If we're correlating finishing position directly with income about 6th to 8th is where we should be finishing once you have added Venky's contribution of £15- £20m p.a. on top of our revenue. Obviously, it doesn't work exactly like that anyway. Someone had better tell Luton they can't pass go, can't collect £100m and have to be reassigned to 24th.

I haven't checked the ages but is the squad THAT young and/or inexperienced?

Well if you're cheap and give a shit that gives you an obvious advantage over Mowbray straight away and you're dead level on the 3rd criteria !

This is what worries me slightly when I read the headline about his interview I thought he must have said he was definitely leaving but he said nothing of the sort, all he said was that he'd had no contact about a new contract therefore he was drawing the obvious assumption. I'm just hoping and praying that the owners haven't assumed it would be acceptable to open discussions at the end of the season bearing in mind the doubt at one time over which division we'd be in next season and that this isn't a devious ploy by Mowbray to get them to feel sorry for him despite the abysmal results and emotionally blackmail them into saying "Tony OF COURSE we don't want you to leave!" But.....but.....Tony is "a man of honour" (so we keep being told) so surely he wouldn't carry on after saying he was leaving. Would he?

I'd add Furphy to the highs. Wasn't a fan of Saxton despite the extremely challenging financial circumstances he had to work under. Otherwise couldn't agree more.

Berating fellow supporters when they're not the problem isn't a particularly good look either.

Mowbray's parting comments are not helpful in the slightest. We don't need a "developmental" coach, we need a manager that can win Championship football matches!

What other manager would exclude from the squad a home grown player with over 200 appearances for the Club in what would have been his last home appearance but include a loanee who hasn't featured for more than half a season due to injury?. Absolutely disgusting. If Ryan Nyambe can't be persuaded to stay by a new manager I will be really upset by his departure. In terms of value to the team he'll be by far the hardest of the three amigos to adequately replace imo. Wish him well with his future career and hope he gets treated better elsewhere should he leave.

Hang on - two days ago he claimed he'd had no contact with the owners. He seems pretty bloody certain about his future just 48 hours later! Many of us were also right to be sceptical about Mowbray bringing in another of his mates - Park. Unless Markanday turns out to be a good un his only contribution for a year and a half's wages is to fail to find an Armstrong replacement over 2 transfer windows and saddle us with Hedges. Honestly, these characters can see Venky's coming a mile off. Easy money.

Well, he's not a person of low intelligence, I think he's a cunning old sod who knows exactly what he's been up to for the last five and a half seasons - and it's been for the benefit of him and his family, not the Club. Edit: Can't see any obvious connection to persons with a disability in that definition.

Memo to owners: Stop throwing good money after bad and wasting £20m p.a. employing substandard staff to run operations on the ground at Ewood. Get a competent CEO and Dyche or Farke as manager in NOW, let them pick their own coaching staff and give them a reasonable budget to work with. I think you'd be amazed at how rapid and dramatic the difference would be.

Nailed it SG.

And to think some posters had the front this morning to suggest this game wasn't a dead rubber! Never got close to laying a glove on an efficient and well drilled Bournemouth outfit. Billing very impressive Solanke not far behind. Pretty typical Mowbray to give a bumper crowd absolutely nothing to get excited about. They won't be back in a hurry. Lenihan at RB doesn't work. Hedges, JFHC, where do we find these dollopers? He doesn't even look like a footballer. Disgraceful treatment of Nyambe again in what presumably would have been his last home game. What's Poveda done to warrant inclusion on the bench? I'd rather see one of our own lads there. Player of the season, not our player. Goal of the season - scored by someone who's not our player. Captain - off before next season. Happy Days. The only consolation was (hopefully) witnessing the final few minutes of the tenure of the moron in the dug out.

"Dreaming of days like today"? What, where there's bugger all at stake for us and the opposition Club are having a promotion party on our patch? Yeah, can't wait for more of those. For me today has the feel of the City game shortly after Souness took charge here and they were promoted. Only difference being there won't be anywhere near as many opposition fans in attendance.

If it makes you feel better to keep clutching at straws then go for it. We all know I think in reality this is a dead rubber (for us). I'll reframe the question slightly then. I wonder what the atmosphere amongst the home support will be if we go a goal or two behind? Mowbray SHOULD be getting absolute pelters in that instance given what's happened in the second half of the season. The owners too if necessary. It's been a collective failure from everyone connected with the Club which started with an abysmal transfer window.