RevidgeBlue

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.

What a great post. Should be framed and placed on every wall in the corridors of power at Ewood.

I'm very very angry about all this, tomorrow is effectively a dead rubber but I suppose I should wait until the theoretical possibilities have been completely exhausted before fully venting my spleen. I wonder what the atmosphere will be like tomorrow, will it be fairly supportive or in my view as it should be, pretty hostile in view of the one off opportunity which has been spurned?

I know he's HSH but he wouldn't be too bad would he?

Yes. Could easily be 15th/11th/15th/11th yet. Not even a top ten.

Yes, was about to post similar. Ten points clear of seventh place at the end of January with just eighteen games to go. Out of contention altogether with a full two games to go just 16 games later. That's one hell of a "feat". Fuck off Mowbray. NOW there is no excuse whatsoever not to announce his departure prior to tomorrow's dead rubber. Will give some of us a boost in advance of next season and whilst I have absolutely no idea why anyone would wish to celebrate his turgid record at Championship level with us, those who wish to do so, can also do that.

You're on one today Matty. You'd think I never criticised Waggott or something.

Going to be a long 45 mins.

I give up. People obviously think championship footballers play for nothing and that for example loan players come here for free. Also I stand to be corrected, but my understanding is that it is Venky's holding Company which is £200m in debt and the only debt attached to the Club is the bank overdraft which is at a similar sort of level (c£20m) to when they took over.

Yes, let's forget about the two £12m players as it doesn't fit the narrative. Lol.