RevidgeBlue

Agreed. Absolute disgrace if Johnson gets a new deal, ditto Bennett.

Good grief, we are where we are at this point in our history because we've had a terrible manager who can't hack it in the Championship for the last three years! The local media have become a major part of the problem. Mowbray could come out and say the earth was flat and instead of challenging it and saying it was rubbish that comment would probably get spun something like "The intuitive Rovers boss has taken a bold and alternative view on the shape of the world in order to try and get an edge on his rivals."

Pity he's been playing for someone else and not for us!!!

Don't disagree that he should have gone then (or preferably over two years ago) but I am still very hopeful Paul Mani is correct on this as it ties in with something I heard.

Yep. It's over to them.................

I'd be exactly the opposite. Rhodes (at his peak) every day of the week for me.

I can't see anything whatsoever wrong with what Cowley said. He's currently employed by Portsmouth and as long as that's the situation it's his job to big them up. If the phone rang tomorrow and he was offered a genuinely bigger job it'd suddenly be a case of "Portsmouth, who are they?".

My guess would be not if you want to be competitive at the top end of the table. However I can't see why you couldn't run competitively at a small fraction of our £20m p.a. loss and make that up with skillfully player trading and developing Academy graduates. The amount of money we waste is eye watering. We've been paying Mulgrew and Ayala the thick end of £2m p.a. NOT to play for us! Pears, Bennett, Evans, Trybull, Downing, Johnson etc - did we actually need any of them?

Yes, was just watching the end of that game. I think his stats since arriving at Portsmouth including today's loss are P 12 W 6 D 2 L 4 - 20 points. We can only dream of returns like that in recent seasons.

To quote you, based off what?

I disagree completely on Nyambe. I think he's as good as we could ever hope to get as a Championship Club, any replacement will be an inevitable downgrade and the final kick in the nuts will be the relative peanuts we'll get for him thanks to the appalling way in which Mowbray has treated him. I agree completely with your comment about spending more on the first X1 and losing the expensive dross squad filling. One possible positive is we have a great chance to do that this summer ......... but only under a new manager with a completely new outlook you'd imagine. Otherwise we could see new deals for the likes of Johnson and Bennett and a cushy role for Stewie somewhere within the Club in an alleged coaching capacity.

Let's see what happens with the managerial structure at the Club over the next few weeks. IF we got to the first day of next season and nothing had changed then yes, maybe it would be impossible to escape that conclusion. And yes, if it had been down to me I would have sacked Mowbray in Feb 2019 on the basis of results but the owners do seem to give anyone who gains their confidence an exceptional amount of leeway.

Devil's Advocate mode on: If the owners didn't care at all, do you not think the Brockhall scheme would still be going full steam ahead? You surely don't think that Waggott would have pulled the plug on it off his own batt do you? Have to say that even in a season that was an unmitigated disaster on the pitch the abortive attempt to flog off our infrastructure (which incidentally hasn't produced the slightest hint of contrition or an apology from Waggott in the wake of it's humiliating failure) was by far the most worrying and concerning development.

Me too. If the original plan was for Mowbray to leave in an orderly and relatively dignified manner at the end of the season then hopefully it isn't necessarily an adverse sign that it hasn't happened already. I don't know about any other departures but hopefully the obvious suspects will be following on behind in fairly short order. It would be incredibly disheartening if there'd been any sort of change to the original plan, almost too much to cope with in fact.

However bad you thought it was........it was worse! Will be absolute carnage if Mowbray is given yet another transfer window to mess up and is still here next season.

What other manager would be advocating the departure of his number one asset? Staying or going - the man's an absolute disgrace.

Pack your bags, return to Teeside and stop dragging us down. And take your housing development mates with you!

Even if we'd turned 5 losses into these mythical 5 wins we'd still have been 5 points outside the play offs. Paul is on the wind up as usual.

Considerably more than 'a few more results". TWENTY points outside the play offs! Absolute disgrace! Waggott/Mowbray/ Venus out!!

Full time. And there endeth three seasons as bad as I've seen in 50 years of watching the Club. Especially this season.

Bizarre day indeed, Evans played a forward pass!

Beyond a joke!

Appalling wasn't it. They should all be absolutely made up about scoring a goal/winning.

Yep, should have claimed the cross for the second as well. Maybe his mind is elsewhere.

Just watched it back. No -one's touched him.