Nyambe and Holtby were our standout performers on Saturday so if TM is true to past form, one or both will be dropped. Difficult match to call, wouldn't be surprised win, lose or draw but we need to start picking up some results to keep our head above water.

We'll never get anywhere with Bennett in the side, this is a very tight League and to have any hope of succeeding you need every single player pulling their finger out and producing something worthwhile. You can't afford any passengers or players that are way below the standard required. He's the new Jason Lowe, one of the worst players you've ever seen in a Rovers shirt but seemingly mysteriously unstoppable in the manager's eyes. Mind you, I think it's obvious we'll never get anywhere with Mowbray in charge either. The comment from a poster above about him liking mid table mediocrity to keep the gravy train going resonated very strongly with me.

The keeper is absolutely useless for me. That's two home games where he's cost us the points recently, he also went down in Installments for the Forest equaliser and with Raya in nets that's two saves that are meat and drink for him and two games we win imo. Really hope we don't sign Walton permanently. Other than that with Dack and Holtby on the pitch I saw signs of hope and promise for the first time under Mowbray, our play was far more fluid and creative than normal. That was ruined by the substitutions which were progressively worse. Thought Nyambe was outstanding and showed us what we've been missing at RB. Conversely Bennett is an absolute liability wherever he plays and we're always going to struggle if he is selected to start.

Rubbish. Has never been given a chance.

I haven't seen many of the games this season but from what I've seen references to the new "passing style of play" are well wide of the mark. That would infer players are moving into imaginative positions to receive the ball and are getting it and also more importantly that there is an end product. All we do is watch static players knock the ball endlessly from side to side to each other in our own half and/or in front of the opposition. That may make the possession stats look better after the game but it's completely pointless in the final analysis. It's all extremely reminiscent of the latter days under Bowyer when in a home match against Derby I counted the defence and midfield make 40 odd passes at one point and we never even progressed out of our own half!

Ah, someone else has seen the light, welcome jim. The trouble is, we needed real quality in that position in summer to replace Graham but ended up spending £5m on Gallagher who proved he wasn't much good the last time he was here and who if anything appears to have gone even further backwards in the interim. Why would you spend big (ish) money on a striker you've already seen isn't much good? It should be a lucky escape not a signal to open the cheque book. I really don't understand it.

I think that every time Bennett pulls on the shirt. Yet he's first name on the team sheet. The likes of Graham, Evans and Bennett should be nowhere near the first eleven imo. Until the favouritism towards certain players ends and we pick our better players in their natural positions we have no hope of progression. Don't think that will ever happen under Mowbray.

The relentless March down the road to nowhere under Mowbray's confused and insipid leadership gathers pace. I've missed several games in the early part of the season for one reason or another and I haven't really been that bothered. There doesn't really seem to be much point going when we've zero prospect of challenging for promotion either automatically or via the play offs under this manager and next to no chance of improving whilst he's in charge. I reckon that if you were abducted by aliens tomorrow and returned to the same spot then years hence you'd find that nothing whatsoever had changed at Ewood Park were Mowbray still to be in charge. We'd have been lower mid table at the very best with the only variable being a relegation and promotion or two if the owners had been prepared to supply a budget which eclipsed the rest of League 1 like they did last time. It seemed obvious to me around February last season Mowbray needed to be replaced. As he wasn't, more money was squandered in summer and at best this will be another wasted season and at worst a relegation scrap in the latter stages of the campaign. If things get considerably worse it will be interesting to see if Waggott has the balls to sack the man who put him forward for his own position. Although if it was down to me I wouldn't leave that decision to him he'd be landing in a heap next to Mowbray were the manager to get the boot at any point.

Bad news. In the medium term that's another Club getting dynamic new management that will leave us floundering miles behind.

Narrow defeat, no doubt Mowbray and his apologists will try to spin it into some sort of heroic failure. The season already starting to follow the same type of pattern as last year. Few bad results followed by few decent results followed by few bad results etc etc.

Only thanks to a one man show from Harrison Reed in the second half. And we came away with a point. Not like it was 0-3 or 0-4 or something. Either way that's gone now. It's what happens tomorrow that counts.

Mowbray has been extremely disappointing with his performance during the transfer window in pre season and the early part of the season proper as well! Sadly we can't send him out on loan or to work with the kids. How is Chapman meant to be fully motivated when he has been here since January and was initially sidelined due to some feeble excuses about him not being fit enough to play even though he was fit enough to play for Boro, seven months on, is yet to be given an opportunity, and has now been consigned to the stiffs with the U23's? Disgraceful attempt by Mowbray to deflect criticism off himself by chucking yet another young player under the bus in public. He's showing himself to be a real nasty piece of work imo. That would be fine to a point f he were like Ferguson, even handed and tough with everyone but his favourites are clearly beyond any form of criticism whereas younger players are evidently fair game and expendable. The sooner Mowbray's gone the better for me. Unfortunately we'll probably lose Chapman first with him never having even been given a chance here.

Do you think so? I thought he'd put a really strong side out in the circumstances. Playing well but not taking your chances is a characteristic of sides that generally end up in trouble as has already been pointed out by jim and others this season.

Haven't we loaned him out? (Fisher)

Looking at the replay of the second, Leutwiler should have done a lot better with that. Fairly nothing shot into the middle of the goal which only curled into the corner at the last minute.

That's the problem though for the latter five if Smallwood and Evans get over-run in midfield, it's only really fair to judge them playing with the first choice midfield.

No, he doesn't at all. In fact on certain things the worse something goes and the more the criticism mounts the more he seems to dig his heels in and persist with it despite the fact it clearly doesn't work and we have better options. Bennett getting an extended run at RB being the latest example.

They were glaring long before then, every time they turned out together, but we got away with it in League one.

I haven't seen him this season yet Paul, when he was here in League 1 I thought he looked absolute quality and head and shoulders above anyone else we had bar Dack and should have walked into the team, especially at home where we have always struggled to break teams down under Mowbray. Yet the manager more or less completely overlooked him then and has completely overlooked him since re-signing him permanently making spurious excuses about him not being fit enough to play when he landed in January. Fairly bizarre for me. Once again he walks into the team for me if it's a choice between him or a central striker attempting to fill in out wide. I really don't understand either why you you would re-sign a player you clearly don't fancy and will do practically anything to avoid selecting.

Yep. Let's have it right, ever since Dack joined the Club it's been a case of if he plays particularly well or even not particularly well but nevertheless pulls us out of the **** with a moment of magic we do ok. If he doesn't we don't. And two years on it appears absolutely nothing has changed.

Best since Botham's Ashes in 1981 at the same ground. One day cricket doesn't even come close. Helped having a tame umpire though!

Thanks for that. I enjoyed that post. Reading that article by his brain dead girlfriend about her "contributing" a lot to Towie as if she were discovering a cure for cancer was beginning to make me question my sanity.

Certainly do. Certain fans can't tolerate the idea that other fans might possible have a different point of view to their own and waste no time in whinging about it!

To be fair I do think he is absolutely top drawer but for whatever reason he hasn't been at his best for some time. Be a real shame if he doesn't fulfill his potential and becomes a run of the mill player at this level.

I might have meant the wrong international break. Imo he's been well below par since the break prior to Preston away last season. In her own words they split their time between Essex and Manchester. Souness wouldn't have allowed it, the players were generally expected to rest if they weren't training or playing and I remember Ken Beamish telling me the players needed permission if they wanted to do the most innocuous of things such as make a brief appearance for charity etc.