I don't usually comment on price but there is no excuse whatsoever for charging £40 in the Blackburn End (excluding the match day surcharge) for a run of the Mill Championship fixture. £30 would probably be too much. The fact Wednesday may or may not have charged something similar is completely irrelevant. A reciprocal pricing agreement should be a gentleman's agreement that if another Club do your fans a favour by reducing prices you will do the honourable thing and follow suit. It doesn't mean that if you get overcharged at their place you're obliged to follow suit and rip everyone off including your own fans in the return fixture! Two wrongs don't make a right and if everyone were to adopt the same "yah boo" mentality then you just end up with a never ending spiral of price increases. Before you know it prices will be £50 or £55 etc. Waggot' seems to be a one trick pony whose only thought is to risk permanently alienating our own fan base by chasing a quick and easy pay day when certain away fixtures with reasonable away followings come along. Depending on the elasticity of supply and demand I wouldn't even have thought that charging more to the away fans would prove significantly more profitable than charging more fans slightly less. Certainly not just over a month before Christmas. Its lazy and unimaginative. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of pounds a year he's earning for that genius piece of strategy. He should be earning his money by coming up with imaginative and innovative ideas to try and fill Ewood with home fans on a long term basis. Not drive people away. The football on the pitch and the problems with the manager are bad enough already without this crowning kick in the knackers.

The obvious answer to that inane question from Waggott should have been Obviously yes because we've been terrible for 12 months and one good half doesn't change that."

If only. We couldn't be so lucky like that twice though could we?

Absolute rubbish. The pressure such as it is is amongst the fan base is coming because Mowbray is doing a crap job, has performed extremely badly for the last twelve months and has recruited disastrously in the last 3 transfer windows. It's nothing whatsoever to do with the fact he might have said we were aiming for top ten or top six or whatever. In any event, aiming to try and make the top six is a relatively modest target and should be every Club's aspiration. It's not like we're saying we expect one of the top two spots or saying we need 100 points or something which would be somewhat unrealistic. If however the reports above are correct and the owners and those behind the scenes are burying their head in the sand and trying to pretend nothing is wrong then more fool them and I hope the Club don't act all surprised when we are relegated and try and blame it on injuries or circumstances beyond our control when we were already short on quality in certain areas and compounded it by letting further players in those positions out on loan and sold our first choice keeper without an adequate replacement when we were under absolutely no pressure to do so.

Excellent summary save that I think it is extremely optimistic to assume TM can actually keep us bottom half championship. Not that that would be acceptable in any event.

Should feel gutted after throwing away a 2 goal lead but instead the feeling is just one of resignation, you feel with this lot that had we been 3 up at half time they'd somehow have found a way to lose 4-3. Preston upped the tempo and went far more direct and we simply couldn't handle it, we've no leaders on the pitch despite the nonsense about Bennett being Mr. Blackburn Rovers etc. Walton is an absolute joke and needs shipping back from whence he came asap. Should bring Leutwiler in temporarily and get someone else in in January. Elsewhere, despite the fact we conceded 3 I thought Bell especially and Tosin had decent games. Two things I didn't like off the pitch. Bell who I thought had a very good game was the only player at the end who braved the walk to the far end of the pitch to acknowledge the fans and was roundly booed for it which I thought was completely out of order.The other thing was various scores destroying seats at the back of the stand after the whistle. If you can't stand losing, don't go. If it brings Mowbray nearer to the exit door I'll take the defeat. Mowbray out.

Appalling interview from Mowbray. If you didn't know better you'd think he was deliberately angling for a pay off there.

I think we need to forget any notion that he might walk, thereby forgoing any compensation. No-one does that these days unless they've already been guilty of some sort of gross misconduct entitling their employers to terminate their contracts forthwith. If we're to get rid of him, Waggot or the owners are going to have to sack him. The former seems highly unlikely so imo the owners are going to have to give Waggot an edict from above and while they're at it I'd be telling him and Venus to pack their bags as well.

Re: Johnson, or any other rookie manager for that matter, they are never going to land a job at a decent level when things are going swimmingly well, their only realistic chance is to go in somewhere where the wheels have fallen off and establish their credentials by doing a good job in difficult circumstances.

Difficult to disagree.

So apart from the fact the defence and attack aren't good enough "we're not far off" ? Wouldn't like to see us if we were!

"Avoiding relegation" isn't acceptable and a reason for keeping him though is it? What have you seen on the pitch and what are your reasons that make you think we can turn the season round?

I'm tired of repeating myself on this, but the only surprise to me is that anyone is actually surprised at how crap we are. We've been absolutely abysmal for twelve months or so since (funnily enough) Preston away at a similar stage last year. To me it was blindingly obvious that that TM needed potting in February or March so it's no surprise whatsoever that we've been simply been served up with more of the same old s***e this season and that things appear to be deteriorating rapidly. Im sure there are other things to criticise him for but just off the top of my head: Since promotion, 3 abysmal transfer windows. Spending 7m on a young striker then never giving him a chance in his natural position. Bringing in Chapman on loan and rarely playing him, then bringing him in permanently and never giving him a chance at all. Stifling other players with any flair such as Rothwell, Palmer, Holtby. Seemingly trying to turn Travis into Lowe/Evans Mark 3. Wasting a further 5m on a guy who we'd already seen was (at the very best) a 5-10 goal a season journeyman. Shocking treatment of Nyambe whereas Bennett is a liability virtually every week yet seems unstoppable and somehow seems to have to be show horned into the side one way or another every week. Contracts handed out like sweeties almost as a reward for past service to players who should clearly have been moved on. Neglecting to strengthen at centre half then exacerbating the situation by loaning out Magloire and Wharton and Mulgrew without direct replacements when we were already desperately short of quality and numbers at centre back. Other than a dearth of centre halves we don't even have a first choice keeper to call our own as we replaced a slightly erratic but hugely talented young keeper with a big useless lump on loan who makes a sideboard look agile. Team never plays for 90 mins and rarely turns up in the first half. Needs to be replaced immediately for me, but then again I thought that in February. Can only see the situation deteriorating further the longer he stays in charge. Would anyone trust him to spend any more money were it to be made available?

"Rovers don't turn up in first half" shocker. Has he not actually been watching any of the games for the last two and a half years?

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.