On 24/07/2021 at 15:23, WacoRover said:

Any score? 

Yep, we are 1-0 down.

Ayala gave away a pen and they scored from it.

Crooke seems to be under the impression that we are reverting back to 4-2-3-1 instead of the 4-3-3 we played last season.

Mowbray really was watching Southgate's England over the summer.

9 hours ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

The Undr the Cosh podcast is a real eyeopener to the use of alcohol in football, including many of our ex-players and the alcohol-drenched culture that is all too prevalent in this country has so many victims, including many close to us on this forum.  Booze is a dangerous drug and should be treated carefully.

Yer, the Ben Marshall one was an interesting listen.

52 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

I'm left wondering who exactly are we looking at in terms of potential signings? We used to hear how Mowbray has an A list and B list of targets, but there is nothing this time round. Barely any names or rumours doing the rounds and the new season is 2 weeks away.

Yates and Johansen are no goers now, so what's the plan? It surely can't be to wait for Armstrong to be sold and see which youngsters the Premier League clubs will loan out.

Only other rumours kicking about before was Reach on a free. Ex Boro so fit the bill nicely.

That's gone totally dead as well. 

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

As expected, Johansen is going to QPR. 

He was probably the only rumour still kicking about for us.

58 minutes ago, JohnGo said:

I’ve been in the sauna this morning with someone who’s very friendly with a senior coach at Rovers. Venus is countermanding Mowbray on tactics. Mowbray doesn’t have the balls to sort him out or fire him. Tough centre half my bollocks.

The manager and assistant manager don't agree on how we should play?

This is going to end really well, I'm sure.

I like that kit, decent.

Hope the away one is good too.

58 minutes ago, Gav said:

Our defence has been shit since Venkys arrived Sparks, this isn't a Mowbray phenomenon alone.

The team in general has been but that's because Venkys have just hired a string of poor managers over the last 10 years.

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

I do think that sacking him 3 years ago following promotion was unthinkable and even 2 years ago would have been incredibly harsh.

Harsh? Yes

Correct? Definitely 

21 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

The replies to my tweet are quite frankly worrying, but good it's got good traction so far.

https://twitter.com/RoversClitheroe/status/1417795849405583361?s=19

Entertaining that, cheers.

Mowbray saved us from oblivion? Must have missed that.

1 hour ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12359088/keith-treacy-on-the-alcohol-addiction-that-ended-his-career-at-26-and-wanting-to-help-others-avoid-his-mistakes

 

Terrible story.

Wow, that is a terrible story.

I didn't even know his career was over at 26!

48 minutes ago, Damien said:

It’d be a decent idea. Offer Chilean fans access to stream games. Charge them a fraction of the price (anything is a bonus to our coffers) and let them follow their newest hero from chile! 

They are already asking to be fair:

9 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

🤦‍♂️

1 hour ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

I'd say they are waiting to give Mowbray a new deal. A good start after 10 games and he will get one and the usual suspect(s) on here will be saying he suddenly deserves it and that we should all just shut up and get behind the lads FFS 

Genuinely think you might be right on that one.

I don’t have much faith that we will have a good start though to be honest. In fact I think i think we will struggle.

2 minutes ago, Tom said:

They’ll be spinning his return as ‘like a new signing’

No doubts.

Shows the level we are at, anywhere between 0 to 100 likes on twitter for most Rovers posts. The last goal of the day video got about 4.5k views

Brereton video 87.4k views and 12.4k likes.

Surprised Waggot isn't over there now trying to flog season tickets!

Brereton will have Brereton Diaz on his shirt this season, largely thanks to 10,000 Chileans on twitter.

That's about as interesting as it gets at the moment.

More chance of Mowbray getting another years extension than Cooper being appointed here.

28 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

I know, but when there are loads of posts here, you think something is happening! 

Ha, true that.

18 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Transfer thread!!

Barely even a rumour around at the moment regarding Rovers transfer business.

6 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

We went in embargo cos we filed the Club's accounts in line with the Government schedule dates not the EFL dates. 

Why did we do that though? Surely we knew the rules and how we would be punished, also knowing that we would be out of an embargo when the accounts were submitted?

So why did we put ourselves on the back foot from the off, instead of submitting them in line with the EFL deadline?

4 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1088391867?-11198:839

the five subs rules is scrapped now and back to only 3 subs per game

Less needless tinkering from Mowbray.

Also less chance for him to try and correct his original terrible line up.

He's going to be gutted.

2 hours ago, Admiral Nelsen said:

 

I agree that last season was unacceptably poor, and I too worry about next season, but I'm not having what you've said in the highlighted section. The idea that getting rid of a manager who had just got us promoted with 90 odd points would have been the actions of an 'ambitious club' is complete madness in my view.

 

I think generally we're all in danger of rewriting history a little bit with his first 2 years or so. We're falling over examples which show that being a big club with a decent budget is no guarantee of promotion in that league, and our first season back had some genuinely promising spells in it. Mowbray earned his popularity at that point, as much as he has earned is unpopularity since. 

 

It would have been incredibly harsh and initially we wouldn't have come out of it without criticism. Hindsight obviously has helped on this one but Mowbray is never, ever taking us to where we need to be. We all knew this the day he walked through the door, based on his failings at other clubs.

Fair enough, give him the next season but ultimately, what was the point in the end? 

He wasn't going to become a great manager overnight. At the end of that season, at the absolute latest he should have been replaced but that is just testament to the lack of ambition Rovers show these days. 

He's now been kept in charge so long, he's about to have us regressing to the point where we were when he first arrived.

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Mowbray has been a good manager for most of his time here but the 12 months hasn't been good enough. 

Lambert was a good appointment by Venkys. 

Did Venkys sack Berg or Appleton? or was it Shebby who did it?

Worryingly, Mowbray has probably been the best they've managed to find, which is some effort considering how poor he has been.

There isn't a manager that they have employed that I would have back here. Some of those, I'd be quite happy for them never to set foot in the country again.

Mowbray's time was up at the end of out first season back in the Championship. A more ambitious club might have seen the light immediately after promotion and replaced him then. Him getting the next season out of courtesy was acceptable.

But the magic "journey" he's been telling us about for years has clearly been rubbish. His signings don't match the style he's trying to implement and based off Downings last interview, even some of the players aren't happy with his rotation policy. He's still making the same mistakes now, that he made at Celtic.

He's well and truly overstayed his welcome and we are now looking at season of struggle. If Mowbray stays for the full season, we will be fortunate to avoid relegation.

22 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I gave a few possible managers we could target to replace Mowbray 

Your question is pointless and very unrealistic Mercer. 

Make your questions realistic and I will give you a proper answer

We have been losing millions(20 million per season roughly for the last 10 years) and nothing will change it unless we put in place a proper business plan and appoint the right people into the right roles within the football club. Thats down to Venkys to sort that out

I think we all agree that the manager should have been changed last season and I don't know why Balaji didn't change manager or was it more of case we couldn't get the manager they want so Mowbray stays in place. I don't know anymore. 

Most of those 11 players we released and rightly so. Why keep them? 

We have appointed head of recruitment last week. We were placed in embargo due to the Club's accounts being published in line with Government guidelines but not EFL ones. 

Yes I know when the season starts and we had no signings so far. 

I believe from reading Crooke's twitter account that the kit will be unveil before or on the day of the Bradford friendly game. 

Yes things aren't good but things aren't as bad as when we had 3 managers with Kean, Berg and Appleton and we had 3 amigos running the club in Shebby, Shaw and Agnew. That was a mess

I was wrong for mentioning Watford as mess of a club and I must apologies to the messageboard for that

We've just got different names in different job titles but its still a mess, just in a different way.

K**n, Berg, Appleton, Mowbray whoever. Venkys haven't appointed a good manager in the last 10 years. At least they were willing to act on poor results back then (for Berg and Appleton at least) now they just leave a guy who managed just 2 wins in 17 games in charge. Shoulder shrugs all round I guess.

We have been a shambles since the day Venkys arrived.

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Eighteen (?) days away from the opening fixture, no kit, no signings, and a head of recruitment only appointed the other day.

If the first few games go pear shaped what's the betting Mowbray blames the fact that any new signings we might make haven't had time to integrate in the same way he blamed the registration ban for not having made any signings?

It's all self inflicted!

100% that will be the excuse for any poor start.