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Mighty Preston North End ....... the only one of the former top tier Lancashire town clubs never to have made it to the Premier League. A touch of humility needed

Love my Yorkshire tea....plus you can buy it in mega bags at Costco. Used to drink Earl Grey alot but it smells perfumed and odd now. Assam is excellent if you want a stronger cup. Love visiting the US but oh dear me, the Americans just don't understand tea and have to drink coffee when I'm there.

Any players we sign this summer need to be LEADERS. We have very few (if any) players in the team at the moment who seems capable of screaming and shouting at team-mates. Stupid mistakes such as Bell's away to Reading and Mulgrew yesterday are too often met with a shrug of the shoulders instead of the rip-roaring bollocking they deserve. The Champions of 1995 was stuffed with leaders - most of them feisty, difficult characters who would argue amongst themselves but cared passionately about winning. Mowbray by common consent is a "nice" guy. He needs to sign some not-so-nice players

That's your choice. You don't have to be. You could drink tea instead. It's what civilised Lancashire folk do

More often than not I have to ask people in front of me to sit down at away matches. Even older men (and women) stand. I pick my targets though. If they look undesirable types I simply move. It's isn't worth the hassle and possible abuse. Rovers have always had an element of nutcase fans, going back to the 1960s. Some idiot even went on the pitch and attacked the QPR goalkeeper (Phil Parkes?) at Ewood circa 1967-8. The unruly element seem to be returning recently. What that is I don't know.

The signs are we "coming off the rails" this season, never mind next. Mowbray left Coventry after losing 9 in a row - would you be happy with him continuing with us in similar circumstances?

Managers live and die by results. Managers usually end of getting the sack through poor form - it's what happens in football. You're still not answering the question of how much rope Mowbray gets before his position becomes untenable.

I was waiting for the Dalglish case and boom it came back within minutes Dalglish was a different time and place and is irrelevant in the club's current situation. It goes without saying everyone hopes Mowbray will be here in 12 months and Rovers in a better place than at present. But you cannot ignore the question of our current poor form and what happens if it continues. Wishing it away and saying it will all be right in 12 months (this time next year we'll be millionaires Rodney) doesn't wash..

12 months from now is a long time in football. Mowbray might have his eyes on next season and talk a good game about "progress" but the more pertinent question is whether Mowbray will last to the end of this season. At the moment we've lost 4 in a row and the team have been so poor it's difficult to see where the next win is coming from. How many defeats is Mowbray allowed before his position becomes untenable?

So Mowbray knew the players weren't going to be quite up to it but wanted to give them a go. Sorry, but in the hard world of football that doesn't work. Would he get away with that at any other Championship club ? It's been a wasted season for me

A contrarian bet would be to stick money on a Rovers win but I just cannot see it tomorrow. A fifth defeat in a row and Mowbray to blame anyone and everything but his defence. Brum 3-0.

Long ball or short ball game is irrelevant. There's only winning football or losing football, and at the moment we're losing - badly. I don't understand why fans obsess over us having a good passing game when it leads only to defeat. Pragmatists such as Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis understand it.

If we want a better defence, we need to start with a better, more solid goalkeeper. Forster would be an upgrade on Raya

You can't stand Pulis either but he showed up your hero in the Rovers dugout at the weekend.

Often too late by then. Where you are sitting that time of year usually (but not always) sets the tone for the season. Anyway, it might not come to a sacking. Mowbray hopefully realises the squad as it stands will be in a relegation fight next season anyway. If the owners don't back and let him bring in better players in the summer I would expect him to resign (him being an honourable man and all that).

No.

With this squad and Mowbray in charge we'll get relegated next season. Mowbray needs alot of money to spend in the summer (although I wouldn't bank on him to spend it wisely), but will the owners provide it? As it stands we seem to be in a death spiral and Mowbray doesn't know what to do about it. He lost 9 in succession at Coventry before he went. We're heading that way as I can't see where the next win is coming from. And I think he's losing the players too, Mulgrew for one doesn't look interested.

Where have you seen this ?

Alarm bells ringing over Mowbray. We'll be relegation candidates next season if he's still with us. I hope he's gone as soon as possible

You weren't at Reading on Wednesday. The rubbish served up there is why I haven't bothered going today Mowbray doesn't know what to do - his time with us is drawing to a close.

We don't really care to be honest. Would you be on this site if we were riding high and you were stuck in mid table? Highly unlikely

Mowbray's handling of that game was totally inept. And the players' weren't much better considering they were coming in after 2 abject defeats and you would have thought might be playing for a bit of pride.

Yes, we're a slow team all right, which is why Rothwell made such a difference when we came on , a fast player who takes the ball past people. Getting defenders to defend properly shouldn't be that difficult for Mowbray, who was a rugged, old school defender in his day. But he seems to be incapable of doing it. I don't think he really knows how to set up a team properly. Have to disagree about Sam. Loved him to bits; the day he was sacked I knew as a club we were doomed to relegation. But that's another debate

Double vision: a tight-lipped Tony Mowbray refuses to see any problems in the Rovers defence