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Pleasant game in the sunshine today against a poor QPR team Pluses: Williams - best game I've seen in a Rovers shirt. He and Lenihan rarely put a foot wrong Rothwell and Travis: excellent in midfield. If only we had Reed in there too. Graham: he's not mobile now but my goodness, he left a big hole in the team when he went off Armstrong: gave the QPR left back a torrid afternoon and should have scored. He's still not a winger though - and no doubt Mowbray will continue to play him there. Minuses: Bennett: most of our defensive problems came down his flank. Why he plays instead of Nyambe only Mowbray knows. Does not make any sense on any level Leutweiler: if he is the answer I'm not sure what the question is. He has all the physical attributes: tall, looks a superb athlete, but has no physical presence whatsoever. He gave away the goal and in the first half, flapped at a cross that he should have punched 40 yards and almost led to a goal. Raya isn't good enough: a new goalkeeper should be our No 1 signing this summer. Nuttall: will never be good enough at this level. And he's a lazy so-and-so. Rodwell: he's in last chance saloon at Ewood as far as his career goes. Could he please show some interest when he is given an opportunity?

Yes. I thought he looked disinterested when he came on. And he can't play anyway. Get rid

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17581217.tony-mowbray-on-exceptionally-talented-rovers-loanee-reed/ Reed is 24, so he's not that young for a footballer and should be playing regular first team football by now. Soton will be likely be in the PL next season, so staying there is pointless for Reed as he's unlikely to be get much game time He's proved himself an outstanding performer in the Championship, and seems to like it at Ewood, so why isn't Mowbray making noises about trying to keep him ? And unless he has other irons in the fire, where is he going to find better ?

Rovers sold about 600 out of 1,200 allocation on Monday so should be a fair few of us there. Views are "restricted" in more than 50% of seats which isn]t surprising as it's a tinpot ground. Last time It was there about 4 years ago it was a 0-0 borefest so hoping for better this time. Avoid the Springbok pub outside the ground - it's not nice.

Have you seen Tiger's interviews today? Says he was inspired by a BRFC messageboard member and was determined to prove him wrong.

Two good wins (after a dreadful run) shouldn't paper over the flaws in Mowbray's management this season. I feel it's been a wasted season because we have some talented players who with some good signings should have been able to get us nearer the play-offs. The problem as has been well documented has been the manager's poor decision making on and off the field. I still think we will be in a relegation battle next season with Mowbray in charge and the present squad of players.

Missed this thread. A belated RIP to one of my favourite players when I was a lad. Lovely left foot, like a magic wand. I agree with those who say a minute's applause for former players are overdone, but match programmes should record the death of players like Barrie Hole. The programme editor should have an archivist or club historian to help with such matters.

Serve fans right for forcing McCarthy out

How do you explain his inability to sort out the team's defence?

Mowbray proves again he is not the right manager for this club. Assuming Rothwell is fit there is no reason not to have the same starting XI at Forest. Bringing back Smallwood and /or Evans after last night's display would be the final straw for many people

Mowbray shouldn't get any plaudits for tonight because that formation has been begging to be picked for for months. Why he hasn't done it before only he knows. The real surprise tonight was the attitude of the players, whose workrate and attitude was on a much higher level than since probably the win over Hull City. The question is whether the players can take tonight's performance on and build on it for the remaining games of the season. If they can, it will go some way to making up for the dreadful run of form since January. Tonight changes nothing for me. Mowbray has a a long way to go to convince me he will keep us in this division next season.

Mowbray in, er out, in, out, in, out, in..... That's a mighty 7 points out of 36, and a rare clean sheet. Contract extension tomorrow ? Derby must be sick at that result. Puts a severe dent in their promotion ambitions As for Rovers, and forgetting Mowbray, are the players cheating fans for not playing like that all the time?

Rubbish scriptwriters Come on Rovers, get another

The script has been written. Derby will nick a goal in the last 10 minutes. It's what promotion teams do.

Attack, please. Some people find Americanisms offensive. Bristol City 3 West Brom 0 My Baggies mate is not happy.

Conway is 4 years younger so should be much quicker, shouldn't he ?

I remember you having a "thing" for Katie Price aka Jordan a few years ago before her boobs drooped to below knee level. Good to see you go for the more cerebral types these days.

It snowed in June a few years ago. So that's us relegated then

There's obviously some weak links in the team but talk of shuffling players about and trying different formations is missing the point, which is that Mowbray fundamentally doesn't not know what to do to stop the slide. He is a poor manager who has a set way of playing with players he "trusts", and eventually he, and his his team, get found out. It's happened throughout his career at other clubs where he has inevitably been given the sack because of poor results, and we seem to have reached that point with him now. The Rovers hierarchy might come to the same conclusion around Christmas, when of course it will be far too late.

Rangers would beat Rovers. And it ain't pub football, it's better than the Championship. Gerrard would not lower himself to come to Ewood and Rovers is not a step-up from Rangers.

Derby 3-0. Rovers as a club is in freefall with the current manager in charge.

Complete non-starter. Rangers are preparing him for when Klopp moves on

Apathy rules at Ewood, from the boardroom to the manager to the players to large sections of the crowd at Ewood. I can understand (partly) the people at the top now wanting to upset the applecart, because they're getting very well paid and don't want to lose their jobs, but fans not appearing to care about the direction of the club is inexcusable. Why can't they see that Mowbray's time is up.?

Rovers got lucky today. Stoke will feel they should have scored at least 3. Mowbray lost 9 in a row before he was sacked by Coventry. If that's what it takes to get rid of him I'll take it

How many managers in any division in football history have kept their jobs after taking 4 points out of 33 ?