Because our owners dont give a flying fuck about the club, as has been proven right throughout their time owning us. He isnt as bad as Coyle or indeed Kean either. We are going backwards, he has long since overstayed his welcome, but he isnt as bad as those 2 and will have to do a lot to get to that stage.

Warne's similarities with Dyche start and perhaps end with his shaven head, Rotherham are very much a yo-yo club and he seems to struggle to keep them up every time. With Ainsworth, his passion shouldnt come into it. I personally dont doubt Mowbrays passion, he spends numerous days a week (he claims) away from his family home, its not his desire that lets him down, his recruitment, his team selections, his tactics, his "philosophies" etc all do let him down and have been doing for a while, what we need though is competence, passion and who a manager supports is an irrelevance to me. That being said, Ainsworth has done enough to show that he has a level of competence that makes him at least worth considering.

It would indeed. He has been dropped for Bennett and Rankin Costello, neither of whom are a patch on him at right back. Sadly it seems that Mowbray will stay due to the negligence of our owners who dont care that he is taking us backwards. He will have to be fit enough to play anywhere, maybe worth signing a shorter contract to see if he can be more durable. We have a team full of players who keep missing games through injury, Rankin Costello, Ayala, Davenport, Evans, Johnson etc and it doesnt promote consistency. But I would prefer him to stay for the time being.

Nyambe going to Stoke would represent poorly on us as a club. Would Rankin Costello be a huge loss considering how injury prone he is and how suspect a full back he is? Id rather keep him but wouldnt be gutted. It doesnt matter how you score goals, being in the right place for tap ins still requires anticipation. Compared to the other strikers mentioned, at least his goal record at a weaker level is 1 in 2, well above 1 in 2, although I suspect there would be more competition for him. Equally, they are sunk costs from 2 and 3 years ago and we cant stick solely with them out of the principle of justifying their price tags. I dont think Brereton is even a central striker. If they are our 2 sole strikers going into a season, we wont score enough to avoid relegation in my opinion. Gallagher may get 1 every 4 games as he did in the best spell of his career to date, plus he has had a few injury niggles, Brereton wouldnt even manage that. When Armstrong goes, its a giant part of our attack gone, we have to recruit to at least soften the blow up front because we have seen that the supporting cast will struggle to come close to filling the void. Attack including out wide is for me the number 1 priority this summer. In recent weeks and months its been our lack of goal threat rather than our defence that keeps costing us.

Strengthening the attack is of critical importance, we cannot make do by signing in other positions and making do, especially with Armstrong set to leave. We have scored 21 goals in 25 games, its not a minor blip and its a myth that our woes are concentrated in defence. Amidst Gallagher, Brereton and Dolan, there are nowhere near enough goals to keep a team in this division. Our biggest signing will be Armstrongs replacement, we will need one, even if we assume that he isnt going to be as prolific (or indeed as costly) as Armstrong, we cant go into a season with just 1 striker in Gallagher, who seems to split opinion himself. Theres no way to be clever by avoiding signing another striker completely, it will lead to relegation.

Yates and Humphreys have both been linked to half of the Championship so I suspect it is just busy agents at work.

To be fair, becoming an Irish international is not really an achievement and in the last international break he played 0 minutes amidst 3 games.

Would disagree on both of these points. Bell always looks out of his depth (and has done over long enough of a period to have more than been given the benefit of the doubt) and Douglas has been better whilst himself not being particularly impressive. I just think its very dangerous to get into a habit which the club very much has of signing players who arent very good just to avoid having to search for a replacement.

I just cant grasp why anyone would want to keep a player described as "crap," "naff" and someone who you "don't rate" under any circumstances. There is no use having a back up left back who isnt up to coming in and performing the role with competence when needed. I dont get the argument that it is easier to do so either, that is no reason to sign him back up. It doesnt have to be the first priority, I suppose the financial argument I get a bit more, but Bell is such a low bar that even with a fairly low wage (assumed to his benefit) that we can get a less incompetent left back to compete with Pickering, just seems like such a lazy reason, especially to commit so early. Also, Pickering is new, a young kid from League 1, if he struggles, then we have no serious alternative.

Im almost certain that you have to offer a player a contract of a wage at least equal to their current wage to invoke a tribunal fee. Maybe I am mistaken or maybe thats changed. Also, the fact that we have an extension that we chose not to take out presumably massively devalues any fee that we would get anyway.

If they looked at signing Amarii Bell, then I suspect that they need a change of job.

No I dont blame him in that he has been treat poorly, and I also wouldnt be surprised if he went somewhere like Stoke in that I dont think he is one of the best full backs in the league, mid table Championship is his level which shows how poor it is that we cannot keep him. Where has that he wants to go to Stoke come from? I dont feel comfortable with us replacing him with Rankin Costello either, assuming he signs a new deal. Hes not a particularly comfortable full back and he spends most of his time injured to the point where I do wonder if a new deal for him benefits us. No mention of an automatic extension in the news article announcing his last contract either, but I cant see anyone being seriously interested should he try to play the field. Would another teams recruitment team know that he has been offered one? There isnt seemingly a youth left back ready and waiting, but finding a free agent left back who is better than Bell is not difficult. I dont recall seeing as poor a left back at this level in the last 3 years, he is dog shit.

Exactly, its just the constant lack of ruthlessness that continues to hinder our club. Easy to forget that when we had players like an aging Craig Conway, a disinterested Jack Rodwell, an incompetent Jayson Leutwiler and a permanently injured Ben Gladwin all out of contract at the end of our first season back in the league, we offered every single one of them 4 a new deal! Hopefully like with the first 2, Bell doesnt see his future here. How do you know that Bell is signing a new deal? He is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with us at the moment, seeing someone repeatedly fall well short of a competent standard yet repeatedly given a new deal presumably out of a lack of imagination, laziness and a quite frankly illogical fear that we could do worse. Hes absolutely appalling. Plus why does he never play when we plan to keep him? If Nyambe actively wants to go to Stoke, a mid table Championship side, and we are ok with that whilst we try to keep a winger made out of class at the club to try and convert him into a full back instead, again, says a lot about the club.

https://roversanalytics.co.uk/blog/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-verdict-on-out-of-contract-rovers-players An article on our out of contract players. Has to be a proper cleanse. One thing I am sure of is that under no circumstances should Bell get yet another extension. He has been clinging on for far too long and is symbolic in that despite constant ineptitude, he constantly remains in spite of that. Not good enough, even as back up. Get another left back to compete with Pickering. Johnson should not under any circumstances be given a new deal either, his legs have packed in, he will likely be on a decent contract, he constantly gives the ball away and he has joined many others in having a penchant for sitting on the injury table. I think even Evans has more use yet he certainly shouldnt be offered a new deal either, im not sure he will go with much "respect and admiration," that is for sure! The right back situation is a shame, no idea where the name Stoke has come from but Nyambe will sadly move on and be replaced by a far inferior replacement in Rankin Costello (should he himself stay) who cannot stay fit at all. Rothwell is a weird one, wouldnt be arsed if he left, hes not performed bar occasional flashes in his time here, so the description of him as a "player with a unique skillset, highly thought of amongst the recruitment teams of clubs up and down the country, and one of Tony Mowbray's success stories" is for me a misguided opinion. Maybe prudent to keep him around, but as I said, not arsed. Would agree that Bennett, Downing and Holtby should also all go, and Chapman is a weird one, I think based on his impact in League 1 having never had a chance at our level, he is more ready made as an option than Dolan or Brereton at this stage so by all means give him a chance, but we need plenty of attacking signings. Also wonder what will happen to the loanees. Elliott has been a fairly decent success but we dont need to feel honoured to have had him and thoughts of England caps and various awards seem premature. He isnt good enough to be in the Liverpool squad or in the Premier League so maybe he will join a more suitable Championship side on loan next season. Harwood Bellis again is probably needing of another Championship loan, wouldnt necessarily be against him returning, Trybull isnt very good and shouldnt be considered, and Douglas has underwhelmed too. Branthwaite isnt a Championship player.

16/19. 2, 3 and 16 wrong!

To clarify that I am not just trying to shut down any information being shared, this rumour does have meat on the bones without even needing to specify individuals, it has some context, and it also contains plenty of restraint. Whether I or anyone else choose to believe it is irrelevant, I appreciate that this is shared and it is a world away from "people have said" without any context whatsoever. My personal opinion is that Mowbray will certainly finish the season and is likely to manage us into next season, and that the owners dont give a shit and probably dont even know where we are in the league. But I appreciate this sort of post nonetheless so thanks for sharing.

I just think that such supposed "rumours" without even the slightest clue as to where they have come from aside from the word "people" is beyond worthless and more importantly at this stage, provocative.

Just check all of twitter?

Absolutely. A desperate need to be ITK just causes further frustration. At least have the decency to please show where they have come from then.

In what situation would I need to eat humble pie? Part of my criticism regarding the tossers that own us is that they dont care enough to sack the manager you claim that I am defending! But without the slightest hint of where the message came from, so it just comes across as stirring the pot and fabricating rumours. You have posted numerous times after games that "something seems different" and even specifically claimed that you expected Alex Neil to be appointed in January. Needless provocation at a time when you know that everyone is frustrated and fed up.

Youve skirted around an answer as per usual. I keep repeating my insistence that Mowbray needs removing, and have done so for a while. It wont be done anytime soon because our owners are disinterested tosspots.

The crypticness is just needlessly provocative. Who are these mystery people? I saw this tweet which sounds like Mercer who predicts Mowbrays exit after almost every game. I just think its basic decency to add at least some meat to the bones of what at the moment seems like a "rumour" fabricated through forced inteepretations of random tweets.

From where? Just an interpretation of the tweet from Alan Myers?

Just that Alan Myers, someone who has been totally out the loop for a number of years, asked in a quite clearly non comittal tweet about what supporters would do should Venkys sack Mowbray, which he was clear not to directly suggest. You also mention 3pm tomorrow? Is this based just on Alan Myers' tweet? Im just wary of random, unsubstantiated statements such as this getting people into a premature frenzy.

@RoversClitheroe where is this from? Also youve suggested that Marco Silva could be coming in.