The above quotes are not in any way out of order or further proof of any anti-Nyambe agenda from Mowbray. He does point out valid areas in which he needs to improve but he also literally says that he loves him and worries about him if he moves away from Rovers.

I am surprised to have seen such a positive reaction to Brown's performance yesterday, for me he was a serious weakness and Birmingham got plenty of joy down his side. It defies all logic in my opinion to have him lurking around the fringes next season as a squad player. He especially at the age he is seems desperate for a season in League 1 (ideally) or League 2, playing regular professional League football to see what he is made of.

He has had by far his best season in that role in which Mowbray has apparently caused him to waste his best talents. He has matured off the ball and it allows him to take the ball across long distances and is a useful tool in breaking at speed. When he has played further forward, he doesn't have that same amount of space to drive into and he struggles to get involved.

The point is that the fact that Mowbray's departure has yet to be announced and that Mowbray has said that he has not even spoke to Venkys yet but that they intend to call him this week proves that the search for a successor is not the proactive and thoroughly planned one with numerous candidates going through interviews that you seem to (against all logic and recent history) seems to have deluded yourself into thinking is happening. The transfer budget I am sure will be minimal and the loan market will be once again critical in cobbling together a squad for next season.

If the reward for achieving our current objective (ie promotion) was something that I would hate and that would ruin my experience of supporting Rovers, I think I would have long since packed it in.

As if we have a strategy! Why aren't the club/owners putting out a statement about the manager? Why haven't they even contacted him about his future? Obviously a manager coming in and choosing a style that doesn't fit the players wouldn't end in good results but we shouldn't appoint someone just because of the style they usually play. I never said that we shouldn't bring through young players, but it shouldn't be key in appointing someone.

He if I recall compared him to Benrahma by saying that he has similar levels of talent but needs to get more goals and assists. But its an irrelevance. He turned him from an ineffective yet flash player with the occasional screamer to a central midfielder who became wanted by Bournemouth.

You know what I mean, there is still no clarity from the club on Mowbray's future, and he has not even had a call from our tosspot owners. It should simply be a case of appointing someone not to fit a specific style that we want to play, or even to pacify this obsession over the young players, it should all be about bringing in someone to get the best results.

Good way to end a season that is a marked improvement on the prior one but of course the way that it has unfolded makes it a huge dissapointment. Buckley was man of the match, Brereton was very good and Hedges is starting to look a danger. 2 points of note for 2 players auditioning for next season who were for me our 2 weakest players. Tayo Edun is a liability, really limited on the ball and loves a silly yellow card. James Brown was also not up to scratch, made 2 or 3 errors that led to attack, needs a loan and regular football next season rather than playing the occasional game here.

Blatantly untrue, but your Mowbray hatred clearly skews any sense of logic. He arrived as a player who would score a screamer every 6 months and could never show enough to warrant a regular start, often from a wide position, after being in and out at League 1 Oxford. He has been moved into a midfield 3 and this season a midfield 2 which has seen him mature and become more consistent and reliable, improvements which have seen him attract interest elsewhere. He definitely has grown considerably as a player under Mowbray and should feel a lot of appreciation towards him.

His level? It clearly isn't is it. We would be right to let him go IF we indeed do but 15th, 11th, 15th and 8th placed finishes with a club with our wage bill ranking lower mid table is very respectable and prove that he is capable of this level of reasonable results. Nixon is a laughing stock. The manager hasn't even been officially sacked yet subject to a predictable begging phone call. Nixon meanwhile has linked us to so many managers as if we have put any thought into potential replacements. Why do we have to play this specific style? Is it not a much simpler idea to appoint a manager with the best chance of good results and let him bloody decide what style to employ to do that. Also, Lee Johnson? Not only is he a little cretin but he isn't a particularly good manager.

He was not playing throughout our winning run, with Van Hecke, Lenihan and Wharton all superb together.

I personally am not fussy on either point. I want winning football over certain styles and I dont think that a desire to get young players should overtake the want to win games. Its just that chaddy personally regularly says that the new manager should embrace the academy and bring through young players and he has dismissed other managers based on style of play.

@chaddyrovers Ainsworth always features highly on your wishlists but his team is the oldest in League 1 and they are a direct side that plays very direct football, something to which you have dismissed other managers for the same reason. What gives?

To be fair, the second part suggests that you are financially comfortable enough for a price increase to be no more than an inconvenience. Lots of people are not.

He has only failed to start this season in 3 games whereby he has been fit and available, one of which saw the debut of a new signing, one of which we won 4-1 and one in which we kept the same team that won 4-1. This season, when he has been fit, he has almost always started.

Moved away from my point, which was that Mowbray's job could indeed be described as ok/decent/mediocre/alright, in comparison I would suggest that Jones and Corberan have done very good jobs. I certainly don't think that it is impossible to over (or indeed under) achieve, we wouldn't watch football if it always fell directly in line with wage budgets and/or resources. Nor is it impossible to underachieve as for example West Brom have done this season, with a mixture of Bruce and mainly Ismael doing what I would describe as a poor job. My point wasn't specifically about Keane, it was about clouding the sole objective of getting the manager would would deliver the best results with additional objectives like getting a high profile former player. For what its worth, I wouldn't want Keane as an individual, love watching him as a pundit but I think that people are clouding their judgement having watched him in that role.

Another prediction that fell by the wayside?

Brown needs regular football, how can we be sure that he is capable of being back up to a fairly injury prone full back (if he re-signs) and how is it good for him to play here and there? The same with Vale, he couldn't score regularly at Halifax, he needs to go and get regular game time in the football league, not make up the numbers with no evidence that either is up to standard. Showed some detail below, but as I said, I would prefer Nyambe in the team, as he almost always is. Another thing you have to factor in is that when he doesn't play, our alternatives there especially Rankin Costello are dreadful, so we are replacing our likely best full back with someone who is a total weakness. But I would agree that in general, I would much prefer him to be in the team, and the majority of his tenure, so has Mowbray. This season, he missed 3 games early on through injury. He then hobbled off in the defeat at Huddersfield and missed the following Blackpool game in which Magloire started. He then missed the Derby game I think again through injury, and a chunk of 5 games in a row through another injury. So the only 3 occasions that he missed out were the Forest home game in which Zeefuik was given a game instead of him, the one and only time that has happened through choice. And also the last 2 games, the first of which we won 4-1 and the second one it made sense to keep things the same. My point has never been that I'd rather him not start, just that this idea that he has been victimised by Mowbray is far fetched. I've already said that I disagreed with the decision regarding Bennett, the issue was more that he seemed to want to cram Bennett (who was always shit) in as his captain rather than some horrid treatment of Nyambe, but it was the wrong decision, and wasn't for long. Rankin Costello was an occasional choice again that I disagreed with, presumably trying to have more attacking threat from full back in a team that at the time was trying to play possession football, before realising that Rankin Costello wasnt the man to do that. We have a fully fit squad bar Khadra and Markanday, Johnson, Davenport, Rankin Costello and Giles also all failed to be selected. As I said, we won the first game 4-1 so the squad named cant really be questioned, and we went with it again.

If you are intent on doing whatever you possibly can to make Mowbray seem both as incompetent and manipulative as possible, then yes you could make things seem as poor as possible, taking the particular runs of form that suit your agenda. Equally I could go: - Won Championship manager of the month due to good form in January 2019. - Led us on a run of 6 wins amidst a run of 26 points from 10 games this winter to take us to 2nd in the league. - Signed 2 strikers in Armstrong and Brereton for 10m, the former has already been sold for 15m and the latter will likely be sold for similar this summer. Ultimately, neither set of barometers are fair, all that matters is where you finish at the end of the season, and Mowbray in his 4 full seasons post a promotion have been 15th, 11th, 15th and between 8th and 10th. Overall, "alright" or indeed words such as ok, decent, mediocre etc are all fair. We certainly dont have the resources or the wage budget of a top 6 side or close to that, no parachute payments either, so whilst its time for a change, I'd argue that comparing him unfavourably to Steve Kean and describing him as a "devious old bastard" rather than acknowledging that he has done ok but we need a change is more a suggestion of the sort of agenda you imply with your comment about supporting Mowbray.

Like I said, I totally disagreed with the decision, but that was more about squeezing in the captain rather than a "disgraceful" decision to punish and humiliate Nyambe. That was the longest such spell of Nyambe being out of the team too, so to make out as if him and Mowbray don't get on or as if hes been unfairly treated or unfavoured is totally untrue IMO. The number of appearances he has missed is much smaller so it is hard to get a fair sample based solely off that, a couple of particularly difficult games missed for example and a couple of losses there would skew things.

Absolute rubbish. Yet further avoidable vitriol and conspiracies if the owners you defend so profusely merely put out a statement saying that he would be leaving upon the end of his contract. If he was given a new contract, would you not feel silly that the owners you have repeatedly defended have given him one, and indeed pin the blame on them? Rather than blame the "devious" recipient, surely your focus would turn to those who gave him one anyway, on the unlikely scenario that it happens and he doesn't leave?

One typically cryptic tweet from a no nothing journalist has led to pages of worrying on here about Mowbray, with mentions of his woe is me act, bizarre assumptions of a director of football role and indeed even him totally unnecessarily being called a "devious old bastard." All of this shit could have been avoided had Venkys allowed a statement to be uploaded simply saying that he is about to leave, but no, not under Venkys.

Nyambe is the best right back at the club, and although he's not one of the very best in this league or indeed capable of the league above at this stage, he is a very solid full back option at this level, 100%. He has been Mowbray's first choice for the majority of every season under Mowbray which doesn't really fall in line with being treated so badly. And it's not about "falling for his patter," you seem to have fallen into the trap of being so keen (understandably) to see Mowbray go that every single thing can be turned into a criticism of him. Like I said, there have been a few very short-lived spells that Nyambe has not played, some of which I disagree with. The longest was around 10 games at the start of our second season up, maybe less, was due to Mowbray wanting to stick his (useless) captain in wherever he could. There has been the occasional other game where Rankin Costello has played a game or 2, and also the odd rest that he's given Nyambe which clearly isnt something that you can stomach. I can't question the team that won 4-1 at Preston nor selecting the exact same one again the week after.

So him being "dropped" to avoid the high risk of an injury keeping him out for much longer is treating him poorly? Baring in mind that he does pick up a number of muscle injuries which is understandable considering his physicality. He does sacrifice Nyambe when we need a goal but always for a more attacking player which is fair enough. Nyambe has been first choice right back in every season throughout Mowbray's tenure, across the whole of each season. Only for brief occasions has he been taken out and usually reinstated very quickly.