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It probably makes little sense to have Mowbray involved in recruitment should he leave, but lets not pretend that his transfer record is just an accumulation of rubbish as you imply. Could I have an answer please regarding my question on whether anything has happened since the excitement from earlier this season regarding Venkys plans?

After all these years, do you genuinely forsee a smooth summer whereby the managerial situation will be dealt with and recruitment will be ongoing throughout without massive delays and confusion?

FFP is just assumed to be the main reason, for some reason many Rovers fans have seen how Venkys have behaved in the last 11 years and have concluded that only FFP regulations are stopping them from investing more.

Plenty of money? He got 500k of an 8 figure fee generated from one of his signings this season. Wasted a lot of it? Main 3 signings cost 15m. One was sold for not far off that and a second will be sold this summer for even more. Cant blame them? If he is so shit, surely they should act rationally and sack him. This bizarre justification that Venkys are entitled not to give the manager money thinking that hes wasted it previously, as if thats a thing. If you dont trust the manager to spend money, then surely again you sack him? You dont withhold spending money on the team.

But there are times when he isnt selected, including 3 games ago and for much of our late 2021 run. It seems a more logical explanation that we dont have an infinite number of attacking players, especially with unavailability issues, and that Mowbray has an inflated worth of how good Gallagher actually is, so he plays quite often. Not that he picks him nearly 3 years in to justify a fee paid in 2019.

Is it that simple and that cynical? We arent awash with attacking players, plus Mowbray seems to rate him more than anyone else, I think thats why hes selected so much. He wasnt selected at home to Derby even with a lack of alternatives. Brereton didnt always play for 2 years despite his price tag and Gallagher was only a sub a number of times earlier this season.

Has Gav said that he wants Mowbray in charge next season or that he is the best man to get us promotion? If so, fair enough I totally disagree and think thats crazy. But if not, why is it assumed that if anyone questions the at times personal, hyperbolic nonsense about the manager, that it equates to thinking that hes a really good manager.

Just watching Sky Sports today, is the host called Dave Jones? His presenting has been shocking, David Ginola has been on and he has at times made some very valid points, for example saying that Newcastle need their own identity. Jones just laughed, compared it to the entertainers and dismissed "ripping up the whole team" to the point that Ginola looked like he wanted to hit him. Not conducive to good debate. Defoe offers nothing as a pundit either.

Utter rubbish. I can honestly say that I dont have a strong personal opinion of Lampard either way. I just think quite justifiably that his managerial CV is below average, that the signing of Ali has been crap, that Everton have got worse since his appointment and that he wouldnt have got the job had he not enjoyed the playing career that he did.

No point fascinating at this stage as to how the squad will look next season, so many ifs, buts and maybes. Assuming we stay down, what will actually happen is there will be a massive gap before any decisions are made, Venkys will demand a flight to India, half the summer will go in the process, all of our rivals will steal a march. The manager will probably get a new deal, everything revolves around a Brereton sale, and most likely, none of the proceeds will be made available as was the case with Armstrong. Everything has been made harder with none of the Armstrong money reinvested and with a potential sale of Rothwell and 2 new assets brought in blocked in January. It's nothing to be excited about.

I have no idea who Vitor Pereira is. I also don't have a list of potential managerial appointments. All I know is that Lampard wouldn't have got that job if he didn't have his playing reputation, the two jobs he has previously done are average to be generous. He has done a shit job so far and they seem to have got worse under him. Yes, he made a big fuss about signing Ali and never plays him. Shocking signing. Also, you talk about egos, he added another big one who seemingly is not considered for selection.

Them 3 do seem destined for the drop but then again, Everton are trying theor best to go down. Frank Lampard is the "perfect fit," do you still stand by that nonsense?! And what is the Dele Alli signing about?

Can I have an exact quote that in context is Mowbray saying that he doesnt care about being Rovers manager? He didnt look at the end of the game like someone who didnt care. Its bollocks.

Whoever sorted it at half time - still unable to give the manager credit when he does something correctly.

Would there? I think you overstate how much the general media would care.

I dont get how literal you are being. There are 6 games to go, i would consider a top 6 place to be very much unlikely. Are you just not watching anymore this season? Would that change if we did make the play offs? Firstly, this idea that Mowbray doesnt care is quite frankly a load of bollocks. Mowbray was fuming blaming the referee (not justifiably necessarily) while the players had initially turned the game round and looked devastated at full time. Its not something that people need to make up either considering the various constructive technical criticisms that can go his way. You speak as if its in the Kean days where we were full of big name egos that didnt care, its not like that. We are full of young players many of whom arent anything special by any means, and a group that doesnt seem to be able to handle the mental strain of a promotion push, they look overawed. This idea that he has sole responsibility for the potential squad he will leave is flawed too. We will always have gaps left every year with departing loans because finances dictate that we have to heavily utilise that market. Mowbray raised an 8 figure profit last summer on one of his signings and received nothing to reinvest. He also had a sale of an out of contracter lined up with 2 potential assets coming in blocked by the owners, so like any Rovers manager, he has his hands tied somewhat. Again I would state that on the almost certain assumption that we dont make the play offs, we need to change the mamager. The last 3 months have been shocking and there are things even today I look at and shake my head. But does he give a shit? Yes. Is there a need to manipulate every word he says? No. Is he the second coming of the devil? No. Is he the worst pound for pound manager in 50 years? No. Is he on par with Coyle and Kean? No. Some of the shite on here in recent weeks has been laughable.

Injury time was littered with our players lying down claiming to be injured and also with a pitch invader. Soon into injury time the time remaining was very difficult to keep up with.

How bad is Jadon Sancho? 80/90m for a winger who is slow, out of shape, cant beat a man, cant shoot, cant cross and cant dribble.

He went off for a bit and didnt come straight back on, was stretching on the side and I expected us to have to finish with 10. To be fair, whilst the need to make subs early is not a good thing. Even had we made no subs at HT, by the time Nyambe got injured, the 3 subs would almost certainly have been made anyway.

He was injured.

By the way, has anything at all come from those cryptic meetings that you couldnt say anything more about at the time but that made you optimistic that Venkys were about to actually run thr club properly? You would think that to make you genuinely optimistic, they would at least have sacked the worst pound for pound manager in 50 years by now? Was it a false dawn?

Its not defending him to find such a stupid statement to be laughable. For some reason, Mowbray's budget is based on the losses in the accounts, yet previous managers have had buttons whereby the wages presumably arent factored in.

"Pound for pound Mowbray is the worst manager we've ever had in my 50 and a bit years of watching the Club for me." Definitely up there with the most laughable posts ever seen on here.

He's shit. End of.

Absolutely embarassing, I haven't got a clue how Mowbray managed to get this bunch of no-hopers into 2nd in the first place, albeit he is accelerating that fall as quickly as anyone. Need a change next season and a revamp which wont come. @chaddyrovers Gallagher is a waste of space no matter where he plays. Free shot central of goal, couldn't have hit it any weaker. Can't hold it up, win flick ons, bring others into play, the man is absolute shit and needs to find a new job. Giles is pitiful, every cross hitting the first man. We could have tricked someone into buying Rothwell, but Venkys are wankers. Buckley has been shit again too. Remember in the summer when the Analytics people were saying how great Pickering is going forward with his progressive runs etc, that turned out to be a load of bollocks. Rankin Costello is a liability too.