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Yeah, he’s class unfortunately. Fortunately though that crackpot anti-vaxxer Wout Carthorse is dreadful.

With a goalkeeper coach, there will be countless people like Benson who can regurgitate what they have learnt on their courses and set up drills and sessions. I think this is fine with young keepers, but a player as established as Kaminski would maybe benefit more from someone who has been there and done it and can act as a mentor. Over time it seems Benson’s role grew somewhat and during the last few months you’d see him giving instructions to outfield subs and showing players papers during breaks in play. Anyway, whatever the abilities or otherwise of our current first team coaching set up, I’d prefer a completely clean slate. We are in desperate need of a change and clearing the decks seems wholly sensible. Plus a new manager ought to be bringing in an entire team that share his vision and who they can work with effectively.

The rumour and guesswork is all fine, its to be expected. But it’s bad enough with the one prolific poster on here who always posts what he wants to happen as factual occurrences. Surely we don’t need anyone else getting involved in that nonsense.

Venky’s went back to the HSH well after sacking Coyle, and after Lambert walked, and after sacking Bowyer. Christ, it’s a company run by the same people who gave us Kean and Venky’s a protracted court case! There’s nothing at all in the way Mowbray has left that suggests they won’t do the same again. What I will say - and I don’t think I’m speaking out of turn - is that I raised this with Steve Waggott. He acknowledged that I was correct when I told him about the previous HSH links over 2 years ago and thanked me for doing so. He said he fully expects to be selecting the manager, and would not entertain agents foisting them on the club as it would be an immediate conflict of interest. I highlighted the issues that Mike Cheston had when we got lumbered with Coyle and suggested he might find himself in a similar position. He felt that this happening would make his position untenable.

We’ve had a lot worse than him to be fair. At least he got rid of Coyle and had the decency to bugger off when we were embarrassingly relegated to the third tier.

The only person Venky’s have employed and been fully behind in the last 11 and a half years was Steve Kean.

I think there is a big potential issue with this structure. Nobody really knows what our current structure looks like, and over the last few weeks it has been highlighted that their aren’t clear remits in place. Adding another level to this already confusing hierarchy will only convolute things further. Venky’s Pasha Waggott Director of football Manager I’ve no real sympathy for Mowbray, but he finally admitted the truth of the situation after years of parroting the party line - he was far too detached from the owners and their were real problems behind the scenes in terms of communication and decision making. We should be simplifying our structure, because ultimately the people at the top are not competent, trusting or caring enough for it to work.

With their terrible track record and complete inability to do anything in a remotely timely manner, the prospect of filling two key positions rather than just the one doesn’t fill me with much hope.

While he wouldn’t be my first choice, the idea of Ferguson is growing on me. There has been a lot of talk of different manager “types”. Rather than a “development coach” I’d prefer someone who will drag us out of this league kicking and screaming. Haven’t got much to base it on, but feel he could fit the bill. A modern day Souness type maybe.

David Dunn’s coaching/management career has been absolutely woeful. I’m always amazed that there is fairly constant clamour to bring him back to the club in some capacity from a section of our support. Grayson would be an absolute shocker of an appointment… but it’d fit the easy and cheap category. I mentioned after one of his recent appearances summarising our game on telly that it sounded like a pitch for the job.

I saw the Bennett one. Hardly surprising he was grateful give the extended Championship career he got. Mowbray rewarded him way beyond his ability for too long to the detriment of Blackburn Rovers.

This again shows the problem with Mowbray recently deciding he is a “development coach”. Results when Nyambe has been in the side have been consistently and significantly better than when he isn’t for years. Mowbray doesn’t seem to care about that and is more interested in encouraging individual players to do things that they aren’t naturally good at and are supplementary to their roles. Wants Nyambe to be better at attacking, doesn’t seem to mind Pickering can’t defend very well. Persists with Gallagher out wide even though he’s a complete fish out of water. More bothered about his keepers commanding their area than saving shots… he’d have hated Brad Friedel. All this lends itself to costly decisions like playing Johnson/Holtby/Buckley/Clarkson as false 9, Rodwell as a centre back, JRC (by the way, his career is in danger of falling off a cliff) as a wing back.

Have you managed to watch the game Chaddy?

No, it’s nothing new for most of us. Pick any of his numerous collapses in form and you’ll find there were plenty that wanted rid of him then. I said in December that I couldn’t see any situation where if it were my choice I’d give him a new deal come the end of the season, and that included promotion. His performance since February has been a utterly disgraceful, not for the first time. His comments today are equally as bad. For all the “stability” he’s brought us, he’s been well paid, allowed to get away with numerous spells of terrible performances, and rebuilt his wreck of a career at a level he could’ve only dreamed of if it weren’t for his agents relationship with our shit owners.

I’m fuming with this. Fuck off Mowbray, there’s plenty of disappointment that we have completely blown out best chance in years of getting out of this division (upwards at least). Whenever anyone does express any disappointment all you ever do is give us a hard luck story, if we are lucky. Usually though you just have a monumental sulk. Another sly dig at the fans on your way out too. You were beyond lucky to get this job, League two teams didn’t want you, and that’s the level you’ll have to settle for if you want another job.

You won’t find anyone who has banged this drum any louder than me. I agree wholeheartedly with his observations and criticisms of the hierarchy… Unfortunately, Mr Integrity has spent the last 5 and a bit years telling us Venky’s are “supportive”, “committed”, “knowledgeable” and “humble”. It was never an issue before, but he’s changed his tune all of a sudden when it suits his own agenda.

I expected us to really struggle this season and be in a dogfight towards the bottom - that doesn’t mean that if we had it would’ve been remotely acceptable. I think the fact so many of us were so pessimistic goes to show that Mowbray has long outlived his usefulness, saps supporters of their optimism, and sets the bar really low. For as long as Rovers are in the Championship, our aim should be promotion. No two ways about it. The fact we have surrendered our best chance since we left the premier league is disgraceful.

Any sign of the big protests that were rumoured from the Birmingham fans?

That’s not true. He has played 62% of our total minutes this season. The Fulham game is what really skews things. A third of the goals conceded while Nyambe has been on the pitch were in that one match. It’s undeniable that defensively and results wise we do better with him in the team.

No he wasn’t. He was on the bench for most and first for each and every one.

That 10 game spell cost us massively. Bennett was absolutely dire and I can’t remember if it was an injury to him or a red card that finally opened the door for Nyambe. We had the first quarter of the season with him as an unused sub, a disgraceful decision. As always, our point per game haul is significantly higher with Nyambe than without him. That particular season of you extrapolate it across the season it would’ve got us playoffs. Have a look back at the stats with and without him I’ve posted for this season. Leaving him out for any other reason than injury or suspension is severely detrimental to our team, in fact I’d go as far as to call it sabotage. We have suffered with him being subbed off far more times than we have benefitted by introducing a more attacking player too.

I know which I’d prefer! One is an asset, one has long since become a burden.

I still think the biggest issue with our fullbacks final ball is they have nobody to hit. The last striker we had who you could try and pick out with an early cross was Gestede.

I think Bell got a really rough ride here. He wasn’t great but I didn’t think he was anywhere near as bad as he was made out to be. Granted he did have the occasional horror show, but which defender during that time didn’t. It got to the point where he’d have to be flawless to get a 6/10 in most peoples eyes, and exceptional to get a 7. He’s probably kicked on, but there’s probably a bit of “you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone” too. Same with Raya. I expect it will be the same with some of the others too, particularly Nyambe.

Yeah, I’m clutching at straws. I can see us suddenly throwing about bigger contracts and paying fees after they have gone. It would be typical.