Honestly, I wish the season had ended after the Peterborough game, instead of having to play these last four games. We might be 7th and a couple of points away, but I don't feel anything towards these last few games. In normal circumstances this would be an exciting finish. But not when you consider the collapse since January, the lack of heart from the players recently and the lack of care in the dugout. For me, we've blown it and these final four games are only going to wind me up further. Looking at our last few performances you wouldn't believe this is a side that wants a play off place. Listening to the fraud in the dugout you would never believe that he wants a top 6 finish. Anybody listening to him would think he's a counsellor whose job it is to help the young lads who are currently struggling. Never mind the actual football or the results. I'm expecting a 1-1 tomorrow with others also dropping points. The way we are looking, Preston away is likely to be the final nail.

The person above Pasha is the problem, Marton. The person telling him that Coyle is a good idea. The person telling him "these managers are available". That person or people need smoking out.

Go on Sharpey, we need more of that. Agree with the entirety of the post, Mercer. I look at the squad that will be left after the expected departures and ask "what the heck have you been doing for five years?". Any clued up owner would be asking him that. Scrap that, they would have got rid of him years ago. Where are the foundations? This journey you told us about? Our defence is going to be ripped up in the summer. We will need additions in midfield and attack. It's not much different to when he first arrived. Let's hope the West Brom rumours are true. We need this lot out for more reasons than one. They move on and the idea to build houses on part of the training ground goes with them.

I just want a manager who cares and who will respect the club. Somebody who you know is trying and who will bring everybody on the same page with his mentality. I remember Dyche speaking well about Rovers and the fans before we played them in the cup in 2017. You could tell he was being genuine too and I've respected him ever since, even though he represented the dark side. I would have him here in a shot if it was possible. Veljko Paunovic, the former Reading manager, was glowing when talking about Rovers, Ewood and how proud he was to manage at our ground, before we faced his side. A historic ground which he knew about from his younger days watching English football on TV and one he "dreamt of playing at". We are still a big draw and can do better than Mowbray, even with these owners here. This lot would have us believe that we can't hope for any better, mid table is the best we can achieve and that we are lucky to have Mowbray. My response to all of that is unprintable. Mowbray flip flops that much that he can't remember what he has said in the recent past. It is possible that somebody fills him in on some of the criticisms going around resulting in him throwing a line out to try and address or quell such comments. A few days ago there was a headline on the LT saying "Rovers aren't feeling the pressure". Yet a few weeks back he was telling us how the young lads are feeling the pressure as they have never been near the top before. He was getting pelted on here for that, then that headline appears in the LT this week. He's told us how it is difficult to compete with clubs who have parachute payments. We've gone in on his defeatist outlook a number of times recently. Yet just a few weeks ago he was quoted in the LT as saying "we can beat anybody". I've noticed how, every now and then, he will say something that is a response to the critics. Almost like he realises he needs to be a bit more positive when talking about the club. The thing is, it ends up sounding odd as it doesn't match up with his previous views. Whatever it is, we're wasting our time with him. Time for a fresh approach and a manager who does the basics well.

I'm going to say it. All of those managers had more of a will to win than Mowbray has.

That's a disgrace. Capitulate over and over again. Absolute joke is this.

Get in Diaz!

You can't blame Nyambe one bit for not signing a new deal here. He has been messed around for years by Mowbray. He's seen crap like Bennett and JRC played ahead of him countless times. Always the fall guy, first to be replaced in these situations. 200 games but not respected by the manager. Go and enjoy your football somewhere else, Ryan.

Rovers down to 10 men. Edun sent off. This side doesn't deserve a play off spot.

Dyche won't be short of offers. He's a proper manager, a no nonsense guy who does what it says on the tin. He would be perfect for us. Obviously, not much chance of that happening. The talk of fancy dan European managers and having a director of football is fantasy stuff, IMO. I wouldn't be against having a European manager some day, but the tried and tested winners who know how to go up has to be the way to go right now. It won't happen though, because the blinged up clown wants a yes man who won't give him any bother.

The "long live Venky's" brigade are about to get a taste of what it feels like. They won't be laughing anymore, that's for sure. A panic move from their owners and one which spells trouble.

He would be in bits if faced with real questions including the one suggested by marton. There are so many things that he could be grilled on, but the reporters want to maintain their access, so he gets away with a lot through tame questioning. I would likely be banned from the press conferences if I was a reporter for the LT. That wouldn't be for being disrespectful or abusive or anything like that. It would simply be for asking the direct questions that need asking and calling him out on previous comments made.

You very rarely see headed goals from corners these days. We used to have genuine goal threats in the past such as Hendry, Amoruso and Samba, but haven't had any for a while now. It's not just Rovers though. It's a rare occurrence in the Premier League too nowadays. The likes of Terry, Vidic, Skrtel, Mellberg, Cahill etc would come steaming in onto corners and scored their fair share in years gone by. The biggest threats from corners today are, IMO, Van Dijk, Maguire and maybe Laporte, but they don't score as many as they should. Maybe a lot of it is down to poor set piece delivery. That's definitely been an issue at Rovers, but even the corner taking from top drawer players often leaves a lot to be desired.

Chaddy, of course, you can listen to whoever you like. However, I just want to say there are fans out there who will spin any crap they can because they want to sound intellectual and are looking for a job in football. I only say this because I suspect you take some of your views from these people. You know who I am talking about. If I am wrong, I apologise. I personally do not pay any interest in what they have to say. The eye test shows us all how shit we have been. Yet xG battle wins and all sorts of other stats are being put forward to try and defend Mowbray and put a positive slant on the crap we are seeing. Last season during our abysmal 2 in 17 run the same people were talking about how it's statistically the best we've ever played, the most possession we've ever had and so on. The same people were bigging up Pickering as being the best thing since sliced bread. These people use buzzwords such as dynamic coach and all the other jargon, they put forward L1 players we could sign, analyse data and defend Mowbray because they are after a job in football. Anybody who demands better than the crap we see is negative and spoilt. I call these fans out (not you, Chaddy) because these type of fans enable mediocrity, make apologies for Mowbray and help to keep Rovers down in the mud.

People on the outside genuinely have no idea about the damage that has been done to our club and fan base over the past 12 years. A lot of the comments from Burnley, Preston and some Blackpool fans are rooted in bitterness and jealousy. Jealousy over what happened at Rovers between 1990-2010. They bitterly assume that our crowds have gone down and fans are quiet in the ground because we don't have Premier League football. There are some who don't want to watch Championship football, that's true, but that is not the reason why 10,000 fans have walked away in disgust. They bitterly assume that fans who are unhappy feel that way because we don't have Jack's funding anymore. This is made worse when tossers like Mowbray add extra fuel with nonsense like the 1995 comment, said just to protect his ego. Some of the comments I see from neutrals who have no rivalry with Rovers leave me shaking my head too. Just because there is no visible protest against the owners, it is assumed that we now like the owners and that they are doing a good job now. The Sky rhetoric whenever we play, on how much money they pump in, helps to build this false view. Neutrals take a superficial look at the league table, see us close to the play offs and automatically it becomes "what a great job Mowbray is doing" and "he's a good manager". No context, no understanding of the spirals, no knowledge of our performances or tactics, no knowledge of what happened in January. They see us wanting Mowbray out and become bewildered and call us spoilt. You have no understanding of the context, so do one! The fact that we were in L1 four years ago is tried to use as some form of emotional blackmail and a stick to try and keep us down with. This does not happen with other clubs. You can't possibly want Mowbray out after he got you up. He took us down! Don't forget that. History is being rewritten to make him look like a hero, but he had 15 games to keep us up, with us 2 points adrift. That was not an impossible task. Leicester were in L1 at one point, but their fans were alright to demand better. Same with Southampton who were also in L1. But not at Rovers though where you just have to be grateful for what Mowbray has done. The bottom line is that the heart and soul of our club has been taken away. Everything that made us proud about the club has been ripped away by crooks and incompetent people. The club is a shell now where chancers continue to ride the gravy train, while rolling out a nice guy to keep the masses quiet. All of the above is why we are unhappy, why Ewood is a third full and why the atmosphere is dead most games. Our club has been ruined before our eyes with us being powerless to stop it and we continue to have the piss taken out of us. But oh no, the real reason why many of us are absolutely gutted is because we want Diego Simeone as manager and are demanding that Venky's deliver us a 2nd Premier League title. Yeah. That's what it is.

Yes, there was a connection to Rovers. He was on his way to sign for us before a scout talked him out of it and told him what a mess we are behind the scenes. The scout then directed him to Burnley.

I don't think they'll be showing their faces at Ewood for a long time yet. They wanted to fund a double promotion back in 2018, apparently. Ok, the opportunity is under your nose in January 2022. Let's do this. Well? Nope. Nothing. "This is Blackburn Rovers. This club should be in the Premier League". Ok, the opportunity is under your nose in January 2022. Let's do this. Well? Nope. Nothing. Absolute wasters the lot of them.

There may very well be something in that. The players aren't daft and you can imagine that the likes of Lenihan, Travis and Johnson aren't happy with what is going on. Something obviously went off at half time in the Derby game. Judging by Mowbray's face in the 2nd half, whatever it was, it wasn't to his liking. Imagine how the players must have felt a few days later when we go to Reading only to revert to type in terms of tactics. It has to be demoralising. We saw a half hearted display at Reading where we were easily beaten, and two more poor displays on top of that. Johnson not featuring at all since Derby looks like the response of a petulant manager to me.

Good question. Can't say for sure, but it's likely his social media post following the game has bruised somebody's ego.

Somebody mentioned it on here at the time. That the backroom team were impressed with his stats. Said poster went on to say how he had x goal involvements, y number of runs in the attacking third and z number of crosses into the opposition box. Crap. Just like today's result and performance. Our season is done. Infuriating to see our season just peter out after being in 2nd place. It's quite the achievement from Mowbray.

Pickering, another example of why stats are meaningless. A signing based on stats, he was. A L1 left back for a reason. Not good enough for Rovers. Unsurprisingly, the same people who were defending stats on here, and who this week claimed we are winning the xG battles in games, made him out to be a world beater when we signed him.

This is just huff and puff football and hoping that Dack or Diaz can come up with something. All too often we make poor teams look better than they are and get hit with a sucker punch. It has that feel about it again.

Van Hecke is a class defender. He's made a number of key interceptions. The rest of the defence isn't looking as resolute today. Need a second goal to relax a bit.

Good riddance to the lot of the Mowbray crew. Simply not good enough for this football club, not a winner among any of them and all lucky to be here in the first place. Waggott has tried to make out that we are lucky to have Mowbray managing us from the minute that he (Waggott) got here. No Steve, you are. Not us. Nobody else was recommending you to be the CEO here. Mowbray has tried to make out as if he is doing us a favour by being here. It would be laughable if it wasn't insulting. This isn't Arsene Wenger and David Dein walking out. Call their bluff and get 'em gone. It's probably scaremongering about the entire backroom operation leaving, but even if they are, I'm all for it. We need change and people who want to push the club forward.

TM:"We should be enjoying the challenge of being a team that is fighting for the top six". Yeah, you might want to tell yourself that first. We know how much you enjoyed the challenge of being in 2nd place after all.