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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.

There's clutching at straws, then there's that.

I want Everton to go down, so wasn't sure what result I wanted tonight. Hoping Watford can pull through and send them both down. Do I want Everton to get a result against United? I do and I don't, at the same time. United dropping points is always good. A draw would be ok, I guess.

I think we'll comfortably beat the Tangerines. Last night was their cup final and will have taken a lot out of them. With Dack and Diaz available, even off the bench, we've got the firepower to see Blackpool off. 2-0 Rovers.

Vieira's doing a good job at Palace. He's quietly putting a good side together. They deservedly beat Arsenal tonight and held City recently too. It's becoming a tough place to go, Selhurst Park. Can't help but look at some of these sides troubling the big guns and think "that used to be us". Most refreshing part of the night as a neutral was the following from Arteta post match: "We were poor, especially in the first half. I apologise to our supporters. We didn't have the presence today or the composure to dominate the situation so that is what I'm most annoyed with". If Arteta is man enough to hold his hands up, and Klopp and Pep have done it in the past too, why the frigging heck is it too much for Mr Honest to do the same?

Yeah, I've just seen a clip of it. I thought it was very unprofessional of Dave Jones as Ginola was trying to make a serious point. The way he laughed at him was how any of us would laugh at a mate who said something silly. Ginola wasn't impressed at all and rightly so.

Big rebuilding job for whoever it is in the dugout in the summer. Most likely Mowbray on an extended deal. I think Lenihan may be waiting to see how this season plays out before making a decision. Go up and he probably signs a new deal. Nyambe and Rothwell are gone, I feel. Very worrying looking at that list above. Question marks over the full backs/wing backs. JRC not good enough, nor comfortable playing back there. Brown is untried. Can't say that Edun or Pickering have really stood out on the other side either. Ayala has shown that he can't be relied upon. We will be left looking so thin in midfield and attack, both in numbers and quality. I'd expect a raft of loans brought in again, plus a few freebies and maybe a couple of buys for around £400k each if we're lucky. Is it true that there is more wiggle room for the owners to spend this summer? Not that I am expecting them to do that. I just remember somebody on here saying that when ffp was being discussed a few months ago. Ideally, they'd get a new man in and allow him to spend a bit. But this lot don't do ideal. I'm expecting Mowbray to be given a new deal and our business to be done at the usual snail's pace it does with these owners.

Yes!! Get in Wharton. Superb header. How we needed that.

The season is gone. We need to focus on getting Mowbray out. Years of people making excuses for him has led us to this shit. No room for sentiment, look beyond the nice guy facade. This man does not give a damn about our club.

Yet apparently some of us on here are conspiracy theorists, have agendas, look into things too deeply and are talking crap just because we don't like Mowbray. Yeah.

Dismal looking lineup. No doubt Buckley will be playing as a false nine. A comfortable afternoon coming up for Coventry. 2-0 home win.

I think it's more to do with them being happy to foot the bill (which they have to anyway), without there seemingly being any pressure, expectations or demands put on the manager to deliver. Regardless of results, he plods along unchallenged and they cover the bills. It's a scenario that is almost unheard of in football and one that Mowbray is never likely to experience again at any other club.

Exactly, Miller. That's not the only comment that he has got away with either. At the risk of repeating myself, I won't, as his disrespectful comments have been highlighted on here numerous times. I'll say one thing, though. If we were to do a little survey and put a few of those comments down in writing and ask the fans: "Which manager said the following, was it a) Steve Kean or b) Tony Mowbray", it's likely that many would mistakenly attribute those comments to Kean. He's not on Kean's level, but he isn't this Mr nice guy, salt of the earth type that people like to paint him as either, IMO. It is evident just how nice he is when he is faced with even the slightest bit of questioning. Imagine the fury that would have ensued had Kean made the 1995 remark. Nice Uncle Tony says it and there's barely a flicker outside of this forum. Bizarrely, some were even agreeing with him on twitter etc. "What do you expect, you're spoilt". The L1 promotion means that he can say and do whatever he likes as some will always go out of their way to defend him and let certain things pass. He knows this. It's a small time mentality rooted in mediocrity. If you take a look at the post match presser at Reading on the Lancs Sport twitter page and go to 3 minutes in you will see an example of this. He says, with his head in his hands (for added effect), "for the lads who listen all the time (to these pressers), this is an extraordinarily young football team, they've never been near the top of the table before and they are finding it difficult". The very next day I saw the same bull being spouted online by his backers. He knows what he is doing. Personally, I'm pretty fed up of the narrative of him being this humble hero who saved Rovers from extinction. Wait until the state of "the journey" is unveiled in the summer. Back to square one after five years. He's held in high regard by the fans, yet he doesn't regard the club and the fans in the same way, IMO. Let's consider the answer quoted above in Miller's post for a minute. Doncaster? Promotion night? Our only bright moment in 12 miserable years? Nope. No acknowledgement. Compare that to Souness who was beaming recently when talking about our League Cup win. He said it trumped him winning it as a player because of how happy it made the fans, the players and the buzz it created in the town. You want to talk about a genuine guy, Souness is your man and he doesn't need to go around every 5 minutes saying how honest he is and how much he values integrity either. I will give him credit for getting us out of L1 as we've seen others get stuck down there. Yes, we had a bigger budget than others and kept our better players, but the job still had to be done. Since then it has been nothing but frustration upon frustration. Patches of good form only to fall away and mistakes being stubbornly repeated and defended. Why get the fans hopes up only to then turn it around on those very fans when you can't meet the expectation you set? January was a disgrace and now he's taking himself out of the equation by putting it on the young lads who can't handle the pressure. He's a fraud of a manager.

Nuttall, "The Best" is up on YouTube. If you type in 'Blackburn Rovers the best' it's the first video that appears. There are a number of old Rovers videos that have been kindly uploaded on the same channel by a poster. I'm enjoying watching them. There are a few season reviews, plus a couple of those that Miller has posted above.

Mowbray wasted so much time trying to implement that tippy tappy stuff. Yet the truth is the best goal we have ever scored of that nature came under Coyle in September 2016. A 25 pass team goal away at Derby. Mowbray can only dream of such goals. I'm going to say something which maybe nobody will agree with. This is not a wind up, it's only my opinion. If Mowbray was potted tomorrow and replaced by Coyle, I believe Coyle would finish the job off from this position and get us up through the play offs. Hear me out. He'd have a better squad to work with. He'd have a stronger defensive unit at hand. He's an attacking manager, that's his nature and he would not be afraid to go for it. He plays players in their proper positions and actually uses strikers in his system. He'd most likely get Gally going again too. Coyle would have got us two strikers in the January window just gone, IMO. Heck, he got us a glut of them when he was here earlier. He almost certainly would not have been so arrogant and blase to turn down strikers, throw away a real chance of promotion, and then stubbornly claim that he doesn't regret his January business, or lack of it. Chuck into that pinning our fall on "young lads who've never been near the top end". I'm not calling for his return, even though it might sound like that. I'm so hacked off by Mowbray throwing away our best chance in years to go up and him not being the least bit bothered about it. A crap manager who isn't even interested in promotion. 3-1 up against Derby and he has a face like a smacked backside. Tinkering and back to his bizarre tactical self at Reading and he's active and happy. That's not the type of individual I want to see managing our club. The arrogance of the man compounds matters, so much so that it's got me seeing Coyle in a more favourable light. Needless to say, a change is badly needed in the summer.

This might sound mad, and many might not agree, but I liked Coyle's character more than I do Mowbray's. I'm not saying that Coyle was a good manager or that I want him back. He should never have been appointed. Looking back on it though, he was a jovial guy, he didn't come across as arrogant, he wasn't stubborn and he didn't disrespect the fans. We needed strikers, he went and got us Gallagher, Emnes and Joao to go with Graham who was already at the club. He didn't have any funds either. He got the best out of Gally. Yes, he could and did waffle, but he didn't piss me off as much as Mowbray does. On likeability alone, between the two of them, I would choose Coyle every day of the week.

I know they can't be compared, but Fergie wanted to win, badly. He imposed that mentality onto his players and they all bought into it, even the youngsters. They had to, or else they were out. Mowbray, on the other hand, is a defeatist, he throws players under the bus and tries to distance himself from issues. Yesterday after the Reading game it was a case of "they didn't drive each other on" and "they've never been near the top end before". What about your contribution, Tony? Remember when Alan Hansen said "you can't win anything with kids" ages back and the response that brought out? If Hansen said that about Mowbray's side today, instead of responding with a "we'll bloody show you" attitude, he would most likely agree and be thankful that he has somebody in the media to back him up, who he can refer to later when things don't work out. He simply doesn't have it. We really need somebody to take this out of our hands. Either Mowbray walks away in the summer or somebody like Stoke or whoever takes him. The morons in Pune can't be trusted to do the right thing. They are most likely going to give him a new deal as it would be the cheapest and easiest thing to do. The thought of more years of this crap is a thoroughly miserable one.

So predictable. I was saying a few days ago that when we miss out altogether in May, his go to will be the gallant "young lads" who just "fell a bit short" narrative. He's going with those lines already and taking himself out of the equation. Planting the seed that the young lads can't cope with the pressure as they have never been near the top end. No doubt there will be posts across social media soon saying things like "what did you expect, we've got a young side" and "you can't expect a young side to finish in the top 2, we don't have parachute payments" blah blah. Five years have passed and we are back to square one in the summer when all the players depart. What a waste of everybody's time. Only under these owners can such a thing be possible. Pulis was mentioned a few pages back. There's a real possibility of him replacing Mowbray at some point, due to his agency connection. I'm not enthused by the idea, but he isn't one to throw away opportunities to win and then just shrug it off, so he would be an improvement on Mowbray.

A belting sunny day it was. Emerton looked top drawer and I thought we had signed a good 'un in Amoruso. We were top of the league after day one. Used to see so much optimism in general back then among the fans. Mini buses, vans, taxis, the lot, full of Rovers fans streaming down Bolton Road on a match day. These days, even rocking up at 2.45 on Bolton Road is no problem. There's barely any traffic. These morons have caused so much damage over the past 11 years.

It looks like the dingles paid £12m just to loan Weghorst for six months. He'll be gone in June. Maxwell, get those bags packed too, time to rescue your career 😁.

Yeah, that was after the cup game at Ewood in 2000. I saw a video of it online just the other day, interview included. I still can't my head around the booing and can see why he was miffed. On Shearer, United fans to this day still chant about Cantona. Arsenal fans have a chant for Vieira and one for Henry that I hear now and then. It always makes me wonder why we don't have a Shearer chant. It's a surprise we don't have any, unless I'm mistaken. I could be wrong, but the last time I remember hearing his name sung at Ewood was at Tony Parkes' Testimonial game back in 2005, a game in which Shearer scored. Have there been any Shearer chants on the road, in recent years?