3 minutes ago, barry_ said:

Unenthusiastic for this.

Mowbray is a poor poor manager for Blackburn Rovers. The sooner him and the other maggot goes, the better. 

mowbray has no desire to get into the play offs and is happy to be mediocre. 

You’ll find Appleton, Ince, Coyle etc. filed under “poor poor”

Mowbray may not be the man to lead us to promotion or even a top 6 finish but at worst he’s been a steady manager. 
We were league 1 not so long ago and since then numerous teams have come down with parachute payments, paying £40k+ a week still. 

Does anyone know if ifollow works on chromecast? i.e. can i watch it on the TV from my phone?

We had Jack O’Connell until 22 (same age as a Wharton now), let him do the rounds on loan everywhere, now he’s playing in the top half of the Prem. 

I’d fully expect Wharton to be involved more next season and I’d be disappointed if he wasn’t. 

Regards Derby, their remaining fixtures are:

Preston, Forest, West Brom, Brentford, Cardiff, Leeds and Birmingham

That is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th and 16th.

6 of the top 7 in their last 7. 

New

Nyambe - Lenihan - New - New

Travis - Downing - Evans/Holtby

Dack

Armstrong Brereton 

With a view that Davenport, Buckley, JRC are all looking to break into the team and get regular appearances.

The most important things to do in the summer:

1) Keep Travis, Nyambe and Lenihan

2) Keep Dack and Armstrong unless a ludicrous offer comes in 

3) Sign a GK, CB, LB and a fit tenacious CM (similar to Travis) 

4) Sell Smallwood, Samuel, Leutweler, Mulgrew, Johnson, Chapman(?)

5) Strengthen the squad with a 2nd CB signing and perhaps some width

Then again, we’ve all been pretty much saying the above for 2-3 windows now.

Had a play around (guess) at remaining results....

72 points will almost certainly do it, but that means 16 points from 7 matches (never going to happen given 4 of these are top 10 teams) 

We need to win on Tuesday and need to win away in Cardiff. Then I’ll start believing.

Lose on Tuesday and then start that rebuild for next season  

6 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

4 point gap now.

Barnsley, Leeds, Cardiff up next and you'd say we have to win all 3 to keep any aspirations alive.

Needless to say, it's not happening

 

Need 6 points from it, with 3 of them at Cardiff. We’ll still have a sniff if we get that. Not holding my breath though. 

Just now, DE. said:

I believe Kean and Eastwood both came in during the season (when Robinson was injured, maybe?) so it's a somewhat fair comparison. I don't think Raya or Fielding are significantly better than Walton so I'd still like us to do better than that. I'm not confident of Tony being able to do so, though.

Yes, I agree, we can certainly do better. The fact Leutwiler is the number 1 keeper on our books speaks volumes.
This alongside having to play Bennett at left back makes you scratch your head given we had 5 strikers in the match day squad today. 

3 minutes ago, DE. said:

Remembering Jake Kean and Simon Eastwood the answer is yes, they coud. I would much rather we look for an experienced goalkeeper than try to promote one from the academy earlier than we should.

Walton is just an average Championship keeper - generally OK but prone to mistakes. If Brighton want him back it won't concern me, but I would be concerned if we ended up with an Academy keeper between the sticks next season.

I mean for the remainder of this season.

You’ve conveniently named 2 academy keepers who didn’t make it at this level so I’ll raise you Raya and Fielding who both have in the Championship. 

It’s a funny one with keepers, they always get a hard time as mistakes are highlighted and when they’re good they rarely get the spotlight. 
However, I’m racking my brain and struggling to remember when Walton has SAVED us points, had a blinder and meant we got 3 rather than 1 point. 
 

Could an academy keeper be any worse? At least he would be one of our own for the future.

Gallagher cannot start again given the other options we have. Tony is saving face for wasting money and a hell of a lot of wages.

Rothwell? Not a top half Championship player at the moment. For a flair/luxury player he doesn’t offer enough. 
 
It’s not season over yet (Swansea lost to bottom of the league today so everyone will drop points). We were underdogs today, but it’s the kind of game we need to be winning. It just means we’re going to have to come out of that 4 game horror run with more than 6 points which is very unlikely. 

In fairness with Bennett there isn’t much of a better option available currently with injuries. 
I do scratch my head at Gallagher when we have Armstrong and Graham sat on the bench though who offer something different/better.  

Bleak to think that Gallagher is our (alleged) highest earner. 

Fulham already behind and I’d expect a few games banned for Mitrovic after the elbow. 
I think they’re going to completely implode. Don’t rule out Cardiff or others catching them. 

Cardiff winning not ideal but will take that with Swansea losing. 
If Reading or Barnsley get one then we could really start to make a mark with a win today. 

21 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

The only decent plays have been when Pearson has been flattened a couple of times.

Borefest.

100%. Good for Rovers though. Along with Luton holding on. 

I’ll probably put the curse on this now...but Scott Sinclair doesn’t look like anything special in the first half here. 

Just for some perspective on this “winnable” game...the bookmakers had us more likely to beat Bristol City than today against Wigan. 

A draw would put some pressure on needing a win on Tuesday. 2 wins from those and we’re favourites for 6th (or 5th) spot. 

2 hours ago, Waggy76 said:

It is going to be very interesting , no team as form going in to this mini tournament...

One thing , I have noticed the refs are not under pressure to give penalties now...Still will be bad decisions but teams like Leeds won't get the helping hands if things start to implode ! 

Leeds went something like 53 games without a penalty a season or so ago.

The Chelsea semi-final a big one i think given how long it's been since we've been in an FA Cup final. 

Felt gutted (but proud) leaving the ground as we fully deserved something from that game.

Is Lenihan back next game?

i was also going to ask, what has Buckley done to get dropped after a great performance at Charlton and solid at Brentford. (Then gets a red card - Tony won’t play him for the rest of the season now). 

Let’s be honest today isn’t the issue. Drawing at home to Swansea and Stoke is. We should be in the top 6 already. 

2 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

I actually hate Elliot Bennett. I think he’s by far our worst footballer in the squad.

The only shining attribute the man has is his work rate but that should be a given for a professional footballer. 

No reason to hate the man. Not his fault he keeps getting picked. 
He isn’t good enough but I don’t understand how fans can say stuff like that, albeit in the heat of the moment. 

3 hours ago, Pedro said:

I am colour blind and it was a nightmare - but for the shorts I couldn't tell the difference. I don't think they consider the likes of us tbh - which surprises me. Also, that pink winter ball a few years back was bad, as bad as the orange one for me.

There was a Rugby match on Sky a Sports yesterday which had possibly the worst kit clash I’ve ever seen

12 hours ago, DE. said:

Huge win for Boro today, hauling them out of the relegation zone and dumping Charlton into it. I expect Barnsley and Luton to drop, but think Hull could end up taking the final relegation place. They're in total freefall at the moment. 

Hull do look absolutely shambolic. 
Madness to think they were 250/1 for relegation the day they sold Bowen to West Ham! 

Millwall certainly have the easiest run in too. 
Nobody in the Top 6 left to play, with ourselves being their toughest remaining fixture.