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Vinecrafter Merlot - stocked by Whalley wines, about £7/bottle. Not a Merlot fan but wife keeps a couple of bottles handy for cooking purposes - very fruity nose and palate. Always handy for the 'quaffers'!

FFS - have you never walked into either a domestic or work situation and not sensed an atmosphere or tension about the place! They don't crayon pictures on walls!

I don't pretend to. Told by someone in the ground it all felt a bit strange after the match. Fantasy, no, bullsh1t, no, someone's (whose judgement I trust) perception, yes. No I don't. But if Waggott is at his desk at 9.00 am tomorrow, it will be 3.00pm in Pune!

Played 17, 17 points, lost 9!

I think something happened or was happening tonight - seemed a very strange post match hour at Ewood. Pune six hours ahead. Let's hope Waggott's getting sign-off for Mowbray's exit tomorrow morning.

He just might have gone..................... Told local journos in a tizzy!

Match finished almost an hour ago and nothing from Tony yet! With a bit of luck, he's in a taxi for Teeside!

Come on Gavv, he's been pushing his luck in many games recently and got away with it. Tonight, he got caught out.

and those points precisely why "the way everything is going at the moment".

Share the views of some others - looks like a narrow defeat for battling Tony. Think 2-5 would have been about right. Some serious worries besides our manager: Kaminski: becoming increasingly idiosyncratic and perhaps we are now seeing why Ghent let him go Travis: a shadow of his former self. Now looking a League 2 player Dack: not helped by Mowbray shunting him out left but, IMO, increasingly think he's finished as each game goes by Make no mistake, as a club, think we are in a real mess from top to bottom - a bigger mess than I feared.

You have a serious problem in comparing Mowbray to Dalglish. Just plain ridiculous.

Think we might just pull this one out of the fire! Great finish from Harvey but woeful Watford mistake. Cheap (price), cheerful and decent wine (ideal for watching Rovers when depressed) - try the Coop's Casablanca Pinot Noir at about £7.

Think there's something going on with Mowbray. Think he would have been telling the world if he'd had input into the Brockhall plans. Body language, petulance, IMO, says it all. Perhaps the end is in sight. If you have a spare tenner, I'd put it on Alex Neil as next Rovers' manager - wouldn't be my choice but the whisper isn't going away.

Just where the feck do I say that? Will you stop misquoting / misinterpreting me. The point I made is that by not achieving our goal to get back to the PL, the effect on our finances is huge. Mowbray has to be personally responsible for results on the field of play. I would think the ultimate decision to downsize our training facilities and realise part thereof is down to the owners. And yes we do have a choice. Sell some players - they are replaceable, the STC when houses are built on it isn't!

I think Mowbray's responsibility is to get success on the field and this comes through immaginative and successful player trading, organisation, motivation, coaching, tactics and game management. If he had got that right then I think we would have been back in the PL or getting there this season. If the football manager isn't successful, the club won't be successful and there will be financial struggles. I think the bottom line is our owners have 'lost' getting on for £200million because none of the club's CEO's or football managers they have appointed have cut the mustard. In the days of Bob Lord, Burnley sold a player a season in order to survive and thrive. Who have we got who would bring in £10, £15 or £20million. Brereton and Gallagher who Mowbray signed wouldn't - it would, IMO, be chicken shit in comparison to some £12million in fees we shelled out. I remember Mowbray's words about Brereton at Blues in Feb 2019, something like 'there's a lad who'll be worth £15, £20million in the future'. Well if he'd got it right, I think it's pretty certain we wouldn't be looking to part sell / downsize Brockhall. I think we have one saleable player asset (biggish money) and that's Armstrong. The buck stops with the Football Manager and the CEO and, IMO, neither Waggott or Mowbray have delivered and that's why the club is, IMO, in one big mess.

There you go again. Please when referencing me do not make such false claims. By all means quote me but do not throw sh1t at me. Brockhall - cause, club haemorrhaging money, why, failure to get back to PL, effect partial realisation of club assets with cost reduction.

Please get your facts right! Where have I said that? I said our lack of success (failure to get back to the PL) and, IMO, stagnation under Mowbray and therefore substantial ongoing financial losses has probably resulted in our owners looking at ways to claw back some capital and reduce losses. I think if I were in the Raos' shoes, I would be saying 'right Tony, time to cash in on the diamonds you bought in Brereton and Gallagher'..................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you are naive. At the very least, Mowbray, as football manager, would have been consulted. Our owners, allegedly, trust and respect his opinion. IMO, any football manager worth his salt would fight tooth and nail to preserve such a wonderful facility. Footballers can be sold and replaced. Brockhall can't. Also, how many references has Mowbray made in recent times about NOT using the indoor facility as not good on the body - IMO, it all makes sense. I don't think Mowbray is quite as thick as sometimes he seems.

Really? I think if Mowbray had done his job. we would be back in the PL or going back there this season. There is little doubt in my mind that Mowbray's, IMO, failure to move the club forward in his four years is the root cause of huge financial losses and the decisions made by the club about Brockhall. Have said it time and time again - a club like Rovers needs a top class a CEO and Football Manager. We have Waggott and Mowbray - IMO, enough said.

You are right. We need to get smashed in a few games. I think we need 'Maggott', Mowbray and Venus out of our club asap. Kean and Coyle were vilified, however, at least they didn't try to downgrade our magnificent Brockhall complex which is still the envy of many, many football clubs which is what I suspect the 'Coventry three' are very much part of.

If you look at Twitter accounts for Sharpe and Bayes, I think you will see a few have tried to 'rattle their cage' a bit. I don't think either are confrontational type of guys and strike me as being a bit 'jobsworthy' and anything for an easy life. Neither strike me as being ambitious and therefore I don't think we can rely upon them to help to get to the bottom of all this or to pull a few skeletons out of cupboards. If Sharpe and Bayes read BRFCS then I would be delighted if they went and proved me wrong though I'm not holding my breath!

Doubt we'll get half that number going.

It's difficult to convey how much personal anguish this news has brought to me as I'm sure it has brought to many others. When you have followed the club for many decades and through some of its darkest moments and also seen the halcyon days that Jack brought including winning the PL in 1995 and the Football League Cup win in Cardiff in 2002, you feel this may be the beginning of the end. I think it's unlikely I will see the club in the PL again and most certainly will not see the club win the PL again. The younger generation may not understand these sentiments and I pretty much doubt the likes of Bayes and Sharpe will either. IMO, we have awful owners and their own negligence has resulted in the club's demise - from a comfortable top 10 PL club to a mid table (at best) Championship club losing some £20million / season and perhaps forced into part realising it's greatest asset. Hollow words, I think, on respecting Jack's legacy (or similar words to that effect when they bought the club). In Waggott, Mowbray and Venus, we have, IMO, three utterly abysmal managers and the fact that not one of the three, as far as I'm aware, has commented on these proposals speaks volumes. None of them, IMO, would have got anywhere near employment with Rovers in Jack's time. The saddest of times.

There's no one else going to bring in anything of significance. For all Mowbray's hype about squad value, I think the cupboard is almost bare.

Think only Armstrong sale will bring in significant funds. Needs to be viewed in context of scale of annual loss (averaging some £20m over 10 years).