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Positive for the night, Barnsley have won me almost £50. Been saying it almost since Mowbray was appointed - IMO, a rank bad manager. IMO, we are a feckin shambles - so much so, even Coyle would be a better option.

Stuck £25 on Barnsley at about 2/1 after the Wigan shambles.

Think Tony's pension plan will be coming along very nicely! I think our squad, in the main, is an unbalanced shambles and we are further way from the 'promised land' than Jeremy Corbyn is from No 10. We need a hungry and innovative coaching team. Think old man Warnock has had more impact at Middlesbrough in 3 days than Mowbray has had all season at Rovers! IMO, we are treading water at very, very best.

Each to his own! Was at the birth of all my kids, however......................... About one in five aren't owing to work commitments (some work situations you simply can't walk away from), being out of the country or simply not wanting to be there!!!

Bill Shankly, Brian Clough might have differed 'young man..........'!

Might as well scrap the Academy and support teams if Mowbray stays. Just one 'home grown' out on 'the grass'. Goodness knows what the likes (Academy / bought for potential) of Brereton, Carter, Chapman, Davenport and Vale all think.

and with the biggest budget and best facilities by a country mile!

The lad has shown a bit more since the season started again, however, it would be difficult not to as he was, IMO, absolutely woeful before. Still looks nowhere near a £7million player! However, he should have been given a start against the bottom club as a good performance and a goal or two would have done absolute wonders for his confidence. IMO, abysmal management from Mowbray - no longer surprised about anything this clown does.

I hope Barnsley hammer us. Sick and tired of, IMO, Mowbray's clueless selections. Could you imagine Roy Kean selecting Walton and Bennett !?!? Brereton at long, long last begins to show a wee bit of promise and Mowbray drops him to the bench - just how will that help the lad's confidence. I think we desperately need rid of the dinosaurian Mowbray and, IMO, the equally useless Benson, Venus and Lowe. We are going nowhere.

We aren't getting to the play offs - let's not kid ourselves. We need to know what a number of alternatives can do. IMO, Walton, Bennett and Gallagher are all cr@p and have forfeited their right to start for Rovers with a series of howlers and abysmal performances. My eleven: Hilton / Nyambe, Lenihan, Tosin, Davenport / Chapman, Travis, Holtby, Downing / Brereton, Armstrong Have Hilton, Davenport, Chapman and Brereton got what it takes? Well let's find out and give them a run of games instead of p!ssing about with the tried and trusted failures.

Can see nothing but a Barnsley win tomorrow. Injuries are just part and parcel of the game and, IMO, a ready excuse for Mowbray. IMO, we have no coherent strategy irrespective of player availability and this is all down to, IMO, a dinosaurian manager unable to distinguish between arse and elbow.

Thoughts with you and your family Paul. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

Thank goodness I didn't waste two hours of my life watching that on the 'red button'. Had a text from a friend who is a Derby fan and at the match today. Just couldn't believe how bad we were. There can be absolutely no excuses today. We had extra preparation time and extra rest. Derby also missing Rooney and Lawrence. Think we bottled it. IMO, the bottom line is that Mowbray can take us no further. I honestly do not know what, if any, managerial strengths he has. You are two nil down and he takes off his two biggest signings at some £25million including wages - IMO, what an absolutely terrible indictment of Mowbray's ability when it comes to player trading.

I can only assume you are p1ssed! I wouldn't trust Mowbray to even run a sweet shop - think they'd all be in the wrong jars!

Davies and Kalanic were ten times the player Brereton will ever be.

Absolutely. We are the form team from fifth to tenth. It's now a 10 game season. It's now down to bottle - who really wants it. It's ours to lose.

Totally agree. Will be eight days since our last game whilst Derby played and lost last night - we should be fresh and raring to go. Nine points from our last six games whilst Derby have just five points - we are the form team. Can only see a Rovers' win.

IMO, simply a game we have to win and we should do if Mowbray is positive and makes the right calls. Let's get it straight, Swansea are no great shakes. They come to Ewood in poor form (5 points from last 6 games) and other than their match at Hull, struggle to score goals away from home. We need to be positive, aggressive and in their faces from from the start. Attack is the best form of defence and given our options at the back, we need to! I'd throw the proverbial kitchen sink at them and go: Walton / Nyambe, Adarabiyo, Mulgrew, Bell / Rankin-Costello, Travis, Downing / Buckley / Armstrong, Samuel Rovers to win by 2 or 3 goals to 1.

My gripe was Mowbray, IMO, inexplicably preferring Gallagher to Samuel and leaving out Buckley who, especially at home where we will enjoy a lot of possession, is one of the few players we have who has a key to move the feckin bus!!! IMO, Mowbray's team does lack imagination, verve and purpose, mirroring the manager. As for "easy wins", it's only what I feel we should do and what my gut instinct is - by the way, you disregard the number of times I forecast Rovers to win by the odd goal, or draw or even lose!

Any football manger whether good, bad or indifferent will win some football matches. You didn't rate Owen Coyle yet he manged to win promotion to the Premier League with Burnley! Even Kean won some football matches even in the PL and at places like Old Trafford!

Very simple Jim. We could and should have won. If Mowbray had started with the eleven who started at Brentford then, IMO, the points would have been in the bag. I thought the penny had dropped with Mowbray after the recent run (Nov/Dec) where we won 5 out of 6 consecutive games (drawing the other) with very limited changes. Seemingly, our manager doesn't learn. IMO, Mowbray has managerial shortcomings and it's not easy to legislate for what I think are glaring inconsistencies and incompetences.

Age old managerial tactic - excuses a defeat or makes your result look good!

Conversely, it would seem Mowbray did insufficient work on the training ground and got his tactics and team selection wrong. He must have known what was coming but couldn't counter it. We need enlightened thinking and sadly, IMO, it will never come from Mowbray, Venus, Lowe and Benson who, I think are either tactical dinosars or just plain incompetent.

Sadly, I think Mowbray and his team of coaches are as dull and as flat as the proverbial witch's t1t. I don't see any passion or fizz in the home technical area. With managers like Klopp, you see and sense the passion, the personality, the charisma and the way they effect the game from the touchline. The players see and feel it and so do the fans. Watching our technical area during a game, IMO, you could be forgiven for thinking the stooges sat there were sat in a church awaiting the arrival of the hearse.

Woeful, woeful and woeful. I think tombola man struck again - no excuses, the buck rests with Mowbray tonight. I would have started either Graham or Samuel before Gallagher. I think the signing of Gallagher almost rivals the signing of Brereton for incompetence and the sheer waste of money. To me, Buckley should have started and would have had a much better opportunity to thrive tonight in comparison to what happened at Brentford - compare the possession stats for the two games. This is a game we had to win and I am convinced we would have won if Mowbray had got his starting eleven right. I think it's very obvious Mowbray is not the man to take us to the next level. IMO, dull, unimaginative and tactically, nous free.