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Mowbray in Thursday's LT: “Brereton will be on the bench as he has been recently. I have had a good chat with him recently,” Mowbray said of the teenager who has been an unused substitutes in the last two matches. “He’s a young boy with amazing talent, we have to be patient" Amazing talents command a place in a starting eleven and are game changers because they have 'amazing talent'. I am totally fed up with all the soundbites, platitudes and b 0 l l 0 c k s that I think Mowbray offers. Feck his purported values, I want an organised team that plays attractive football, entertains, gets decent results and can be seen to be progressing. I defy anyone to articulate a case for Mowbray remaining as Rovers' manager.

What rubbish that was. No idea what formation Mowbray went with - certainly went out of window after 15 minutes with Bennett moving to his second of about six positions throughout the game!!! First 20 minutes, PNE looked slicker and a much better footballing unit, tore our left flank to pieces and bingo, 1-0 with a very good finish. For most part of the match we looked slow, pedantic and clueless. Yet again, we looked two yards off the pace everywhere on the park - I think we are physically and mentally unfit. Williams and Smallwood - they absolutely do my head in. IMO, League 1 footballers at best. I think Dack gets slower by the game (he does need to shed some timber). Felt sorry for Graham, who I think was our best player by a country mile, and Reed, again played out of position and taken off whilst Smallwood remains at the hub of the team. Think Mowbray got it all wrong yet again - wrong players, wrong tactics and in the main, dire and unexciting football. Our £7million+ man, described just yesterday by Mowbray in the LT as 'having amazing talent' remained rooted to the bench when we needed a goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really have had enough of Mowbray's soundbites and values. I think he talks b 0 l l 0 c k s and the club is not progressing but regressing. Think Mowbray's time is well and truly up - needs to go NOW. The alarm bells are screaming with just 1 point from 7 games and I actually think we are performing worse than when we were relegated two seasons ago.

You would think the Preston win is a licence to print money! However, we know all about the vagaries of football! Therefore gone for Rovers' win at 19/10 with a 3-2 score at 37/1. Looking forward to this one and a cracking atmosphere - it will be nice to see Ewood with approaching 20,000 on again.

We simply should not be signing footballers who aren't physically fit to give us 90 minutes. I think the Chapman situation borders on farcical. This is a player who was fit enough to turn out for Middlesbrough (and Pulis is a stickler for fitness and discipline) in a Jan. FA Cup tie and has now had almost six weeks with Rovers (effectively a pre season!) yet Mowbray doesn't think he's ready! It's not as though we are a team of supreme athletes who run the opposition into the ground every game. I think it's just more b 0 l l 0 c k s from Mowbray and IMO, his management of Brereton and Chapman is beyond rational explanation and offers further evidence as to why he is not the man for Rovers.

Fear for Saturday is PNE with their huge following will be far more up for it than us. Not knocking their support as some on here have as when did we last take 7,500+ away for a league game. Mixed emotions for me this game as strong family connections with Preston. See there's more, IMO, Mowbray drivel about Brereton in the LT: “He’s a young boy with amazing talent, we have to be patient" Footballers with amazing talent Mowbray command a place in the starting eleven, unsurprisingly, because of their amazing talent !!! I think our manager is a clown and sooner he's gone the better.

Our family season ticket days are a thing of the past. Could be tempted again by a young, dynamic and innovative manager who plays exciting and attractive football.

In the Clog a few days ago. Service good and attentive, food well presented and of good quality. Aspinall has always been decent under B & P. Not been in Three Fishes for a number of years now.

The cupboard is almost bare! Nearly a quarter of the season to go but for me Graham's the only contender. Tells you all you need to know about how poor our team is and how poor our season has been.

The well run clubs improve the quality of their team from a position of strength. We were ticking over nicely in January and Mowbray should have made his move. Come the summer, given we now seem to be in freefall, I think we will be a far less attractive proposition. Mowbray said there was money there. Was there really? Seems that Mowbray couldn't spend the money fast enough when it was there at the end of August making a huge financial commitment on Brereton based on, In his words the other week in Blues, the lad's performance against us at Forest two years ago when, as someone has advised, our left side opposition to Brereton was Feeney and Williams!!! I think the window was a wasted opportunity and it's incredulous to think that any half decent manager couldn't improve our starting eleven even working on a very modest budget.

The buck stops with Mowbray. He appoints his staff and is presumably happy with what he sees. Venus - it's quite clear from the Mowbray evening in Blues some ten days ago, Mowbray rates Venus highly but then again, he rated Brereton highly enough to commit Rovers to £7m+. Enough said. Lowe - to me, he's an underwhelming individual who lacks presence. He's never impressed me in any role he's had at Rovers. Benson - wasn't it Kinder who brought Benson from Carlisle? I think he started off as a community coach at Carlisle from leaving school and I don't think he's ever played professional football. Raya needs an experienced respected coach who knows the game inside out. I think Benson is way, way out of his league. Based upon results, performances and, IMO, the dire football I see in the main, I think Mowbray and his three stooges need binning. To lose any game of football hurts but to lose as, IMO, abysmally as we do on too many occasions suggests to me there is something sadly lacking with our manager and his coaching staff.

I think the only difference is Mowbray bangs on and on about his values and purports to operate by them. Well to me, Mowbray's Rovers are mentally and physically unfit, he can't set a team up, his tactics are bewildering and Dack apart, his player trading is appalling (at least Coyle secured Mulgrew and Graham). So, other than perhaps values, what is the difference between Mowbray and C o y l e ?

It's not me who's showing themselves up. Some of our performances have been so poor that you could be forgiven thinking it was still Kean or C o y l e on the touchline - no discernible difference at times.

A good post. How poor has Mowbray been this season? Well, in my opinion, based on some of our abysmal performances, it might well have been Kean or C o y l e stood on the touchline - that to me is the unpalatable fact.

I said at the time, IMO, it was madness from Waggott to extend Mowbray's contract to 2022 (think it's 2022). Just where on earth do we get these CEO's from. The sensible option would have been to put Mowbray on a 12 month roller with a pay rise reflecting last season's promotion. I feel certain Mowbray would have bought that as I very much doubt there was a queue forming at our doors for his services. Also several have mentioned moving Mowbray to a DOF role. To me, that would be absurd and pointless given, Dack apart, a poor record on player recruitment. If Mowbray has to be sacked then Waggott should follow him out of the door. I struggle to see how Waggott has moved our club forward.

If you asked a plumber to repair a leak in your house and the repair failed constantly, would you keep asking the same plumber back?

Out of 10 people involved in discussing Rovers last night, 8 (80%) wanted him sacked and 2 (20%) said reassess at end of season. Not one firm Mowbray person.

A sign of desperation! I think it's so obvious Mowbray is taking us nowhere. IMO, this team is not on the cusp of challenging for the PL, it's in risk of falling through the trap door! The alarm bells are screaming and the warning lights are in danger of exploding. Think it's time a few woke up and smelt the coffee!

No you can't! I reckon somehow we will beat Preston and, sadly IMO, prolong the tenure of our hapless manager.

I think Mowbray is a dull and uninspirational football man who got lucky last season. We need hungry and innovative football folk in key positions at Rovers.

If Preston hammer and humiliate us, it might hasten the departure of Mowbray. I think we are back to the Kean days.

Incredible that you have a scrap of faith left in Mowbray. Think you would be still backing him if we end up at Pleasington! I'd even take C o y l e over Mowbray. I find Mowbray so uninspiring - I think all he prattles on about are values which masks the fact that, IMO, he is capable of little else connected to Rovers.

Your words don't wash Mowbray. You sign the players, you sell / loan out the players, you coach the players, you select the players, you set-up the team, you chose the tactics and you pick your assistants (Venus and Lowe). If you make the wrong decisions you pay the price. The buck stops with you. Do the honourable thing and go.

Think it's quite clear Mowbray is not the man for us. I can't see what he offers us other than those bloody values. Again, IMO, no point prolonging the agony. Giving him the summer or to Oct / Nov would be b 0 l l 0 c k s and, IMO, a waste of another season.