and who signs the players, coaches, organises and selects them? The buck stops with the manager - after four years, these are Mowbray's players and it is Mowbray's team.

Think you are right. You get a serious injury like that and have barely kicked a competitive ball on your return and someone offers you a new lucrative two and a half year extension with a one year option then, IMO, it would be utter madness not to sign it. Rovers got stung with the Mulgrew extension and, IMO, the new Dack deal looks ominously premature and expensive.

Never bought this man of integrity stuff about Mowbray. IMO, he's an opportunist and it's all about himself. Never to blame. Think he's shown form for hanging out to dry who he thinks are the easier targets. Personally, I don't trust Mowbray.

It's a funny old game. We could come out and blow PNE away. Waiting for curry to arrive - another wine uncorked. Need some solace.

Shite, shite and more shite. However, Rovers having inordinate amount of luck as seen with penalty again. Rovers' win at 5/1 is ridiculously generous. Given our luck, just stuck £25 on.

Think it's all spin and bullsh1t for India in case we lose!

It is. Think it's symptomatic of an acute lack of nous at Ewood - we saw it with the Mulgrew deal and extended end of season contracts for Hart and Smallwood. IMO, Mowbray and Waggott's financial stewardship leaves much to be desired and if you look at the money, IMO, wasted on Mulgew, Hart, Smallwood etc, we could have had the Ewood pitch replaced with the finest state of art playing surface. IMO, it's just shambolic.

None will be missed!

Echoes what I posted earlier regarding family and friends of mine who follow PNE. They are bricking it. FL should just cancel the fixture and award us the points.................!!!

Oh deary me - you didn't go to the same school as Waggott did you...............!!!

Absolute home banker this one - even 'Tinkerman Tony' couldn't screw this one up. PNE in poor form (and transition) having just one point from their last three games and just one win in their last five games. Know a good few folk who follow PNE (family and friends) and they are bricking it, fearing a real thumping. They look at the likes of Armstrong, Elliott, Dack and even Dolan (with a big point to prove) and can see four or five goals flying in. I'd put every bit of money you could afford to lose on a Rovers' win at evens or slightly better. Fill yer boots.

Hopefully, a bit of clarity. Firstly, the relationship between Venky's London Limited (parent company) and The Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic Limited (football club) needs to be understood. Venky's London Limited (parent company) issue shares and then make loans to The Blackburn Rovers Football and Athletic Limited. The last accounts for the football club (y.e. June 2019) showed these loans (£127million) under creditors falling due within one year. The accounts also stated the loans were interest free with no fixed date for repayment, however, these loans are repayable. The bottom line is if VLL call in these loans then we are well and truly fecked. Since the football club's last filed accounts (y.e. June 2019), VLL have issued something in the region of a further £35million shares - to provide further loans to the football club. I think it is inevitable there will be a 'tipping point'. The Raos have an asset, which under present circumstances, is worth only a tiny fraction of their almost £200million investment. I feel sure the Raos' realise their only hope of making a substantial recovery on their investment would be if we got promoted to the PL. IMO, this looks an increasingly forlorn hope and as each season goes by without us even threatening to get promoted, I feel their perception will change and we will be getting closer to them deciding enough is enough. Make no mistake, there is no magic money tree. As a finance professional, I think we are up financial sh1t creek without a paddle and our ongoing existence hangs by, what I would consider to be, an increasingly tenuous thread. As Bolton found with Eddie Davis, there comes a time...........................

To be honest@chaddyrovers, I have never known anyone to feel so strongly about a manager as I think you do with Mowbray. I think it almost verges on hero / cult worship. A question and assume money is no object. Do you think there is any manager in the world capable of replacing Mowbray and if so, who would you chose and why?

It's over 12 months now since Dack's injury and he looks a long way off match fitness. Looking at Dack, IMO, he is also overweight. Agree, he may never be the same player again. Sadly, Dack was not blessed with pace pre injury and, IMO, he seems significantly less mobile than he was pre injury. I don't think the signs for Dack are overly encouraging. Compare to Shearer (almost 30 years since he did his cruciate - Boxing Day 1992 if my memory is correct) who I seem to think was back scoring goals prodigiously in well under 12 months and since those days, surgery and rehab have advanced enormously.

Excellent post - saves me responding to @chaddyrovers Nail on head! @chaddyrovershas been extolling the virtues of Mowbray's footballing philosophy for some time now. IMO, for 4 years under Mowbray, our football, in the main, has been sh1te, sh1te and more sh1te. It makes Sam's time here look like City under Pep at their best.

My views on Mowbray have been well versed since he was even appointed. As each match goes by, even 'die-hard' supporters like @Parsonblueare realising Mowbray is not the answer. 'Slow build' and 'evolution' are just trite soundbites with self preservation, IMO, being Mowbray's key objective. I think we are way behind the footballing curve due to our managerial dinosaur. Even 'the last of the Mohicans' @chaddyroversmust realise it's time for the club to end this, IMO, managerial farce and disaster.

Exactly the same as they were when we 'missed' Vardy at Fleetwood some 8 years ago!

Go for a Tohu - lovely nose and palate especially if you like herbal and fruit tones. You should have a few quid left from your £20 as well!

Argentina is the world's biggest producer of Malbec and if you mean your budget is £50 then you could almost buy Argentina! I wouldn't be spending £50 on a Malbec. However, if you live anywhere near Whalley, get yourself down to Whalley Wines and get a Zuccardi Malbec (think it's a 2015) - had one as a Christmas present and it was very decent, think it retails about £30.

Well, I think that was sh1te again, again, again and again. Think we've been scrambling results playing sh1te and today it caught up with us. Will the happy clappers STOP going on about Mowbray's football. IMO, it's a myth and in his 4 years here, in the main, he's served up utter sh1te. I said in my pre match post that only Mowbray could lose this game for us. QPR were there for the taking, a bog average Championship team we should be beating. Nothing positive about today. Get close to play offs and we bottle it. As I feared, with additions coming in and players coming back, I think we are going to see Mowbray play his favourites and also hammer square pegs into round holes. Feckin sick of Mowbray and Rovers spoiling my weekends so the reds will get hammered tonight. MOWBRAY OUT, OUT, OUT !!!

What's your budget?

Is it feck.................I think we need him as far away from our club as possible as he has nothing to offer.

Might never be the same force..............Shearer didn't p1ss about on his return from cruciate, was at it straight away.

God forbid. IMO, could even direct traffic.

Is Douglas injured? That team more than good enough to get a win. Gone big on Rovers' win with a £fiver on 4-1 at 66/1. COYB