Bye Tony and thankyou

[champs95]

Thankyou for giving stability to the club but that's just it,a man to keep the ship afloat but no more than that.
We need a bright young manager(agree with you champs)to take us forward.
Mowbray isn't that man and never will be.
Thanks for what you have done but it isn't a sad goodbye but one of relief,even if venkys probably still don't have a clue.

We wont attract a young decent manager. Quite the opposite. The whole medical staff have left to Leipzig. And Man City Womens team. The head of football is leaving. The manager is leaving. Who got us to 8th. Our highest finish in over a decade. Half the better players are now out of contact. Brereton is leaving.
He wasnt keeping us afloat. He was doing as good a job as he could. For a club our size and debt and support. And pushing us the higher positions in the league.
No of course we wont attract a young good manager. It's a huge job with debt, contacts loss of the whole internal structure. And no money to attract a whole new set of staff.

People just see Mowbray leaving. He wasnt the problem. But you will all see how bad things will get soon enough. If you eats unhappy with 8th in the Champ. You are going to hate not being able to get out of Div 1 for years. As things are now going to get alot worse quickly.
I would say relegation next season is a certainty.
Mowbray did a tremendous job with very little money and more importantly he sorted us out internally. Watch and see how quickly all that good work is undone. And you will now get to see what a bad manager looks like.
Promotion was never ever something we where good enough for. Very few clubs at this level are. And if they do go up. They are normally straight back down. So thats a tiny percentage who actually achieve success at our level. Which only means they are back with 12 months. And the same sides go back up. As only money talks at this level. We have none. And the 3rd smallest attendance. So if Mowbray is being judged a failure based on no promotion to the Champ I find that mental. 99% of managers fail massively. Every season.
Now we get lumbered with some has been journeyman nobody who will turn up. Be clueless and get us relegated. If you didht like being 8th. You will hate this next part.

[champs95]

The first few names linked are interst9ng. Forest Greens manager also managed England under 16's and 18's. Very good track record. Improves young players. And a great win average as a manager. Around 62%. That ls exactly what we need next. Lower league. Fresh ideas and hungry to succeed. But the main one ....a manager who can get the best out of players. Something Mowbray lacked. And I felt he confused the players with too many different tactics that never quite worked.
The other is Swindons manager. Young again and has a 48% win rate. Is currently getting a tune out of a pretty average side. The emphasis again on young with fresh ideas.

The key to alot of this is what happens when they start losing a few games? As Mowbray was never good enough for almost all our dwindling fanbase. Every time we lost he was turned on and blamed. Most wanted him out years ago. Once a new young manager is welcome in. How fast do people decide it's all his fault? Like with Mowbray. A couple of months at most the next man will be inexplicably blamed for us having no chance of going up. Because Blackburn fans inexplicably expect their club to win promotion. Or at least the play offs. When in reality they have never been close since Bowyer was here and we had alot of money a decent squad & Rhodes & Gestede scoring 48 goals. And we still failed then. I do wonder who is actually the problem here. And just hie fast they will all turn on the next manager. I'd suggest after a couple of defeats very early on.