The support of owners Venky’s does not go unnoticed by Tony Mowbray, though he is not focused on his longer-term future.

Five Premier League and four Championship managers have already lost their jobs, with three relieved of their duties over the weekend ahead of the November international break.

Mowbray is the Championship’s longest-serving manager, with only eight managers out of the 92 having been with their club longer than the Rovers boss who is three months shy of five years in charge at Ewood Park.

He is out of contract in the summer, but is not focused on his future, instead looking at continual improvement with Rovers sitting seventh in the standings after a weekend win against Sheffield United which came in the wake of criticism following the 7-0 defeat to Fulham.

“Football management, it’s a results business and we understand that,” he said.

“At some clubs you don’t (get long), the owners of this football club have supported me extremely well.

“I thank them for giving me the opportunity to manage the club and some people will think it’s gone alright over the last four-and-a-half years, some people will think it’s not good enough, but ultimately the owners of football clubs make those decisions around managers and we’ll keep going.”

Several key players are out of contract next summer, as is Mowbray following his most recent extension which came in November 2018.

While the club are working to tie down the likes of Darragh Lenihan, Ryan Nyambe, Joe Rothwell and Ben Brereton to new contract extensions, talks with Mowbray are yet to get under way.

Mowbray has continued to stress that he will keep managing the club as if he is to be at the club forever, despite the expiry date of his contract drawing near.

The manager returned from talks in India with the owners in the summer of 2017 with a new deal, before his next extension the following year, however it isn’t since the summer of 2019 that Mowbray has been to visit Pune to meet with the Rao family.

“I think those conversations can be had when the time is appropriate. I’m just working with the team to try and win another game,” he said.

“Those discussions are not even in my mind. I’m just a football manager who prepares his team on a daily basis because the games come thick and fast.

“Myself, I don’t sit here and worry about myself, I concern myself with this group of players and how they’re on a journey with their careers and what they have to do to get better.

“The politics of it all don’t really interest me.

“It’s good for the media, good for the people on the outside whose lives on the outside are all about that but for me, I don’t overly concern myself with it. I just do my job everyday.”