I first went to Ewood in 1962. In that time I’ve seen some poor, poor keepers. These two though - Pears and Wahlstedt - are the worst two I’ve personally ever seen. Nor do I mean the worst two Rovers keepers. I mean the worst two I’ve seen anywhere. However, none of the players are to blame for the current situation. The club is run by incompetent people starting with the owners, all the way down.

We turned up today with no urgency at all. They thought they were already safe.

Absolute idiot

Pathetic

I’d be surprised if they knew anything about it. (In India, I mean).

The FA Cup died years ago when the top PL clubs started fielding reserve teams. The argument that it’s necessary to scrap replays to reduce the fixture schedule is not the true reason. The reason is that the European Super League is being brought in via the back door.

I seem to remember you didn’t rate him when he came into Rovers side in the Championship. Well, here he is playing every game for Palace and impressing almost everyone, central midfield, in the PL, at the age of 20. Not many do that Eddie.

I thought we were brilliant today. The tactics Eustace employed were the only tactics that could have won us that game. Well done to him and well done to every single player. They carried it off to a tee. I’d have given them all 10/10. We should be fine now. I wouldn’t expect that kind of performance too often though. The sheer determination, workrate and mental toughness can’t be replicated every game, it’s just too much to ask of our small group of players. Today though, superb.

Brilliant!

Without doubt, better to have tasted the riches. For me personally Venkys changed the way I saw Rovers. It shouldn’t have done, but it did. Things they can never do though. They can’t take away those memories of Ronnie Clayton running out of the tunnel with the ball under his arm. They won’t ever take away the memories of the class of Bryan Douglas. Nor can they take away Jack Walker taking on the biggest and best clubs in the country and beating them. That was some team at Man Utd at that time, but for a short time, we were better. When I get totally pissed off with the turmoils that we are currently going through, I’ll console myself with those memories. Even if the club went to the wall, Venkys and this crew could never take that away. Cherish the club as you best remember it.

With regards to big Sam, fans should learn there’s no such thing as crap winning football. If you’re winning games you’re ultimately defending better than the opposition and scoring more than them. You can’t continually win games by playing bad football. It’s what every manager is trying to do. . It’s all that matters.

When you have absent owners doing next to nothing, and when you have the people in charge at Ewood deciding that we’d just take a year out and stay up, this is inevitably where you’ll end up. Someone tell me which of these so called professionals really know anything about football? It’s scandalous.

and don’t mention selling Wharton at the first opportunity.

Can anyone give me “anything “ to look forward to under this regime. Even next season, whichever league we’re in, holds nothing other than fear.

Venkys needed the cash, got an offer and that was it. No thoughts of his future value or his current value as a player in a squad threatened with relegation. Just the cash. I loved the lad but sad to say he’s better off away from here.