Says a lot about the direction of the club and what has happened in the last 6 months that weve gone from 7th to being happy about other results because teams might try harder against teams in order to keep us up. Best player sold, captain loaned out, no funds from the owners and an ambitious manager quitting and replaced by one that seems out of his depth. Thanks Venkys.

Stay up or go down, for me, Eustace has to go. Simply don't think he's up to it. Young and upcoming - no, the guy's in his mid forties with a track record of 3 years at Kidderminster, caretaker spell at QPR and a brief spell at Brum until it seems the owners concluded he wasn't the man to deliver their ambitions. So, in my book, Eustace has achieved very little as a manager, is relatively inexperienced and has certainly not been 'in demand' and for that there would have to be reasons why. I think his league record with Rovers is very, very poor and we go into our last game still with a real risk of relegation and hoping and praying results go our way in other games. To average less than a point a game over the course of a season will get you relegated. What a state of affairs. Eustace's record P15 W2 D8 L5 F13 (5 of which came in 1 game) A18 P14 Eustace's home record P7 W0 D5 L2 F4 A7 P5 At home, we have failed to score in 3 out of our 7 games (and 4 games out of 8 away) and his home record includes games against teams of the ilk of Owls, Plymouth, QPR and Millwall - just one win against any of those teams and we would now be safe. Think his game management yesterday when a fatigued Coventry went down to 10 men for 40 minutes (including added time) was negative, unimaginative and potentially catastrophic with our failure to get a win. IMO, he's a 'yes man' (unlike JDT) who causes no ripples in the boardroom, is weak and therefore a player's dream, is negative and also tactically inept. I also find his interviews cringeworthy, IMO, full of cliches, platitudes and bullsh1t. Sadly, no matter what league we are in next season, I think Eustace will remain in charge. If we are fortunate enough to stay up then I think relegation will be nailed on with Eustace, if we go down, think we will be no better than mid table in League 1. As one of the Apollo 13 astronauts said 'Houston, 'we have a problem'.

It will take more than cheap tickets to entice people back. There also has to be something to believe in, some ambition, someting to hope for. We have none of this with this lot in charge.

And what qualifies the likes of Broughton and Waggott to put a valuation on him? They are both under qualified and took the first offer that came along. But the sensible Rovers fans know they sold the family silver to keep the lights on due to the owners nefarious business dealings.

We had a very short period where we had a manager who would question the status quo. Publicly call out false promises and try to hold those responsible to account. Those on the gravy train (almost everyone high up at Rovers), are obviously delighted with the current predicament of yes man with no talent, skill, CV, evidence of success, evidence of decent football, evidence of wanting to know our town, region or club churning away shit performances along as it keeps all those guys out the limelight. Of course Waggott prefers this than JDT mocking his lies about our leased coach/bus. Of course the shadow man prefers this to JDT saying budgets have been cut and he was fed lies etc. Just all topping up their pensions with no shits given to Rovers. When we beat Leeds Eustsces celebrations were straight to the box behind him (lots of managers do that in fairness). But, If anyone cared for the club they’d be to fans / players / staff not to your boss.

Fully agree. One thing these rancid owners are good at is rapidly transforming something good into something terrible. A year ago the play-offs within grasp yet THEIR ownership has reduced us to a side still working out the permutations to avoid League One (again). Horrible people, the worst owners in football and employing spivs and liars.

Bolton ‘don’t know what league they are going to be in’ either … but they’ve still been on sale since February and they’ve sold 16,000 already.

As regards the game, I just wish we had more than one player who had even the slightest idea about how to shoot. I also wish we had a bench with at least forward on it to come on and try to change things up top (Telalovic isn't that). But my post is mostly about why I wasn't in my usual seat. In my Blackburn school, the overwhelming majority of football-mad children (seriously obsessed) are Liverpool or Utd fans with the odd City fan. During a recent poll as part of a computing database lesson, I was the only one in the whole class to show a preference for Rovers (10 for Liverpool, 14 for Utd, the rest for "whoever Ronaldo plays for"). They have absolutely no clue about the subtleties of being a supporter beyond saying, "We're better than you!". The 'die-hard' Liverpool kids have honestly never heard of YNWA and the City boy freely admitted he didn't actually care about City at all but Haaland was amazing. I say this because all that matters is the glory-hunting, fashionable aspect of this. Their entire football knowledge comes from online or on Sky beyond break-time kickabouts. Matchday visits are all but unheard of for any of them. Which brings us to the Ewood Express... At no point in my entire childhood was I EVER as excited to watch a game as the 6-11 year old kids I took today (or against Plymouth the other month). Starting their own chants, joining in with the singers below (up to a point as they're good, naiive kids who don't swear), willing Rovers on. They loved it (one lad did ask where the commentary and spider-cam was). Ignore the EDL-supporting, knuckle-dragging cretins on Twitter moaning about Islam. Kids of every background absolutely had the time of their lives today. The desire to support their local team is bubbling under. They want to go again . It won't matter though. Until we have a Premier League team, they will always choose the big city reds and Rovers will be a 2nd club like we might have a patronising fondness for little Accy Stanley. They all ask me about Rovers every Monday like, "Poor old Sir needs comforting; let's show some solidarity." The older generations' apathy (one parent actually asked me at pick-up what stadium we were going to and whether it was a game even though he'd signed up and paid the £8) is NOT present in the kids and this lot would definitely start attending in ten years time IF we had the right 'product' but they will not stop the fanboy/girling for CR7 or Salah in favour of Sam bloody Gallagher. Yasir's work is for nothing without actual success.

I really don't believe that the owners have any idea on player valuations. Of course the deal for Adam was done with their approval but putting a price on him? Similar with Brereton as again they wouldn't have and idea of his worth. The unqualified idiots at Rovers are the ones who put the prices on players I believe. The fools in Pune are just going along with them and in the case of Adam get some money into the club to save face after their court appearances.

The problem is that we do not have players capable of scoring (Sammie aside). The only player shooting yesterday was Ayari, everyone else prefers to pass sideways. Even when we were completely on top yesterday I never thought we would nick a goal. I don't doubt that JE had the ambition to score, he simply does not have the ammunition. If we survive this season, the owners will not sanction the signing of any experienced forwards. We'll be relying on Vale and Leonard next season, neither of whom are the next Simon Garner. After 60 years of supporting my club, I despair for the future under these incompetent fools. They are the worst owners in football, aided and abetted by the charlatans SW and Suhail.

I saw a clip from a podcast not so long ago with Big Sam and Tony Pulis and Pulis was talking about when Stoke got promoted to the Premier League. He said Sir Alex told him they needed to make their home games as nasty as possible, and if opposition managers started praising their football they were as good as relegated.

In Eustace's last 4 home games, we have 1 goal. And in the 3 prior we got 1 in each, so 4 in 7. Its a very shoddy record and it was little surprise that he had the lack of ambition or competence to oversee us scoring even against 10 men.

You ask @roversfan99 this like it’s a difficult question when it is obvious. They had two up front only because we kept 5 at the back. If we had put an extra midfielder or attacker on they would have had to have withdrawn one of their attackers because they would have been overrun in midfield. Ayari, Moran or Markanday should have been on within 5 minutes of the red card.

Appreciate you want to be optimistic, I really do. But, given how much of our recent big sales has gone back into replacing them, I probably wouldn’t hold your breath.

I doesn’t matter who’s in charge. If we don’t spend we’ll struggle - and we won’t spend. You don’t have to have a massive IQ to work that one out. If I read in tomorrow’s paper that they’d tapped Klopp up and got him to change his mind and come to Rovers I’d stifle a yawn. He’d do nothing at Ewood under these clowns.

I’m not having that Jim. If we’d have held onto the lad until Summer we’d have got much more. Not only that but we wouldn’t have been staring down the barrel of the relegation gun next Saturday. When he walked out of the door at least 50% of our creativity went with him.

Id agree it was a small price but while playing for a championship club we wouldn't have seen anything like 40-50 million for him,and although I'm sure Wharton would have seen the season out with us he would have wanted to move up a league by summer,with more teams possibly bidding we could have got maybe 25 mill like Bournemouth got for Scott.

I always took those quotes as opposition managers simply blowing smoke up their own arses after beating us.

Most of the quotes of tough to beat, where from teams who had just beaten us.

I have stuck up for him since he came in really , as he was left a mess of a squad with no power to get his own players in but im not seeing anything to give me confidence that he is a winner and can stop our decline. Fluffed 2/3 good opportunities to get us safe and just hasn’t been brave enough to get us wins instead of draws. When are we going to get a late winner? I don’t want a scared manager, that breeds onto the pitch. we need something different, give me a sheff wed or qpr type appointment

A lot of chatter about Finneran being snapped up by a prem or german club... I honestly don't see the fkin point of spending millions developing players for years if the most promising players can just walk away for nothing or at best give us a season before getting sold? And we just end up keeping the very average 3rd/4th rate(at best) players. It used to be a great thing in the past seeing young players get into the first team and give us a good few years at least before leaving

Given what has happened with the last few sales, it’s far more likely that it won’t go into the team than it will. See the money received from Jordan Rhodes’ sale, for reference.

We sold our best player ! It seldom works well !

Asking fans to ‘send him pictures’ of the shit tip that is Ewood - how about you or your staff get off your arses and have a look yourselves.

Because it’s simply an unknown. I’m fairly sure the return of Hedges, Hyam, JRC, Gallagher, Pears and Dolan might have given JDT a bit of a chance to stop the slide.

Slightly positive opinion incoming. We will survive next week and we will be grateful for the scrappy home points we’ve scraped together against Norwich, Southampton, Plymouth, Millwall and Coventry. It’s not been great and there have been some catastrophic performances along the way but we have amassed 50 points which is more than enough in most years and it will take a fairly unlikely (not very unlikely I accept) set of results to see us relegated next week. Eustace rightly won’t get a lot of credit, but he’s not been Eusless as the squad he inherited was completely bereft of confidence and ability. Yes you should beat a tired Coventry side down to 10 men, but they have good players and regularly score late and perform against the odds. Losing would have made next week significantly more perilous.

As Matty said earlier, they simply don't give a flying one. That's the top and bottom of it.

No, we should do a season ticket deal like Bolton or Preston. The evidence is outstanding.

It's a balancing act - but was it 3 at the back or 5 ? There are possibly things I would personally have done differently - but though not enough, that point could be priceless come next Saturday. We had enough chances to win the match - having 3,4 or 5 at the back doesn't change the fact that we have limited goal scorers across the team.

A once in a generation player at clubs like Rovers.

Didn’t say we would have got 40/50, course not. But 18, they had our pants down - and why wouldn’t they, we were a distressed seller.

Well I haven't given a single penny to venkys since they turned up and I never will. A total boycott is what should be happening but obviously not everyone is in the same boat. In reality though, they are in the minority.

exactly why weekend tickets should be no more than £20 per ticket and less. Midweek games £10. Fill Ewood Park

Huge amount of plaudits again today. The boy really is special.

“We got an offer that matched our valuation, so we sold him.” That pretty much sums up Waggotts explanation. I can’t tell you how much that pissed me off. Ambition? None whatsoever.

I wasn't the biggest fan of Mowbray but he was leagues ahead of Eustace.

Seriously? Have you seen him play? He's one of the worst 'footballers' I have ever seen in my life. He makes Semir look like Haaland.

If we sell Sammie and continue to shop around the bargain basement then we're doing a Rotherham next season. Will be brutal. Venky's have been fortunate to have somebody step up each time a top goalscorer has left - Graham > Arma > BBD > Szmodics. Nobody from this squad is stepping up next season - I'm sure of that - and based on the dross our recruitment team has signed for the forward position on little-to-no budget I do not foresee a rabbit being pulled out of the hat by Broughton and co. So our only hope would be having some money available to invest in the team. If there's a small amount available and the recruitment team do better than identifying the likes of Leo for £800k type fees then maybe we scrape another season. Or maybe we don't. Ultimately the only way we genuinely progress is for Venky's to sell up, which seems like a distant dream at this point.

Regardless of what happens next weekend, (and on the balance of probabilities we'll most likely just have enough) - this guy clearly ain't good enough to take us forward. Set up not to lose against a knackered team, at home, with owt to play for, when we need the win.

Honestly amazing what Rohl has done at Sheffield Wednesday. They'd only won a single match all season before beating our lot on December 2nd. They've gained 40 points since then. We've managed 22.

Perhaps because Mowbray had superior squads (and underachieved) and he was backed much more significantly in the market. Just look at what Mowbray brought in in his final season when we were around the top and what JDT got last season.

I can’t stand Venkys as much as the next Rovers fan, but if the intention was to deliberately get relegated , (no-one told Szmodics by the way), why get into a position where it is dependent on other results in the final game?

That Bristol City result hovers over us like bad smell…

We think we are going down because we are Rovers fans and in synch with how bad we are. Plymouth and Birmingham fans will be thinking the same thing I think only Sheffield Wednesday fans will be confident. We expect Plymouth and Birmingham to win and whilst they have home advantage they aren’t easy games and haven’t been winning for a reason, they’ll look at us and think it’s not impossible for a point against a team in celebration mode. There’s also the possibility that if Leicester draw tomorrow and Ipswich win their game in hand then they need a point to confirm the title and we need a point to survive. From the outside I’d not expect blood and thunder if that was the scenario, similar to United at Ewood 15 years or so back. The other factor is we can survive by losing, non of us expect Sunderland to beat Wednesday but it’s not inconceivable. The odds are in our favour - so why do I still expect us to be relegated?

I did 18 months and like a smack rat cold turkey I couldn't do .

Plus if he does go the price is pretty irrelevant as it wont be used for the benefit of the club.

Waggott has failed across all platforms this season except player sales. There is no passion left in the Blackburn Board room with no one to fight what's best for the club. Sadly we all love a club where mistakes are accepted and not learned from

We could have played another 45 minutes at the end, and we still wouldn't have scored. Playing 5 at the back, with just Gallagher up front, against 10 men and with us doing all of the pushing. When we had a literal striker on the bench. Pears managed to kick the ball and didn't throw anything into his own net. McFadzean had a good game. Dolan did some good work, but then totally ruined it by adding several unnecessary stepovers, before losing the ball. Moran was about to score at the death before Gallagher got a touch and took it away from him. Eustace has shown nothing to suggest he's competent enough to manage Blackburn Rovers. And despite it looking fairly unlikely next week, I can genuinely see us going down.

Fully agree. JDT was the right man...but the foiled him in the summer...we were one goal from the playoffs...

If we do go down selling him will be the reason why.