A bit like Dack, it took him a while to find his feet, but once he did it’s been a superb season and a half. He’s in the prime of his career at 28. Without wishing him away, if he’s going to have a crack at the Premier League it probably has to be next season. And if he does good luck to him.

To be fair Leicester did exactly the same as Norwich, and did it infront of their own fans.

Begone horrid season. But fair play to the 11 on the pitch today and the manager.

But everyone told me that we were safe on 49 points, and no way we would go down with 50 points. It was a billion to one or somethings. If we concede here I think we go down.

Not if we don’t concede.

Norwich team looks fairly strong at Birmingham.

Have we gone 6 at the back?

Bolton sold out within the first hour of going on sale. My mate at work missed out. I presume Barnsley didn’t offer the full end

Excellent article. The Foxestalk article which the 1992 section refers to is also a good read featuring quite a bit of Rovers - https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/132670-the-city-went-absolutely-mental/#comment-7052234

Surely it should at least have been a 2 1/2 year contract which could be reviewed at any point in the event of relegation. That would give the manager security providing they aren't an absolute failure.

Yep. "It's 3-1..... Millwall.... This is it. They've done it. They're in the play offs. Secured". 😃 Sunderland owe us a favour.

It's around 19/1.

Hopefully this is the attitude throughout the day by everyone connected to Leicester City.

He did, and infamously put a ball into orbit when it was easier to score.

Partially yes. And he's gone, just as he had to. If we go down I will also want Eustace out of the club.

Yes. As was getting into a position where he was completely demotivated to do the job and allowing a bad relationship with the players to start to fester. The difference being , unlike many, I can criticse JDT whilst also seperately criticising Eustace. It's not either / or.

Not having it. It sounds like you are basically saying this side would go down from where we were in early Feb no matter who the manager is once Wharton left, but Adam Wharton ‘could have possibly’ kept us up. If we go down on Saturday it’s a major managerial failure by the incumbent. That doesn’t detract from its also a monumental failure by those above on several levels - Wharton, Travis, appointing Eustace, Ennis,Semir and Leo, Send buttons, Indian court cases, etc..

But that's a problem which JDT had all season, even in the early part when we were doing quite well and got enough points which ultimately has made us safe. On top of that, he had Dolan injured all of December and January. Gallagher out from mid-September to January. I don't deny that this squad would struggle from day 1 next season. But when he came in he already had a points cushion over the bottom 3 to protect, which has been evaporated.

I agree JDT's tenure was up and that results had deteriorated. Had the manager / team / club relationship been better then relegation wouldn't have been a worry. But a new manager has come in to reset that relationship, and yet results have continued to be poor, with no home wins against a very middling set of opposition at Ewood. Stopping up is what should have been achieved by any competent manager taking over at the start of February from the position we found ourselves in, not portrayed as a great achievement. This isn't a criticism of Eustace, more a criticism of portraying stopping up being some great sense of achievement.

Yep. Survival is being marketed as a success by many.

I agree. I presume they just sent a couple of mates to the ticket office and bought bulk, or did it over the phone). I'm just sure Rovers weren't online at that point. First time I ever encountered away fans trying to buy tickets was Man Utd at home in 1992. Got asked if I'd sell my ticket off two people whilst going down. Wasn't even a big game and finished a drab 0-0.

I’ve criticised the guy for quite a lot, but there was nothing really in the sending off and I’m not going to slag him off for that. Plus at least he was showing a bit of urgency about the situation. I’d be more bothered by him if he was just stood there, hands in pockets, no concerns.

Did ticketmaster even selling football tickets, let alone Rovers tickets, in 2000 when City came to town? I’m not even sure we were selling online back then. That may even have been in Rovers pre-Grooby web days. Certainly for the Worthy cup final in 2002 I had to go down and buy tickets from the ground or over the phone.

I trust Liam Rosenior to make a fight of it more than David Wagner.

Regardless of who is in that position, I'd expect the XG to be higher than 0.5. Just my opinion. I'd think a professional footballer would put that away more than 1 in 2. I mean, I'm looking at that situation and thinking I would put that away more than 50% of the time !! I just think it's all perceptive between what someone thinks a chance should be rated against other chances. A similar chance might happen in a game 2 weeks later and will it still be rated as 0.46 ? Or does someone else rate it differently? And then it's used as a comparison against other players and against other games. It's all very subjective. I've no real issue with XG. It gives an indication of how a game is going or who had the better chances. But when we are comparing that Pears is -0.1 and Leo is -0.16, that's so close it (and most other keepers are around there) I dont think it tells us much .