The drubbing at Ashton gate is looking more and more costly

A must not lose game to pretty much secure our championship position and Pears does that! Now the situation is perilous again. I just can’t believe how calamitous it was. It shouldn’t impact him as he’s a highly paid professional, but having 7400 fans in the away end behind him clearly doesn’t help matters. Nullifying whatever home advantage we had is utterly preposterous. It shows a complete lack of care and footballing insight. It’s one of a litany of atrocious decisions and errors since the O’Brien shambles and frankly we deserve relegation. I still suspect we will stay up and for a few days that will feel good, but then the runaway mine train that is Blackburn Rovers will continue to speed towards ruination. I feel so sad for my 6 year old son who wants to support his Dad’s team so badly, but he now prefers to just ignore what happens at the club because it’s clearly something that’s very difficult to get behind.

Perversely, I think we will stay up and despite the utter shambles that was last night, I have an inkling we might grind out a couple of surprise draws from the remaining fixtures and that might be enough. I feel Huddersfield, Brum and maybe even Plymouth are equally as useless as us and they need a few points to surpass us. I also don’t have an issue with the Eustace’s post-match interview. I thought it was okay. He accepted we were rubbish and apologised but threw nobody under a bus which seems sensible given the critical situation we find ourselves in.

Why did Sammie play the full 90 mins when he’s clearly exhausted? Once the game has gone at 3-0 surely you bring him off?

Speechless. Choking when it matters most. Same happened last season albeit at the other end of the table. Rotten to the core.

I can’t see us firing him even if we lose every remaining fixture. It would cost some money. We don’t fire managers anymore as the owners aren’t interested enough to bother. Mowbray’s contract expired and JDT was so desperate to leave he made his position completely untenable. A proactive club who cared/paid attention might roll the dice again in an attempt to eke out a few extra points. A couple of wins would probably be enough. Instead we will hope to scrape a few draws and pray that the other clubs do worse.

My thoughts exactly. Sell Kaminski and fail to replace him on the cheap. Sell AW and bring in a crock who lasted 15 mins. Mess up (another) transfer deal on deadline day meaning we have no striker to start a crucial game.

He went for too small a sum and we ‘replaced’ him with a young unproven keeper who has been shown to be vastly inferior. They made a small profit though and brought in someone cheaper. We are eroded as a consequence of their cost cutting.

Kaminski playing for Belgium in midweek and Pears costing us a critical point on the weekend is a perfect example of how the Venkys are destroying us.

I’m clutching at straws here, but facing the top teams at the end of the season is not the worst time to play them. They are all pushing for the automatic spots and pressure can do strange things to good teams. The end of the season always throws up some surprise results. A couple of fluke wins might be enough or failing that we rely on 2 of our competitors crashing badly and us stumbling over the line and a few more draws.

A lot of negativity around (rightly so). Last night was pretty lame, but it was a 6 pointer and losing would have been a lot worse.

Based on the form of teams at the bottom we are set to finish 23rd. To think we were in 6th on the run up to Christmas this is worse than relegation form. Something will have to change quickly to avoid the inevitable.

Where on earth did that come from? Unbelievable performance and such a fantastic effort. Defended heroically and kept a brilliant shape all match and managed to have an attacking threat. When you look at the shambles of the past 2 months and given the tough recent schedule, the performance was exceptional! JE has converted us from a defensive horror show to a defensive masterclass in a few short weeks. Finally something to be proud of!

Given the complete shambles that was December and January, I think Eustace has done really well to make us competitive again. Some wins would be nice, but its certainly refreshing to not go into each game expecting to concede at least 3 goals.

Given the complete circus that is Rovers at the moment, this seems like a remarkably decent appointment. Fingers crossed he helps arrest our rapid decline.