It's difficult to argue with the points you make. I think in general the majority of football fans live in hope that their club will be successful but very few are. Through all the torrid years under this lot I still somehow look forward to match days and the possibility of that winning feeling. And as such I'm looking forward to the game tomorrow and see that as a chance of winning.

How on earth are the fans complicit? Your strange generalisation is so far off the mark and characterises every fan as the same. It's a real cheap shot to apportion some of the blame on the fans. I guess that geographically it's easy for you to boycott and that's your prerogative but passing the blame to supporters who do go is a low blow.

I attend to see Rovers hopefully win as I believe lots do. Winning a game gives a great feeling to many and every game is another opportunity to win.

I think your labelling of fans that actually to go games as 'happy clappers' is crude and way off the mark for the majority. I go to home games with family and friends as do many others. I usually travel to away games with a different group. None of them are happy about the last fourteen years and certainly aren't happy about the state of the club but we all want to see Rovers win. We moan and groan sometimes and praise when we feel it's deserved. We aren't particularly vocal neither so does that make us 'happy clappers'? It's almost like you are blaming the fans who stayed loyal for the predicament we are in. Frankly it's insulting. By the way do you watch the games at all?

That's really harsh. He's 19 and played about ten Premier League games , still growing and learning the game. His languid style might make him look like he isn't working but I'd wager his running stats prove that wrong.

I don't really understand what you are implying.

James Hill and Sonny Tronstad this season both scored from outside the penalty area. I don't think this is a problem that's particular to us though. I see so many games when I'm willing a player to shoot but they want an extra touch or look to pass.

How could it be an obvious goalscoring opportunity? The Ipswich player had his back to goal and wasn't in control of the ball.

Penalty absolutely. Red card though - for what?

It's another example where IFAB have complicated something that is relatively simple. Handball is the same and both of these laws make the officials job much harder and lead to more inconsistency. Add to that it is so confusing for players and spectators. It would have been interesting had we had VAR last night whether it would have been considered a clear and obvious error and recommended an OFR.

I don't think he is directly in the keepers eye line but enough to be interfering with it. If course it's subjective and some are given, some not but there is definitely enough in this to support the referees decision in my view. Another point is that having seen it back he didn't need to be offside. As good as he has been He frustratingly gets caught offside a lot.

That is from an angle which skews Szmodics' position. The actual replays rather than a still show him a lot closer to the keeper and in his eye line. I too have seen goals allowed for similar but felt they should have been disallowed too. Cardiff had a goal disallowed at Ewood this season for something very similar and as I recall it was pretty much unanimously supported on here.

I was told similar. In fact I have a recollection of Mowbray saying so too. I suppose the bigger issue for me is who told them not to sell. I'd be amazed if they even knew who Rothwell was. My guess is Pasha.

It was totally the correct decision. I'm making an educated guess that the linesman informed the referee that Szmodics was offside but from his side on view couldn't tell if he was in the keepers eye line. It was up to the referee then to judge whether this was the case. It was one of the few decisions Atwell got right because in my view he was poor for both teams.

I have never wanted to keep unhappy players particularly when they are nearing the end of their contracts. For all his failings Mowbray was right about Rothwell and Brereton who added very little to the club in their last six months. For the idiots to turn down good money for the was stupidity of the highest order. In a similar vein I wasn't disappointed to see Travis to after his displeasure at not playing was made public. The real idiocy about this was letting him go out on loan rather than selling him.

The 'I'd have expected better from you' does you no favours. The owners employed these people and the common theme is incompetence which I think you agree on. So then surely any chancer would look at this job and fancy it. No pressure from the owners to lead a successful club but happy to tread water and even regress. Do you agree that under proper owners these people wouldn't have got anywhere near this club? If you do then you can say they are the real problem. If not then you are in denial. And that isn't even mentioning the absolute carnage created by Anderson on their watch.

Well I suppose somebody has to start the thread 😄. Another huge game in our relegation scrap against a Sunderland team whose season is pretty much over. I looked at their team yesterday and noticed that Jack Clarke is doubtful and Patrick Roberts is coming back from a hamstring injury. In the recent past those two have been a real thorn in our side and if they don't play it gives us a better chance of getting a result. I guess the big question is how Eustace approaches this game. My gut feeling is that it will essentially be the same side and shape as Good Friday with perhaps Gallagher coming in. I'm reasonably confident that we can keep a clean sheet as Sunderland have struggled to score this season. It's scoring that worries me as we are far too reliant on Szmodics and we have only scored seven goals in the nine games since Eustace came in (I'm not giving him the Stoke game). Despite that I just have a feeling we can nick this. We have played well in the last two league matches which gives me hope. For anybody who is driving up the A59 is closed over Blubberhouses and diversions are in place. However these diversions added half an hour to our journey time to Middlesbrough so please factor this in along with the usual Easter Monday traffic.

They have been the owners for fourteen years. What about Singh, Shaw, Agnew, Hunt, Senior and Silk? They were up there in the incompetence stakes with Waggott. Whilst Waggott is useless he is just the latest in a list of useless appointments by exactly who? It's all on them and if you can't see if admit that then posters will draw their own conclusions.

Absolutely Den. My point was about silver tongue Broughton insulting our intelligence with his 'met our valuation' crap. He was always going to go at some point but the owners nefarious business dealings meant we sold him at the first opportunity. And it could be argued that selling our most creative player was a huge nail in the relegation coffin.

We'll never know for sure but I'm convinced we would have beaten Millwall and Plymouth if Eustace hadn't played a back five. Today, the Middlesbrough game and the second half at Swansea was the best we have played under Eustace. The common denominator was a back four.

I have been told that Ian Silvester will be 'retiring' at the end of the season.

That was another aspect of the Broughton interview that annoyed me. He said that Palace met their valuation of Adam. However that didn't mean we had to sell him but they got him on the first train to London the following day. There was no clause about clubs meeting a certain fee, it was Rovers and Rovers alone who decided to sell him. And right now that looks like a decision that will pretty much cancel out the fee given what the cost of relegation will be.

Whilst I was hugely disappointed to lose I actually thought we were good tonight and on another day would have had three points. But the stark reality is that we did lose and that is the most important thing. Our situation is becoming precarious and this drawing and losing sequence will see us relegated. In truth Ipswich got lucky tonight in my view. In the second half of was pretty much one-way stuff although we didn't create as much as we would have liked. I haven't seen the goal back but Pears looked horribly at fault. We were chatting and reckoned poor goalkeeping has cost us at least twelve points this season. Relying on just one man to score isn't too good either. We simply have to start winning games but really were are these going to come from. As good and important as Szmodicsas been this season I wish he would do more to try and stay onside. My real ire tonight is aimed at the referee who gave by far the worst performance I have seen in a Rovers game for some time. He really tried to give the impression that the game was beneath him as he strutted about with an aura of arrogance. . I saw the disallowed goal back pretty much straight away and to penalise Scott Wharton for a foul on the keeper is shockingly bad. What made it worse was that he waited until we put the ball in the net before blowing. The decision lacked conviction and summed him up. Luongo and Morsy got away with persistent infringement as they broke play up and committed general shithousery to stem the flow of the game whenever we were gaining momentum.

The body language of the Leicester players after going behind was shocking. Out of the current top three they might be the ones to miss out on automatic promotion.

If you are driving there is a road closure on the A59 on the way to Blubberhouses with a diversion in place. We got caught going to Middlesbrough a fortnight ago and the diversion added half an hour to the journey time. The roads will be busy enough anyway with it being Easter Monday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c724evry766o