I honestly don’t wish it upon him, but I see him being a flop at Villarreal. Spanish football won’t suit him and it’s a big step up is La Liga from the championship. His first 5 games will be crucial. Score a couple and who knows. A fast start may prove to make or break him, but I see a return to the championship in pretty rapid time.

If only it was the past tense when it comes down to the owners. I guess you could say JDT has done well, despite the owners and the people they have appointed, such as Waggott and GB. Keep him if we can and go again next season.

For any manager to achieve 7th with an arm tied behind his back, is a minor miracle. The chaos in January, is typical of the way the club have operated, since these owners rolled into town. Yes, he has made mistakes, the biggest one probably not giving Wharton his head, but the costly mistakes were not down to him. I would be sad to lose him now, as I think we are 3-4 good signings away from having a decent side for next season.

He really wouldn’t mind, so long as the money was right.

Me too. I think the January window and in particular the O’BRIEN fiasco has sickened him. Hope he lets the idiots know how he feels, if he does resign. I’m convinced he will.

It’s a good job we didn’t do that. Questions would have been asked.

It was on that famous muuuuunday the 8th day of May.

I agree. I had mine delivered a few weeks about, from the previous batch, but only just got back to the UK as I was in Spain from early December. Best shirt I have ever had too.

Yes, in certain countries it is. I always prefer the Rovers TV to sky and will be back in Spain for the game, so will tune in there and hope for un Milagro grande.

I have a feeling, we will really fold in this one and lose without a whimper. I will be watching from abroad as usual though, with everything crossed.

Rovers to win and Sunderland to win will be around 7/1 for the double. Stick a few quid on that and it might become a bit more palatable. Personally I think we will get properly tonked by Millwall, so it won’t matter

Coventry V Birmingham too, is an important one. I suspect Coventry will win it and are priced at 1/2 with the bookmakers. If they don't though, then it means the Luton game could become very important to us. One good thing I guess, its that we will know how the others games have all gone, prior to kick off.. The fat lady is not quite singing yet.

That's an interesting statistic and given that both have had spells in the conference, even more so.

Fair pay about the retraction of the comment on armchair supporters. I have lived abroad for the last 9 years, but subscribe to Rovers TV so that I can get most of the games. That revenue goes to the club, so I am doing my bit, but watching from my armchair. Having been following the club for 50 years though and buying may season tickets, including one for each of my kids, for many years, my love for the club is as strong as most. I do still get back for the odd game too, I am in the UK at the minute. On Wharton, he is living every supporters dream, so I guess, it is only natural we want to see him play more. My view, is he could certainly have been used more, even if it was as a sub, bit I do respect that people at the club do have to manage him and be careful about the too much too soon syndrome. He certainly looks to be the real deal and I look forward to seeing him progress, with great interest.

An early morning post, as I woke up and the first thing that entered my thoughts was last nights game. Obviously, I was gutted at the result, but thought we were the better side and at least gave them a game this time. No need for me to state the obvious, but we are and were again last night, a quality finisher away from being up there and even if we had the Brereton of last season, we would have been safely in the top 6 and maybe automatics. That has to be lesson learned, as we cannot let players run their contracts down like this. On the match itself, I watched on Rovers TV so not too sure if the pictures were different to the sky coverage, but the first half spat between JRC and Barnes was covered well. Barnes looked scared to death of him and I hope Joe gave him a right hander after the match. Players like Barnes are, my pet hate and he is the type that would run a mile, if someone really hard got a grip of him. My MOM was Wharton, he simply oozes class and was the best player on the pitch by a country mile. I thought we dominated them, but the huffing and puffing was plain to see and it did feel inevitable that they would nick one against the run of play. I think Pickering being on a yellow was telling and despite it being an excellent strike it was preventable. Szmodics was full of energy and is another solid signing for me. So far as the play offs are concerned, I think our race is run and although a win V a possibly depleted Luton side, would take it to the final game, I do see us falling short, but as frustrating as it is, were 2 last minute goals away from making the top six. Until the fat lady is singing, I won't give up hope, so fingers crossed for 6 points from the final two games and a slice of luck with the other games.

WBA will have a game in hand. Sheffield U tomorrow and they go above us with a win.

Yeah, I miss read it and have acknowledged him. Thanks for letting me know.

Sorry I miss read that.

Wow interesting that one. I guess his parents were looking after his welfare very carefully and maybe being a Rovers family helped. Good on them though. Tonight is the sort of game, where I love a home grown player and fan playing. It is Dunn mark too, in terms of recent times and hope he can break their hearts like Dunny did.

I think we have all been there and fortunately, most people mature with age. At the tender age of 58 I prefer a bit of banter of the like I just got involved in about an hour ago. The person I had the banter with, will be spending quite a bit of the 10 days with me, that I am back in the UK for and win lose or draw, we will be having a few beers together too.

Lose this and it is no longer in our own hands. There is plenty of motivation there alone, so leave nothing out there on the pitch guys, give it everything and make us proud. I am watching from Spain as usual and travel back to the UK for 10 days on Wednesday morning. I hope I can attend the Luton game without it being a dead rubber and at least 1 point assures us of that. COYB.

I agree and I was just saying, it could happen. It’s the last thing I want.

And now they are complaining about it being done to them. We went down on goals scored.

It’s ironic that Huddersfield have complained, as that’s exactly what they did when they played Birmingham on the last day of the season, when we went down.

They will win that one. A bit like us V Luton, Boro will not risk using their best players and having them missing for the play off games. Both fixtures will be similar to Huddersfield V Birmingham, in our relegation season.