Cos Eustace himself said in an interview he saw that win as being his. Which you would say when you hadn’t won a game. Ive no issue with Eustace provided he keeps us up, but it’s embarrassing the amount of people trying to credit him the Stoke game as some kind of justification of his reign. Incidentally, at the start of January JDT was without 7 of the players that started at Sunderland and yesterday.

Yeah right. You were always insistent we wouldn’t go down. After the QPR defeat you said “we will not be in league one next year” and said it was “nonsense” to think we will. You then said you were “gutted and angry” JDT was leaving. Strange view for someone you thought was taking us down.

You’re recollection is way off. It was Brittain that got sent off, and we got battered all game. The late goals just gave the scoreline a true reflection of the game. If I recall, I said it was the worst first half we had put in since Burnley away last season.

However never underestimate how shite Chelsea are at the moment !

In 20 years time when people are looking at old Rovers managers stats and comparing them, there’ll still be some people popping up trying to give JE the Stoke win despite the record books. 😀 I don’t get why we are trying to ‘compare’ Eustace first 10 games against JDT’s worst run of 10 games. Practically everyone agrees JDT had to go so saying Eustace has done slightly better than JDT’s worst spell is pointless. As the only aim this season is stopping up, that is the metric I am judging him by. Providing we stay up, how good John Eustace will be for Blackburn Rovers will be judged next season.

I liked JDT and am annoyed that he wasn't supported by the club. Had he been, and kept the club moving forward, then the likes of Britain and Scott Wharton would have either toed the line or been upgraded upon. However he wasn't supported, his stubbornness grew and the players clearly became unhappy. The manager wanted out. Several players wanted him out and this was showing on the pitch, especially in his final game against QPR. He clearly had to leave after his feelings had been 'outed' to the press following a disastrous transfer window. Eustace has come and and has 1 job - keep us up. JDT had shown what you could do with this squad of players when they were performing well and hadn't downed tools. Therefore with players coming back from injury I expected it should have been fairly easy with the fixtures to stay up. I know we needed to tighten up at the back, but the football we were playing went so sharply backwards with little goal threat it was alarming. Add in 0 wins and its no surprise fans were restless. The last few games had shown improvement and then once we went in front at Sunderland we were excellent. My issue with Eustace has always been he should keep this squad up. Yet people were talking like if we go down it wasn't his fault. Like he needs to be a magician to turn this squad back to even half of the form we showed up until Christmas. That's where I disagree. Relegation would be a huge failure by him. If he keeps us up by 1 point or by 10 points, that is irrelevant. He will then have the summer to work with the players, see what transfer activity happens (yes I know) and next August I will set a criteria which personally I will judge his success or failure by next season. I'm not too interested in how media friendly he is. I'm not even that fussed on style of football as long as it wins games. The only things he needs to be careful of is coming out with any "Owners are wonderful" , "It's not 1995 anymore" comments. His comments the other day about negativity shows he is missing the mark. Waggot would have been better having Eustace sit down with a few of the fan groups (with the CCTV off this time) so he can judge the issues the fans have rather sending in some token players a few weeks ago.

I've probably dropped about £20-worth of pie on the floor this season trying to do it without putting one down. 😃

Ta. edit - just noticed it's actually mentioned on the WATR minutes that have just gone up. I also want some shelves in the JW Upper like they have in the Blackburn End so you can actually put your pint down somewhere other than on the floor when you eat your pie. But I'll wait till there's less pressing matters on that one. 🤣

FF minutes:- SW stated that the day had been a real success, at least until the last few minutes of the game. The reduced prices meant that the club made a little less than it would have done with normal pricing but that was more than offset by the opportunity to get so many more faces into the ground, including many who had not been for some years. Another day was being planned later in the season or the start of next season, possibly to coincide with the other commercial activities. Can this be expanded on @Herbie6590 as I thought the Watford game, especially the fanzone before hand, went really well. Alternatively is it on the agenda for the next Fans Forum meeting @K-Hod ?

Comedy gold at Ewood nowadays with their announcements.

With a +16 swing in goal difference than we currently have 🤯

Why has that Hull defender done that 🙈🙈 I’d be fuming if i was a hull fan. Or Leicester and Ipswich.

They’ve got promoted, spent just £4.6 million and are proving that you can actually outperform the parachute payment clubs if you do it right.

Hope they win it. Shows it can be done.

I’ve give a rating of 9 to four players today - Sammi, Dolan, JRC and Hyam. That’s rare for me!

If we draw with Sheff Weds, they will need to get 7 points from 4 games to catch us. I think 4 points probably does it, 5 to be safe.

He won MOTM on here so plenty must have disagreed with you

Well done. Excellent performance. Defensively solid but plenty of men getting forward to support the attack. Add a bit of quality and that will do for me most weeks,

I still feel worried even though Sunderland have hardly done anything that half. This second half is huge.

Excellent first half after the first 10 minutes. Szmodics, Hyam and Dolan all very good and JRC immense,

In which case JDT was an absolute genius for having Gallagher and Hedges regularly in a side at the top of the league last season. That side is a lower mid-table championship side lacking a bit of firepower. It’s not a 0 wins in 16 games side.

I don’t look at that team and think it is a team that , if applying themselves correctly, should be going 16 games without at a couple of wins. If this was in November I’d be genuinely hoping for a win with that line up. Even the bench is looking stronger than the last few months albeit without a striker.

I’ve just posted on the Sunderland thread but I backed us to go down at 15/4 yesterday on betfairs exchange. As fans you generally know far more about the situation at Rovers than all other sporting event. You know the injuries, the form, everything. You should always be betting with your head rather than your heart. Does anybody realistically think we have only a 21% chance of going down. It’s far higher than that. It doesn’t mean I want it to happen, nor that I won’t still cheer rovers on as loud as ever whenever I watch them. Just I think it’s overpriced. I really don’t get why people have issues with it.

They’re done. We’ve just forgot to click send.

Hadn’t seen that. Another one that’s spineless then.