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Obviously, but still, if the coalition believes the current owners could be part of the solution then the group is unfortunately misaligned with my view. Venky's have had fifteen years and the only constant is failure (17/18 aside, but we were in League 1). They will always be part of the problem. The call must be for them to go and nothing else, in my opinion. Of course, the coalition can do as they please and if the idea is still to engage with the owners, good luck.

The only goal should be to remove them. I wouldn't care if they did give assurances about the club's future, because I don't trust them.

All relegated sides have hard luck stories. We set ourselves up for failure in the summer by jettisoning almost every player worth a damn and replacing them with cheap punts, or just not replacing them at all. The end result was entirely predictable, as many posts on here during pre-season will prove.

Lose this one and we really are in trouble. Not being able to beat any of the teams you're scrapping for survival with is a surefire way to get relegated.

I don't think Ismael is a particularly good manager, but yeah, for me the issue is and has always been those above the manager. The owners and those they employ to run the club are what is holding us down, not whichever patsy is sitting in the management dugout at any given time.

It's what most of us knew before the season started tbf. As soon as injuries and suspensions hit we would be cooked, because we have nothing useful in reserve.

This league is the polar opposite of whatever a good quality competition is. Look at the amount of teams that struggle to beat Sheffield Wednesday - and I say that as no disrespect to the Owls, but that's a team ripped apart and destroyed by the owner before the season kicked off. Yet the majority of teams in this league are scraping past them. Watford had to score in the 97th minute tonight to avoid losing to them at home. It's embarrassing. A significant portion of players in this division are either stealing a living, or the standard below the PL is truly dire.

I was about to ask if we were going to bring anyone else on. Then I looked at our bench. Depressing.

These lads should be playing for the Blackburn Centurions water polo team. Unbeatable when Ewood is submerged in water, useless otherwise.

He wasn't even playing regularly for the average Portuguese team he'd ended up at. Total waste of money.

I said it in another thread, but Alebiosu would have at least 3 or 4 more direct assists if we had any worthwhile attacking players besides Gudjohnsen playing regularly.

Are we changing formation, or is Ribeiro moving to centre-back and De Neve to LWB?

Look at our team. Alebiosu and maybe Gudjohnsen aside it's utterly abysmal. A random team which looks like you went into the football manager editor, set the current ability to 100 or less and let it arbitrarily pick a player for each position.

The problem with their hard-luck rhetoric is that it assumes there is some kind of microclimate in the area of Ewood Park which the majority of our local rivals at a similar level don't experience. Seeing as we haven't seen matches being called off in the past three decades due to rain, it also assumes the rainfall this year is the worst it has ever been in the last 30 years or so, which I am skeptical of.

Was there any statement from the EFL about our second abandonment for rain in a matter of months, or have they been silent on the matter as well? If they aren't taking any action then I consider them just as complicit as the club at this point. A template statement about replaying the match doesn't address any of the obvious concerns.

Did O'Neill want the the job in a long term capacity? I only remember him saying he'd keep the ship steady until a new manager was identified. He's 74 in March and hasn't managed full time in 6 years - presumably by his own choice. Very early days for Nancy - you can't judge after one game. I do think it would have made sense to hold off on the appointment until after the Hearts match, mind, but it may have sent out the wrong message to do so.

Sounds he's losing the will to be the human shield who absorbs blame whilst the real culprits hide in the background. It's what he signed up for, granted, but I doubt he envisioned being grilled over not being able to play games at home when it rains.

I mean, look, I've got nothing against Bucko... but the highlight of his time here was probably when he bounced the ball off that bloke's head and got sent off for it. Makes about as much sense as Gordon Greer being included in a "Rovers Legends" team.

Buckley?

Hmm, even last season I felt like he was way below the standard required. He can't even shoot properly and he's meant to be a striker. I'd have taken a healthy Leonard over Gueye.

Loan out / sell experienced players and bring in untested youngsters, probably from significantly inferior leagues. I'm sure that'll help us climb the table. Not that Gueye will be any loss, mind. Great personality but a terrible footballer.

Salah fell out with Klopp as well. Think he's just very sensitive to criticism.

Weird how practically every other club in our area has "success against the elements".

The only thing those in charge at Ewood seem to care about these days is the financial bottom line, so if the EFL want to spur us into action then a heavy fine is the way to do it.

In some ways the club are lucky we've been winning both times. Imagine we'd been losing instead? Would we have seen such a shrug of the shoulders reaction from the competition's supposed regulators?