DE.

He came in and bombed a half-decent side out of the playoffs. Won a few games when the pressure was off - classic Venky Rovers. This season back to how he started, an absolute joke. He's just a small part of a much, much bigger problem though. Our squad has been so utterly wrecked by the people above Ismael that it's tough to see any manager coming in and turning this around. I don't know if I've ever seen such a technically deficient squad. Our 16/17 team would batter this lot.

Eustace saw what was coming, which is why he was so desperate to get the hell out of here, even if it meant going to a side who appeared to be going down. It's not being a snake, it's just possessing a brain.

Hire a failure of a manager. Put an intern in charge of football operations. Sell all Championship experience. Buy a bunch of random cheap punts from abroad. Predictable end result is predictable.

Fuck me. Pasha, Rudy, Ismael, get in the bin you absolute idiots.

After sitting down with Rudy for an hour on his podcast I imagine he wouldn't even answer the phone.

Here comes Big Mak.

Would require those in charge to admit they are wrong. Seems highly unlikely unless there is a direct threat to either of their positions as a result of our nauseous form, which also seems unlikely as there's no indication the owners have any idea or indeed even care about what is going on.

Kargbo has negative zero football intelligence. He seems to think offside is the ideal outcome.

A team that had scored four goals before tonight, with only one of those coming away at Oxford. As far as luck is concerned, De Neve scuffed the assist for our goal, he didn't even mean it. If it had gone the way he intended it'd probably have ended up in Row Z.

Should be down to ten, and that was before the penalty shout. If anything we're lucky it isn't worse.

Sheffield United had scored 4 before tonight. Now they've scored twice. Fucking shambles. The technical level of this squad, bar Cantwell, is diabolical.

Utter shit.

Gudjohnsen's low drilled cross was the highlight of our goal. Excellent, precise ball with pace. Where did the Sheff Utd defence go, though? The majority just seemed to vanish.

Been really shite all season tbf. Amazing to see a side that finished 3rd with 90+ points last season collapse so spectacularly over the period of a few months. There's some great individual talent in their squad, but they don't play like a team. Their players should be bossing this division but at best they're usually competitive. All three relegated clubs have had the same problem, although Leicester the least poor of the bunch. You can see why the three of them made up one of the worst collective bottom three teams in PL history last season.

Amusing to see De Neve's scuff somehow end up as an assist. 1-0.

Brilliant save from Toth. We're wobbling.

Leicester two down at Hull. Cifuentes will be starting to sweat, you'd think. With the talent in that squad they should not be struggling as much as they are.

Reckon we'll have a shot before half time?

I guess we know who's blinking first.

After the reported falsification of the previous official minutes, and the club's seeming refusal to engage with anything other than positive feedback (or trivial issues), any meeting seems utterly pointless. Meeting with these people only legitimises their presence and authority. If their actions were as detailed previously, then Glen and the Action Group's stance is absolutely the correct one. Attending would be a waste of everyone's time.

Early days yet, but a solid enough start for Keef. Looking like this season won't see the three promoted clubs all go down again, anyway.

I wouldn't be so sure if the January window is as reprehensible as the summer one.

Completely different situation here now, compared to when Mowbray was last here. He had a lot of sway over various areas of the club at ground level last time. Now that Pasha and Gestede are at the wheel, steering us off a cliff, he'd have far less autonomy to do what he felt was necessary. I'm not sure any manager can make a success out of this with those two at the helm.

Loser talk. Winners don't make excuses, they just focus on getting whatever needs to be done, done. When JDT and Eustace saw their plans being torn to shreds by the idiots in charge they offered to resign in protest - they were forced to stay. Ismael has just sat there and nodded along as everything around him has been bulldozed.

How I supported Rovers pre-Venky's feels so different to post-Venky's that it's like it happened in another lifetime. Blackburn Rovers as I knew it effectively died the day they took over, and what's been stumbling around since then I can only recognise as a zombie that vaguely resembles what came before but is completely dead inside. Other fans will occasionally hop on here to lecture us on protesting, sticking by the club, and so on, but none of them have the right as no other club has experienced such a prolonged demise with no end in sight. We are the footballing example of death by a thousand cuts.