Bell another one who will end up getting a new contract by default due to a lack of forward planning and ambition. Not good enough for a side wanting to progress and kick on but no doubt cheap and content to be on the bench and fill in when needed without rocking the boat so right at home here under Mowbray. I fully expect a number of those out of contract/loan in the summer to end up getting new deals. Not because they are good or anything but because the alternative - finding replacements in an admittedly tough market with a badly organised system at the club - will see us struggle to recruit alternatives on a budget. Exciting times. Benno will be another one, Jonno too.

Two of those are going down and Huddersfield are offloading their PL earners who have swallowed up all their parachute cash. We are in a dreadful position. Options on players, if invoked, will likely see players going through the motions for 12 months unhappy at the club and counting down the days to departure.

Apart from when we end up selling Armstrong to a rival club. Also I'm not aware of anyone else set to lose 15 players. So other clubs won't be doing the same. We will have a mountain to climb and a manager that shouldn't be here

Here's a hypothetical scenario. We get through to the last fortnight of the summer transfer window and Adam Armstrong is still a Rovers player. I suspect this is quite likely as any serious bids will likely be late and last minute. These sort of deals always happen late on. By that point even if we get big money for him it is going to be very difficult to replace him. Assume our summer budget is meagre otherwise. We get off to a poor start (as usual) and have a weak looking squad with the chuckle brothers as our only other attacking options. Whatever bids we get for Armstrong aren't at the level hoped or Venkys expected. Lets say £8 million rather than the £18 million they might have hoped for. Knock off Newcastle's cut and we're down to about £4 million profit on him. Poor business whichever way you want to dress it for a lad who has most boxes ticked - good scoring record, pace, age on his side, English Do we get shut at that price to recoup a few million, knowing he could walk on a free the following summer, but in doing so put our Championship status in doubt? Or do we decide that the costs of relegation to League One outweigh what money we might make on Armstrong and that we are going to prioritise survival by keeping him for the last 12 months to give us the best chance of staying in the Championship? Relegation to League One would cost the club more than they will get for Armstrong. I am sure of that.

I expect we will survive this season after results yesterday. I am furious that there is even mention of us and relegation here in mid April with this squad. There simply has to be a coaching overhaul given the performance and results of the squad over the course of the season. We might yet hit 20 games with 1 win and earn a club record, which at this level with this squad is an absolute travesty. I expect Mowbray will eke out a couple of wins from remaining fixtures. Dire Derby present a good opportunity, as will already relegated Rotherham or already safe Birmingham by the time we play them. It would be amateurish in the extreme to allow victories in those sort of fixtures to influence Mowbray's future. Regardless of whether he is here in the summer or not I am expecting a relegation struggle next season. I may be accused of being negative but I look at the number of players out of contract/loan, the lack of forward planning, the form we have had these last 6 months, the lack of goals, ease with which we concede and lose and there needs to be a big change. Mowbray reckons we need to continue his 'style' of play. I disagree. It hasn't delivered the consistency or results we need, so this summer is an ideal time to take a different path, become harder to beat, more pragmatic and solid. Unfortunately even if they sack Mowbray it is likely to be another round of confusion and chaos whilst they wait for the favourite agents to dig up a few options on the cheap, then limited resources whilst the new man tries to build 'trust' with India. By this time the summer window has gone. No manager will be able to succeed in such conditions. Maybe if the squad was already assembled and the 'coach' was picking up and not really dealing with recruitment but I doubt that will be happening.

Games will be moved to either Friday evening, Saturday lunchtime or Saturday teatime. Clubs can decide which. Not too bothered either way but Saturday would be preferable for me.

20 goal a season strikers don't come around very often. Once again we've wasted having his goals this season, rather than building on it to mount a promotion push. Shame that the focus now we've got a 20 goal season striker on our hands isn't to offer him a bumper deal and fight to keep him but rather try to sell him to anyone who offers cash. Says a lot about our priorities as a football club. To be limping our way to survival and still not at the 50 point mark in mid-April is a travesty. What will our solution be? Why sell the leading goalscorer, keep the failing manager and battle relegation next season.

"See what the summer brings" He genuinely hasn't the foggiest has he? No idea if he'll be here, if they'll replace him, what sort of budget (if any) he'll get, which of the players he will be able to keep, if he wants to, and whether that will be done in time to prevent them moving elsewhere. A complete disgrace. My concern is that if he limps through to the summer then the dust will settle, people put the rotten run out of their minds, he sweet talks Venkys and they just give him another year because they like what they hear.

Try and try their best these folk don't they? Rovers and Brockhall ideally placed. Why don't Liverpool move their training ground to Manchester? Footballers can live in Cheshire or Manchester and be at the training ground in 30 minutes. On the M6 and A59 it would be as quick to Brockhall as Blackburn

First question the journos should be asking Waggott in the next interview is what happens to the money Venkys were supposedly putting in on top to deliver this new 'investment project' and whether they will still stump it up now to improve the existing facilities. Love to see his answer and excuses.

For a club that has 'thought small' for well over a decade the idea of having both an academy and training ground in Premier League facilities and setting in a different local authority where top class players would feel right at home is probably something they are uncomfortable with. Cut, cut, cut, local, local, local. Promote from within, recruit from northern English clubs, only attract local companies as sponsors, only make efforts to engage fans from Blackburn or Darwen. It's why Accy Stanley make more effort than we do in Hyndburn. Brockhall is one of the lasting legacies of Jack Walker's time and one of the things, along with 3/4 of Ewood, that make this club an attractive one and a PL club in waiting. This will remain the case as long as we retain them. Uncomfortable for the likes of Waggott. Of course nonentities like Waggott promoted way beyond his station used to dealing with League Two outfits probably feels out of his depth in such surroundings. I fully expect another scheme to rear it's ugly head in the future. Probably some low budget partnership deal with a school or the community trust all dressed up as us doing right by our local community rather than behaving as a Lancashire club for the wider region as we were and still are. I suppose the only safety net we have is that the lower Brockhall site cannot be developed and so has minimal value should we try to sell it. The Brockhall upper site will open a can of worms with locals

An intriguing yet very welcome development. Fascinating theorising as to how or why this has happened. Was this merely a testing the water exercise to see how fans and locals would react? Is this a precursor to the 3 stooges being booted out of the club? Is this just a start and they'll go away, let the dust settle and come back with another scheme. I must admit some concern at the last sentence and wonder what else they might try. Anyhow, never a dull moment, full of intrigue, some good news after a horrible few days and hopefully it will get better soon with the 3 stooges gone.

At least Phil Brown has got the Southend job until the summer. Hopefully keeps him off our radar. Another cheap once promoted to the Prem option we'd no doubt entertain.

I'm just going off their incredible record this season. Top of their league, unbeaten, got out of a group containing Bayer Leverkusen and Nice and knocked out Leicester and Rangers, drawn tonight at Arsenal. I know nothing more than that but pretty impressive stuff and a bit more inspiring than someone who has had a good run in League One or Two.

Slavia Prague manager would be worth a look for an ambitious club.

I think so. I think Venkys will idly see valuable and important players depart, may even encourage it, whilst failing useless managers and coaches keep their jobs. The most heartbreaking part of the whole thing is we will witness the alienation or sacrifice of assets and academy produce, players we should be building around long term, whilst the dregs and wasters who wouldn't get a look in elsewhere hang around. No other Championship club would want Mowbray. Plenty would want Nyambe and Travis. Travis should be future captain. I can't watch it happen and support it anymore. It's so predictable and so avoidable. If anything Mowbray and his chums will get credit for selling them.

Expecting me to believe that the owners watch every one of our games and understand what is happening is almost as ridiculous as expecting me to believe that the training ground scheme is being done for the right reasons Both are lies and BS.

Me too. Its simple. The 3 stooges are at Ewood then I'm not

Its one step short of the Kean era. Manager not up to the job yet knows the owners can't or won't sack him I'm just getting wound up with it now but this is the cycle we get. 3-4 days of silence, let the dust settle then on to the next one. If by some miracle we get a result he'll be dining for another few weeks. 3 Coventry stooges out.

Yes. Ticks a few boxes. Excellent win record at Brentford, Wigan and Fleetwood. Wasn't at Leeds long enough. Knows the area, wouldn't need to settle in and well connected abroad. Could operate under a 'head coach' structure. Would be a wise move for PNE. I'd have an eye on Michael Laudrup also. Not worked for a couple of years but would be a big ambitious move.

Not for me. Done ok in hauling them out of League One twice but cannot keep them in the Championship and expect they will go down once again this season.

Waggott isn't CEO. He might have that title but in practice he does not possess the power nor skill set to deliver as CEO of a football club. A true CEO would have authority to make changes at the club. Waggott doesn't. The most important one of those changes is to the first team management when failing to hit targets or when the fanbase turn. We are well past that point yet Waggott can't act both because he doesn't have the power and because he's the only CEO in the country that got his job because of the manager below him in the hierarchy. It's almost funny it is so ridiculous. It's an insult to the genuine CEOs out there who have actually got jobs on merit via an exhaustive recruitment process rather than Tony ringing him up and asking if he fancied a job. This guy will be the main reason I don't buy a season ticket because I cannot bring myself to hand over £500 a year whilst he takes home £300,000 and does nothing to better the club, makes excuse after excuse, sells off the training ground and protects his failing mate in the dugout. Especially not after what he did last year - refusing the option of refunds, jacking prices up and lying in the local press. Another one who should be nowhere near the top job at a club of this size and stature after spending his days 'consulting' at Southend and Gillingham. He'll go to ground again now whilst the spotlight is on, hope for a few wins late on to ease some pressure and another summer of going through the motions.

I see that England will be playing two friendly fixtures at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium and using their Rockliffe training ground as their base. Like us, they have training facilities fit for international level. Not for long though when Waggott gets his way. Clearly an inside job with the Southgate connection there but it annoys me that we never seem to be in line for Ewood to host international games.

I'm not convinced Mowbray had much say in Lowe and Benson. He got the job because he was willing to work with them after the Coyle exodus, and just kept them on since then. Remember Coyle got the job on the proviso he was working with Kelly and Irvine, but both then got jobs elsewhere conviently opening up vacancies for his mates to come in. Says it all that the only changes to his coaching staff since the day he arrived have been to bring in his ever present deputy/assistant/head of football/director who seems to have his fingers in plenty of pies and more jobs than is possible to fulfil, and to promote Jonno from the reserves. I've no real idea how good or bad Lowe and Benson are at their jobs. I do know they've scant other experience managing or coaching to a high level. Promote from within is the mantra at this club and I think that applies irrespective of abilities or ambitions. Serious managerial appointments result in not just managers but coaching staff too. That needs to happen with the next bloke otherwise it will be the same voices on the training ground. It needs refreshing. It isn't normal to have the same staff in place through managerial change. But then £££ and convenience are the motivation rather than what is best from a football perspective this is what happens.

Not a happy hunting ground for us, though we managed our first win there last season with Armstrong's wonder strike. Cardiff an unpredictable entity. Lost a few recently including a thrashing at Sheff Wed on Monday. Won't be easy against a McCarthy side and expect a rebound of sorts. Past caring what the team or even the result will be now tbh.