Probably the same reason these owners are content to let the club rot for 10 years+ and do nothing to improve or change it. I suspect the people making the day-to-day decisions down there are quite content as they are, collecting their wages as a middling Championship club going nowhere every year. PL football changes everything - pressure, media, scrutiny, and probably leads to the owners taking more interest and perhaps bringing outsiders into the equation. Shadow and slippery have a nice little number going for themselves here and bosses who couldn't give two hoots either way.

I suspect Rovers are ensuring that whoever takes over here doesn't get this week to prepare the team thereby wasting tonight and a home game against the bottom club. The less games the new man gets the less likely it is we get near the top 6, which is something they are obviously keen to avoid.

The immovable object. An atom bomb could go off on the Ewood pitch and he'd still be there. I'm just even more relieved I didn't bother taking time off work to travel tonight. The thought of him 'leading' the team with Mowbray in the opposite dugout smirking away is horrific.

O'Neil makes no sense whatsoever. None. Other than he's available. He's no experience of promotion pushes or Championship, a career win of about 30% and there is absolutely no reason other than a hope that he will be a good option for us right now. He's also still probably collecting his Wolves 3 year deal pay-off. Karanka has barely managed for the last 4 years save for very short spells at Granada and in Israel. His last two jobs in England - Forest and Birmingham, were terrible. Carvalhal has a decent CV albeit a ridiculous turnover in clubs. More importantly requires compensation so is a non-starter even if he'd drop a side competing for European football to come and work here. Wicky we know next to nothing about other than WBA talked to him and then it broke down.

Karanka just dismal after heavy spending at Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Forest failures and short spells in Europe. Someone on here wisely deduced he could be an option from Middlesbrough / Gestede links. Carvalhal knows these gangsters from previous negotiations, is under contract at Braga and has been involved in European competition this season.

If reputational risk was at the forefront of their minds, combined with a desire to cut funding, they would hand the club over or sell it to someone else and get out now whilst we are still a Championship club, interest is higher and the damage of another relegation inevitably comes. If they were interested in their reputation keeping the club indefinitely in a zombie like state with unhappy fans isn't going to do their reputation any good.

All part of the plan. Waste another two games, against a top 6 'rival' and bottom of the league at home and then by the time we get around to appointing a new manager he's got little chance of getting us into the top 6. Not our fault because Derby took a few days to sort the Eustace deal out and that's out of our control.

It's not that surprising. With them having their game tonight he was never likely to be ready in time for that so they'll be waiting for that to be out of the way then announce it tomorrow ahead of their game on Friday. Rovers know what is happening and this 'delay' if you consider it that does nothing to stop Rovers agreeing terms with a new manager and having him in Blackburn ready to sign. Just more excuse making when we're sat doing nothing to ensure the season isn't derailed. Conclusion - they're quite happy to see it derailed - Eustace knows this.

So why aren't we sorting those three out? Should be easy in theory. Or maybe the whole plan here is to leave it as late as possible and treat them as shoddily as possible that they do the same as Lenihan and Rothwell, conclude that their future's belong elsewhere, then get something sorted elsewhere and then the club can shrug shoulders and play the victim card that the players had their heads turned. 'We did all we could' etc. Well no because you'd have been sorting these contracts out last year if you were serious about it.

If we were a normal sensible properly run club I've always liked Nigel Clough and think he'd be a good option for us. But we aren't and he's not going to work for liars and spivs at Ewood.

Oh I fully agree, I found the anti-Allardyce stuff ridiculous and have never taken much interest in 'styles' of play. All about the results from here and then the owners and board can smash the team to bits in May if we miss out. But there are plenty who obsess about such things and Harris is a bit like Rowett - boring yet effective at this level.

A safe pair of hands but not long ago Millwall were giving him stick for his style of play. Might upset one or two here.

Warnock has said he's retired every time he's been out of work for the last 10 years, he keeps on coming back because he can't resist it when he gets the phone call. I remember when we had talks with him in 2016 before insanely appointing Coyle instead - there were folk on here saying Warnock only had 1 year left in him before retirement so we should avoid - he carried on for another 8 years after that. I'm pretty sure he'd love it for 15 games and a free shot at another promotion. Nothing to lose. Allardyce has never been able to resist a hefty contract or lure of a bonus - he took the Leeds job in almost impossible conditions because they offered him a mega bonus to keep them up, pretty sure he'd do the same here if the package was right, but I agree I think his best days are behind him and it's a while since he was involved in the chaos of the Championship.

Fully agree. We are looking for the best man to come in NOW and deliver over 16 games or whatever we've got left now. Not the summer. Not a 'style of play' Not 'working with young players' Not 'building for the future' Or any of the other claptrap and soundbites that people often come out with which are totally out of the question at this operation, unwilling or unable to even offer improved deals to its few quality proven players beyond this/next summer. I'm already annoyed that we're going to West Brom without a manager - we should have had someone in immediately. We've tossed off January due to a dismal and negligent approach to transfers and now are risking tossing off two more games this week whilst we pretend to conduct a managerial search. This summer is going to be a disaster, everyone knows it, the club are actively preparing for it by running everyone's contracts down and not signing anyone for the long term. Is it really too much to ask to throw the Eustace compo to Warnock or Allardyce and offer them a couple of million bonus if they somehow get us up? At the very least it would be entertaining even if it ended in failure.

Waggott's response to this departure has been to cobble together a pitiful club 'statement' that ludicrously claims to have invested heavily in January - this the same bloke who brags publicly about hiring a new bus and repairing the lifts in the Blackburn End - just total nonsense that anyone with half a brain can deduce. He's also been busy ensuring that Alan Nixon and no doubt other friendly plants in the media spend their time this week circulating anti-Eustace propaganda. It's working already and he's not even been announced at Derby yet. That's what he's good at - manipulating the narrative to suit his and his paymasters. Give it a week or two, a new managerial appointment of the latest through the revolving door under false expectations/promises and the majority of our fanbase will be over this and looking forward to 'getting behind the lads FFS'. Consequence is that Venkys, Suhail and slippery Steve get away with it, pocket the compo and buy themselves another year until the next bloke finds out what they are really like.

Or.....one season in League Two where he had a very solid budget at Forest Green, better than most of their rivals Yes ignore Watford as not there long enough Luton...inherited a side just outside the top 6 and doing very well already under Nathan Jones, rode the crest of the wave and got them through the play-offs, but since then they've been relegated and are now on track to potentially go back to back down to League One. So really only half a season at Luton that stands out as genuinely impressive.

Edwards looked to me like he was in the middle of some sort of breakdown at Luton earlier this season and let it not be missed that the reason they are stuck in a relegation battle is because of their dismal form under him and he was totally out of ideas. Evatt a similar story at Bolton, although he did a good job in the lower leagues for a few years since the end of last season he has just looked totally lost and has come out with all sorts of odd comments and behaviour. Bolton fans were largely glad to see the back of him. Lowe - never liked him and something clearly not right to leave PNE 1 game into the season. Preston fans breathing a sigh of relief when he went.

What do you think caused all these 'facts' that you have listed? Do you genuinely think he's just decided to drop a side in the top 6 the week after another pathetic transfer window closed to go and have another relegation battle for the fun of it? Or perhaps he has been forced into jumping ship, like JDT was, due to intolerable conditions brought about by the worst owners in English football?

Fully agree, just a totally pointless existence isn't it.

Johnson isn't even third in command, is never seen on matchday and clearly had little role to play in Eustace or JDT's set ups. Once again the old story of ex player and nice bloke so logically should be considered a viable option to run this freak show of an operation. I fully agree that there will be decent names interested in picking up this job for the rest of the season and having a free hit at the play-offs. Unfortunately we've got a pit of vipers at board level who clearly have no interest or remit to take the club forward, a CEO who thinks big investment is signing 5 loans and short term signings and all sorts of other hidden interests in play. Combine those things and you could have Pep Guardiola interested and they'd pick a cheaper easier option. Remember like when they had the option of getting Daniel Farke, but turned their noses up at him because he wanted his own coaching staff and wouldn't work with the immovable group at Brockhall? Or when we had Warnock ready to come in after Lambert then turned him down because Coyle offered to do it for less? These are the factors that matter - who is interested in the job is almost irrelevant - it is how much they cost and how desperate they are that Venkys and Waggott like.

Under contract at Stockport and they would fight to keep him. I imagine that their setup and budget beats ours hands down.

Infuriating and depressing yes, interesting almost certainly not. Just an opportunity for Waggott and Gestede to get their 'agenda' out now Eustace is out of the way. Eventually that becomes fact and like with JDT the outgoing manager becomes the villain of the piece.

There's no plan or future here beyond the next few weeks / couple of months and there hasn't been for the last few years. The owners don't give a feck and their stooges are just limping from one stage to the next. This is a disaster club and unless we get promoted (or even if we do get promoted) things are only going to get a whole lot worse come the summer. Eustace knows this which is why he's seen the writing on the wall and got out now. So the appointment should be until the end of the season to galvanise and maximise the return from this squad before the board take a wrecking ball to it and smash it to bits again and then we have to cobble together a new squad from frees, loans and the youth team. Fancy talk about projects, plans, development isn't needed now. The sham has been exposed - there is not and cannot be any of those things here. People are being hoodwinked if they think or believe that there is some grand strategy here. The end of the season is long term here. So we need to simply focus on who is out there who is a) Available - rules out any currently in work managers b) Affordable - rules out established names or those collecting pay-offs like Cooper c) Willing to come for just 15 games - rules out those looking for a multi-year long term job d) Bonkers enough to take it on and embrace the challenge - rules out those worried about the worst owners and board in football For me it has to be Warnock now. He's shown at other clubs - Rotherham, Huddersfield, Middlesbrough - he's prepared to come in at very short notice and take on a challenge even where the situation looks desperate or there are ownership issues. He's done it extremely well. I think he would absolutely love a free hit at the play-offs and then go back to Torquay in the summer. What we will actually get is firstly a toss off of Wednesday's 6 pointer by leaving the drone pilot and bib and cone man in charge and then eventually a dismal yes man delighted to be back in work just to finish the dismantling of the season in 6 weeks off.

Cooper joined Leicester on a 3 year contract in June and was sacked in November. He will still be collecting severance pay from a Premier League club contract. There is no way he gives that up to join this circus for 15 games even if he was confident in getting promotion. Far too much to lose and too much sense. The best we could do is get Warnock in for one last promotion shot. No risk. Retire again in May whatever the outcome. Affordable. Big bonus if he pulls it off. But that's too sensible and obvious. I saw someone suggest Valerien Ismael earlier with a potential Gestede link - that's the type they'll go for.

It is interesting to observe Nixon now a fully signed up member of the Waggott propaganda machine. Last week he was lavishing praise on the Rovers 'supremo' for pulling off a masterstroke in waiting until 11pm on deadline day to get Dennis at 'only' £20k a week contribution from Rovers, suggesting this was some brilliant piece of negotiating skill and ignoring the 5 fixtures in January that we lost whilst this game was being played. Now in his latest piece he's carefully constructing a pro-Waggott and anti-Eustace narrative: Claiming that Eustace has been keen on other jobs as has been a 'habit' during his career so far - implying that he was always going to look elsewhere regardless of Rovers' approach to things Blackburn are 'strange' behind the scenes - that's one word for it - I'm sure there are plenty far more accurate Eustace likes 'older players' and showed that by 'hardly using some talented ones on loan when he arrived' - I'm not sure what he is getting at here, presumably a reluctance to rely on kids and loanees when fighting relegation last season - but of course this is to be taken as a negative 'In the end he got many he wanted.....but still he complained' - Eustace being unreasonable then 'The January window brought SIX signings and many came in the right age group' - again the number and age of the signings largely irrelevant compared to the quality, timing and short term nature of them all yet the 'SIX' used just like Waggott has in the club statement to convince people Eustace has been well backed. 'So when Derby arrived one insider said 'There is a lot of relief around here' - implying that there is an unhappy camp and his departure will be welcomed at Brockhall. 'Steve Waggott picked Eustace in a hurry last time and was one of his big allies in the end' - so a double dose of Waggott gets the credit for appointing Eustace to begin with and quick to ensure no suggestion he was in any way behind his departure It's so blatant all I ask is what's in it for Nixon in return for his construction and distribution of such propaganda.