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.

Are they? Not sure about that. They're obviously not in a great league position but having just got out of League One I'm not sure that's to be unexpected. They're not a club that throws big money around but you don't need to be at this level to do well. I can absolutely guarantee that they have a better structure when it comes to ownership, board, investment. Going there dealing man-to-man with their owner and CEO will be like chalk and cheese compared to working for the evil in India and their stooges in Blackburn. But even if correct and Derby are a shambles, the fact he's running to join them tells us all we need to know about how bad things are at Rovers. Taking the positives from this it will hopefully apply another dose of pressure on them and strip away at the facade of normality they've hid behind thanks to good management by JDT and Eustace. I said last week there's an iceberg straight ahead and these owners won't change course. The only question is how long it takes to hit it and then what condition the wreckage is in by the time the rescue boats arrive.

Here we have Waggott's attempt to direct the blame away from the scum in India and the boardroom and blame Eustace - we can see it now - he's the problem for leaving mid-season, we've made 'significant investments', we're disappointed - shameless, classless, liars, scum. Unfortunately some of the numpties - fortunately not many on here but plenty on Facebook and Twitter - are ready to lap this up and buy Waggott's lies and nonsense. Despicable.

One of the responsibilities and abilities of the administrator is to review past transactions, and if necessary can apply to have them set aside or challenged. Action can also be taken directly and personally against directors of the company where appropriate. I imagine there would be some interesting stuff going on there if ever such a process was to happen.

I've wavered on my season ticket for the last 2-3 years. I refused to attend the Stoke game after the JDT debacle last season, and was intending on it being my last season ticket, but the galvanising effect of Eustace keeping us up and hoping things would change persuaded me to renew on deadline day. I'll probably see the season through because it is paid for but suspect there won't be a renewal in the summer. I can't keep doing this and there's only one thing I can do in response to it.

Just imagine losing a good manager to second bottom Derby for reasons including not offering any of our best players new contracts and clowns like Gestede and Suhail making signings ahead of Eustace. Once again we lose quality out the exit door and are stuck with the dross who will be on the Venky gravy train for years.

'A Venkys representative' Shadowy Suhail has really done a good job of keeping himself shrouded in secrecy. Even now despite running the club for nearly a decade and being named on the club website and sat with Waggott at games he's still got the media avoiding naming and shaming him.

'The board' - Waggott, Gandhi Babu, Sreenivasa Rao, Suhail Sheikh, Robert Coar, Matt Wright Which of this collection of misfits and anonymous Venky henchmen do we think Eustace will be speaking to after training?

Remove from that list Carsley, Hughes, Critchley, Bruce as all are employed elsewhere and we don't go for people who are working in other jobs as it requires compensation. The 6 figure sum coming in from Derby for Eustace will not be used towards getting a new manager, it will be a bonus for Steve and Suhail's figures. I can't imagine Martin, Dyche or Cooper would be options as they will still be collecting pay-offs from their last clubs and won't give that up for a few months at this horrible club.

You are beyond help Chaddy. If you are seriously now going to swallow the guff about family reasons or control over transfers rather than face up to the reality of what is going on here then there is nothing more to say. He is leaving because he cannot stand to stay at this football club a moment longer than he has to. Just like JDT couldn't.

They'll go middle ground - they won't have the balls or the budget to go for a serious winning option that could get us over the line - I'm talking a Warnock, Allardyce, Dyche, Cooper - until the end of the season with a huge promotion bonus - they don't want it and won't pay what is needed even though if promotion was the focus that would be the market to aim for. But they'll be conscious of fan anger and the spotlight coming back onto them and like they did with Eustace last year turn to someone with some pedigree to shut the moaners up for a few weeks whilst the new man gets settled in. This will need to be someone relatively cheap and keen to work in the Championship but with enough of a reputation to not cause trouble - so someone like Rob Edwards, Ryan Lowe, David Wagner.

True. It's all part of the 'divert responsibility for this calamity away from Rovers' that we see so many times. It makes some people feel better I suppose but this starts and ends with the Indians.

It is new. This isn't normal, it isn't 'how it's always been', it isn't acceptable.

I agree that Rooney or Gerrard would be too high profile for this lot, plus even they would get fed up with Venky nonsense and walk out within a year as they can afford to and don't need the cash. Waggott and the Venky dogsbody will want someone low profile who won't attract a media circus to the club which could shine a light on what they are up to behind the scenes. So it will be someone low key. They will also try to get someone who will tolerate their nonsense and not resign or look for a route out of here - so in that case it will be a desperado. I would be expecting names like Mike Beale, Ryan Lowe, Paul Warne and Ian Evatt.

Only a couple of days after congratulating 'Rovers supremo' Waggott for his excellent work in getting Dennis on deadline day at 'only' £20k a week and after defending Venkys during the January window. Wonder how he will explain this one

He might not get an offer in the summer. Then what? Another summer of Venky nonsense and working with his arms tied behind his back? No thanks Or resign and go on the dole until something else comes along - no guarantees. In football you have to act when an opportunity presents itself. Look at us in January - golden opportunity to act, did FA until deadline day and it will cost us the playoffs and our manager. He's got a solid opportunity to get out of here and work at a professional club that he knows from working there previously. That chance might not come along again.

Mowbray used to whinge about being away from his family all the time (90 minutes down the road from his home to Brockhall) and about how he needed to spend more time with them etc. Since then he's accepted jobs at Birmingham and West Brom, an extra 2 hours away from home. If Eustace was getting any sort of backing or enjoyment of being Rovers manager saving an hour or two in the car to Derby wouldn't even be under consideration. If he got offered the Real Madrid job he wouldn't turn it down because he's based in the Midlands either, it's just a convenient excuse.

Spot on here. As I keep on repeating and I think is absolutely critical to how things work is a direct line of communication between the manager and those in Pune. Kean, Bowyer, Mowbray got it and they got backing and it lasted for a few years. Allardyce, Berg, Appleton, Lambert, Coyle, JDT and now Eustace haven't had that opportunity and none have lasted very long. I suppose the key thing now will be whether anyone in India knows or cares about Eustace being approached, and if they are whether this is going to put the dogsbody Suhail under some pressure to change course. Or on the flip side knowing these scumbags they'll react badly to being given an 'ultimatum' by a lowly employee and instead be happy he's leaving and collect the compo.

It sounds to me like Eustace wants assurances - future direction, budgets, contracts, transfers - from the owners. Not an unreasonable request is it? At a normal football club the owners would be on the phone to him now readying a new improved contract and promises of serious backing in the summer to fend off rival interest. Venky Rovers? I doubt the owners will know or care, and the stooges at Ewood will be tasting the compensation payout and a ready made excuse for not hitting the top 6.