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Championship winner: Blackburn Rovers Runner-up: Ipswich Semi-finalists: Sheffield United, Norwich, Leicester, WBA Relegated: Sheffield Wednesday, Hull, Preston Rovers finish: 1st First manager to go: Ismael, Rovers PL winners: Liverpool Wild card: After losing the first four games of the 2025/6 season, Valerian Ismael is sacked. BRFC fans turn on Rovers management like never before. In a surprising development they are bought out by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Pep Guardiola is appointed manager. Mysteriously, ways are found around the fair play rules, and by the end of the January window the first team squad consists of the following: David Raya, Virgil Van Dijk, Alessandro Bastoni, Daniel Munoz, Lewis Hall, Jude Bellingham, Luca Modric, Bruno Fernandes, Julian Alvares, Victor Gyokeres and Kylian Mbappe. Unsurprisingly. Rovers win every single remaining game of the season and are crowned champions, being promoted to the Premiership, where they will win the title for the next 5 years. Nurse, is it time for my medication yet?

We've been here before. Some fans threatening to protest, but never enough to grab the headlines or, more importantly, affect the ownership, management or general running down of the club. Last time I called for protests on here I was told it would put the club's future in jeopardy. Some future! I'm saddened by recent events, and the possibility of reaching the playoffs cruelly taken away by incompetent owners and management who have no real wish to see the club returned to the first tier of English football. They know all too well that it would put the club back in the mainstream media spotlight and show, with glaring clarity, their failings and unsuitability to own and run a professional football club. So I bet they're loving it right now. Eustace gone, poor manager in, squad demoralised, absolutely no chance of being in the playoffs, let alone promoted. Job done boys, roll on next season. I didn't renew my season ticket last year and I certainly won't be doing it this time around. I may go to a few home games if the weather is fair and I have nothing better to do. But that's it. Such a shame.

Excellent result. Great team performance.

Excited for this one. Think we will win 2-1. If Pears plays he's bound to leak a goal but it may be too soon for Eustace to put Toth to the test.

The Sanjeev Narula stadium on Sanjeev Narula Way, surely.

2-1. Yuki and Andy Weimann. Their goal an absolute howling mistake by Pears.

Rovers TV, sort your shit out. Can barely hear your commentators today.

He'll be gone by the start of next season. Probably the only way to keep the lights on at Ewood Park for a few more months, given today's news from India.

Could be a problem - the fixture list was published on 22nd June last year......

I don't know whether to be overjoyed at this latest development or or seriously depressed. On the one hand, it could hasten the end of Venkys' ownership of the club, either by sale or administration, followed by regeneration under new ownership. On the other it could be the beginning of the end - receivership, followed by winding up, expulsion from the EFL, , sale of remaining assets to pay creditors and formal winding up. Or, as I suspect, Venkys will stubbornly hold on for as long as they can, dragging the club down into League 2 via League 1 next season or the one after, until there's very little left for someone else to build on. On balance, I think "f**ked" adequately sums it up. Hope I'm wrong.

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Looking at our remaining games I am firmly of the opinion that we need to win tonight and again on Saturday to stand a realistic chance of avoiding relegation. Here's hoping......

How about next match free when if we lose this one?

Get well soon Tony. Your health is more important than football.

Best we can hope for is that the Indian judges don't agree to Venky's sending any more money then? Which inevitably leads straight to administration when the bills can't be paid.