Must be nice to have a squad where you can rest players. What a luxury! 

7 hours ago, JHRover said:

Pretty much agree with the lot of it. What a post.

JDT by no means perfect but he had valuable assets. Ambition, drive, personality, a vision. I think back to last season, particularly August to February, and the first half of this season, and this was a guy capable of dragging this club out of the stinking cesspit that it has been dragged and into a potentially bright future.

Alas as we saw with the Allardyce fiasco, as we saw with the Bowyer/Lambert fiasco, these owners and their minions will always find a way to derail and destroy any positive momentum or progress and set the club back years. I should have known better but I admit I believed. I genuinely thought that with the Director of Football approach and JDT leading it and after the season we had, going so close in league and cup, that the ingredients were there to take the next step and crack the play-offs.

More fool me. I can't describe the disappointment I feel about the way in which once again these people have destroyed something that should have been good and positive and that fell into our lap almost by accident after Mowbray finally left.

Yes it was clear that JDT was burned by the O'Brien fiasco, yet he stuck at it and we still went close last season. It was clear he was unimpressed by the summer's shenanigans yet he stuck at it, moved his family over, accepted the constraints and we, somehow managed to get ourselves sat just outside the top 6 in December with this squad.

Then a third transfer window of nonsense, culminating in Adam Wharton being sold, the McGuire disgrace (what sort of club treats other clubs and players in such a disgusting and humiliating fashion?) and no reinvestment was the straw that broke the camel's back. Totally understandable for anyone with any self-respect to draw a line at being undermined by your colleagues.

Of course ownership and a board with any finger on the pulse would have sacked JDT once it became clear that the damage was irreparable and the direction things were going. I agree that he was essentially saying 'f... you' to them and going gung ho wanting to be fired.

Yet they couldn't even manage his departure correctly. It came far too late, even in the week it happened they took days on end to announce it.

They're just a disgrace. There's no coming back from this in my book. It's happened too many times and I won't fall for it again.

This post should also be framed and put in the boardroom. My thoughts exactly.

If only anyone at the club with influence truly cared like the fans do.

The board will be happy life has got easier because standards were being driven, often through the media by Tomasson - a man with intelligence, charm and charisma; traits you could say the club and certainly the CEO lacks.

He wasn't perfect but we hadn't seen expectations like it at Rovers in over a decade and JDT brought them back for a season and a half... but with the people above him and the owners it was never going to last. I called it the moment he joined but it was "Brilliant" off the pitch, while it lasted.

10 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Not sure why people seem to be struggling with this one. Generally, for another plodding mid table season, give Sunderland, Leeds and yes, Sheff Wed, the full end and take their cash, we can’t fill the seats ourselves, so it is what it is.

However, in this very specific instance, how about not giving a relegation rival any kind of advantage at your own bloody ground for a huge six pointer with three games to go.

Take every home advantage possible, don’t pocket a few extra grand but risk losing millions.

Bonkers isn't it. Absolutely no issue when we're comfortably drifting to mid table finishes which has often been the case, fine take the cash (we're usually major underdogs anyway against teams that bring that size of crowd)... however, it was complete stupidity to give a relegation rival that kind of backing in such a massive fixture and it predictably backfired.

It will haunt Pears a bit more too knowing his error was in front of them. Waggott helped the opposition more than us. Was it even a coincidence the mistake happened down that end? It was a pressure fixture, with an intimidating crowd - the Newcastle game was not this. Wednesday took full advantage of the allocation, they were never going to stop buying because they knew the fixture was huge, (bigger for them than us) and they knew they could impact it.

If anyone thinks differently I can only assume you've never played competitive football at any level.

The crowd at Ewood can be a weakness, largely due to the owners (the CEO must have his head up his arse if he isn't receptive of this) and it was criminal to give them that many tickets. The fixture became neutral. It will have felt like a home game to them and what a feeling to get during a season like they're having.

Confidence is key and when you're in the relegation zone it's low. As an opponent you've got to do everything possible to capitalise on that on and off the pitch in this kind of fixture, yes we didn't do enough on it but giving them a fan backing of that size was one way to level the playing field a bit more.

Most clubs would take any advantage they can to help their players at home, - it should mean everything... but not ours.

I can't wait for the season to end, I'm not renewing - the decision making behind the scenes isn't anything I'd ever want to be part of. Absolutely criminal stuff.

Could someone help me understand what the consequences would have been if Pears had clawed the ball away with his hands after the miss kick.

Is it a yellow card and an indirect freekick or would he have walked? 

Suspect our GD will look a lot worse after the final day. It is likely to be worse than Birmingham's.

-6 between Bristol and Wednesday absolutely blew it. 5 or 6 individual errors too.

After yesterday I'm fully expecting 2 more losses and a relegation, which is everything the board, owners and to some extent the players deserve.

39 minutes ago, superniko said:

13 points from 14 games now under Eustace (average 43 points across the season and 2nd bottom).

2 points taken from 4 matches against Millwall, Plymouth, Wednesday and Birmingham (3 at home).

He will have been our manager for 1/3 of a season, and it's highly likely that he'll only amass 13 points and 2 victories in that space of time across 16 games!

 

Shocker of results. Plenty of winnable home fixtures now and we'd be safe if he could have pulled off one "expected" result. Poor manager IMO, suspected it from the off.

55 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Eustace out. Has to be.

For next season, absolutely. Guy just hasn't got it.

Great post. 

When this season is over I won't be buying a season ticket again until Waggott is gone

and good luck to the club trying to sell them to others while this man is here.

The goalkeepers deserve their own thread... Pears and Wahlstedt...

The level and sheer volume of mistakes this season has been an utter disgrace to every paying fan.

7 hours ago, Silas said:

All I can think about is how that performance AGAIN was by a bunch of players that sat in a function room sulkily moaning about how the fans were unfair on them.

The absolute arrogance, delusion, and cheek of that moment hits hard today. 

Fuck the lot of em. 

Any respectable CEO wouldn't have allowed this to happen in the first place. The man is an inept clown.

When did Sam Gallagher last have an attempt on goal? He needs to step up.

31 minutes ago, Hannoverover said:

Yeah I think we're safe now. We would need to lose all 3 games and an almost perfect set of results from those below us now. Still would like to see us finish off the job tomorrow infront of our fans

You might have a shock tomorrow if you think we're safe now! 😆

The reality is the players around Szmodics aren't good enough. We need a new attack in the summer otherwise we won't get the goals next season - if we are still in the Championship. Gallagher has to be moved on either way, enough is enough there. We also need some midfielders that can strike a ball. Travis isn't the answer. Money will need to be spent this time.

Yes, we absolutely should. Focus on making up your numbers with home fans.

Let's not pretend the grounds with the biggest crowds are the easiest places to play. It might not work because Wednesday are shit but 7,000 fans should spur them on and Waggott couldn't care less. It's a bonus we didn't need to give them.

Because Waggott spread his legs and encouraged every Sheffield Wednesday fan to come to Blackburn by extending the allocation until their was no more room in the stand. Consequence is more of them want in for their special day, as always.

3 hours ago, Ossydave said:

I don't get the people bemoaning them getting a 7k allocation. Yes Waggott is a cock regardless but a full Darwen end hasn't done too much harm this season, Newcastle arguably our best home performance? A full Elland Road didn't seem to give them much of an edge at weekend either. Just seems like another reason to moan.

I disagree, sell out away ends are expected against "the big boys" and in theory is should give them an added advantage, most of the time they don't need it... and the fixture isn't crucial. Sheffield need it. It helped Preston and Lowe confirmed that. It can make a team talk very easy when there's 7,000 fans in the away end. A sensible CEO would avoid it in this type of fixture on the off chance it inspired the opponent to a win.

22 minutes ago, islander200 said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/27303565/blackburn-rovers-john-ruddy-transfer-birmingham/#Echobox=1713033602 

Nixon linking us with Ruddy

As GK coach I presume?  😂

I'll never understand what's negative about making realistic predictions based on the ability of two teams. Leicester should have comfortably beaten QPR, Millwall and Plymouth, they are leaps and bounds ahead of us and them. They are shock results and the chances of a Leicester win in each was much more likely, as it will be against us. If I were to put my money on us or Leeds, I'd go with Leeds. That's not negativity it's just an educated football prediction. Same applies to the Leicester fixture.

15 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Plymouth win, huge for them. 

More pressure on us, and our lot don't like pressure.

Our lot just don't like turning up for football games 😂

Where do you go from a 5-0 defeat to Bristol in such a crucial period/ fixture.

Bottle jobs. Relegation and a big shake up of the club is needed. We'll have to go right back to the bones as a club to make any kind of long term progress - and under new owners. 

Plenty of decent people will lose jobs but that is what happens in football under bad ownership.

Waggott is doing a great job of making life more difficult too, selling huge allocations to away teams in 6 pointers. Keep it up Steve! 👍

1 hour ago, Tom said:

Sheffield Wednesday sold out their 7000 tickets for our game, Waggott probably working on plans to shift everyone out of the Jack Walker and open it up to them as well 

It's absolutely crazy and totally counter productive - not a care in the world for results on the field. That man is a cretin. 

49 minutes ago, aletheia said:

And it will become the narrative over the summer if we do go down. All JDTs fault but we can rebuild, new manager, we're all in it together yada yada

A happy clappers dream! 

Agree, it's Rovers and Huddersfield. We've ran out of "kind" games.