I suppose we'll see if it works in the end, without doubt conceding 24 goals every 10 games is definitely relegation form. It had to be halted, we were going down.

I'm just looking at the goals against, last 10 league games we've let 10 in. Previous 10 under Tomasson we let 24 in. We were going down,hopefully the damage isn't irreparable.

First and foremost,Eustace had to stop the goals against and make Rovers harder to beat. 3 defeats in 11 since Tomasson left suggests it's working, those 3 defeats by a single goal. It's easy to forget that we were getting spanked for weeks on end, teams are now having to actually work to beat us. Yes, he badly needs a win, but at least we're not beaten before we even go out, which is what was happening. What is it every manager is tasked with when they walk into a team shipping loads of goals? Tighten up at the back and make us hard to beat.

No, he will certainly have had enough time to turn it around, although I still think it would be a good effort if he saves us. Damage has inevitably been done but it isn't beyond repair. I still think it was always going to be a slow turn around, given the defensive issues. Since the goals dried up, that had to be the priority.

Honestly mate, if he was still here I'd still be backing him, but "losing the will" wasn't part of the project. However it got here, the club is in a mess under his part stewardship. I'm way past pinning colours to the mast of any manager or player, those days are well gone, he's got his feet under another table and doesn't give Rovers a second thought. We played some great stuff under him, but he left us in a relegation battle, that's all I'm interested in right now, it's all about if Eustace can keep us up.

I'm not blaming him alone, but nobody can exonerate him from blame when he oversaw such a bad run after being in such a good position. When the team has been in such a bad run of form, I wouldn't expect anyone to just be able to flick a switch and it all be OK. It was always going to be about grinding results out, and in my opinion, if he can grind out enough to keep us up he'll have done a good job. At least we look tighter defensively under Eustace, which is the main thing with only one bloke scoring. I suppose the difficulty of Eustace's job depends on how big a mess he inherited, to me we were definitely going down under Tomasson.

Two better performances against Boro and Ipswich have only brought 1 point. It's important we keep up that level of performance, if we do the results will improve. Fancy us for a hard fought 0 1 win.

Eh??? You wrongly accused him of not wanting to sell them , now you're accusing him of lacking ambition because he wanted to sell them. Let it go, whichever way you look at it we've fallen off a cliff this last 6 months. Blame Venkys, Broughton Tomasson or all 3,but It really has nothing to do with Mowbray.

He didn't take over a complete mess, we'd just finished 8th and we subsequently finished 7th.We were near the top for much of the first half of this season, then and only then did the wheels come off.

I'm not blaming him as such, but the outcome is the outcome, he left us in a mess and it's Eustace's job to try to keep us up. He'll do well if he does.

We can, and it's a message board we can.....

That isn't true, Mowbray wanted to take the £3 million for Rothwell and reinvest,the owners turned it down. Rovers were offered £10 million for Brereton, a £4 million profit, the owners turned it down. You can't rewrite history.

If you think there's a relevance then that's up to you, to me it has no relevance whatsoever to what is happening today. Back in the present,it depends how bad a job someone thinks Tomasson did IN THE END. I think Eustace took over a complete mess from Tomasson and if he keeps us up he'll have done well. It matters not how good the football was last year, he didn't give a damn in the end.

Well, some were blaming Mowbray last night, so I suppose it isn't much of a stretch to throw Appleton's record in, no matter how completely irrelevant it is.

I agree to a degree, but that wasn't the point.

Mowbray left a squad which finished 8th then 7th,a platform on which to build. it's the subsequent disastrous transfer dealings, or lack of, which has done the damage,you only have to look at the quality of loan players under Broughton and Tomasson. There's double the number of "recruitment" staff, yet they're not a patch on the previous lot

We'd better hope so, let's hope Eustace can do what Tomasson couldn't.

We were in freefall under Tomasson and going down. Some of the football under him, especially earlier this season, was as good as we've seen for a good while, but he obviously lacked the nous to turn around the form when a different approach was required. We were/are in a tailspin, hopefully Eustace can pull that nose up before we crash land into League 1.

A Gallagher contract extension would be the most sensible thing Broughton has done up to now.

I agree with the principle, trouble is it's complaining about fans being overcharged, then subsequently overcharging other fans. It isn't the Bristol fans' fault. I know that there isn't much of option, but it is a bit hypocritical. More needs to be done on reciprocal pricing.

The common sense thing to do would be to extend Gallagher's contract,get another 2 year's use out of him,he's already paid for. Fact of the matter is, if he was at another club, Rovers couldn't afford him. Any similarly experienced forward would want similar wages.

Does that mean Stoke were charging £344 for the last 17 seasons?

I have it on good authority that the Gallagher /Hyam rumour is completely false.

To be fair though, he took over a team which was in certain relegation form,which has to be a factor.

I've been thinking of it as pre and post Tomasson, no argument there.