Ah, I'm a poet, albeit I didn't know it ! ahem... Hornets are more hairnets this season, suffering from holes all over and a distinct lack of ability to contain what they are asked to cover. Having said that, the old adage 'any team in this division is capable of beating any team in this division' comes to mind, and our new found razzle and resolve may well be sorely tested here. I have a sneaky feeling that Elton will pop along for this one, having failed to show the last time he was booked to come, and as a result, the horrible hornets will wreak havoc with the recalcitrant rovers, who somehow may fail to show up 'when it matters'. Valerien Ismael is already casting smug glances towards the previously hostile Blackburn end, and as for Suhail Pasha, my guess is that he will be thinking he won't be needing his dark glasses, earplugs or crash helmet for this one, as his soldiers have done enough to assuage any (ma)lingering doubts held by the keenest and most loyal to management fans the world has ever seen.. Feck it. I'm going to go with my gut, which says that: Rovers regress 0 Watford waltz without waking Wally 2 Possibly Toth has a worldie and it turns out Wovers Nil Rotford Null points Or more unlikely, Rovers last of the season Huzzah 4 Watford wail back to the world's dullest town centre 0 My money is sadly on a reverse, so as to make the short trek to Bramall Lane a lesson in abject futility for the long suffering, loyal, vocal and largely insatiable for Rovers hordes (gawd bless each and every one of them). Our away support this season has been nothing short of Magnificent! Fair play to everyone who has lent their time to following our frustratingly unpredictable team through a season of ups, downs and a fair bit of whoopsadaisy. COYB! VENKY'S AND ASSOCIATED TRASH - OUT!! GET OUT YOU SCUNNERS!

You seem to have conflated hatred with distrust and dislike. Not like you to lack discrimination, Chris!

Some folk are just easily offended - usually those folk who believe they have the right to be not offended... (they don't) or who are so lacking in awareness that they just think the person in charge is right all the time (they aren't). At least you (and me) are getting a reaction - unlike the last 'protest' (a wet Saturday morning prior to Birmingham City at Ewood) when only me and a Birmingham fan turned up to protest! For the record, I believed then that what has been done to our club is not right, and I believe that is still the case today, with what is BEING DONE to our club. VENKYS OUT! TAKE YOUR TRASH WITH YOU..

People's memory of what he did whilst at Rovers is remarkably shallow. The number of games he made completely inept non-decisions, deployed players in unnatural positions, sat taciturn on the sidelines whilst things fell apart on the pitch in front of him, his insistence at staying on way beyond his sell-by at the club (to feather his nest) and much of his passive-aggressive drivel towards the fan-base all contributed to my personal disdain for the bloke. Granted he has had a health scare since leaving us, but to be fair, he is amongst a small minority in this country who can afford to get the best treatment and care for that. The gurning chump label is something I stuck on him towards the end of his tenure, when that was literally his modus operandi - standing on the touchline pulling faces and doing nothing of any value, whilst the team floundered rudderless in front of him. It was and continues to be a personal view and it is one I have shared with other 'well thought of' managers face to face (Mick McCarthy being perhaps the most well known). I don't wish him ill. I don't hate him, but for me, Tony Mowbray will always be another of a long line of yes-men ineffective coaches / managers inflicted upon our once great club, by a vindictive and pernicious ownership hell bent on doing anything except actually keeping their word - remember, "We will absolutely respect the legacy of Jack Walker..." bollocks! VENKYS OUT!! AND TAKE YOUR TRASH WITH YOU, PUNE GOONS.

He's been potted by WBA just now. Gurning chump gets comeuppance for being a gurning chump.

The gurning chump has been potted by WBA.

That was a hard watch, but Sunderland were so lazy and lacking in ideas, it was the least we could do to relieve them of the points. Sad that with the other results all going our way we would have been in a great position had we just maintained even average form following the Frenchman's arrival. At least the season stutters on.. VENKYS OUT!

Arbitro, you are of course correct - lots of people (including me) want Rovers to win, and what I meant to say was that regardless of the result, the reality is that the result has no bearing on anything, other than a win is a better feeling than a defeat. I think a relaxed bunch of Mackems will find us easy to push over, because none of the underlying problems have been fixed, and our absentee owners are showing all the signs of not giving a toss other than making the odious Waggot more comfortable in his surely fast approaching retirement. Fair play to all those hardy souls making the long ish trek to the Stadium of Darkness in search of short term solace for the long term ills. For me, it is simply a case, as ever of... VENKYS OUT!

We are due another reverse, and we always flop when expectation has swung towards the positive. Mackems 2 Rovers 0 But nobody really gives a toss.

Showing my age I guess. They roughed us up at their place, with the support of a gash referee. We should return the favour. But of course we won't !

No one cares.

Can't get there that way without going through the nightmare three way lights at the Fieldens. Even with light traffic, things back up all the way to the top of Moulden Brow 😞 I'd say a good few folk might miss the start of today's game if caught out by this. Probably best for their enjoyment of the game, mind.. Rover versus Harry the Dog. Only one winner here, I'm afraid. And it isn't the Rovers fans.. Rovers Muzzled 1, New Den Dogs biting, 3 Headless Chickens 0 Harry's mad Dogs 2 Waggots Odious Pension Fund 0 Norf East Lahndan rat scabies 4 But of course, no one with an ounce of nous actually gives a fook anymore. VENKYS OUT, YE SCUNNERS 😞

Well done sirs. An object lesson in dealing with a burst pipe. WHAT A PITY YOU LET IT HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE..... End of season, slight upswing in form way too late to do anything but rub salt in the open and suppurating wounds. VENKYS WAGGOTT PASHA GESTEDE WANKERS OUT.

As I feared, before the game. Just nothing in the tank from the players or the manager to get anything out of this one, and Cardiff simply wanted to win more than we did. It seems like that is all our opponents need to do these days, just rock up and show one ounce of desire, and we capitulate like powder puff, streaks of piss. As they say on that silly TV programme, for that reason, "I'm out"

Cosier-Duberry an absolute liability. Why do we even bother?

Ok, so match prediction thoughts... Cardiff are a meh, neither here nor there outfit, with a few 'flair' players but mostly anonymous journeymen (who are we to talk eh?) with an anxious eye on the trapdoor directly below them, and therefore more likely to be up for a scrap. Rovers have simply lost the plot, and the arrival of Valerien Ismael and his sidekick Dean Whitehead appears to have done nothing to install greater resolve in our previously resolute bunch...perhaps it has served only to put heads down and cause confusion in the ranks. So, this afternoon's fare has more riding on it for the Bluebirds than it does for the Blue & Whites, I think that much is for sure. If Rovers can assert their home advantage, and remember what made them tick before, perhaps we will see a win. More likely, given the three turgid performances since VI came to town, that we huff and puff individually, play like a team of Frankenstein's monsters (all stitches and badly fitting parts, with no particular sense of purpose) until Cardiff inevitably breach our fragile rearguard. Then heads go down, the aerial bombardment redoubles with no discernible effect, and we huff and puff ineffectually till 4.45 and out.. Or, somehow the players galvanise themselves into the performance of the season, and we run out comfortable winners over a demoralized and introspective gaggle of Bluebirds. My money, based on recent form, is sadly much more on the first scenario.. Bluebirds singing all the way home: Rovers 0 Cardiff 2 Blue & White trumps Blue balls: Rovers 2 (Ohashi, Cantwell off his bum) Cardiff 1 (late penalty) baying foul back to South Wails.. Blues all round bore fest: Rovers 0 Cardiff 0 Allez les Bleu et Blanc!

Dennis is the definition of a passenger.

No. We just aren't. This season has finished. Ended. Kaput. Gone. It's over.. I won't be here when you come home. I'm sorry if you don't understand (Chaddy), forgive me if you can.. But I can see another road (not the one to Wembley), and I ain't coming back (Gav) Don't look for me around this town, cos I will be so far away you'll never find me anywhere (Norbert Rassraggr Lee Grooby, USARover, Exiled in Toronto) And I won't take no souvenirs, no perfumed picture promises, Because IT'S OVER, and I ain't coming back (Jim Mk2) You gave me everything (Rovers), and now I'm breaking your heart (VI) You know that I don't mean, to tear your world apart (Old Codger, Adam Wharton) I would never leave, if I thought you couldn't stand the pain (Waggott 😞 ) A letter in the hall is written on the wall, a letter with no words of love at all (VI, JE, Waggott, Rudy) Because, IT'S OVER, and I ain't coming back.. (thousands of Rovers fans) And as I close the door, I know I'm breaking your heart (SimonGarnerisGod) I should have loved you more? (Tyrone Shoelaces, Neil in Bristol, Shearer, Instead, I've torn your world apart (Buckley, Cantwell, Roversfan99, Gumboots, Wild Irish Rover) And as I walk into the lonely afternoon, I feel sad enough (everyone) I feel mad enough (not enough of us) And all the times when you are lonely where you are (Rovers) please don't hate me then - I just could not pretend 😞 😞 😞 Feel the tears. Feel the tears. RUNNING DOWN THE YEARS...

Why would you try to change the way they play, when that alone is the reason for their (then) lofty league position. Something doesn't add up.

Dead rubber. Nothing to play for. Training game. Nothing riding on it. No-stakes game. Dynamic de-quilibrium. No point getting in the slightest bit excited, up-tight, nervous, worried or the tiniest bit concerned about this one, because the reality has now set in, and the game is a meaningless worthless exercise in futility. End. Of.

Dennis has to be one of the most baffling signings in recent history. He shows absolutely no interest, no skill, no flair, no ability. Can't tackle, doesn't track back, hasn't a clue where the goal is, doesn't seem to understand the concept of passing to team mates and more than anything else, just looks like he thinks he is somehow way better than everyone else around him (a bit like a certain Cantwell person). And those, ladies and gentlemen, are his better points! 😞 Get rid, I say

Yup. Break time, as we suspected. Whatever hope we had that VI might galvanise these players into remembering what it means to play as a team together, seems to have been lost somewhere in translation, either at Brockhall, or in the dressing room. Last night was as plodding and incoherent a game plan as I've witnessed in many a year - just no discernable plan to break a way through what was a largely dreadful set of opponents huffing and puffing their own miserable way to victory at any cost. What a crock. What a waste. Here's a blast from the past, to take your mind off things, as we abandon hope of any crescendo at the end of this miserable season.

Has anyone else seen that stupid click bait thing claiming Man Utd are eyeing up a move for Ainsley P, in preference to Onana.. I mean AI is responsible for some shite on the tinterweb, but really?? 🙂 We have some good memories from this season, banked and there to be recalled in the dark days ahead. There is a lot to let go of this season too. It is only Wednesday, but am mighty tempted to watch this one through strong beer goggles 🙂

We will be 3 down before any of our subs come on. The game will be over, and so will our season. So predictable. Come. On. You. Blues.. 😞

Depressing as it is, the season pretty much ends for Rovers this week. Yeah we will scrape the odd result here and there, but there isn't going to be any last hurrah from the rabble of unsecured journeymen that Messrs Waggott and Suhail Pasha have overseen the recruitment of.. It does beg the question though... WHAT NEXT? Of course, ALLEZ LES BLEU!, but what if there is no longer a team to get behind? What then?