Gary O'Neil is well supported at Ewood Park? Who has he asked? Dick. And yes, managing Doncaster, Oldham and Salford before 'having a good go' against Man City in a game on TV last week automatically qualifies a lower league manager to manage England's 10th most successful football club, do one Nixon you absolute prat

Might be getting carried away as I'm not over the excitement of the game but I thought Cantwell was alright tonight. ACD I'm just not sure about still though.

Sat reflecting in my car, eating a celebratory takeaway in West Bromwich town centre, which incidentally makes Blackburn look like Monaco. What a night that has been. Think I have lost my voice from singing for 90 minutes. For them to produce that performance after everything that has happened since the weekend was phenomenal. The first time I've felt really connected to the players at FT since the draw at B*rnley or Leicester last May. Roll on Saturday, we don't need a manager, clearly 👀

Just arrived at The Hawthorns. It's freezing as usual, p*ssing down... Seen the line-up, wondering what info Hedges must have on the Venks to keep getting in the team Seen this sticker in the bog, ready for anything now... Here we go

For me, he's probably the best candidate out there currently except Steve Cooper who we can't afford. I'll be disappointed whoever we get because I didn't want Eustace to leave and it's going to derail the season even further. But at least if it was Carsley its better than some of the other has-beens, patsies and chancers.

I just cannot see Carsley taking our job. Regardless of how well he did or how long he did it for, his most recent job was "manager of England" and I think that means that his stock is too high to risk at a basket case championship club. He can bide his time. Also, if he came in, his style of play is quite different isn't it? It would take a while I imagine for us to adjust. We don't have time to adjust if we have any sort of ambition this season. Though I cannot see us getting into the playoffs regardless - the team work hard but will lack the quality over 46 games I think. Too many questions and doubts for me over Carsley being appointed can't see it.

It's quite a small betting market, so a few small bets here and there can distort the odds very quickly because bookies try and prevent ITKs from rinsing them. If a few of us on here went and put a few hundred quid each on someone at long odds like Rooney their odds would plummet, even if we know there's no chance they're coming.

Carvalhal, Currently in Portuguese top flight, so why would he bother, how could we afford? Also more clubs than Tiger Woods, he'd be off in no time. Karanka, please god no, it rhymes with Karanka. Shite. O'Neil - I would be so, so underwhelmed. He doesn't have the experience of doing what we want a manager to do in our position.

I personally think he's sh*te and will be gutted if we appoint him. He's a Sky and TalkSport darling which is why he's always so bigged up in the media. Just read that after his permanent appointment at Bournemouth they went 8 games without a win and then just about stayed up - sh*te. Edit - I think he was a bit unlucky at wolves, not financially backed, best players sold and some crap VAR decisions, but I am still highly unconvinced he knows anything about how to get a Championship club promoted. He was technically on the coaching staff when Bournemouth went up, but that was putting bibs and cones out, not managing.

Because at the time he took the job we were hurtling in one specific direction. When he took over, only Rotherham had conceded more goals than we had and they were relegated by about March, I think we were the only team last season who didn't beat them. There was some poor performances incl Bristol away and Sheff Weds at home, but on the whole him coming in made a big difference, it passed the eye test for me as I was at almost all those matches (Bristol City excepted actually)

I don't think many find Eustace completely innocent in all this, but he only gets about 10% of the blame from me and the other 90% goes squarely on the CEO, COO and the Indian Royal Family. He's annoyed me slightly with his behaviour but it pales in comparison to how angry I feel towards the other parties, it barely registers.

🟦⬜🌹 RIP

Not advocating for Harris but the "style of play" thing has annoyed the f*** out of me for 15 years. It's why we got rid of Big Sam and partly how we ended up here, boo boys whinging about style of play. If we got someone in for 15 games who played horrendous turgid football and we won 10 of them 1-0 and got 6th place I couldn't care less how they did it.

Sorry if this sounds rude, not wanting to be personal, but why would the club respond to you or any fan who emails them asking for info about first team players and management? No matter how badly we are run?

I think if we were firefighting relegation near the bottom he would be a shrewd appointment but I don't think he's the one to hand a 15-match playoff free hit to.

I think even if Johnson is nominally 'manager' tomorrow, it will be a collaboration between him and senior players including Travis, Batth, Hyam, etc anyway.

I had no idea about these i'll be on Goodreads tonight 😂 In other news if he doesn't win tonight with Blackpool he'll set a club record for home games without victory, Waggott probably left him 50 voicemails already

And now according to Sky Sports Shane Duffy has put Potts on a stretcher 😳

They haven't, it's probably last days of Rome style Chaos at Ewood tonight. They'll probably announce tomorrow as the team boards the bus that it's Johnson

Rabid mutt Osmajic has just put North End 1-0 up at Norwich, who knows, might STILL be in the Playoffs by 10pm 😂 Long way to go...

That would be amazing! No win in his last SIX home games at Bloomfield Road 👏💩

I think some have pointed out either here or in other threads that Cooper probably got a sizeable payout when booted from Leicester. A Premier League payoff is probably more than we would offer in actual wages, and he would probably have to forego it to take up another post, so I can't see him coming to this snake pit for tuppence to reminisce about the O'Brien debacle. So I think we should rule him out, despite him probably being one of the best candidates out of work currently.

We can probably take many of the odds with a pinch of salt for now, it's a small betting market in the grand scheme of things with not much interest, any unusual major movements in prices are often down to small patterns of betting which the industry knee-jerk reacts to, to prevent ITKs rinsing them like those Tory MP staffers did before the election last year. It's all just very uninspiring, and tiring to be here again 12 months on

I couldn't tell you mate but would be interested to go back in time and have a look. I'd guess that the shite ones we have at very short prices were probably a lot longer elsewhere. Just had a look at Derby local paper from last week, they had Richie Wellens (odd!), Edwards, Stevie G, Cooper, Dyche, Martin as front runners in the article. No mention of Eustace, interestingly!

There is no denying that he did well with Luton and that's on his CV and can't take it away from him. They battled bravely but ultimately weren't good enough last season, now this season, despite having the parachute payments, the wheels completely fell off. Which makes me wonder whether his Luton success was a bit of a Coyle-esque fluke... None of the people on our bookies list were the choice for Stoke, Cov or Derby, 3 medium sized championship clubs who recently changed manager and were in much worse positions than us. I wonder why.