This came on my car jukebox earlier, very apt given the goings on at Ewood - Squeeze - “ Another Nail In My Heart “.

Sam Cooke - Good Times

It reminds me of one engineering place I worked at. The inspection and marking out guys thought they should have a pay rise given the nature of the work they were doing. So they elect a senior guy as the spokesman and he goes upstairs to negotiate the rise. An hour later he comes down and says - “ Sorry lads, the management won’t budge on the wage issue. By the way I start as your foreman on Monday. “ True story.

Gareth Ainsworth not in the bidding ?

In Johnno we trust.

“ A Camel is a Horse designed by a committee “.

They don’t learn because they aren’t looking to learn. They couldn’t care less.

We’d half a team missing at one point. We did well to lose games by the odd goal and not get hammered.

Anybody know how far Tronstad is off ?

Mowbray’s just gone to WBA.

When Tronstad is back we could do worse than played Buckley in the Cantwell role.

I agree with you about Sammi, there was no way he was staying once a Premier League club came knocking irrespective of what we could offer him.

I liked what I saw with Litherland previously. As I said to my grandson - a poor man’s Franz Beckenbauer in the making.

I agree with nearly all of that. As I said earlier, yesterday’s meeting was just a PR exercise. He’d already made his mind up to go over the weekend. He knew that the people sat across the desk from him would be unable or unwilling to give him what he was asking for. He made them an offer they were always going to refuse. He’d been at Rovers long enough to know that. I’ve been on the planet long enough to know when I’m being played. Reading between the lines he’d decided to move on in summer and he was just waiting for the right opportunity to come up. That’s why his name was constantly in the frame when vacancies arose. None of the above excuses the chicken chokers and their underlings from most of the blame. Who can work for absentee owners and not lose the plot in the end! Thanks for the Leeds and Leicester games. They’ll live long in the memory.

Rhodes is finished as a player.

I’m not so sure about that. There are ways of making it known you could be interested without putting it on the back page of “ The Sun “.

An exclusive on our new manager ?

I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on a good bonus for keeping them up though.

Even the dogs in the street know why the previous managers left. Whoever comes in will know the score, unless he’s from Mars.

I think Big Sam’s ship has sailed.

Or when he got rewarded for keeping us up with a handful of magic beans.

You mean “ wouldn’t. “.

He was gone before yesterdays game.

Any good ones ?

If the powers that be at the club had any sense they’d have been keeping an eye on the comings and goings in the managerial field. The Eustace saga has been brewing for a while and I suspect they know that. I’m expecting a quick appointment.