Szmodics should have dived there like Hardie did last week - red card.

I do feel sorry for Gallagher - any time he throws his weight around players fall over and a foul is given. He's just bigger and stronger than them imo.

We needed a ST, not an average Championship CM. The embarrassment still stings though. That's when the mask slipped for Waggot and co with their deliberate sabotage.

Your edit references the 'inept' McFadzean. I always find it amazing that we can watch the same game and come up with polar opposite conclusions.

I don't recall anyone saying "anyone is better than the Walker Trust" - it was more that they CLEARLY didn't want us in their portfolio as we were costing them money.

Who has to see the books in a sale? Just the buyer's legal / finance team, right? What are the legalities here? Hypothetically speaking - if they did sell it to someone (dreamland being a local business owner), could they not simply come to a gentleman's agreement that whatever they find in said books isn't released to the public / government? i.e. "yes, you've used Rovers to siphon money out of the parent company with your incredibly dodgy, flat, £20m 'debt' every year, but we won't tell anyone 'cos we're desperate to buy the club and get you gone".

Red Bull Blackburn?

But you'd sold the only CM at the club that could make that 'model' tick. You had to change the style of play.

We lose matches from the bench. Our first XI is ok (needs far more pace and size to be considered good), but our bench is always poor. Every week the opposition uses 5 subs - we only ever dare to make 3. Klopp would struggle to do anything with this squad.

I'm neither for or against Eustace (I hope he's a roaring success), but anyone would struggle to get results with this squad. The second A. Wharton was sold and not remotely replaced we were on a hiding to nothing. I suspect that was the last straw for JDT and why he bought out of his contract.

His loyalties lie with his wallet.

Why is it pathetic and small minded? The lad has been at Rovers since he was 12 years old and is looking forward to seeing old friends on his return (his words), yet he demanded the clause in his contract that allowed him to be sold for well under his market value. Why would I cheer him? He's shafted the club that I support. He couldn't wait to leave.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Oooh, is he playing? At least I'll enjoy booing that rat tomorrow.

Per that Athletic article posted the other day, yes.

The worst part - JDT wasn't sacked. He resigned (and had to pay to get out of his contract) - that's how desperate he was to get away from this club.

I'd rather be sold than sent into administration, if it's all the same to you.

Eustace has played at least 3 formations already during his time here. He's clearly not wedded to a style of football (at least not one that I can make out). Right now it's backs-to-the-wall football. I gather at Kidderminster and Birmingham City (at least this season) it was much more progressive football.

Again - Pears was equally as bad against Swansea (palmed a ball into the danger area for the first goal and dived out of the way of the second goal), yet for some reason people are burying Wahlstedt and not Pears. We need a new GK - that much is clear.

So basically once the taps were turned off and the wage budget slashed by 20% our recruitment has suffered?

Maybe when he's 35 and knackered.

Only if we agree that Pears cost us 3 points against Swansea.

I'm surprised he's not being criticised for the goal - he was loafing back there. Didn't even try to get his foot in to block the shot.

They absolutely came for a point - they were time wasting from the off.

I suspect he's quietly looking for a life raft out of this circus too.