The lad would be waxing lyrical about Kean if he was appointed as our new manager tomorrow.

Charlotte is an incredibly dull city so I'm sure he fancies a change.

You've put way more thought and effort into it than our Board have.

I suspect the bookies wouldn't pay out when they find out the address of the account was Ewood Park.

Dennis has to play, surely?

The no-show was because Hedges is downright awful, Dolan had one of his 9 in 10 games and Weimann's legs have gone. Obviously Pears throwing one in his own net broke our back.

The problem is these two are the calibre of candidate we can attract (for whatever reason) after 3 games of being managerless. It's a terrifying prospect.

I mean it depends, doesn't it? Okocha, Nolan and co thrived off the second ball (with Kevin Davies invariably winning the knock down / flick on). Cantwell, Weimann, Dolan and Hedges are always just too far away from Gueye when the ball is played up to him. Maybe a new manager will drill into someone like Cantwell that if he drops deep to take the ball off the CBs toes again he'll be training with the reserves.

I mean he can take over officially whenever he wants. As he's driven purely by greed he refuses to do so until the new financial year as it'll mess up his blood money tax returns. Hardly the bloke you're going to run through a wall for.

Remember when we were quite safely tucked away in 5th?

No.

They're absolutely not that savvy.

We're willing to pay the going rate for a team operating on a L1 budget. Same with transfers - which is why we're always scraping around the bottom of the barrel to bring players in.

They've sold players for big money and reinvested almost all of it. It's why Robbins got the sack - they should have been challenging for the automatics with how much money they've spent.

Oh I've no doubt we'll lose to Derby. Eustace will know the weaknesses of our entire squad - and they're glaring.

I mean Mowbray bought two 6'2"+ CFs and shoved them out wide. He also bought a 5'6" CF and put him upfront.

Similar to Szmodics, you don't really have a choice when a PL club comes in and turns his head.

And all it took was some Indian cunts buying the team and intentionally sabotaging Rovers.

The Met Police would hate that.

Broughton would have been able to dust off his boots and his Pro License if we'd have kept him.

He was better positionally than Pears and about equal as a shot stopper. He was just as bad on crosses, but he didn't have Batth protecting him. We also immediately got our money back for him. I don't see clubs lining up to sign Calamity Pears.

Why couldn't they do it without a financial settlement? He no longer wanted to manage the club. Realistically, as a club, you don't want a man with that much influence running the day-to-day if his heart isn't in it. Instead of holding him to ransom and demanding he pay out the remainder of his contract, simply waive it and go about your way. He was clearly willing to do that - I assume the only costs would be the lawyers who'd have to make sure everything was above board.

My new Director, bless her, knows I have a season ticket and always enquires about how Rovers got on over the weekend as a means of making a connection with me. I never quite know what to say. I used to be SO proud of being a Rovers fan. Now you look at the state of Ewood, the McGuire / Brierley / O'Brien / Eustace / JDT public debacles and just cry at what we've sunk to. We've been run into the ground.

I'm not sure - you just have to look at Ewood Park to realise they don't spend any money. I shudder to think how much booking 25 rooms and feeding approx. 50 people costs. Think of the savings if you just send them down on the bus the day of and buy them all a Tesco meal deal. The Venkys will be able to limp on another week without spending any money on the club. Suhail will love it.