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.

Last comment on the subject - he's the worst professional GK I've ever seen at this level.

We'll fall short because we haven't spent a penny in two years. Obviously our spending over the last decade is absolutely criminal if you look at the stats (45th out of 48 teams to play in the Championship). The maddening thing is that even with ALL of those cuts we're still absolutely skint and in danger of having a bench full of Academy players just to fulfil fixtures next season. Why do they still own us!?

That commentator nearly wet himself with excitement when Dolan barged over their player. He was gagging for a red card to be shown. The clown.

There's no stress - this is my last season paying close attention to Rovers with the Venkys in charge. I think we slip off into the abyss in the summer.

A day in the life of chaddy would be a hell of a documentary. Like a plastic bag blowing in the wind.

No, it just goes to show how big a club we actually are. Despite deliberate sabotage for 13 years we're consistently there or there abouts. We'd be Brentford or Brighton with good ownership.

Yeah I wasn't sure why Forshaw was getting pelters on here - he was ok today. Ribeiro got no support from Hedges - time after time he looked for an out ball down the line and Hedges was AWOL.

I don't see much Jekyll in his game. I watched a WBA game during January - right before they sold their GK. Even watching it absentmindedly you could see that their GK was a good one. He came and collected crosses, he commanded his box, he organised the defence. They lost the game, but he stood out as pretty damn competent. Pears does none of the above - he makes the odd reaction save at best. At worst he throws it into his own net like today, like against Bristol City etc etc.

Stoke moved quickly on that deal - far too sharp for us to pip them. It takes us 30 days to sign a LW who was desperate to come in during the summer and two CFs who haven't played all year. Stoke activated his release clause before the transfer window had even opened.

Keeping this conversation strictly to the context of the GK I genuinely don't know. He's not been given a chance. We bought him for £1m (or thereabouts) which is a significant outlay for us and he's been rotting on the bench all season. I'm not sure how people can judge - besides making the assumption that he must simply look awful in training (or Pears has some incredible blackmail on someone).

I'd take a GK that doesn't throw the ball into the back of his own net (see Pears trying to give away a third at the start of the second half today with an awful pass) and saves the shots he's meant to save. We'd have a big gap to the chasing pack if we had one of those.

I agree with all of that except Gueye being poor. He rolled one across the six yard box and headed one back across the six yard box - both absolute tap ins if anyone was supporting him. Ward allowed Swansea to kick seven shades of shit out of Gueye today - they swarmed him whenever he got the ball under control too. Not his best game, but by no means his worst.

From memory; he kept a clean sheet against Boro, he let one slip under his arm from close range against Wolves that he'll be disappointed with (had no chance with the second) and Coventry absolutely bullied us in his one Championship game. So I don't think he's been sensational, but he's worth a look over Pears for sure.

No wonder Pears threw his hands up in disgust as he miskicked a pea roller, it was clearly someone else's fault(!)

Is he? I couldn't tell you, he's only played for us three times.

I thought that after the FA Cup howler against Wigan. How many games ago was that?

Tough to have an impact when you're 2-0 down and the opposition can just sit in. All three looked livelier than the players they replaced.

I'd love to see the referee assessment report filed for Ward this week. Once they went 2-0 up (which he had a MASSIVE hand in) he's literally blown his whistle in their favour at every opportunity. He's not the reason we've lost, but it's infuriating watching every 75/25 (in our favour) go their way. Kills the game as a spectacle.