Don't I have to be registered and pay a subscription to do that?

Absolutely knew I'd come into this topic right now and see that people would want Lowe to be in charge because he got a single win. It's as stupid and as predictable as people wanting an ex-player to get the managerial reins every time we need a new manager.

I sadly had to miss tonight's superb win over WBA, though I caught the last 10 minutes on the radio on my way home. From the way they were talking about him heading everything away at the back, and his heat map from the game, and the two excellent goals I've seen on the highlights...I'd imagine this was his best performance yet?

Just used the search function! (Not to bring us to a political talk at all, but as a one-off sidebar, it'd be nice if people could just do the equivalent for all info - Googling - at his conferences, but he spits out such a range of unexpected fabrications you can't really keep up that way and properly fact check in real time...maybe they should use AI at his conferences!) Not casting shame on anybody who really wasn't rating Gueye back then btw. He looked very handy when he first arrived (which prompted a lot of 'great signing, everything Gally should've been' type comments, which I thought were premature), then looked really crap for a while and criticism was warranted (but again I thought long-term judgements were premature), and has been superb for about a month now, prompting people to think he's top class again (guess what...probably premature!). People have jumped to some strong conclusions based on how he has been playing at the time, but that's just the nature of football fans really (and pundits etc!).

(Apologies to those I'm quoting from ages ago) Whilst these don't explicitly say he is the worst striker to ever play for us, Trinidad asked the question, which is an implication in itself (though he admits his memory isn't too long). The main suggestion was Chris Brown, understandably, who most would use as their go-to example of our worst ever striker, and LR said Brown was a million times better. Again by implication this makes Gueye our worst ever, as even if Brown is only in your top 3 worst, being a million times worse than him makes him our worst. Other comments I didn't quote in the discussion include 'Chris Brown and Fode Koita were better', 'it certainly feels like Chris Brown II', and ruggles1995 saying 'I'd still have Brown down as worse at the moment'...'Brown still tops the list for me atm' (so although he does think Brown is worse for now, it sounded close. Oh and Ward was mentioned by TR, which elicited 'Ward...was crap, but this chap is in a league of his own' (which also implies worst ever if he has a league of his own for crapness) and 'Ward was crap but fucking leagues above this guy'. Point is, it was being discussed whether he was the worst, even if nobody explicitly said he was. I'd say Lancaster Rover was definitely saying he was our worst ever, unless he wants to tell us about another striker who was more than a million times worse than Chris Brown. I also distinctly remember having to quote someone months ago (not in this thread apparently, dunno where) and point out that Brown scored 0 goals in 41 games for us, so Gueye had already outscored him. I don't remember if that was explicitly in response to them saying worst ever, but again they were definitely saying he was worse than Brown.

Huh?

In fairness, Eustace also seemed like a downgrade at the time of his appointment, but didn't turn out to be.

I thought these days the pressers were mandatory?

No more bookies have given odds? It still only shows Bet Victor.

I dunno if you've noticed, but teams haven't needed to be all that to beat us lately. In fact we have lost to some right dross. And now the manager has fecked off leaving a demoralised dressing room, the club feels like it's in crisis again, and we are away. I don't wanna be a Mercer here, but any gambling man would put money on us to lose, if they could bring themselves to do it. Besides, Wilsden said he was suddenly more confident, and gave no explanation why. So I think the joke was appropriate, it didn't need any further analysis.

Just done a line of coke?

That's got to be the clumsiest pair of goals I've ever seen.

I'd prioritise loaning the ones who have genuine promise, and the ones who are old enough that we know they won't make it, so they need a chance to earn deals elsewhere by getting senior games under their belt, plus clearing a path for younger players to play and develop. I'd say we have loaned out at least twice as many, maybe three times as many players as we should have, and the approach has been hugely scattergun.

I've given up on Gilsenan ever making it into our first team squad, as in establishing himself properly. Nearly every youth player with this level of injury trouble by his age has never made it and been released. The only exception is JRC, who tbf I'd written off too. But even he is constantly getting more knocks and almost never fully fit, that one patch aside where he was excellent. I think Gilsenan's best case scenario is being a JRC (who may have been released if he wasn't capable of playing several positions). But more likely he's a Butterworth or Whitehall I think. The next year will decide his fate.

Sounds most likely the Wikipedia is out of date, and it used to be like that, than the competition's own page giving the rules would be out of date. Especially if the club also think we're through (I know, I know!).

It occurred to me today...Mowbray left because we wouldn't offer him a new contract. JDT left because we wouldn't back him in the transfer market when we had a real chance of promotion. Venkys have excelled themselves this time, and made a manager leave for both reasons at the same time. The chicken chokers are absolutely immune to learning lessons. If they run us for another 20 years, it will all still be the same in 20 years.

According to AI (Copilot): For the recent managerial vacancy at Stoke City, the bookies' favorites included: Steven Schumacher - He was the top favorite to replace Alex Neil. John Eustace - Initially mentioned as the odds-on favorite. Mark Robins - Became the favorite after parting ways with Coventry City. (I also saw from clicking one of the links it gave me, that Paul Heckingbottom and JDT were in the top 4 favourites at one point, at 8/1 and 10/1 - Schumacher was the heavy favourite at 1/2) For the recent managerial vacancy at Coventry City, the bookies' favorites included: Frank Lampard: The former Chelsea and Everton manager was a top contender for the role. Ruud van Nistelrooy: The former Manchester United striker and PSV Eindhoven manager was also in the running. For the recent managerial vacancy at Derby County, the bookies' favorites included: Lee Carsley: The England U21 manager was the top favorite to replace Paul Warne. John Eustace: The former Birmingham City manager was also considered a strong candidate. Ryan Lowe: The Plymouth Argyle manager was another contender for the role.

Christ on a bike do I not want Rooney! Awful manager.

Sorry lads, no offence to anyone, but I find it embarassing that every time we have a managerial vacancy people throw up an ex-player of ours as someone they want, and they almost always have very little managerial pedigree at an appreciable level. Having played for us doesn't make you more suitable for managing us. Having been a great player doesn't make you a great manager. This simply isn't how it works. Sentimentality does not win matches.

I'm sure there are managers who have done similar feats in non-league. Or heck, even Sunday pub teams or 5 a side leagues. Not saying the Irish league is as low as all of those, the point is the quality of the league does absolutely matter. He can only manage in the league he's in, and I'm happy for him, but this achievement doesn't qualify him to manage here. We are Blackburn Rovers, not Accrington Stanley. I repeat, if he hadn't been a world class player and played for us, he wouldn't be in the conversation.

Sorry but Duff wouldn't be in the conversation if he hadn't played for us and been a world class player. None of which has any bearing on his ability to manage. I'm aware of his record in the farmers league but this is Blackburn Rovers. It's not like it couldn't turn out well, any manager could, but it's a firm no from me.

This might be considered one way to gauge the reaction of the fanbase more than comments, as it's a fairly large sample. In response to the FB post giving the club statement about John Eustace, there are currently: 380 Angry reacts 298 Likes 232 Sad reacts 113 Laugh reacts 44 Wow reacts 8 Heart Reacts 4 Care reacts I'd say a Sad react can be ambiguous, people could be sad at the state of the club, sad he's leaving, or sad because they believe the club statement fully and think it's unfair he is leaving this shitstorm. The angry and laugh reacts are pretty clear condemnation, the likes are pretty clear support for the club's (Waggot's, Rudy's, Pasha's and Venkys, that is) stance. The hearts are probably support too. Fuck knows what the care reacts are meant to be. The wows could be astonishment at the club, or at Eustace leaving, so also ambiguous. So out of 1,079 reactions, that's Negative: 493 (45.69%) Positive: 306 (28.35%) Ambiguous: 280 (25.94%) So on the whole people seem to be more pissed off than not, maybe the tide is turning finally. Depends what that ambiguous lot are really about though, the majority of who reacted with a teary sad face. My guess is they're mostly just upset, without the heart to get mad about it in any direction. Mournful resignation.

It's hardly a massive release clause.

Well said. Loads of muppets falling for it on FB though. You can bet your sphincter that the 'one insider' who said 'There is a lot of relief around here' was Steve Waggott, who is probably Nixon's source for all of this, and the relief is that he, Rudy and Pasha won't have to deal with awkward questions like 'why are we letting all our players run down their contracts' and 'why have we spent fuck all out of 40 million in fees and most of the signings are loans?' anymore. The 'one of his big allies in the end' comment of course is likely bollocks, and there to exonerate and deflect from Swag's complicity in events and this article. What's in it for him...he may have been directly paid for his help, doubt he charges much for that, or he may have just been promised lots of access for his gossip stories going forward, so long as he mostly tows the club line.

Joe Boggan, 89th minute winner, 1-0.