Most of their fans realise it’s a ridiculous decision, just like most of ours did in 2010 (yes, there’s always a minority of loud know nowts that make a noise about sackings after defeats) Yes, relegation could well be a disaster for them, so why then sack the fella with a track record of getting them out of the second tier (if he didn’t keep them up to start with) ? Because their owners don’t understand the game one iota… which is nice.

Still lives in Northants, stayed up here a few days a week.

He was on enormous wages and had years left on his contact, so will have received a mega pay off, so can wait it out until something enticing comes around.

Indeed ARA, the naivety of yon mon in the post above yours never ceases to amaze me. Any parachute club will be able to offer substantially higher wages than a perennial mid table second division club withering on the vine. He’s 28 and after spending his entire career at a much diminished club, he’ll be looking for a last big, multi year contract to set him up for life.

So having a team ‘well drilled and organised’ is a sign of being a ‘dynamic coach’, is it? Step up Tony Pulis!

In Accy itself you can kind of understand it, though not ideal for a club like us with a limited fanbase to start with. But for Ossy, Rishton, Great Harwood for that to be the case is extremely worrying, those are prime Rovers towns that just happen to have their bins emptied by the same town hall as Accrington. The lack of strategic nous down there is nothing new, but to somehow lose the youth of those areas to Accy bloody Stanley takes some doing!

‘I play him on the right and ask him to run those channels and get in at the back stick from balls coming in from the other side, Obviously he can’t understand your Teesside tones, Tone, as he’s rarely in the bloody box!

Rovers are running into big issues in Hyndburn, an absolute heartland for the club since day dot - but now if you are a young footfall fan without Rovers fanatics as parents, are you really going to be looking towards Ewood for live football when you have an upwardly mobile club doing their utmost to get you in their tent? And that’s without even going into the sizeable numbers of former longstanding Ewood attendees that now go to Stanley on a regular basis. Alas, those running the club have an obsession with only targeting BwD areas for engagement, as if fan loyalties to a club totally stops at 1970s created council boundaries, and as the Rovers Trust have pointed out our fanbase stretches out far further…

Straw poll, has anyone signed up to the LT paywall?

We’ve spent most of the past decade in the bottom half of the Championship, before this season we’ve not had a sniff of success even at this level, in front of often a two thirds empty and rotting Ewood, we sold our lowest numbers of STs for over 30 years last summer, we’ve witnessed all manner of journeyman players and managers come and go, the club has visibility shrunk on and off the pitch and is now a mere shell. It frankly, has been a load of old shite, so to have our fans wanting more of this brain dead existence, just because we might get a beating at Man City (let’s get spanked 7-0 at home by the mighty Fulham instead), just seems a ridiculous lack of ambition for Blackburn Rovers. Sport is about striving to be the best you can, otherwise you might as well fold the club, so in what possible way is the Burnley experience of the past 5/6 years not preferable to this never ending stasis?

Mean streets of Deepdale twinned with Moss Side 😄

Generally speaking across football corners must be the most overrated thing in the game… yet fans go wild every time the ball goes out for one!

Oh I agree, as I posted on Saturday night, for the first time it was painfully obvious that the belief and workrate had gone, in some ways it’s a testament to the players that they’d maintained belief for so long after months of muddled tactics and accompanied terrible results.

Thats because they aren’t very good and are managed by a pound shop Pep that confuses the hell out of the lot of them, not that they haven’t been putting shifts in.

You can pinpoint many a fault with this bunch of players, but before Saturday a lack of work-rate wasn’t one of them…

Tenner a ticket for Bournemouth, well there you go! If we need a result to get in the play offs then you can expect to see a very decent turn out, we continue our nosedive and have fallen to about 9th and out of the picture by then, well, we won’t be seeing one...

Ewood Blues will be going from the Fox & Hounds but I’m not sure what time they’ll be setting off.

Annoying but we made up for it 2006/07 with the cracking European tour of Red Bull Salzburg, Wisla Krakow, Feyenoord and Bayer Leverkusen.

12 years of these bizarre people says of course it’s not certain, but I’d be very surprised if we saw much of the proceeds of any sale…

I went in the Premier Suite earlier in the season and I must say I thought it was really good. However, you are obviously paying a premium for the full four course meal job etc. But your experience sounds appalling, don’t open up additional facilities if you can’t offer a decent service.

Had a look on WBA’s two main forums and not a single ITK-er (of which every message board always seems to have plenty of, well, they are ITK in their own minds at least 😏) is mentioning TM on the various new manager/Bruce Out threads…

That Weghorst was given the big build up, has looked horrendous every time I’ve seen him… still will probably bang in a load as SD takes them back up (Yanks, please listen to your loyal supporters and remove Dyche without delay!)

How the bloody hell we lost up there I’ll never know, Tugay master class… well beaten at Ewood the week after mind.

£10 million for Buckley! 😄 Fella can’t even get in a second tier side that has hardly won a game in months!

I do love Jim’s trolling, ‘Lancashire La La La’ Get the feckers down! 😁