https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/blackburn-tomasson-northern-ireland-sweden-34915466 “Brutal cuts”? Surely not, as Waggott tells us everything’s fine. Can’t wait to see what dross Gestede cobbles together for Ismael next season. A truly frightening combination 😱

A sensible, ambitious, well run club does it's homework and investigates the timings / circumstances of departures from previous clubs. Luckily for Ismael, we're exactly the opposite and even bonkers enough to offer him a long contract. "C'est magnifique".

“It’s about pissing off another decent manager to the point where he leaves for a club embroiled in a relegation fight, and appointing a desperado”.

Ismael needs to win some games to defuse a rapidly escalating fan revolt. However, given the ludicrous length of his contract, it’s Waggott and Suhail who are the ones feeling the heat.

Exactly. Some people simply can’t understand that not everything in life is black and white. The parasites are now the only life in the host.

Not a penny more until the ownership changes.

Go back to your constituencies and prepare for League One.

The project is dead, long live the project, (until this one dies in about a year or so). ”No - one else will believe Suhail and Waggott” are the cries. A guaranteed , cool 1.8 million quid might just render that as irrelevant.

Would you be saying similar if the roles were reversed? What Jim said is the truth, it’s as simple as that.

The truth hurts, but it is the truth.

Ismael obviously doesn’t realise how many times we’ve had to swallow this bullshit in recent years. I’m not swallowing any more, and I pity the poor idiots who do, (no names, no pack drill) Away games only next season.

I think that was far more a backlash because Waggott was seen as the one who brought him in. Some of us could rise above that and take into consideration Eustace’s record of keeping QPR up, and then getting Birmingham into the top 6 before being ridiculously sacked. Eustace kept us up when we looked like relegation on a stick, and he also left us in the top 6. I know a Derby fan at work and he had written them off as relegated. I think Eustace has other ideas. He still looks like a manager whose star is rising. Sorry, but I just don’t see Ismael in that bracket. That long contract must’ve had him rubbing his hands in glee. If it continues to go badly, the worst case scenario for him is a big pay off, and then he can blame the clowns for our decline, (which in the bigger picture is true).

I think Ismael could possibly do a job somewhere in European football, but ,as I’ve said umpteen times, I do not believe he was the right fit for us, or any ambitious Championship side, (so clearly he is the right fit for the clowns running the show at Rovers). As we all know, the main problem is the owners and their hired goons. If they had shown a bit of common sense and hired a senior figure until the end of the season, I’d wager they would’ve got more points on the board by now than this chump. We might have even made the play offs. Now we have e the worst of all worlds - a manger who has come in and upset the apple cart, destroying any chance of success this season, and one who is unlikely to have a positive impact next season either. A young manager on the up might at least have made next season a more appetising prospect. Re - the other points, you are simply arguing for the sake of arguing. Simply agree to disagree. It’s a lovely day out there, go enjoy it.

Struber didn’t take over until November in the season when they finished just above relegation zone, and his brief was clearly to keep them up, which he did. Ismael got Barnsley in the Play Offs, whoopidoo. At least Coyle won them.

1 / Speculation being passed off as fact. 2/ I’m not claiming to have inside information. 3/ Apart from a play off place at Barnsley, (after Struber had laid down all the groundwork), his only tangible success has been with Wolfsburg’s second team, and he’s had more clubs than Rory McIlroy. Giving him a 3.5 year deal was sheer lunacy. 4/ Mainstream media (and of little importance anyway). Eustace hadn’t been mentioned, but was clearly someone on his way up and still young and hungry. 5/ JDT was generally very popular and got an easy ride when things went pear shaped, because the owners and their hired goons were the chief culprits.

Therefore, it was already in the offing. You don’t work for the club and have no definite information about the process. Like the rest of us, you are feeding off scraps from the media. Sorry, but you calling someone else naive is priceless. The players will find things out indirectly. It’s commonplace in all workplaces. Local media and supporters of clubs he’s previously managed. I certainly didn’t say he was a poor fit, in fact quite the contrary. I was pleasantly amazed, because Stuart McCall was a strong rumour. A lot of the backlash was that people were unhappy that JDT had gone, and Eustace was seen as a Waggott appointment, therefore damned by association.

I’d be amazed if that was the case. There would’ve been contact of some description prior to the Swansea game Compared to the scraps of info we were hearing, you’d be very naive to think that the players aren’t privy to far more inside information. Not right for the situation of having to come in and tread very carefully. All the stuff you hear about Ismael is that he’s very dogmatic and set in his ways. If we were going to hire someone so much the opposite of Eustace, at least go for someone the players could relate to. As I’ve said before (and I’m not the only one) it just didn’t feel right, and so far that feeling has been vindicated.

Don’t want to sound like a pedant, but shouldn’t the wording be, “tell them to sell Blackburn Rovers”?

Ismael is a square peg in a round hole. It’s not just about the downturn in his career, he clearly just wasn’t the right fit .

Had a very similar day. In with the Liverpool fans, and there was a woman sat just behind me listening to the West Ham v Man U game through earphones. I knew it was 1-1 in that game, but I was just waiting to hear her say, “Man United have got a second “. Even before Redknapp’s free kick, I was so tense I had to go downstairs to the food / toilet concourse to escape for a while. I met another Rovers fan down there doing exactly the same 😂 The most nerve wracking day of my life!

Away games only for me.

Every credit to them. If only we were as well run.

No, but it’s better than chucking money away to be mugged off season after season. Constant interruption of games requires a good number of people attending to participate. Is that likely? No. If it’s just a small group they will be picked off and banned.

Insufficient to form a considered opinion, but my impression in the Norwich game was "headless chicken".

Whether it achieves anything or not, like many others, I will be voting with my feet next season. It's just utterly futile.