Until June 2028 😱

At Swansea, I think the players will have known that Ismael was set to arrive. Maybe that didn’t go down well and was a factor in the no - show.

Look at the sides we have lost against. All three were on their arses and in dire form. Losing to Cardiff at home tops the lot. We were always only one poor appointment from real trouble under these clowns, and Ismael is that appointment. The long contract is the cherry on the shit cake.

Yes, I challenged him for setting himself up as an apologist for a failing regime.

Yes, the guy I sit next to pointed it out, and it said a lot. All the Cardiff players ran across to speak to their coaching team. Most of ours stood around looking listless on the pitch.

Eustace took over a team in free fall. Ok, he didn’t win games to begin with, but he immediately got to grips with the basics, eg tightening up the defence, and made us much harder to beat, (with the exception of the game you have mentioned ). Yes, our form had already dipped prior to his departure this season, but we were still in the top six, and there is no way he’d have overseen the pathetic sequence of results we have just witnessed. Im sorry, but Ismael walked in to an entirely different set of circumstances. He didn’t appoint himself, and clearly the main blame lies with the ownership and the clowns running the circus at Ewood. However, Ismael does not get a free pass. A shocking appointment.

In a funny way he's actually doing us a favour, because it's going so badly that the heat is being turned up on the owners and their hired goons.

I'm afraid my reaction was "Who cares?" I think it was the right decision in the end, but the wrong way of getting to it.

Absolutely terrible appointment and ridiculous length of contract. Shove your season tickets where the Sun doesn't shine.

I’d have been more worried about today if Cardiff had sacked their manager in the build up. It’ll probably be a terrible watch, but I expect a win. Like many others, I’ve more or less gone past caring.

This. They are pushed out in front of the media and just churn out some safe waffle with a subtext, "everything's fine, honestly". I switched Ismael off from a Radio Lancs interview after about five words yesterday evening. "I'm just here to observe". Yeah, right.

Do we get a guest host when Chaddy goes on holiday? 😉

🎶 Stuck on Eustace, I’ve got this feeling down deep in my soul that he just can’t lose, now he’s on his way. Needed a friend, and the way I feel now I guess we’ll be stuck with Ismael til the end, guess we’re on our way, to League one to stay 🎶

Yeah, I can see us winning tomorrow and await the "We're only x points off the play off places" posts in the aftermath. Then it'll be back to reality at Pompey.

Maybe not on the football pitch, but a 3.5 year contract sets him up nicely. Off the pitch he can't lose.

Yes, although Mowbray outstayed his welcome, (and could be bloody annoying), I think we owe him an apology for the term, "Mowbray death spiral". I think the term "Blackburn Rovers death spiral" should now be included in diaries and calendars on January 1st.

Everything about him wasn’t right for the situation. He may as well have come from Mars. A bonkers appointment.

Hugh or Les Dennis would’ve been sharper than Emmanuel. That anti - Eustace diatribe that Waggott posted anonymously on the club website is being shown up for its full horror. Woodrow another. Zero ambition.

The Championship is that kind of division, and if you have a decent first half of the season, (thanks Eustace), you will always “only be x points off the play offs”, no matter how shit you become at the business end.

“We’re only 4 points off the play offs. Wait and see what happens”.

Someone who the players could have related to would’ve been a start! Shouldve been Allardyce or Warnock til the end of the season. Even Duff would’ve united the fan base. Ismael felt all wrong and now looks all wrong. Venkys and their hired goons out!

Square peg in a round hole. A poor, desperate choice by a bunch of charlatans.

Chaddy currently furiously preparing the case to defend Rovers and Ismael over the next 48 hours.

These are salad days compared to the mess we’ll be in by this time next season .

Here they come. OCD Ismael.