TimmyJimmy

Gary, if you get to read this I really want you to come in and have a go at saving this wonderful club but for real mate you'd be out of your tiny mind. With the gruesome twosome in charge you don't have a cat in Hells chance of building anything here. Just look at the Venky history and appointments. You'll be doomed from the get go. The passionate supporter in me says shut the Hell up Timmy and take a shot at saving us but if you must take the job don't fall for the old wobble head trick and get an exit clause written into the contract. You'll be most welcome from the terraces but truthfully we'll all be shaking our head in pity. It'll be like being forced to watch a car crash in slow motion. Over to you pal. As for me I'm rooting for you.

My opinion is that our problems lay in midfield and the wings. There's no supply to the attack either by way of incisive passing on the floor or crosses in the air. Given something to attack our strikers can score but what they can't do is cover run back into midfield, get the ball and then beat 5 men to earn the right to take a shot. We have nothing creative in midfield as everyone has been coached to constantly track back and support the defence. We don't press the men off the ball only the one on the ball looking for a turnover so the opposition always have free men around them to pass to when they get challenged. The attack has to track back constantly to help out because the midfield is disfunctional. Cantwell is a good player who's turning into a show pony. Baradji has all the skills and athleticism but no brain and zero aggression. The wingers are all told to play too far back to cover the defence and have to beat several men and their cover to get into any position to cross the ball. If/when they do there's no one in the box as they're still running up from defending. After half a game everyone is so buggered that they just sit back and cover. It's not that the strikers can't strike it's that they're being forced to run their bollocks off elsewhere. This is the result of VIs tactics, the RG square pegs in round holes approach to life and a non existant midfield. That's my tuppence worth. We need new players. We need a new board. We need new owners. We ain't getting either so the new guy needs to find a way to get the ball forward into the box. Bis Sam's long balls over the midfield approach I think is the way to go. Miss the midfield out, bulldoze their box, rough them up, hail mary up and unders if necessary. The new guy had better be inventive but most of all aggressive. Afain, IMO.

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”. Once over the entrance to Hell in Dante’s Inferno. Today perfect for the new manager's parking bay at Brockhall. Whoever it is he must be out of his tiny f'ing mind. So a perfect fit with the board.

There is no long list. There is no short list. No one wants this. You'd either have to be: - insane - given up on your career and need a pay cheque - a fanatical Rovers supporter. Cue Gareth Ainsworth.

When you mix together incredibly bad luck with a team that's just awful then there's only on outcome. We are shockingly bad and deserve all we get yet really, we can't buy a break this season. Own goals, worldies, deflections, abandoned games, half a season with 14 injuries etc., etc.. Nothing can disguise how bad we are but coupled with luck like that we are truely doomed this season. No escape. There's two people responsible for this, everything stems from them. Their performance is an f'ing disgrace and they should piss off asap and leave us to our misery. Who on earth in their right mind wants to manage this shit show.

And another. A Hail Mary up and under and our guy slips. Can't make it up. Doomed. Inescapably doomed.

If it wasn't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all. The number of times a player scores just because the ball falls at his feet.

Age old tactic. Float around the worst possible fit as a candidate then any hopeless case appointed looks good by comparison. Short odds on Coleman? Really? What's Mick McCarthy doing these days? We'll end up with either some poor sap wannabe, a complete unknown from League Z in Luxembourg or a guy whose been out of work for a decade. The days of Hughes, Souness, Allardyce and Kenny are so far behind us it's untrue. Barrel meet Scraper, Scraper this is Barrel.

Another predictably awful window. The only thing to change at Ewood these days are the excuses.

If you're into gallows humour, Mick McCarthy. That's the pond we're fishing in.

T h i i i n g s, can only get b e ... oh wait a minute

Kenny.

Misspelling I think ... leg end.

Heard this lad Travis at Derby might be worth a punt. Maybe we should take a punt with an offer. Oh wait ...

I have no understanding of what our transfer policy is. It would make more sense to buy 25 goalkeepers. What's wrong with round pegs in round holes. We need a goal scoring striker. Just f'ing buy one and add it to last years squad! I know they cost BIG money but whats the point of buying wingers and forcing them to play out of position just because their agent says "he can play anywhere across the front". That's on top of buying a squad that's got virtually NO Championship experience and selling one that pushes for the playoff each season. I mean what did they expect to happen. I'm no footballing guru but even me, an armchair schmuck, said at the beginning of the season we're fucked. We're all at a loss to explain it I know but how the Hell do Pasha, Gestede et al get away with it?

Love it B16. This lad's show real looks really promising.

Keeley. Can still visualise the challenge on an icy Ewood pitch that sent the player into a vertical 180 landing on his head. I'm still wincing. Todd though has to be capo di tutti i capi. Genuinely terrifying.

Thanks chaps and to Frosty in particular (very handy site that). I was interested in what the league as a whole defines as a firing level of incompetence and how VI compares. These were the points when Championship managers were fired compared to us at the same time. Watford had 5 more points yet they still fired Pezzolano Swansea had 1 more Yet they still fired Sheehan Leicester have 11 more than us now and they fire Cifuentes Southampton had 1 less than us when they fired Still, so virtually level pegging Norwich had 7 less than us, so Manning deserved it! Seems we don't hold our manager to the same level scrutiny. Other boards look to have more of an idea as to how to manage a club - especially when you see they are all ahead of us now.

If anyone has access to an AI tool I'd be grateful if you could get this answered for me. Of the managers sacked this season how many of their clubs had more or less points than Rovers at that date (complicated because Wednesday had a points deduction). My gut says that we're hanging on to VI well after other clubs fire their managers. I have a bet with the wife! This might help: Danny Rohl (Sheffield Wednesday) Departed: 29th July, 2025 Ruben Selles (Sheffield United) Departed: 14th September, 2025 Paulo Pezzolano (Watford) Departed: 8th October, 2025 Will Still (Southampton) Departed: 2nd November, 2025 Liam Manning (Norwich City) Departed: 8th November, 2025 Alan Sheehan (Swansea City) Departed: 11th November, 2025 Marti Cifuentes (Leicester City) Departed: 25th January, 2025

Oh, now I get it. I'm watching a pro football team against a 'walking football' outfit. Somehow they mistakenly ended up on the same pitch on the same night. What a mistaka to maka. Someone's getting fired.

It's amazing, I'm finding myself so detached from this team that I'm quite enjoying the match. It's nice to be rooting for a team but in reality I just don't care anymore, they're definitely not my team and definitely don't represent me or my club. Out run, out competed, out talented and out managed. It's like watching a great horror movie, you don't want to watch but you have to and then you actually enjoy the shock. I left my heart in the Blackburn End a looong time ago.

Things are so depressing that my only refuge is gallows humour. I'm so depressed, this sprang to my mind but please cheer me up and contribute your wit in a few posts before I jump off a very tall building. There comes a point when you stop checking the league table because you already know that you're somewhere between “mathematically doomed” and “practically relegated.” Other clubs are out there signing strikers with two working legs and a pulse whilst we’re proudly unveiling "potential" from some unheard of Z league whose last goal came during the Bronze Age. VI assures us there’s no need to panic, which is exactly what people say when there is every need to panic. Our current squad couldn’t finish a sandwich, never mind a chance, and the only thing our midfield creates is anxiety. Somehow I still manage to tell people I'm a Rovers supporter but these days more in the same way one might love a three legged dog that keeps running into traffic. What you got?

I've nowt against the Jørgensen signing basically because I've no f'ing idea who or what he is. It would be good though if we could sign A striker and not someone who CAN play as a striker. Round pegs round holes kind of thing. The rumoured fee is big enough to counter my view that we are fishing in very shallow ponds looking for cheap potential who may or may not turn out to be a fit for the Championship. But I still believe that to be true. Whilst we're waiting to find out if we've unearthed a gem we gather perilously few points and frustrate us fans to distraction with weekly lame arsed performances.

We've all run out of fresh ways to say the same stuff mate, but as you're away from it all in another country I'll take your question as genuine and answer in as few words as possible. My opinion is that Venkys never purchased Rovers for footballing reasons, the true reason I'll leave you to speculate on. The club is like Neo in the first Matrix film, it is being kept alive but comatose so that others can feed off it. Some supporters believe we are really alive and in a real world, but we aren't. We will never be revived and no red pill is forthcoming. Warm words about the owners caring is simply that, warm words to give comfort and illusion so that the feeding can continue. There is not one single reason that anyone can give me to explain their continued ownership that would persuade me away from my view that nefarious practices are going on behind the scenes. As said I have zero understanding of what that is but interest in football is not it. It will not end under any circumstances in my opinion. I have some exposure with others on here of investigating a purchase of the club and categorically they are not for selling. Personally I made the decision some time ago to withdraw all financial support and I follow only from a distance on TV when screened, newspapers and of course on here. And that is my recommendation, withdraw life support, Liverpool Pathway watch the club die and pray for the Resurrection. Horrendous.

I think the tried and tested method is to ADD new blood and test it out, then, either move it on or trust it and incorporate it into the EXISTING team structure. I'm not sure that selling the whole team and starting from scratch by signing a bus load of unknowns from second tier foreign leagues is the best approach. The majority of our signings aren't at the required level and yet they now make up almost the whole team. We bought well at RWB. We did well previously with Toth, Cantwell and Tronstad it's true but every other one has failed. ADEQUATE is the very best that can be claimed for SOME of the purchases the majority just don't have it. The selling of the 'family silver' last year was utter hubris and was essentially betting the house on the flip of a coin. It hasn't worked. We are in deep do-do and the best we can hope for is survival. If the players weren't good enough this year they won't be the next. Project after project after project! When will they ever produce anything worth getting excited about. I repeat, in answer to your challenge, who will sign for us in January and who is at the required level and is uninjured and ready to go. Answer: nobody. We don't even have enough cash to bribe someone with high wages. Time to smell the coffee dude.