It was absolute madness to take off all of Cantwell, Dolan, Hedges, Travis and Tronstad. You can't take off our 5 best players in the biggest game of our season, especially when you replace them with a bunch of journeymen who have barely played all season. 

Unfortunately after redeeming himself in the last 4 games, Ismael panicked at the end there and made too many changes to try and nick it. 

Credit to the lads though, it was still a fantastic season but once again we miss out by the smallest of margins. Sheffield looked superior to us in every way, and it's unlikely we would have been able to beat them another 2 times if we reached the playoffs anyway.

Just need Swansea to equalise now…

Our strategy seems to be to play it down the wings until we lose it, or punt it up the field BFS style. Dire awful football - we've created literally nothing.

I haven't watched a game since Plymouth, can't believe how much we've regressed since then. 

Final nail in the coffin this. If we can’t even beat a poor team like Wednesday. Two goals before half time is laughable.

Ismael needs to go he can’t be in charge next season unless they genuinely want to kill the club. You can’t keep your job when it’s this bad. 

We’ve had a good track record recently hiring managers with Mowbray, JDT and Eustace. But this latest appointment wasn’t it and they messed up badly. Own up to it and make the change now. The longer they drag this out the worse it will get for everyone.

If we end up on the losing end tonight, which looks quite likely now, this manager absolutely has to be potted ASAP. Let Lowe and co manage the last few games. It can’t be any worse than this. 

I visited Ewood for the first time in my Rovers supporting life for the Pilgrims game and absolutely loved watching us get a fantastic 2-0 win. Two great goals, good atmosphere and a brilliant team performance all round. I had some naive hope leaving that game that things would turn out okay… but this moronic pick of manager and horrendous run is just absolutely infuriating. 

Heads should roll after this. 

I can’t believe what an absolute shambles this is. To leave a team in the top 6 for a poor team in a relegation scrap is a massive embarrassment for this club’s management team.. far more than even the diabolical mismanagement of the Lewis O’Brien transfer. 

Most depressingly for me is that I’m currently in the UK, for the first time in my 20 years supporting Rovers. When we first booked the trip, it was in mid-December and we had just come off our 6-match winning streak. I had some small hope that by the time I would arrive this week, we would still be doing well and there would be a somewhat positive atmosphere at the  stadium for my first trip to Ewood Park. But it seems as always, the post-Christmas collapse is well and truly on with an inexplicably shambolic situation behind the scenes. 

Hi all,

I’ve been an overseas Rovers supporter for a long time now (although not as long as a lot of you on here!) and seeing a game at Ewood Park has been on my bucket list for that time. I’m finally going to make my way there in February next year with the missus and our newborn, so keen to get some recommendations from the folks here on what to do and see near Blackburn or UK in general.

I would have loved to make it for the Preston game on the 1st of Feb, but we won’t make it to the UK until the 9th, so the plan is to come through Blackburn on the 15th for the game against the Pilgrims. 

Any and all recommendations are welcome and I would be keen to meet up with people for a drink or 2 before the game!

Same issue here.. no button showing up to watch the stream. First time I've paid this season and it doesn't work lol

Congratulations to Burnley for holding on for a point! They needed a one-man advantage and for a legitimate goal to be ruled out, but still what a big result for them. 

This ref is a complete muppet

Burnley is absolutely shite. Playing at home with a 2-man advantage and they still can’t do shit. 

At least Parker made sure his hair looks nice.

Build this man a fuckn statue 

The worrying thing is Leicester have barely switched out of second gear. Just one defensive mistake from us or moment of brilliance from them and we’re sunk.

Fair play to the lads so far… they’re playing like their lives depend on it and they actually give a shit. All we can do is hope the drive and the energy gets a positive result for us, and not just end in disappointment and despair …

Let Damien Johnson take charge for the remaining games and get rid of Eustace.

I once watched a black & white arthouse film where I had to sit through 3 hours of some guy wandering around picking up and smelling shit.

That movie was better than this Rovers performance.

That's a bizarre set of changes... Buckley has been our best player. Dolan and Moran have also been doing well.

Brittain has had a really poor game today

4 minutes ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Buckley has been superb, pleased for the lad 

Buckley back to his best. Putting in some cracking tackles.

Looks like Gallagher is gone again lol

Been a good game so far, we've done well enough. Only thing ruining it is Murphy's voice coming on the commentary every now and then to say something useless.

Just now, Trinidad Rover said:

Szmodic feeding of scraps in this new ‘style’. He looks so frustrated.

We have been utterly dire.

Szmods won't be here next season... he looks fed up.

Bucko completely changing our play since coming on. Would love a winner from him!

Ayari, Garrett and Wharton need to all come off at half time. 

Haven't watched us in a while, but wow we have regressed badly. Don't remember us in such complete disarray, and I've seen us play some really poor games.

Wharton has misplaced his pass about 10 times already.