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Alebyosu trained today and available for selection tomorrow according to the LT. Logging onto Rovers TV is a high tension 5 minutes these days usually involving a no match being screened interlude then being told to buy a subscription (I have a season sub) before getting onto the match screen...

With 27 players eligible to be registered, who decides who misses out?

Mowbray ruled out according to the LT.

Really surprised they have fired him even though Ismael's demeanour for the Hull game was dead man walking. Great way to deflect whatever the transfer budget onto Ismael compo and have an excuse for the pitch not being renewed. Hiding behind the sofa until the replacement is announced and probably needing a tin hat and white flag when it is. Like others I think a replacement is already all but in the building.

Everton won't be letting Patterson go according to my link at the John Dickinson Stationery

One thing is certain, unlike Lambert, JDT and Eustace, Ismael isn't going to sack the club.

Amazed to see I am the first to use the term "must win" for this one. Not only for Rovers survival (a win lifts us out of the bottom three) but if there were any sanity at Rovers, Ismael's position as Chief Coach.

At least Dapo is recognition that deNeve isn't going to hack it. Highly dubious deNeve and Tavaeres would hack it among league 1 cloggers. If Aleboyosu were leaving I wouldn't have made the precautionary change at half time on Saturday. And no way would I play Cadamarteri ahead of Ohashi. I am hoping for a lost fax machine today to be honest. That is my vote of non confidence in Gestede, Pasha and Ismael.

Hull won the sort of game sides chasing promotion win. Out played, scored with an offside goal. Rovers lost the sort of game relegated sides lose. Had the majority of the play without really threatening and got sucketed. There were enough signs we can get out of our predicament and enough warning signs we won't. Be grateful for the Baggies implosion and Leicester disciplinary headache.

I confidently predict the paperwork will be done by 8pm on Monday..

I think this is where we get it wrong. The Rao wealth of 2 to 4 billion is a very old figure. What we do know was the late father benefitted from a deal which gave him ownership of a third of the collar of land which went all round Pune sometime in the early 1990s in return for making sure it was developed Pune has grown fivefold since then. A third of the land area of Pune today is worth over a hundred billions. Now cut that figure dramatically because they don't have an interest in the central areas then the Raos are still easily worth ten billion plus today and their growth in paper wealth each year has massively outstripped the cash put into Rovers.

Blackburn knows how to do a boycott. Tickets sold for the screening of the Melania film in Blackburn are ZERO

Folks with Rao wealth are wired completely differently.

Palace falling apart at the moment. On current form of all the teams in the bottom half, they will go down.

Whenever these two play it has been a nightmare for the home side in recent seasons. Incredibly Hull will be playing us with very realistic expectations of challenging for an automatic promotion spot. All I can see are the biggest thugs in our division.. We have gone 210 minutes without letting a goal in against the Tigers- another 100 minutes or so of clean sheet would be very welcome.