That really makes me uneasy. If the attendees are representative of fans of fans groups then why can we not be told everything that was said or is there something to hide. It really is a sad day for Rovers.

Waggott was uncomfortable with chants aimed at him on Saturday and I think he has used this stunt as a way to try and prevent anything negative aimed at him or the owners. The cowardly snake.

There were a few boos but nothing like you are implying. It was 0-0 at half time so there wasn't too much to get angry about. I have lost respect for some of those players moaning about something so trivial in the scheme of things.

We have plumbed new depths today. A meeting between supporters and players facilitated by a man who is really scraping the barrel. Players moaning because they heard some booing? I really am struggling to come to terms with the happenings and events of the last few days. I remember when several of the Fans Forum went to India. Over the months and years after some of them said they had been used as a publicity stunt. I can't help feeling the same right now as Waggott has run out of ideas and is using fans in a way that makes me uncomfortable.

It worked until early December when we were on the cusp of a playoff place. I don't think your 'victim mentality' notion is fair at all. I am a realist and know we are in the results business and ours have merited the managers position to at least be under review but I can't think of any manager who, with the players at his disposal could have got results.

More than likely Ian but given his offer to walk for nothing in the Summer I was being hopeful.

But there is some context to this isn't there? Pears, Hyam, Carter, Pickering, Hedges, Dolan, Gallagher, Brittain, Rankin-Costello and Sam Barnes all injured mid to long term. We signed the likes of Walstedt, Ennis and Telalovic to replace solid, experienced Championship players. Results have been shocking and under normal circumstances at a normal club I agree the manager should go but we are anything but normal. God only knows what other crap he has had to put up with.

I don't think it has anything to do with results. The writing was on the wall in Friday after the transfer window debacle and cancelling his press conference. I really hope he blows the lid on the whole sorry mess.

Sadly Ian, as has been demonstrated in the past we have an element of gullible supporters who will be satisfied somebody has gone irrespective of their role.

I saw Mike Cheston's name mentioned earlier as a person who has left/will be leaving and being made the potential fall guy BUT I have been told he is retiring at the end of February and told the club of his intention in December. It doesn't take much to work out the lack of correlation with the transfer window given the dates. They have their scapegoat nicely wrapped up with bows on.

We'd be better off getting Norman Bates. Perhaps he could make more sense of what the hell is happening down there.😂

I agree Broughton should resign after this. It's his responsibility and after his promise to review the processes last February it's happened again. The buck stops with him. He actually said in his February 23 interview that he didn't think the O'Brien and Brierley appeals would be successful and so it proved but with what appears to be a much more flimsy case we are appealing again. I'll probably spark some real debate on here but I really think that the job is too big for him. Sadly he is surrounded by many others who are in a similar vein.

I don't really know the motives behind it if it's true but my guess would be that there was a real fear that Tomasson would discredit them and their minions. That I believe is their inherent fear.

Mowbray had a bad run pretty much every season and Bowyer did too. Prior to them we didn't have a manager in situ long enough for them to go on a bad run. How many managers have we appointed who we had to pay compensation for? I think none. The conclusion I draw from that the owners don't really consider the manager/head coach an important role.

One of the big issues is that pretty much everything has to be approved by the idiots in Pune. Nobody at Ewood has the autonomy to make decisions even though the idiots have their own man and highly paid executives at Ewood. Everything involving approval to spend money moves at a snails pace as they show utter disrespect to Rovers.

The truth is I honestly don't know. I was told this about twenty minutes before kick off on Saturday and again in a phone call in the evening. There have been lots of rumours about discontent and infighting amongst the Rao siblings and this kind of story kind of adds some credence to them. Of course there will be points made to counter this but right now it's difficult to disseminate the vast majority of stories we hear. The truth is out there somewhere.

Which aligns with what I was told by two different people on Saturday namely that one of the brothers (presumably the playboy) actually sacked (through his minions) Tomasson on Friday but big sis reinstated him within a short space of time. I believe there is real disharmony at Chez Rao and we are piggy in the middle.

For anybody in any doubt listen to this again from last January. Amazingly he says he didn't think they would win the appeal but went ahead with it anyway. Broughton has to go along with the others after this latest farce which is a carbon copy.

If the deal was done earlier the and the paperwork submitted earlier then the problem could have been corrected before the deadline.

It's really incredible that it's happened again and that they are appealing the decision. And had they not messed McGuire about by calling the transfer off and then dragging him from Sheffield then nothing would have been rushed. Amateur doesn't do this and last January's fiasco justice.

It's a strange phenomenon that the quotes I see copied on here from various sources mostly have a common theme. They praise the owners yet want Tomasson sacking. that speaks volumes to me.

3-2 Rovers. Gilsenan with his second.

Now 2-2

We are currently 2-1 up against Sheffield United. Nsangou and Gilsenan the scorers. Apparently a real bollock dropped by Michalski for their goal.

Was there a Sergei the Meerkat who I recall reading was one of their 'minders'. He used to have a lot to say about them.