I wouldn't be totally against Gerrard until the end of the season, dont really rate him as a manager, but you'd imagine his appointment would pump up the motivation levels of the players temporarily. John Williams always reckoned we needed a famous manager to boost our profile. It's still such a simple conundrum to solve. Warnock or Allardyce until the end of the season. The problems come after that if we dont go up.

We've got a fairly unique opportunity for the next 14 games, we've pocketed £750k for Eustace and Im all of a sudden reading names like Boateng, Richie Wellens and, unsurprisingly because he's the cheapest option and has won a game, David Lowe. (who equally unsurprisingly we're told hasn't ruled himself out) Holy crap. If any of those 3 are appointed, the tanks should be rolling up to Ewood. I can only hope the media have it completely wrong and havent a clue what's really going on.

Oh do give over. Whether or not people agree with the timing of his jumping ship, you must be be literally the only person who thinks that. Why are you bothered what he'll be earning at Derby?

I think even if you'd like to give Lowe the gig ( I wouldnt) you've got to hang fire. If you give it him now until the end of the season and we lose the next 3 you've nowhere to go. If we win or get good results over the next 3 or 4 it'd probably be a lot safer to give it him.

What happens if we lose the next 3?

Sorry jim, having trouble replying with me poor old broken thumbs. Lol.

And even if they were the ONLY reason, why would you blame him for that.

They certainly will, they've played an absolute blinder in that respect.

My eye was drawn to the name Cameron Toshack near the bottom of the list. Had no idea who he was but as the name would suggest he's the son of the great John. No managerial experience but been on the Coaching staff at Leeds apparently. I dont know where they get some of these names from. Lol. At 75 Dad would be a better bet if he's still mentally and physically fit.

Come on you're splitting hairs there. Like comparing cholera with typhoid. No offence to the gentlemen concerned, talking about their managerial records.

Whilst I liked our last manager but one a lot, blimey. The cult of JDT is still going strong!

What people are completely losing sight of in their haste to berate Eustace, like a jilted lover, is how bad it must REALLY be behind the scenes at Ewood to pass up a chance of promotion, albeit a slim one, in favour of joining a Club in 22nd. I suspect we wont find out just how bad until the end of next season. Unless the miracle happens of course.

That's your argument completely destroyed in a couple of paragraphs. I dont blame either for wanting to leave but I think there's a strong argument that JE behaved far more profesionally than JDT. He may have had poor results towards the end but we werent getting beaten 2's and 3's every week with tactics that clearly werent working.

Hopefully Nixon is doing it out of spite. Although he does seem to have been toeing the Club line recently so its rather worrying.

This is crying over spilt milk but I dont know why anyone thinks he hasnt. 1) The Club agreed to him having a get out clause. 2) He exercised it but only after giving the Club a chance to rectify matters which they completely threw back in his face. Basically there's no difference between him and JDT and no-one seemed to blame him for leaving. Both tried to get the Club to be more ambitious, only difference being there was a bit more of a gap between JDT leaving and taking the Sweden job although Im sure he had rightly got pissed off and had it lined up in advance.

Well, or whether he's at any Club in a significantly better position than us. It's a career to him, he's not a fan.

The acid test of whether he was right, regardless of what he did or didnt say, is where both Clubs are in 3-5 years time.

For me we have 14 "must wins" coming up. If we get to the stage where we're 4 points clear of seventh with a game to go etc the rest of the regular season ceases to be "must win". Then, when the regular season finishes 3 more must wins hopefully!

Maybe without going 2 down first though! And did we miss a penalty as well or am I imagining that?

I wouldnt be surprised at all but (devil's advocate mode) if he wins another couple (and he should win on Saturday really) it almost starts to become a risk replacing him. We need to act ASAP but probably won't.

Suspect there's a significant difference between now and Mowbray/Eustace. Bowyer and Coyle had both been under performing for a significant time. This appears to be a situation barely a week in the making.

No departing manager is ever going to say that in public about his former Club. Ever. He's been careful to leak his reasons for leaving though. Seemingly to the LT.

Sorry got to give that nasty little personal attack on him the thumbs down.

Doesnt matter. We only needed him here until the end of the season. Plus if they acceded to his wishes on player contracts it would be to the Clubs benefit in the long run.

Yep, expect the "we have to make sure we bring the right type of players" of the transfer window in to be replaced by "What's important is we get the right man in". Which we might conceivably do - when its too late for this season. It ought to be possible to get the right man for the rest of this season in immediately if we make a short term appointment then reasses at the end of the season.