The primary responsibility for turning the situation round and doing Jack Walker's memory justice, lies with the players.

The fans can only do so much. They can't put the ball in the net, or cut out the schoolboy defending.

As for some of you others:

KennySuperBuy...you`re the one I have most respect for because since day dot you`ve not been happy with Souness so your complaints have a lot of foundation even if most of us disagree with you.Thats life.

Then theres RevidgeBlue. Yes we do recognise the problems so don`t acuse us of not being true fans. There is a difference between getting behind the team when they need us most ( which includes the gaffer ) and sheer blind faith. After everything Souness has achieved at our club I think he has earnt the right for more time. Stay off them bandwagons.

Jim...just bitter

Jan2....are you getting religion and football in a muddle?

Rover6.......in all my time on this messageboard you are by far and away the worst contributor by a country mile. Even Burnley fans like CC and Sam speak more sense than you and its even an insult for a dingle to be compared with your sort.

There are others

Stick to your effing bandwagons the lot of you.

Us fans will stick together.

Bugger, was trying not to post but can't let this go.......

So if people don't happen to agree with your point of view then they're not a "fan" Fair enough.

If you're going to be rude about it, I might as well be rude too and advise you to take your head out of the effing sand.

I hope that I am not a bandwagon jumper and that my views are consistent whether or not people necessarily agree with them.

My view is that I support Blackburn Rovers not Graeme Souness. Unqualified support for him can only last so long and if performances and  results don't improve over the next month (after Birmingham on December 6 personally ) I feel the club have little option but to try a different approach.

We CAN NOT afford to go down.

If that sad day did arrive, (and let's hope it never does as a result of the players starting to perform for him) it wouldn't be a case of "Never darken our doorstep again" more a case of "Thanks for everything you've done. - you're welcome back anytime."

You may not agree, but I'm not going to start accusing you of not being a fan if you don't, we just hold differing viewpoints on the best way forward.

and sacking sounness would do what exactlty?

Might replace him with someone who gets the team playing for them/ to their potential perhaps.

Anyone who turns a blind eye to the current predicament is not a true fan of Blackburn Rovers in my eyes.

Might equally well have said the same about Iley, Harford, Hodgson, Kidd at the time.

Souness has done well in the past but that was then and this is now.

Its not rocket science to see  where we are Rev,but saying if you dont want souey out then you are not  atrue fan..ABSOLUTE @#/?!!!!!!!!!!

We missed some gilt edge chances today and we should have a pen,you cant lay it on soey ffs.

Don't turn my words around, I said that if you turn a blind eye to our current situation (not if you don't want Souness out) you're not a true fan.

Personally I don't want Souness out, I would rather he turned  it round, but if he hasn't done it within the next month I would favour a change of direction to try and save the club.

Not sure that I would agree with Jim's analogy but after today's shambles I think Souness is nearing the point of no return.

Since the Wolves game I have seen no SPIRIT whatsoever in the team. (The 10 men against Liverpool honourably excepted.)

This is about supporting Blackburn Rovers and not Graeme Souness or any other individual.

But Revidge who the hell would you replace him with and how would you finance any rebuilding?

It would be financial suicide to sack Souness at this point in the season, he needs until Christmas at least and then I’d hesitate to remove him even if we were bottom of the league then.

SPIRIT? Did you not see Wednesdays display?

We hammered Leicester today and got nothing which is a worry I agree but if Thompson learned how to pass a football and Emerton added to that, both Cole and Yorke would have had a hatful.

As for rover6 adding hoddle to his list? i'm now sure he's a ringer. After the cup final no real Rover would want hoddle and his god squad anywhere near Ewood Park.

Hammered Leicester today?

Sorry GAV, saw a different game. All the possession, no desire no urgency, 1st (and only) decent shot on target from Cole after 62 mins.

Yes, the spirit on Wednesday was great. But it's been missing in every other game than that apart from Wolves.

I would repeat my view that the situation needs to have turned round by the end of the month.

and sacking sounness would do what exactlty?

Might replace him with someone who gets the team playing for them/ to their potential perhaps.

Anyone who turns a blind eye to the current predicament is not a true fan of Blackburn Rovers in my eyes.

Might equally well have said the same about Iley, Harford, Hodgson, Kidd at the time.

Souness has done well in the past but that was then and this is now.

Not sure that I would agree with Jim's analogy but after today's shambles I think Souness is nearing the point of no return.

Since the Wolves game I have seen no SPIRIT whatsoever in the team. (The 10 men against Liverpool honourably excepted.)

This is about supporting Blackburn Rovers and not Graeme Souness or any other individual.

In the summer if we'd kept Dunn and Duff and Berg and spent NO money everyone would have been mightily upset I'm sure.

So having made £7-£8m profit on the summer dealings I'll be extremely brassed off if an announcement is made that the manager has no money to spend in the transfeer window.

As to who the manager should be by then, nearly fell off my chair this morning looking at the League table. A defeat today would make us rock bottom. (Let's not split hairs about goal difference please.)

As I see it we have four matches in November, three of which are very winnable (Leicester Everton and Spurs) and one from which anything will be a bonus. (Manure + biased home ref at OT)

In December we have a further five games which take us up to the halfway stage of the season. However we've all heard that seemingly immutable stat whereby the team that is bottom at Christmas is always relegated. Not sure we can afford to wait until New Year if things haven't improved by then.

So as far as Souness is concerned it's a vastly improved performance and an absolute minimum of 6 points required in  November for me, followed by a similar improvement throughout December. If November fails to bring any improvement then sorry, no-one is bigger than the Club and I feel we will have to look at a different approach.

Compared to pre Jack Walker days this is still bloody paradise.

Yes it is, but let's get it right, we have much better players than we had in the pre uncle jack days and for whatever reason they're simply not performing at the moment.

I don't think we have enough money to bring in the number of quality players that a new manager would need to get us out of the relegation position that Souness will have left us in IF he was sacked around the christmas period, Revidge.

If that were to happen then I think we would be relegated.

I hope that if this did come to pass I will be proved to be wrong.

Other than the fact I think we need a striker, the players we have should easily be good enough for a top 10 finish.

At the moment the team are playing like Fulham did last season under Tigana. We need them to start playing like the current Fulham under Coleman.

Whether that will need them to listen to another voice remains to be seen. Hopefully not.

or for the lads to have a team-building exercise in a Manchester hotel which involves fire-extinguishers at 3am and pints of lager being poured into a concert grand!

Less likely now that David May has left the Club.  

We just do not have the money for a newcomer to buy new players and the present players are mostly here because of Souness. Either he and them will turn this potential catastrophe around or we will be relegated.

Can't agree with that at all tash. Souness deserves more time to turn things round but the Board MUST surely give the Club every chance of survival in its present form if results don't improve under him.

As a side issue, where has this assumption "we've no money" come from?. When Duff was sold Souness was quoted on Sky as saying that the money for Amoruso/ Gresko/ Emerton etc had been set aside even before the Dunn/ Duff sales. I accept that the wage bill may well be full which is a different matter entirely.

I thought that article was more or less spot on. A frank no punches pulled opinion from an outsider looking in.

The only bit that was wrong was the bit about "before Blackburn are sucked into a relegation fight"

We're in one already.

There's no reason at all why we can't turn it round if we abandon the futile 4-5-1 formation, the players start pulling their weight and Souness concentrates on our own predicament rather than brawling with the opposition staff in the touchline/tunnel.

That said the level of self denial on here about our current position is quite staggering and extremely depressing.

Stop the bellyaching, get behind the team, don't bay for blood if we go one behind and show a little faith.  We will not be relegated and we will turn this around.

No team is ever too good to go down.

We could quite easily be relegated and will be if we maintain our current "form".

No disrespect but it's blind optimism and complacent attitudes such as this which represent as big a danger to us as anything.

Perhaps when we finally hit the bottom Souness will offer his resignation. On present form, that will be sooner rather than later.

Given the lucrative contract he is on,can't see that ever happening jim. (him resigning that is, not us hitting rock bottom, which will will take about another fortnight on the form shown over the last eleven games)

I don't envy the Board on this one, they are in a no win situation. If they back Souness and we are relegated they will be accused of failing to take action, if they sack him they will undoubtedly take horrendous flak from the "Souey is god and can do no wrong" brigade.

Whilst I don't think there is any need to seriously consider a change of direction yet, I would not be of the same opinion if performances and results hadn't improved in 6-8 weeks time.

radio rovers...... no offence nat but they should turn that studio into a padded cell ...they said it was a good game and we played well??

souness ?we got mugged??no we were #####.

Agree entirely Abbey.

Felt like throwing the radio out of the window. Plus when people started ringing in to say how bad the game was Gerald did his usual trick of butting in and not letting the caller have his say. It's on occasions like these that the station loses all credibility.

I know it's a club station but a modicum of realism is required otherwise there's no point being on air.

As for Souey saying we were "mugged" after both the Fulham and Charlton games I hope that was purely a comment for public consumption designed to avoid players being criticised in public.

If he really does believe that then I'm afraid the game is well and truly up.

Welcome to the board Jason, hope you'll be a regular contributor.

As I said before best of luck with the column.

However if you don't mind me saying IMO it is difficult if not impossible to write about something you haven't actually seen.

Therefore given the financial constraints the LET are forced to work under and your situation I would suggest taking full advantage of Sky/Norwegian TV where available and if possible try to get to those matches which aren't being televised.

Or do you want me to do the away games?

All the best

Simon

Has Revidge been given the chop with the launch of a new season? Or is it that he is on holiday?

Tonights Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

Errr...... yes I've been given the chop Lynn, not really any  other way of putting it I'm afraid.

There has though been an initial suggestion I might have some involvement with a new LET project but nothing definite has transpired as yet.

P.S. Best of luck to Jason.

Telegraph team

Friedel

Finnan

Terry

Henchoz

Taylor

Scholes

Dunn

Duff

Jansen

Henry

Solskjaer

Shall be there with better half.

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

From what I saw the ticket restrictions worked in that "infiltration" was at an absolute minimum given the circumstances.

I only saw two fans ejected from Jack Walker lower and one from the Blackburn End.

However closing half the turnstiles in the Jack Walker stand is a difficult one to work out.

One thing i noticed was that the usual "old bid" make up of S/T holders in my area were almost all absent and in their place was an altogether more vocal brand of youngish to middle aged male showing that there is a wider pool of potential support than we've been attracting for some games.

They're never likely to return if we can't play better than that though.

A lot of people are being far too generous.

Just about everyone on the pitch was a disgrace to the shirt, the name of Blackburn Rovers, and Jack Walker.

Every time a ball was played forward the Celtic player was at least a second quicker to react.

Too angry to go into specifics.  

Woodlands on Preston New Rd. nr. Billinge School.

West View is at bottom of Revidge Rd. Dog Inn bit further up.