You would! It was the players who cost us a chance of the play offs by sulking for six and a half games after Eustace left so I'm not sure why people are queuing up to lavish praise upon them. I think den is the only one who has it right with his appraisal, at the end of the day it was another wasted season in what has become a race against time given the problems presented by the ownership and management.

He's failed in his task for this season but we're likely stuck with him for the forseeable so no alternative but to get behind him unless or until he proves otherwise next season. Personally think he'll be fairly bomb proof if he keeps us bobbing along just above the safety line whilst introducing a few Academy players along the way. Probably not what the majority of us want to see as fans but I suspect that's as good as it will get under this ownership from now on. One thing's for certain though, if he's genuinely expecting substantial support in the summer to remould the squad in his own style, he's likely to end up as disapppinted as the last 2 Head Coaches.

That's probably an extremely low bar.

Are you saying you WOULD renew Heges or you think that's just what they'll do? He has to be top of the pile of crap imo.

Of course you weren't. Why be so keen to point out that he didn't put his entire fortune in, or wasnt knighted then? It's one thing being the Board's comedy contrarian at every opportunity which is often good value but that was just incredibly poor form.

What incentive is there for anyone half decent to stay? They can stay at a Club with no aspirations of promotion on (relatively) rubbish money or..... And that's assuming the Club havent already been taking steps to flog them off to keep the lights on in the first place.

Im fairly sure "Good old Uncle Tone" went well beyond that and gave him another deal of some sort. Maybe someone will be able to confirm.

So in your desperation to be contrary, you're now belittling Jack Walker's contribution. That's extremely poor from yourself. I dont think it's in any real dispute that his overall input was in the order of £120 - £130m. Whether or not it was his entire fortune, that was a hell of a lot of money 30 -35 years ago. Then on top of that there were the funds grudgingly put in after his death by the family who had no real interest in football.

That sums it up perfectly. You have to look at the season in context. OF COURSE we'd have taken seventh before a ball was kicked etc etc but given the fact we unexpectedly occupied the play off positions for most of the season and viewed from where we were with twelve games to go, seventh is another dismal failure. Added to that the Coach who was mainly responsible for getting us into a decent position left in February for a team in the relegation zone and the Club subsequently bizarrely admitted that the play offs were never our priority. Therefore impossible to view the season in any sort of positive light imo, indeed it's probably going to be the forerunner of something far worse.

I wouldnt touch Dennis with a bargepole. Sanderson is a likeable sort but looks fairly ordinary to me at the end of the day. We need better but I suppose you could say that about nearly every area of the pitch.

Excellent analysis. The only one Id disagree with was Cantwell who as usual I thought was particularly poor. Terrible defending from Hyam for their goal and there you have it, season over, despite the fact we were playing a second string side who had nothing to play for and weren't really at it.

Disagree completely on Dolan, agree 100% on Hedges. Agree on Dennis, Sanderson, Woodrow get rid. Ditto Forshaw. Weimann knows how to be in the right place at the right time and score the odd goal but his legs have gone. I wouldnt offer him a new deal. Batth must be offered another year imo.

Sobered up a bit but not really calmed down after yesterday. Everything went in our favour yesterday. Sheffield rested seven players and had nothing to play for, results fell in our our favour as our local rivals Burnley and surprisingly Preston did us a massive favour, we took the lead and STILL couldnt get the job done. There's a massive mentality issue at the Club and seemingly no desire to ever achieve any success, over the years we've perfected the art of grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory no matter how impossible it initially appeared to do whilst at the same time managing to make it look like a relatively close run thing. When are we ever going to achieve any success? The out and out optimists like chaddy and the die hard fans like arbitro who trailed up to Sunderland for what was ostensibly a dead rubber deserve so much more. The damage wasnt really done yesterday but in the dire run of two points from twenty four when the players looked as though they couldnt care less. As usual we played ourselves out of contention, rallied when it was too late then when against all odds there was actually a chance, couldnt get the job done. As for Ismael, overall fifteen points from twelve games was a pretty poor return and Im not convinced he's the man for the job but we're stuck withh him for 3 years regardless. As for the owners and the 3 stooges, funding cut off and the vast majority of the family silver already flogged off. Difficult to see anything other than a downward direction of travel, and fast, unless Glen and the coalition have any joy in shifting them and attracting new ownership. P.S. How bad was Dennis yesterday? Seems Waggott's genius move to bring in a player on £20k p.w. who hadnt kicked a ball in over 10 months wasnt so inspired after all. And rudderless speedboat Kargbo wasnt much better. Apart from that.........all good. Lol.

Lol.

Sorry, he has some ability, but nowhere near as much as he thinks he has and I think he's been absolutely dreadful over the course of the season.

You also have to wonder with all the various implosions over the years, whether there's an element of turkeys not voting for Christmas amongst the players. Do we have anyone currently who could genuinely cut it at PL level? Regardless, let's hope tomorrow is the start of us breaking that cycle to the chagrin of the 3 stooges.

That's the obvious thing to do - especially if we scrape into the play offs.

Our friend ... seems fo be getting particularly worked up about this fixture - I really hope the team put in a performance for those in attendance tomorrow. At the start of the week I was quite excited about it but the nearer we get to the match the more my gut is telling me to expect the soggiest of damp squibs and that we wont turn up, or at least not until results elsewhere make our own result irrelevant. For those who think like me and want to help drown their sorrows a Bristol City/ Burnley/Coventry/Sheffield United acca pays about 12/1. For those who want to crack open the champagne to celebrate being half way there, a Bristol City/Burnley/ Middlesbrough/ Rovers acca pays about 26/1. The draw in the Coventry game makes it about 31/1. Ill be putting a fiver on each.

Ill predict we'll get none of the first 3. We've needed more quality up front since Adam Armstrong left but (decent) strikers cost money. On the CH positions, hopefully Scott Wharton will be back and somewhere near his best. I hope we give Batth a new deal. Carter should be back but will he be sold? I certainly wouldnt be averse to selling Hyam if we can get our money back on him as I dont rate him at all. He's only any use with someone like Batth or Wharton playing particularly well alongside him.

You dont deny we had c4k adult season ticket holders last year though?

My mate and his son after much soul searching have decided not to give up their ST's but to switch from the BBE to the Riverside on account of the price increase. If a lot of people do that, the atmosphere will be horrific next year with the BBE more than half empty. Not sure how it'll help them hit Revenue targets either. But hey, who needs atmosphere and passion when the main aim is not to win football matches but develop and sell a few players?

I must admit, if the aim of the Coalition is to remove the owners then I cant see a great deal of value in sitting down with the Club. Once you've sat down with them and asked "Will you sell the Club?" and they say "No". - where do you go after that? It's only if you've got a Plan B and are prepared to try and encourage them to fund the Club properly whilst they're here that there's much room for discussion. On the Yasir front, of all the things you could complain about I think this is pretty small beer in the general scheme of things. It would appear he's lived in Blackburn all his life but has been an Arsenal fan since errrr.......around the time Venky's took us over and we went shit. It seems he's guilty of doing the usual sort of thing players do when transferring to a new Club and claiming they've supported the Club all their lives but so what? It doesnt matter who he supports it only matters whether he's any good at his job. It might also be that he didn't mean his comments exactly in the way in which they were construed by WATR but by the same token I dont think he should be making such a thing about being a victim in all of this, if anything he should be apologising for not making what he meant clear enough. Either way it shouldnt be a big deal for either side imo. Far more important stuff to worry about. Final point about results, in many ways they've been the enemy of your protest efforts recently, but unless everything falls miraculously into place yet again for the umpteenth successive round of fixtures tomorrow, they will suddenly be your friend again. If we dont make the play offs that will still be a pretty poor effort from where we were when VI took over and then we'll be stuck with him for another 3 years. Alternatively if the minor miracle happens tomorrow and then he takes us up through the play offs you can sit down with the Club and discuss where the statue of him is going to be situated! Keep up the good work.

Im genuinely surprised you're surprised. In the early days at least the owners were funding the Club. That stopped a couple of years ago and two top managers have walked out in the space of twelve months on the back of it. One of them to join a Club in the bottom 3. Since the early days we've also had prices being raised by up to 25% for a season where no one could attend during Covid, the aborted attempt to sell off Brockhall, and high profile transfers collapsing at the last minute on two successive January windows allegedly due to "administrative" errors. What's so difficult to understand? They finished me off even before all the recent shenanigans three seasons ago by failing to secure a play off place when it seemed inpossible not to.

If you do have any sort of line through to the owners can you make them fully aware of Pasha's comments from the Fans Forum along the lines that they always request the maximum possible funding from the owners but its up to them how much they actually provide. I must admit I always assumed the opposite and Waggott and Paaha discouraged requests to the owners for money to make themselves look bettwr and protect any performance related bonuses.

It always baffles me how we dont deem certain youngsters worthy of any minutes in our first team yet Premier League Clubs obviously think they're worth a punt.