It's not in a Blackburnian's nature to be aggressive or hostile. Grumpy and grumbly at best. We're a family club for a reason; we're nice people up this way.

I need to reel that in a bit, I'll end up as the next manager and/or CEO.

I'd struggle to say otherwise for the existing squad, to be fair.

I'd clear the decks and play mainly kids. We're going to be shit either way, so we might as well give the promising kids a season to learn and develop. Leo / Michalski DF from: O'Riordan Batty Barnes Wharton Duru Davies Acheson MF: Gilsenan Whitehall Finneran Buckley Edmondson Farkas ST: Leonard Tyjon Telalovic Nsangou

Hull away was the big one for me. He started, played well and should really have scored 2, but it just wouldn't go in for him. Genuinely feel that he's more of a goal threat that SG ever will be.

The most depressing bit for me is that we will likely have a few quid to play with, but who is JE realistically going to attract? JDT was a legendary international-class player and he clearly knew what he wanted - we just couldn't afford them (or sabotaged the deals). It would be the most Rovers thing ever if we spent £10m-£15m this summer and wasted it on a load of dross.

He made the right choice to come, absolutely. But he then made the wrong choice in heading it to Hyam (instead of getting it as far away as possible). More importantly, he stops then saunters back to his goal, rather than sprinting back to his line - as you'd expect in that situation. He definitely played his part in the first goal. The 3rd is just bizarre how we didn't stop the ball from going over the line. The very worst case is an indirect free kick, which they're never scoring from.

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He hasn't and he won't. One of the key traits of a strong leader is humility. All JE seems capable of is sticking to a very vague script about 'sticking together', 'being competitive', or how outstanding we were. It'd stick in the throat at any time, but directly after the breath of fresh air that was JDT (in this respect), he just comes across as disingenuous and a bit dim.

I like to think there was a bit of karma for Coventry today, for the way they cheated us in injury time last season.

I've seen it a dozen times and I can't understand it at all. He actually moves his body away from the ball, when any contact (certainly with his hand or foot) keeps it out of the net. As incompetent as he is, I don't believe it would be intentional. But if it was intentional, he couldn't have done a much better job of it.

I wouldn't take that Wilson bell-end, after his handball and taunting antics against us last season. I'd rather stick Michelski in as number one.

Agreed - and I think Ayari has been unlucky not to start more games. Seems to have a mix of graft and technical ability; pretty much what we expect from JRC. Feels like JE wants to be the players' friend, rather than their boss. And anyone who has managed people at any level knows that doing that is a surefire way to fail.

We were undoubtedly in freefall at the back of JDT's tenure, but I'd still put money on us having a higher points tally right now, had he not walked. We're something like 15-20 games into JE's reign and we're still waiting on that new manager bounce. Oh, and a home win.

As long as Pears isn't in the squad and Szmodics starts, the rest are all interchangeably poor. In fact, no, Markanday and Ayari both looked like they had a bit of fight in them, when they came on - start them.