We had 3 CBs (Pickering, McFadz, Carter), with Brittain and Chrisene at wing backs. But we defended excellently today. Pears made some good saves, whilst not forgetting the points his errors have cost us this season. Had to be SS, didn't it? If I'm being honest, I didn't feel relief today. Frustration at being in that position and almost an acceptance that we were going down once B'ham had scored. I wish I could be optimistic about a refresh in the summer, but the last 12-13 years have shown that it's going to be the same old.

There is an air of inevitability about this...

He played in the Football Aid In The Community game tonight at Ewood and he was still really good. Derbyshire got a hat trick and Paul Gallagher was a class above. Genuinely think all 3 wouldn't be any worse than what we've currently got in the first team.

I've played a few matches at Ewood and every time, the walkout song has been Final Countdown. Even in a charity match, with barely any fans and no atmosphere, it gave me goosebumps.

I don't mind RHCP if I'm honest, but Can't Stop isn't a good walk-out song. I'd even prefer to go back in time and have Final Countdown than that ^ I have noticed an improvement though since Miller started becoming involved. The Watford home game just before Xmas was a notable one - some crackers played. Heard lots of positive stuff around me, pre-game.

I do genuinely get (and appreciate) that. But reading those minutes, blatant lies are being told. The mildew is all over the stadium; it's impossible for Waggott to have missed it. He's actioned the fans to take/send pictures into the club. I find it honestly strange that nobody challenged this.

Seen £20k pw for Fleck from a number of sources - sure it'd been confirmed somewhere. Absolute madness. And for JRC, he's a better RB than Brittain for me (and I actually don't mind Brittain). JRC looks lost in midfield under Eustace.

Good read, enjoyed that.

Realistically he was captain in name only - he'd not been playing and Hyam had assumed the role. But that aside, I agree it was a strange move from our point of view. Made even stranger by bringing in Fleck on £20k per week. I think a midfield 3 of Tronstad, Travis and Ayari would have been the strongest we could have lined up in the 2nd half of the season.

I genuinely think 18/1 is incredibly generous odds for us to go down. Stuck a tenner on it, slightest crumb of comfort if it comes in. If it doesn't, means we've stumbled to safety.

I doubt he's played enough games to qualify for a medal, or to even feel part of the celebrations. Seems to have sat on the bench for the entirety of the match every time I've checked in on their results.

The message should be of feeling frustrated and anger at even being in that situation, considering we were still challenging the top 6 in December. Celebrating survival in the Championship. Wow. As for 'turning us around'. This is a guy who has failed to win a single home match, despite playing against the dregs of the division. He is teetering very close to Kean levels of blatant bullshit.

The difference between the two though is that JDT's final 15 games (where he'd given up and wanted out) is at least comparable to JE's first 15. Yes JDT has Wharton, but JE has had many players returning from injury. Both should be criticised, absolutely. But I've seen nothing to suggest anything other than a struggle next season under JE.

I'm a big JDT fan, but I haven't seen anybody defend his record for the final 15 or so games. He'd clearly given up and wanted out - and this came across loud and clear. The fact that those final 15 games, as horrible as they were, equal's JE's new manager bounce (his first 15 games) is beyond worrying.

Found this astonishing. I was stood near to the big screen outside the B'burn end for a bit before the game yesterday and every part of the stadium that I looked at had clear mildew/green shit smeared all over it. Is The Fat One genuinely making out that he's walked past it on a daily basis and failed to see it?

Hard to see past a home win, even taking our unlikely win at Leeds into account. Eustace's seemingly only tactic is 'hold on for life and hope for the best', which won't hold up for 90 minutes against the best team in the league. We are relying on other teams to keep us in the division.

Completely agree with this. Several big red flags are waving with regards to Eustace and - irrespective of which division we're in next season - I can only see us finishing in the bottom few places under him.

Feels inevitable, to be perfectly honest.

We could have played another 45 minutes at the end, and we still wouldn't have scored. Playing 5 at the back, with just Gallagher up front, against 10 men and with us doing all of the pushing. When we had a literal striker on the bench. Pears managed to kick the ball and didn't throw anything into his own net. McFadzean had a good game. Dolan did some good work, but then totally ruined it by adding several unnecessary stepovers, before losing the ball. Moran was about to score at the death before Gallagher got a touch and took it away from him. Eustace has shown nothing to suggest he's competent enough to manage Blackburn Rovers. And despite it looking fairly unlikely next week, I can genuinely see us going down.

Yeah, that was the whole deal - both Zidane and Dugarry. Want to say £5m, but it's been a while and I may be wrong. Zidane was well up for the move, Dugarry not as much.

He'd been playing at a higher level than Jamie Vardy (with a similar scoring record), prior to him signing for Fleetwood. Rough diamonds are out there. Telalovic probably isn't one of them, but it's sometimes worth a punt.

Maybe just open your eyes when you go anywhere near to the stadium? (ref the below img) And as for the comments about 'the owners can send funds whenever they like, there is no issue and everything is rosy'. Does he think we are all stupid? JDT and GB have publicly stated the impact caused by restrictions placed on Venky's sending funds overseas. Has he just blatantly lied to fans?

To be fair to Telalovic, Farke gave him his Bundesliga debut not too long before we bought him. And he clearly has a knack for scoring goals at a lower level. He's not the non-league waste of space some would have you believe. I can't believe he'd have done any worse than Gallagher over the last several games.

When their GK blatantly handled the ball into our net in injury time, ultimately costing us a play off place. The same reason why I was laughing my arse off when their extra time goal against Man U was wiped off. Coventry can fuck right off. And their fans are weird.

If this happened, it would show how out of touch the senior leadership team are with...well, reality. Record low sales and we would be a laughing stock.