Yes I believe so

100% gone. His agent will have been putting the feelers out for months. He'll probably already have a contract on the table from Derby and I suspect that's where he'll end up, as I reckon Derby will be backing Eustace (much better than we did anyway), nabbing Dolan for a pittance will be a no brainer for Eustace you'd imagine (assuming they stay up) I think there will be some quietly confident Derby fans that should they stay up this season, they will be at the other end of the table next. In any case, that interview confirms to me he isn't staying.

Yeah I know, they appointed Coyle but at least they had a promotion from the Championship to fall back on with that (clutching at straws here). At least, they wouldn't make the same mistake twice, right?? 😬 "We are delighted to announce the arrival of Wayne Rooney as our new head coach on a 3 year deal. Rooney, who boasts a managerial high of a 28% win percentage across 4 jobs, joins Rovers having managed just 7 wins from 40 attempts in his last 2 jobs."

Yuki looking likely to be fit for this one, which is a bonus. Possibly Brittain as well. I noticed that the twitter account claiming to be some Rovers insider (Howard_RV), who fully diagnosed Yuki's injury and ruled him out for the season (in full on Mercer style) has deleted their tweet now.

Despite my incredibly low opinion of the people running the show at Ewood, I don't think even they would be that stupid to appoint Rooney. He was never in the running for the job before VI was appointed (that we know of) and his overall record as a manager is laughably poor. It would probably tip the fanbase over the edge if he was appointed. Aside from that, the club has tried it's best to push a positive narrative regarding VI's appointment and there has been plenty of talk about him spearheading a "rebuild" in the summer to fit his "style". I suspect the club have put it out there as a red herring to show us what we could end up with if we don't back the current bloke.

Leeds spent £18m on agent fees!?!! Wtf? That's probably more than we've spent on transfers in the last 10 years!

As I understand it, the owners were not able to send any money whatsoever at one point when the court case began (as confirmed by Suhail), and as a result couldn't send their usual wedge of cash over, which would be needed to pay the clubs (monthly? weekly?) outgoings such as, players wages/staff wages/utilities/transfer instalments etc etc. The club needed a cash injection to cover us for the season, and so we went begging to Prem clubs to take Wharton off us, at a cut price, presumably with a reasonable upfront payment to cover the shortfall the owners would have put in. I remember Steve Parish on talksport talking about the deal, saying something along the lines of "Blackburn needed the money" but i can't remember.

Absolutely infuriating when it's said out loud. "Our owners had to sell the best player our academy has ever produced and a generational talent, to keep the lights on due to their own incompetence. " As always though, it's the fans that suffer. It's ok though, we got 44 appearances out of him (not even a full fucking season in the championship)

It's not that cynical, it's pretty much what's going to happen. There is a small chance however, that as he is only 17, if we give him some game time he might just sign a contract (whenever he is allowed to) to stay for another season or so. Small chance but not sure what else we can do

Yeah. Tyjon is back fit i think (was on the bench at Luton) be good to get him on the pitch over these last 4 games.

Shame, been looking good lately

I don't think Ismael/the club are looking at the play offs as a realistic aim now. I'm sure he was asked post Luton something along the lines of "Now that the playoffs are realistically out of reach, is the focus on next season?". VI's response was waffle about getting the right profile of player in over the summer etc. but there was no defiant "we can still do it" answer.

I had a quick glance at their full time comments on twitter and a few in there saying Bell is poor. Didn't seem to be the most popular of players.

Hope his injury isn't too bad 🤞

I can't quite figure out why he's still there?