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The problem is, England are overloaded with midfield players with the latest Anderson (an excellent player) breaking through and another who is ahead of Wharton You get the feeling Adam is going to need a move to a "big" club for England to pick him

Tomasson took us within goal difference of the play-offs - the closest we've got since coming down from the PL. Some of the football was beautiful to watch and he oversaw one of the best nights of football and excitement I've seen in many, many years in the FA Cup victory over Leicester City at the Kingpower. Fantastic. For that I'm grateful. Wish he was still here - working with a board that backed him

I have been to Coventry about 6 times from memory and my record is P6 L6. Yep, that's nul points out of 18 So why am I thinking of going again? Because it can't get any worse (can it?) and if we were somehow able to secure a point it will feel like a win. And of course this could be our last season in the Championship for some considerable time - so it will sad but poignant to see 2 clubs heading in opposite directions.

Dear, oh dear Sheff Utd haven't won a game this season I believe? We all know what's going to happen

Utter nonsense The only difference between them and us is they're well managed and ambitious - rather like Burnley.in fact. I'd written today off as a defeat and see it as a point gained. They all count in the relegation fight we're in

Has Kargbo scored? He must have miskicked it

Storm-force winds here, game would awful to watch if it went ahead. What's it like in Ewood area? Assuming they play, can't see anything other than another defeat. Ismael v Robins. What reason for optimism is there? Rovers 0 Stoke 2

The truth is they've all been poor managers and it's hard to say which has been worst, though Ismael could yet prove us wrong. Watched Rovers get tonked 4-0 at West Ham under Iley and we were awful, one of the worst performances I've seen from a Rovers team. He also gets my vote

Cannot comment on players I’ve never seen play so combination of greatest players and “great Rovers” in my lifetime: Clayton, Douglas, Garner, Shearer

Ismael has been sacked from 4 of the 11 clubs he's managed as far as I can make out. West Brom sacked him after winning 12 out of 31 matches. He's won 4 out of 12 with us. Time to go

General consensus among Barnsley fans appears to be that Ismael benefited from the good work and foundations laid by the previous manager. That season was obviously an aberration - his managerial career is a litany of failure that somehow made him worthy of a 3.5 year contract at Ewood

He’s lasted an average of 7 months at the multitude of clubs he’s managed We gave him a 3.5 year contract Work that one out

Were you playing in the band on the Titanic as it went down?

Screw the LET ban and the niceties. Jackson should give the team and the club a rollicking in his match analysis (assume he’s doing one). If the club doesn’t like it, tough. Home truths need to be said

2-1 final. All the worst fears about this manager and this squad are being realised. Neither are good enough. Had the feeling a few times over the decades and this season has relegation written all over it. It’s all so sad and even at my age, it’s very upsetting

Decent amateurs wouldn't make those mistakes Den.

Swansea 2-1. This team, under this manager, is going to get relegated.

Why would any CEO or club award a 3.5 year contract to a manager with Ismael's dismal record (Barnsley excepted where even there he reaped the reward of the previous manager's work) ? Or even employ him at all? He's clearly a dud and the only conclusion, stated by others previously, is that he was available and cheap By the end of the season in May he'll have been at Rovers about 15 months, which will be his longest of any club in his managerial career. And will he be sacked if he leads us to relegation - of course he won't

Too close for comfort in the end but it's nice to beat that lot, especially on their home soil

Of course. Rovers lose and you win and Rovers win you’re happy too.

Agree Ismael has to prove he is flexible and show he can make the team play well and win games more than one way

The Blades were my surefire bet for promotion this season - I think I even had them winning the league. Shows how much I know 😄 Selles has turned wine into water and was obviously a poor appointment but Wilder's return (again) is bizarre and is a poor reflection on the Sheff Utd owners

Our 2 wins have been away from home - does that tell us something about the way Ismael has set the team up and wants Rovers to play? Until this new team of misfits and poundshop bargains can show it can win at home too I see yesterday as a welcome 3 points in what is going to be a long hard battle to stay in this division this season.

Ismael is part of the problem in that, like most of the players, he isn't very good He made it a bit of name for himself at Barnsley but, as been pointed out, he benefited there from the good work done by the previous manager. In his 14 year managerial / coaching career he's been at 10 clubs. He's never been anywhere longer than 2 seasons Will he walk or will he be sacked? Either way, he's unlikely to be here very long And so it goes on, lurching from one crisis to another