Burnley have looked certs for the drop all season but can still escape if results go their way. Conversely, there's usually a club that sinks from mid-table in January down to the bottom - we're this season's candidates 

3 hours ago, Ianrally said:

So we have never won the Premier League then? 
I still refer to the Second Division because it’s full of second rate teams. 

So by your reasoning we won the first division in 1995? 

33 minutes ago, leicvisitor said:

Leicester fan here in peace.  Just a heads up to Blackburn fans....Leicester could have sold out king power twice over for this one.  Still hundreds of city fans after a ticket (just check our forum).  I'm sure many would gladly pay over the odds if any Blackburn fans fancy making a few quid and selling their ticket...they won't mind being in the Blackburn end  Likely to be loads around the ground with no ticket on match day. Or contact people who are asking on our forum

There would bound to be an inquiry into how Leicester fans managed to get into the Rovers (never Blackburn) end that would likely get the club into trouble and then there's the potential for trouble when those Leicester fans are indentified among the Rovers supporters - it's inevitable. It's a non-starter I'm afraid. Congrats on promotion by the way but hope the result is the same as the FA Cup tie on your middin last season when we quite frankly took your lot apart 

Why do folk still refer to the Premier League as the Premiership? The Premiership ceased to exist in 2001

6 hours ago, Mercer said:

 

 I also find his interviews cringeworthy, IMO, full of cliches, platitudes and bullsh1t

It's the lack of intelligence, footballing or otherwise, that grates, a complete contrast to Tomasson, a Dane whose command even of English is better than that of Eustace. Successful football managers don't have to be educated but they do have to be clever, and this guy isn't clever. Survive or go down, I'd bin him. But of course with Waggott in charge, his mate will be staying., 

2 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I’m not having that Jim. If we’d have held onto the lad until Summer we’d have got much more. Not only that but we wouldn’t have been staring down the barrel of the relegation gun next Saturday. When he walked out of the door at least 50% of our creativity went with him.

Palace were willing to pay £18m - they wasn't any other interest at that level as far as I'm aware. Would we have got more in the summer - maybe, maybe not. Might Palace have lost interest by then?

It's like selling a house - you'd love (say, £100k), but there's only one buyer interested and he's willing to pay £95k tops. Do you say no or take the money that's on the table and move on? I think that's what Rovers have done with Wharton.

The real issue as I stated is that Rovers had spent less than half the reported £18m for Wharton we could have got 2 or 3 very decent Championship players in. 

Isn’t it a case that all players have a price, that no matter how good they are or how big a name, that no player is unsellable? Even the likes Messi and C Ronaldo

Rovers put a price on Wharton that reflected his potential and his age, in other words he looks to have the ability to go to the highest level but he’s young and he’s inexperienced and young players sometimes do not always develop into the players they promise to be. Older Rovers fans will remember David Bradford who IIRC Ken Furphy said would be Britain’s first £1 million footballer but whose career ultimately never took off.

Rovers put a price on Wharton and ultimately Palace were the only ones willing to pay it. It’s not true to say we took the first offer that came along. Rovers could have asked £25m or £30m but no one would have gambled that sort of money on a young Championship player. And it is a gamble because there is no guarantee that any signing will work out for the best

I have no problem with the Wharton sale. Good luck to him. I wish he hadn’t gone to a nothing southern club but there you go.  The real issue is that the money has not and will not be reinvested in other players. That is where Waggott and co need to be held to account 

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I'm still amazed we allegedly turned down a £2m offer from Ipswich for him in January.

Yes, doesn’t make sense. You’d pay someone to get him off the books

Just now, Eddie said:

I'll be happy if I never see Sam Gallagher in a Rovers shirt again.

What took you so long? 

1 hour ago, Mercer said:

Saw somewhere they've already sold 4,000 tickets which is bad news for Rovers as Mark Robins (he's that kind of guy who wont want to let their fans down) will ensure his side are 'at it' irrespective of whether they have a play-off chance or not.

They’re not the only ones who will be at it. Leeds winning last night has intensified the race at the top meaning Leicester will have it all to play for in the last game.

I’m increasingly gloomy, I can’t see us getting another point.

48 minutes ago, Commondore said:

Viktor Johansson, who's been among the best keepers in the league for two seasons running despite playing for a hopeless Rotherham side, has a £750.000 relegation release clause... 

Outstanding in the game at Ewood

He'd be first on my list if we manage to stay up. 

Just watched highlights the FA Cup semi-final and you have to say there is no way we are going to win this match

Coventry were brilliant, fought every inch of the way from 3-0 down and deserved to win

And how on earth is Hyam going to cope with Sims?

Rovers 0 Coventry 4

David Moyes on MotD apologised to West Ham fans after their 5-2 defeat at Crystal Palace

Has Eustace apologised for the debacle today? 

Between them, how many points have Pears and the Swedish lad cost us this season? It must be 10-15 points thrown away through stupid, unforced errors that no professional goalkeeper should make.  

1 hour ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I struggle to see us taking another point. If B’ham lose mid-week but beat Norwich, they will very likely finish above us.

Yes we got done on goal difference last season at the top of the table and goal difference could send us down this season. It’s that tight

18 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I think its not unreasonable to expect that you should be winning against second bottom at home. Doesnt mean we will, but a draw IMO would be underwhelming.

Just listen to your old Uncle Jim - he’s seen if time and again with Rovers. Wednesday have been in much better form than us and they proved it today. 

I said on here after the abject defeat away to West Brom that I thought Rovers could easily go down and sadly it’s looking that way.

I don’t normally call any game as a “must win” (a draw would have been fine today) but the Coventry match is near as dammit a must win because I don’t think we’ll get any change out of Leicester

Today was a disaster for the club there’s no other way of describing it. 
 

1 minute ago, K-Hod said:

Seems like you were the one upset, alluding to people’s upbringings, tbf.

Not at all. Just an observation 

24 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

So people can’t just prefer different things to you, nah?

Of course. It’s one person’s opinion. Feel free to disagree. No need to get upset 

20 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

Law of Northern upbringing? I'd say your the one with strange upbringing. I'd rather anyone (except dingles) over scousers . I hate the bin dippers with a passion . 

Who would you rather get relegated Jim? Burnley or palace, Bournemouth or a west ham

In no particular order of preference Palace, Brentford, Fulham, West Ham, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea, Brighton. Bournemouth etc. Any of them will do. 

9 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

But failure to beat the worst team at home shouldnt be considered par for the course, it was a terrible result.

I dont doubt that we are not particularly good or that we may very well not win tomorrow. I just think that if we cant at least think such a fixture is winnable and anything other than a win is a huge disappointment, then there is something wrong.

Come on, they need to win far more than we do. A draw isn’t a bad result at all 

34 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

6 points from 7 games isnt very good but the league table isnt irrelevant as thats how good they have been over 43 games.

 

Since Eustace took over Rovers have taken 13 points from 13 games including 2 wins IIRC

In 13 games in the same period Wednesday have gleaned 21 points from 39, including 6 wins and giving themselves a fighting chance of survival after looking doomed all season.

Compared to us that’s good form

They will be up for it with the backing of 7000 fans tomorrow so unless we’re in the right frame of mind too and play much better at Ewood than we have been  I still don’t see how you “expect” us to win

You know how this is going to pan out. We’ll go to Leicester on the last day needing a point at least to stay up

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

 

We should expect to win. We are playing 2nd bottom at home, win and relegation is impossible, I dont get the general fear playing against such a poor side at home trying to focus on negating them. It suits them if we sit in and try to defend, if we be aggressive and press high then we can win.

Wednesday are in very good form, the league table is irrelevant. Saying we should expect to win is a bit daft to be honest seeing as we’ve only won 2 since the new manager took over

Words like "legend" are bandied around too easily. If Wilcox was a "legend" how you classify Shearer? Wilcox was a very good player for Rovers and nothing more.

Anyone who wants a London team to win anything must have had a strange upbringing. It's a fundamental law of northern football fandom. 

Football is a reflection of wider society. Just look around you and think about what's been going on for the past 40 years.

The rich do what they want, they make the rules to suit them and the rest have to follow. The rich are getting ever wealthier and more powerful while the poor are left with the crumbs under the table. 

The Premier League and the big European clubs are is a big part of all this. It's not a surprise.