Provides alot of compensation when the club you're supposed to be managing is doing badly.

Smallwood was a good player for us in League One. He deserves better than being humiliated tonight. The club should have helped him find another club this summer - and he would have departed with a farewell with a job well done.

Why should they look concerned? They've got another £30,000 pay slip coming next month.

Pep Mowbray decided to sacrifice a trip to Wembley so we can concentrate on our promotion push. The fans are with him on his strategy.

Is there a new football law that we have to concede 2 goals every game we play?

Dack's goal - awful League 2 defending. This is still an embarrassment.

No point trying to work out Pep Mowbray's strategy. Something's rotten in the state of Ewood.

Mowbray on easy street. £500k a year (guessing) going into his retirement fund and no one looking over his shoulder. His pension advisers love the commission.

In a proper football club, the manager would be hauled into the boardroom for an explanation after the start to the season we've had. Who is he answerable to?

Everyone is confused over what Mowbray is trying to do so I'm sure the players are confused. I've no doubt that were Mowbray to be sacked this week, results would improve. Sheff Wed are doing very well without a manager

Just a feeling. Something's clearly not right.

The team he picked and the way Rovers are playing is by the way. There's a real bad feeling around the club at the moment.

All 200 of them ?

.... visited many times. Like it alot but couldn't live there. And worst of all, there's no Rovers.

Lovely. Come home lad. Thatcher has gone and US under Trump must be hell.

Mowbray looking to the future by including the up and coming Smallwood and Evans. Or maybe they're getting game time with a view to a recall at the weekend?

Next season, next season. Always jam tomorrow.....which never arrives.

Hope she enjoys it and is hooked for life. Mine considers supporting Rovers through her school years as the most character testing thing she has ever done.

Can you have non-playing captains? They do in golf. Bennett would make a very good non-playing captain.

Does beg the question of why we signed him, because many fans thought his injury record made him too much of a risk and it would be a mistake. Presumably he's only here because no one else wanted him - and he's cheap.

Playing well and losing is a very bad sign. It's what relegation teams do.

Burnley beating soton 3-0 the gulf widens

Thanks for that insight. A damning indictment on the club and the depths to which it has sunk. Is this Mowbray's fault or the admin people or a combination of factors? And why was the club captain unceremoniously shoved out of the door so quickly? Bennett as captain will not go down well either

Yes, so would I.

Cunningham seems well received but in an ideal world, would have loved Austin (instead of Gallagher), and Reed, and a big centre back, which we are still sorely lacking. With them on board as Bowyer said we might have been able to have given it a right good go. Have to say overall, it's been a disappointing window.