The Leicester Cup match was an electric night - the way we played, the fans enjoying themselves, one of the best for Rovers supporters in many years and even Sam Gallagher had a good game - but has to be set against the background of a club starting its own slide towards relegation and a manager in Brendan Rodgers who had lost heart and interest in the club and didn't know how to turn it round. Rather like Tomasson in recent months in fact. Tomasson left some good memories (and some terrible ones too), and his honesty and engagement with the fans was refreshing compared to most of his predecessors. However I'm not sorry to see him go. It's been reported that he offered to resign in the summer when he realised the "project" was a sham and probably also that the people he was working for were such low grade. If he were being honest with himself, he should have walked out then, like Paul Lambert did many years ago, but chose to carry on and has now left us in a dire situation from which we might not recover. If we do go down, this will be his legacy unfortunately, however much his fan club like to spin it.

It’s a lifelong illness mate, the bug that never ever goes away, the disease with life changing repercussions, the untreatable condition with no hope of a cure, the itch that can never be scratched. Resistance is futile

A warm welcome and best of luck to John Eustace. If he can keep us up this season and the club hopefully have a reset in the summer the future might be a bit brighter. It’s a delicious irony that his first full game in charge will be on Tuesday against his old club, Birmingham City, managed by one Tony Mowbray.

Nice. And he calls us “Rovers”, which even many seasoned “Blackburn” fans can’t manage. Good coach who likes to play in the modern way but not suited to the tough and tumble of the Championship. All the best to him

Why are you surprised that Tomasson’s departure has taken them by surprise?

It’s a “process”. Meanwhile the good ship Rovers heads for the relegation rocks.

This has to be a spoof.... surely?

Say what you think, Simon! M'learned friends might not be amused 😄

An indictment on him like all the others? If we win and our form turns round it'll be another reason to celebrate his departure.

Rovers on a dreadful run, winless in I don't know how many games Managerless teams often win after a manager departs. How big an indictment of Tomasson would that be?

We are in the top 6 all season until the very last game or two IIRC. If that's not painful I don't know what it is

Plenty of its and buts and maybes in there. The club's "Incompetency" isn't disputed, the real villains are well known and history isn't being rewritten, only the bald facts on where Tomasson has left us as he walks away

Sam talking about getting into the playoffs. Has he looked at the league table? "Bitterly disappointed" about what happened to him at Rovers So are we Sam

No one is denying the root cause of it all. It would have been great if Tomasson has been backed properly by the owners as he was led to believe. But that doesn't change the fact he had failings as a coach, and he's left us in a dire situation In the end, it's been 2 painful seasons under him. The bad luck we suffered at the end of the last season in just missing the playoffs still hurts while this season has, let's be honest, absolute agony and could get worse

Blimey, there's some dewy-eyed romantic view of the Tomasson era on here when the reality is he's left the club in the middle of a relegation fight after a calamitous sequence of results. Ambition and optimism and a good personality are fine qualities but a coach also has to know to organise a defence properly and set up a team not to give away soft goals. Tomasson was a busted flush IMO, canny Championship managers had him and Rovers worked out in the second half of last season

That's changed from years ago when I spent time with a (then) fourth division club. Players were in every day, even after midweek games.

Source? First I've heard of professional players having a midweek day off.

I asked this question yesterday. Why was no phone call made to the league to make sure they had everything? It’s belt and braces and vey basic

Luton is a “destination club” now. The world has gone mad

We’re not the first club to suffer as a result of the infamous “fit and proper test” and we won’t be the last. The pretence that the authorities actually do any due diligence on these unsuitable owners is laughable. All they appear to be concerned with is if prospective buyers of clubs have the money. If that box is ticked then the sale of clubs are in the vast majority of cases are waved through. You have to ask how many club sales been rejected over the years and the answer is very, very few, and certainly not because the buyers are “fit and proper”. The whole system is a joke and clubs like Rovers are destroyed because of it.

The past is the past. In the present Tomasson is taking us down . What was working is no longer working. And he doesn’t show any sign of turning it round. On results alone he has to go

The local McDonalds will be delighted

When his football worked it was lovely to watch, some of the best I've seen Rovers play, But dear oh dear, he hadn't a clue how to set us up to do the hard yards, the backs to the wall stuff that you need when things aren't going well.

..... To start with, Eustace was quite negative with his play as Birmingham relied on long-ball football and set pieces a little. As time progressed, though, there was more of a possession focus" Sounds like a pragmatist compared to Tomasson's idealistic approach His first job would be to sort out the Rovers defence and stop us conceding soft goals from set pieces

Don't get this, sorry. As it stands, Tomasson is taking us down to League One and shows no sign of knowing how to stop the slide. He's had a rough deal at Ewood but he has to go. We'll soon find out if his successor is worse but if Eustace or whoever saves us from relegation he isn't a downgrade