Hated Gerd Muller, great player and all that, but genuinely hated him And that England team was better than the 1966 team

I've never been the same since, and it was 54 years ago Horrible

Steady on

Rovers fans were singing that in the league cup match at Stamford Bridge surrounded by some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Cue much laughter from Chelsea supporters

Good players but not special. Ross Barkley however …

Your idea of special is different from mine

Yes it’s clear the players weren’t listening to Tomasson any more and he had lost the dressing room to use a well known phrase. Another good result against Birmingham and we will have had a new manager bounce to use another

A very welcome win....... half a sigh of relief. If we can follow it up beating or taking a point at Birmingham we can breathe a bit more easily.

"Lost the dressing room" is a legitimate football phrase and anyone who's played the game knows what it means. Having played for many years to a decent level, there were a few times when I played for managers the team didn't rate so in that respect the manager had "lost the dressing room". We still put in 100% but we knew we could be better because we were being badly led by a manager we did not respect. There were tales of this happening under Tomasson and he is said to have asked the Rovers players after once dire performance if they "wanted to play for him" - another example of a manager in whom the players have lost faith.

Or play with two flying wingers who can cross a ball and a big physical centre forward who can score goals? Kudos to any manager who tries that again.

As a young player I went on trips to Europe and played in tournaments against teams from Germany, Italy, France etc. Unlike our lads, their defenders were all comfortable on the ball and played it amongst themselves even then, forerunners of the Guardiola era. It was interesting to say the least and as a forward, I found myself chasing shadows half the time.

Luton won promotion last season playing a "basic" style - let's put it that way. A big centre forward and hard working grafters who competed in every area of the pitch. No one special. I went to the match at Kenilworth Road and guess what, we lost 2-0 by farting around with the ball at the back. That's the way to get out of the Championship and I can't think of many teams who win promotion playing the continental way. It's interesting that Luton have changed their style a bit this season to play in the Premier League, helped of course by being able now to sign top class players such as Ross Barkley I'm hoping Eustace is far more pragmatic than Tomasson and mixes up the way we play more. Tomasson was too dogmatic, and that's was just one of his failings

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