We were shafted last January too, not only did we have no budget to push on but any scope for selling wantaway Rothwell and reinvesting was denied. I think both of the last 2 seasons have been pretty good from the manager and players, both just falling short over 46 games and really, how points are accumulated over those games is not that important. But the vast, vast majority of my doubts going forward come from above the manager. I am 100% in favour of Tomasson staying, if indeed he is willing to. But I can't see how much will change going into next season. No money from the owners mainly down to their stubbornness in blocking sales of players we now won't have anyway, and I don't have much faith in Broughton even to cover the goals we will lose from Brereton, and even with those, we haven't scored enough. Progress could be measured either compared to last season, in which our points tally and the way we ended the season are basically identical. That was quite a high bar because we did well last season, so have done this. You could also look at how our season has gone on and whether we have got progressively better. I am not convinced we have, the points accumulation would back that up, but like last season, with a small, young squad, it is difficult to objectively judge that without factoring in the limitations that have come from above the manager. The target has to be to get a top 6 finish next season. I am not convinced we will but that lack of faith isn't to do with Tomasson really.

Probably highlights that Mowbray is perhaps not the joke of a manager people perhaps thought on here last season, done a superb job to get them in the play offs with a very young squad and no fit striker off the back of a few years in League 1. Up there with the likes of Robins, Edwards and Carrick with as much of a genuine shout for manager of the year, with a shout for Warnock who did a superb job as a firefighter at Huddersfield despite being labelled a dinosaur. There was a great chance for a play off place there for us that we fucked up.

An absolute joke that our shoddy owners have allowed him to leave for free. We WILL miss him and his rubbish form has done as much to highlight how poor the supporting cast are as much as anything. Still goes into the summer as our top scorer with at least double anyone else. If our owners gave a shit, we could have already had a replacement for money in the building, but that's not how they work. Dickheads.

This season was almost identical to last season, same points total and both seasons were very decent totals (69 points) but not quite enough, undermined by collapses. 11 points from the last 10 and 6 from the last 5. So progress, considering the same points total and the way that we actually got progressively worse? Not too sure. The first question is whether Tomasson stays, I hope he does but am not convinced he will. I don't think the job he has done is remarkable and the likes of Edwards, Robins, Mowbray and Carrick have achieved what he just missed out on so come out with more good credit, but perhaps Tomasson has a mixture of doubt himself as to the running of the club off the back of January and with a summer of scrounging to come, and also more potential suitors abroad based on his prestige as a player. On the pitch, I do worry. The team hasn't had enough to build on what seemed to be sure fire top 6 positions and lacks experience. We will lose our only goalscorer, call him what you want, he has double the goals of our second best. We need experience and we need a totally new front line for starters, and that is hard with no money. And does anyone have faith in Broughton to make the best of a limited budget? I don't, recruitment has been poor especially in the loan market and soured by players we didn't get done and areas we failed to improve.

Brereton is still our top scorer and no one else has stepped up just like last season when his goals when fit earnt us many points and when he was out (or this season out of form/preparing to leave) none of our other attackers stepped up with a reasonable goal threat. We have never had a functioning, coherent strategy under Venkys. Begging isn't to be taken literally, but we are seemingly dealing in frees and loans, and likely will have a team with a very low average age again, ergo more talk of development, transitions, projects, journeys, whatever business speak is chosen. I wouldn't see a season in which we have been in the top 6 all season and then fell apart in the last quarter to fall out of contention to be successful, especially considering that we are supposed to be transitioning into a better side over time.

Presume you'd be the same if you got to Ewood with your season ticket and they'd miscalculated and wouldnt let you in due to over expected demand.

It's not very good if the club has again embarassed itself turning away customers with tickets! It takes really strong principles to not go to games despite clearly retaining a strong interest and passion.

You could say the exact same about expectations last season though. I suspect that next season will likely feel like a transitional one with our main goalscorer leaving for free, a reliance on begging and borrowing in the market and yet more kids breaking through. If we fail to make the play offs having been in there for most of the season, I wouldn't consider it a success really, just like I didn't last season.

Going to this having splashed out prior to seeing us fall apart as we did last season. No faith in a win to be honest, why would I when we have gone on such a long winless run, seldom even looking like scoring. And even if we do, I can't see the 2 other teams failing to win. So going down with little hope but hopefully I will witness a huge shock.

Why does buying one remove all scope to be able to criticise? Are we allowed to moan when we play shit considering we chose to support the club in the first place?

They aren't good enough to get people to overlook inconveniences. I would prefer 3pm on Saturday, half 5 is probably the best alternative. They should bring in limits. No more than one televised game per team per month.

We already know that ST prices aren't attractive which now limits scope for match day offers. But its beside the point, it isnt the cost that will stop people attending moved games.

But again, those parties and their primary focus isn't the potential inconveniencing of match going fans.

I know there is going to be more notice, but it is still that same huge inconvenience when they move so many games.

And the fans and how they are inconvenienced is an irrelevance to Sky and the EFL.

The lack of notice is a problem but not the main one. The main one is the quantity of games moved, the lack of 3pm Saturday games has been an absolute joke this season and the problem will get worse. I cant blame people deciding to keep potential season ticket money in their pockets.

What prevents us is having owners who undermine by rejecting offers which allow contracts to run down and prevent reinvestment.

Moving kick off times regularly.

Sky can fuck off. No thought for match going fans.

Lucky or not, the subs invited further pressure and we conceded in both. They may have been accompanied with bad luck and/or individual decisions but they didn't work. If we were winning and then didn't see it through, they weren't the "right" moves.

No he didnt do the right thing in my opinion. And we lost leads in both following those changes so hardly an unjustified opinion. We invited pressure and lots of late corners v Coventry and a rusty Wharton slipping didnt help v Preston.

Even for modern day Rovers it would be illogical to pick our second best goalkeeper to try and generate a fee in the summer when we have been trying to secure a top 6 finish. Pears won't generate a significant fee, it will surely be a couple of hundred grand max for someone who could potentially be a regular in League 1 or at a push at a lower Championship side. Tomasson said he was carrying the injury before he broke down with it fully so it must have played a part. I would agree that it doesn't add up why Kaminski hasn't displace Pears who has been ok but not undroppable. Hopefully there is no intention to sell Kaminski in the summer but I do fear that. The only other thing I could speculate is maybe Pears is popular within the squad and it might impact the dressing room? Kaminski is undoubtedly the better keeper. If it is because Tomasson wants players to buy in to the idea that as long as your form doesnt dip then you keep the shirt then it isnt a policy that has been consistent.

Getting rid of an experienced, reassuring goalkeeper that has won us many points and would have won player of the season by a landslide had he not been hindered by an injury for a few weeks that eventually caused him to break down in favour of a bang average keeper is modern day Blackburn Rovers to a tee. Especially when we could potentially downgrade to Pears AND be left with totally inexperienced alternatives should Pears start to make mistakes leading to goals or get injured himself. I feel like a mistake with Pears is in the post, very lucky that it didn't come v Luton when he totally misjudged that cross. He has been in the main well protected but he doesn't keep us in games and there are often moments of indecision that have tended to thankfully only result in unnecessary throw ins and corners conceded amidst anything but total confidence in him from his defenders. He is a good solid back up, is it asking too much to have a good keeper in Kaminski and a reliable stand in?

Good luck to them?! Do you have a desire specifically for Chelsea to push on? Funny watching them toil. Would agree with that, I think they were perhaps hasty to sack Tuchel who unlike what has followed IS a top class manager. I get that Lampard inherited Chelsea not at the top but he has actually made them worse, and seems to pick his teams and systems out of a hat. 6 losses from 6 is laughable. Stick to punditry, you are not cut out to be a manager and have failed at 4 clubs now!

Our possession has increased but it hasn't made us any more threatening in my opinion. We are the type of team that creates a couple of decent chances a game. Coventry, Burnley, Luton and even Preston, keep the ball well enough but not manifesting into much of substance. Hull, Birmingham, not even that. Often come off games thinking we wouldn't score if we played all night, therefore whilst I appreciate that everyone knows that we need attackers, I can't judge us as progressing much when we create little and are so dull. We have even lost some of that control we had earlier in the season whereby we equally struggled to create but we could see out games with far more control, Tomasson has hindered us numerous times in recent weeks by inviting pressure with a 3rd centre back.