Great to be in the hat for the next round. Sadly, we are Sammie Rovers at the moment and goodness knows where we would be without him. Is there any official news on Sammie's injury - is it a groin or a hammy (heard it's a hammy issue)? Poor game management by JDT - Sammie should have been off after 65 minutes (at the latest) when we went 4-2 up. Today's win just masks all the problems we have as a football team and I expect 'normal business' to be resumed next Saturday with a resounding defeat at The Hawthorns.

So? If one of the likes of Ipswich, Leicester, Luton, Brentford, Palace etc come in with an acceptable offer to Rovers then little Sammie's leg wont touch the ground as he races off to bank his little fortune! You have been around long enough Chaddy to realise loyalty in football in the main is to the bank account!

As Harold Macmillan said "Events, dear boy, events".

If JDT and Rovers were offered Messi, would we decline because he didn't fit our style of play? Views @chaddyrovers?

A sad, sad day in the history of Blackburn Rovers. To lose a relatively experienced captain on loan to 2nd in the Championship and then bring in two young lads (Ayari and Chrisene) who have it all to prove, and it is doubtful even Chaddy has heard of them, tells you all you need to know about the state of our football club. Seems we are also struggling to agree a financial deal with Crewe for O'Riordan. The sirens are screaming and anyone who does not think we are in a financial mess needs to wake up and smell the coffee. By 1 February, I think the hatches will need firmly battening down at Ewood and Brockhall as I think there is worse to come on the transfer front.

Ashley Ward, Christian Dailly, Nathan Blake, Mauro Formica, Corrado Grabbi, to name but a few, were all 'big' fees and we thought they 'must have something'!!! I have no expectation of this lad based on what the Coventry fans have to say about him. Robbins is no fool and I'm sure Coventry would have wanted to keep him if there was a player there for the Championship.

I think it's by no means certain Sammie will be with us come 1 Feb. What a signing he would be for a Championship club with real ambition to reach the PL. His fee and wages would be a pittance relative to the PL riches. After today's absolute debacle, nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, could be ruled out this window and it would no longer be surprising.

Quelle surprise! Lost a 'warrior' and replaced him with a 'whimp'. You couldn't make it up.

Utterly irrational. Think it's clear the lunatics are running the asylum.

First point correct. As for second point, I would suggest we will only be able to use a portion of any transfer fees realised this window. Given the club's overall cash flow position and uncertainty over future funding from India, it would be no surprise if there were not targets in place for January's window re achievement of a net surplus on transfer fee trading and also further wage reductions. We might not yet be in danger of the 'lights being switched off' but I think some of the optimism on this MB about things easing to allow new signings is misplaced.. We will know by 31 Jan. but I ain't holding my breath about good news.

JDT was hardly going to publicly express his dissatisfaction with the three was he? I fear if he has wanted to changed them, he hasn't been allowed. JDT does not have 'carte blanche' as evidenced in various press conferences - his frustrations are plain to see. Think you've been brain washed by Mowbray who was always banging on about 3 games per week. 3 games per week are almost as rare as rocking horse sh1t. The usual pattern is a midweek game (either Tuesday or Wednesday) followed by a Saturday game - that is 2 games per week. Very, occasionally we will play 3 games in a 7 day cycle ie Christmas and should a game be moved to Sunday for TV where we would then go Sunday/Wednesday/Saturday - this has only happened twice this season (once in October and at Christmas) and is not scheluded to happen again in the 2nd half of the season.

He looked a basket case here - a remarkable transformation and you have to ask how? When he came here, think he had some 200 games under his belt so certainly not an inexperienced young 'rookie' (older than Leo and Pears when he joined us).

There will come a point where his frustration boils over and he will not want to see his reputation sullied. As an intelligent lad, he will then walk away.

I think it's clear JDT had to accept Lowe, Johnson and Benson and had no other option if he wanted the job. That is not being happy with them! It's also strongly rumoured we 'lost' two other managerial candidates (if I recall correctly Carvalhal was one but the other name escapes me - sure folk on this MB can recall) before JDT's appointment as they would not be allowed to bring in their own people and had to accept Lowe, Johnson and Benson. JDT effectively brought in one coach (Remy) and also Rosen as fitness guru - based on number of injuries, recovery times and reported fatigue, not sure just how good or poor Rosen is.

You are right about Achterberg, however, I didn't say Taffarel was in charge! Think you'll find Achterberg has hundreds of games to his credit as a professional goalkeeper whilst Taffarel's pedigree speaks for itself and he is still Brazil's national goalkeeping coach. No we aren't a club of Liverpool's size or in the PL yet we do have 3 goalkeeping coaches (Benson, Andrew and Renshaw). The gulf in pedigree between Liverpool's goalie coaches and ours is as wide as it can be. No we haven't the same financial resource as Liverpool but surely, surely we can find an experienced goalie coach out there who has played the game professionally and knows the game inside out (a Bobby Mimms type). Without being disrespectful, I think Andrew and Renshaw have very limited playing experience (mainly non league) and therein lies the rub - you would not get a Bobby Mimms type coming to work under Benson! You dumb down your goalie coach and therefore almost certainly have to dumb down those who work under him! IMO, the coaching support (Lowe, Johnson and Benson) for JDT is very weak and underwhelming and I do not think I am the only Rovers' supporter who thinks so! It is no good skimping on coaches when average / less than average players get paid £thousands per week - lose one of those costly Joe Average players and use part of those wage savings to employ some quality coaching staff. It aint rocket science but just plain feckin commonsense.

A good coach should inspire confidence in players, make them believe they can 'walk on water' and develop their all round game including technical abilities. If Leo's 'nerves are shredded' and he still looks like 'a schoolboy flapping at crosses' after 15 games or so on the spin then just what the feck is Benson doing!?

The same Ben Benson who Raya, based on what I saw in pre match and half time routines, had little respect for and needed proper coaching to further his development, the same Ben Benson who has, seemingly, reduced Leo to a goalkeeping wreck and the same Ben Benson who, presumably, 'signed-off' on the acquistions of Walton, Pears and Leo - arguably, 3 of the worse goalies to don the Rovers' number one shirt. Whatever coaching he does on a daily basis has certainly not helped Leo!!! Liverpool have Taffarel, a Brazilian World Cup winning goalie, on their goalkeeping staff whilst we have Benson from Carlisle's Community Department who has never played professional football. Tell me, if you were a goalie, which of Taffarel or Benson would you most respect, most likely listen to and most likely learn from !? It aint rocket science. Wake up and smell the coffee Chaddy.

When will the penny drop about Benson? He has no professional football experience as a player. He has not lived or breathed the work of a goalie. He has nothing in the memory bank about the trials and tribulations of a goalie. Just how on earth can you coach a Championship goalie if you have not been through the ringer yourself? As for being our set piece 'guru', it is the height of absurdity. As for set pieces and defending, I find it incredulous that with 5 coaches (JDT, Remy, Lowe, Johnson and Benson) we struggle so much defensively both generally and specifically from set pieces whilst offensively, I see nothing imaginative with our set pieces. Just what the feck do these 5 guys get paid for? If there aren't up to scratch they shouldn't be here.

This is the second time you have advocated making Mike Sheron our set piece guru. Just what makes you think he'd be any good in that role other than, IMO, no one could be any worse than the hapless Benson.

Benson's only focus should be on trying to find a new job when he's sacked and that should be tomorrow along with Lowe and Johnson. Not convinced by JDT but when you haven't a pot to p1ss in and when you are surrounded by, IMO, muppets and incompetents like Broughton, Benson, Lowe, Johnson, our recruitment and medical teams, I'm prepared to cut him some slack. Sack JDT and replace him with whom other than a desperado when they will face exactly the same issues. Our club is in one feckin mess and, IMO, this is down entirely to the gross mismanagement by our owners and their dumbing down of staff from top to bottom in our club.

Happy New Year one and all. Rovers to put Rotherham to the sword and fill us all with false optimism, at least for a few days! 3 or 4 goals to 1 with at least a brace for the new Shearer, Semir.

Agree JDT has not been backed but the big worry for me is he has no plan B and shows no flexibility. IMO, his 'support' teams all need clearing out. Broughton has done little to suggest to me he is a good DOF. Just where the feck do our recruitment department scout and what 'diamonds' have they unearthed? Lowe, Johnson and Benson, all seemingly 'unsackable', IMO, bring nothing to the party and live life on easy street. We have huge goalie issues and is it any wonder when our goalie and set piece coach has never kicked a professional football in his life? Okay, Kaminski said some nice words about Benson but from what I saw on match days, Raya had little respect for him and wanted away to develop under a quality coach. Also, presumably, as goalie coach, he 'signed-off' on the signing of Walton, Pears and Leo!!! Some go on about how wonderful our fitness and medical department are! Really? We seem to sign players who aren't fit and are carrying injuries, we pick up a big number of injuries (largely muscle) and it takes ages to get players fit again. We also have players 'fatigued' and need resting - for goodness sake these are professional athletes. We are in a reet mess and whether we get new owners or not there needs to be a huge clear out if we are to move forward.

Can't bear this any longer. Need some alcohol anasthesia to supplement takeaway which has just arrived

Something needs to change - a real spanking might be the catalyst.

Small mercies - at least we've had a feckin shot and kinda on target!