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Firing blanks 😂😂 Story of our season

I believe as we have seen many times before that certain players are being played, or left out, based on a financial plan/ I hate to pick on individual players and it isn't his fault, but how on earth can De Neve keep on getting game time ahead of the likes of Ribero and Pickering?

Shouldn't even need to have this conversation. A manager with just 1 win in 15 games shouldn't be given the "easiest" game of the season, in order to try and scrape a win to keep his job. Irrespective of tomorrows result, he isn't turning this around. He's relegating us if he stays in charge. A loss tomorrow and Bilic in on Wednesday, 100% take that all day.

The way I see it is this - under Ismael we are going to be relegated, and I have seen nothing to suggest that he's the man to get us promoted again from league one. There is no value in keeping him. I do think, genuinely, that we have a core of players that are good championship players in the right system - Toth, Alebiosu (assuming he's still here), Ribeiro (not going to set the world on fire but perfectly competent and a victim of the system change imo), Baradji, Tronstad, Andre, Cantwell and Ohashi (both have had poor seasons but again, it's hard to shine under the circumstances - Ohashi of last season looked a double figure goal and assist forward and this season he looked good in a partnership with Gudjohnsen). Possibly a couple of the others like Morishita might look decent under new management/tactics. Supplement with a crop of youngsters who haven't really let us down this year. What we need is a firefighting manager who can come in, assess what he's working with, hammer together a formation/tactic to get the most out of the squad, make us hard to beat and then potentially walk off into the sunset after 6 or 18 months with a big cheque for avoiding relegation/getting us promoted at the first time of asking. There are a few managers I would trust to do that, but wouldn't really want/trust long term, or wouldn't be interested in managing us long term. You know the kind of names I'm thinking of - Mowbray, Big Sam, Sparky, Warnock, Pulis etc. A competent club would have an emergency plan, some kind of roll of the dice up the sleeve. It would also buy some time for an actual managerial hunt rather than another emergency appointment of whoever is available on whatever terms they demand ala Ismael. I do think that there is a chance that if we lose to Wednesday Ismael will go - the timing is spot on for Venkys, just at the point that no more money can be spent in the window, slightly too late to definitely turn it around and providing both a cover for a bad season (managerial disruption) and deflecting a bit of the blame (ie. they tried to turn it around - they changed the manager). I don't trust them to do any of this. Or possibly I trust them to sort of try to do something a bit like this but to muck it up somehow. Give Mowbray a lifetime contract where he gets to keep Ewood Park as his personal stadium if he's ever sacked or something. I feel increasingly like that joke about the guy in the soviet union who goes to the shop to look at the front page of the newspapers. I don't the threads much any more, the firings I am after will be front page news.

As must win as they come with the gap beginning to increase to safety and this being, on paper, our best chance of three points for the reminder of the season. The more I think about it the more I’m expecting another ‘unjust’ draw - a referring nightmare or similar - with it being just enough for Ismael to limp on for another match or two.

Could then mean Everton want him more...

Owen Bailey at Doncaster is one we were supposedly looking at

Romano tweeting that Genoa are asking for Evertons Patterson on loan if that happens they won't be bidding again for Alebiosu

'Best I can do is we tried but difficult market, clubs being unrealistic with their valuations and wouldn't accept our 5 mars bars bids'

Wed will gte a last minute winner. We're a bunch of chocolate soldiers.

Probably not, no. Be an outgoing or 2

I see. Well I'd never heard of Ryan Taylor and there was no link to the article so had no idea he was a real journalist. Who does he write for?

Yeh, hence my "(I know, I know)" comment directly afterwards.

I take it , that there will be no more new signings today ?

I don’t think cadmarteri is the answer fo us but I do believe sheff w are playing hardball as it seems millwall and Wrexham can’t get a deal agreed (yet) with them

I agree 100%

Ballard from Orient would be something. Scoring 15 so far in league one. Better than Harry Leonard.

Martin Samuel's view is the view of the majority of the fans around the country. We're not a media darling or big city club and we've been out of the top flight a very long time. So no one knows anything about the club and no one really cares. When they briefly peer in, they think we're sulking because it's not Jack Walker and 1995. They think it's about entitlement. Because the Venkys haven't broken any laws or rules, we're never going to get any external sympathy. I've felt we're on our own for a very long time now, at least a decade. As others have pointed out, when you mention to people round the country that you support "Blackburn", people have forgotten and can't quite believe that "you're still owned by those chicken farmers from India? Why?"

Who were they playing on the 29th December?

Alex Lowry, Jonny Russel, Bobby Pointon, Harvey White

Bilic would be a massive upgrade. He's no nonsense. But there's no way he'd want to work with these clowns

Honestly, I've not seen anything in weeks, nay months to say we've got what it takes to beat them. For all the "we were much better Saturday". We still got beat and if we're honest huffed and puffed a bit without looking particularly dangerous. Hull set up to let us make mistakes that they would then pounce on, which they did. We are basically banking on us being less shit than Wednesday in order to win, Whereas I think it's more likely to be a repeat of the game over christmas where it was reminiscent of two homeless men fighting over an empty crisp packet.

Rovers will probably win. Then all the happy clappers will feel vindicated

talking of Wrexham I am surprised we've not been linked with Elliot Lee