We're already facing a restricted internet with certain websites being blocked by our ISPs through Government order. It's not a stretch imo to think that eventually this will lead to an entirely regulated internet experience in the not too distant future.

To be perfectly honest, I'm surprised that the internet has been allowed to remain as 'free' as it has for this long. We're still in a position now where you can go to google, type in an album or song and usually find a link to download it for free within moments. ISP's have started to combat this by blocking torrent sites, but that's still a flawed and incomplete tactic. I expect that in the next ten years we will see a much more regulated internet in the UK. Possibly a selection of portals and specific websites that you pay to have access to, as opposed to the entire internet. I'm sure I remember reading about this being in the works a few years ago, but then it died down. Ultimately that is the only way the Government will be able to get a firm grip on how people use the internet, as the current tactic of blocking websites and scaremongering can only ever have a limited effect. Some will say that the people wouldn't stand for that, but they will. There might be a few protests, but once that dies down we will all accept it as the norm and start to forget what this period of the internet was like.

You can use a VPN anywhere. For now nobody is going to jail for privately streaming, but as Glen says, it's likely to start happening in the future. It's scary how indiscriminate they are being over this type of thing. It's only recently people were getting warning letters over downloading torrents even if the torrents they had downloaded were completely legal. At the moment those letters have no power, but over time that will change. The UK Government is pushing to erode our rights day after day and once we leave the EU I expect that process to accelerate substantially.

With the UK essentially morphing into Big Brother (from 1984, not the TV show) it is in everybody's best interests to find a good VPN.

They basically needed to win one game and made very hard work of that against Huddersfield's reserves. There are serious problems at Big Club and if they don't bring in the right manager (how about that Gary Rowett fella?) they have to be among the favourites to drop next season.

That's been our strategy in most of Mowbray's games and part of the reason why we've picked up so many draws. In a full season of 46 games this type of approach would almost certainly have kept us up, but it isn't what's required now. I hope that's just a smokescreen, though based on the last month or so it probably isn't.

Not me, I don't think I've posted about that airheaded buffoon since he left the club.

It's completely, not mostly. Huddersfield have nothing to do with us failing to win 34 out of 45 of this season's matches. That's all Rovers. The fact is Huddersfield were losing to our relegation rivals with a full strength team and when they were still chasing something. There's no reason to think a full strength team - most of whom would have been looking to avoid injury - would have fared any better. If the situation was reversed and Rovers had put out an understrength team I doubt we'd be complaining and demanding that the league take severe action against us. We are where we are because we're a @#/? team with @#/? players, a @#/? manager for most of the season and @#/? owners. Nothing to do with Huddersfield and personally I could not care less how they perform in the playoffs or in the future. Every ounce of anger should be directed towards Venky's and nobody else for leaving us in a position where a team like Huddersfield actually have a say in whether we get relegated or not.

It'll be a good day for them either way. If we win or draw then it increases the chances of Big Club taking the drop, if they win then they'll see their team win at Ewood. There might not be too many times that'll happen as we drop through the divisions or simply cease to exist.

Exactly, it's not like they've been ripping the league apart before tonight. Maybe the pressure being off will help them play better. Alternatively the players might not want to get injured for the playoff games and take it very easy. Either way, Huddersfield aren't to blame for our horrific form over the course of the season. If our management and team want to get out of this mess then they had better start acting like it, because the game against Wolves suggested they were already dreaming of being far away from Ewood.

Yep, he's massively overrated on here based on a couple of decent performances and goals. He has talent and some skill in his locker, but one look at his career stats will tell you he has never consistently produced and likely never will. There's a reason he's here and it isn't because he's particularly good.

Villa have a lot of quality on paper but their league position shows that it doesn't always translate onto the pitch. A bit like us in our first championship season. They are beatable but I think this will be another draw to add to the collection.

Mowbray has tightened us up defensively, and made us more difficult to beat. Unfortunately he has not been able to instill a winning mentality into our players, or erase the cowardice from their character. As Gav said, you can motivate and plan all day long, but if the players are crap the effect will be limited. That's what we've seen since Mowbray arrived. Other than the injury prone Mulgrew we have no quality in our team. It's a squad full of misfits, has-beens and never have beens. We're going down because we've sold all of our best players and replaced them with absolute garbage and cast offs from teams in the same division. Not too dissimilar from when we were dumped out of the PL.

At least we've been @#/? and in the relegation zone all season, Big Club's self-inflicted implosion is absolutely incredible. To go from 7th to relegated in a few months would be a real kick in the sack. Brum are lucky our lot are largely spineless, untalented and indifferent.

People on here have been "taking" bad results all season and we've duly spent most of it in the relegation zone.

Let's just remind ourselves of our last five results... Brighton 0-1 L Reading 1-3 L Barnsley 0-2 L Forest 1-0 W Bristol City 1-1 D 4 points out of 15, with some very winnable games in there, doesn't suggest to me that we're on the way to safety.

We're second from bottom because we deserve to be. A shambles of a club that is rotten to the core/coar. Losing at home to Barnsley showed us everything we needed to know about our squad and unfortunately suggested our manager does not have what it takes to motivate the current squad to get out of the mire. We'll do well to come third bottom at this point.

On the face of it we are an attractive proposition, but scratch beneath the surface and you very quickly find this is a club in terminal decline with no hope in sight as long as the current owners remain. It's been said before, but at this point changing managers is akin to rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the titanic. We're sinking fast and will continue to sink no matter who is in charge, because the overall structure of the club is designed for nothing but failure. You can only roll a boulder up an increasingly steep hill for so long. We're at the point where that boulder is about to roll backwards and crush everything in sight.

Seems like Mowbray has more or less given up. Can't blame him really.

Exactly. Venky's entire business model in regards to Rovers needs to change and I don't see that happening. It's the same every transfer window - players linked, manager comments that he's waiting for the "green light" from India, most of the time the target ends up elsewhere. The only ones we do get are the players nobody else wanted and who were happy to wait the month or so it takes for Venky's to agree to anything. It's been a joke since day 1 and hasn't got any better. These idiots haven't learned a thing.

It's actually 7 hours if you include the pre-show (which had three matches on it). WM33 was the definition of safe booking. Some good stuff, but overall very predictable. The Hardy Boyz return was great, haven't heard a pop like that in a long time. The Raw after WM is now better than WM itself, imo. Speaking of which, Reigns had some seriously nuclear heat on Raw. The first fifteen minutes was just amazing and then Reigns cuts the best promo of his career in just five words. Haven't seen somebody get that much hate from a crowd since Cena at One Night Stand when he faced RVD.

Unfortunately our fate now largely rests in the hands of others. Coyle should never have been hired in the first place, but at the very least he should have been sacked before Christmas. Bowyer wasn't even given until the end of November in his final season.

We paid pretty much all of them up, except Paulo Jorge who stayed here until the bitter end (2015).

He might be running football operations but he isn't going to be running finance as well. No budget and cutting costs means we end up with a squad of even poorer quality next season, regardless of what Mowbray would like.

People said the same stuff during the Bowyer years. "We've got stability, we're getting better, next year is our year". Some fans will never learn, and I feel bad for them because until Venky's go they will be setting themselves up for bitter disappointment season after season.