Karanka just dismal after heavy spending at Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Forest failures and short spells in Europe. Someone on here wisely deduced he could be an option from Middlesbrough / Gestede links. Carvalhal knows these gangsters from previous negotiations, is under contract at Braga and has been involved in European competition this season.

If reputational risk was at the forefront of their minds, combined with a desire to cut funding, they would hand the club over or sell it to someone else and get out now whilst we are still a Championship club, interest is higher and the damage of another relegation inevitably comes. If they were interested in their reputation keeping the club indefinitely in a zombie like state with unhappy fans isn't going to do their reputation any good.

All part of the plan. Waste another two games, against a top 6 'rival' and bottom of the league at home and then by the time we get around to appointing a new manager he's got little chance of getting us into the top 6. Not our fault because Derby took a few days to sort the Eustace deal out and that's out of our control.

It's not that surprising. With them having their game tonight he was never likely to be ready in time for that so they'll be waiting for that to be out of the way then announce it tomorrow ahead of their game on Friday. Rovers know what is happening and this 'delay' if you consider it that does nothing to stop Rovers agreeing terms with a new manager and having him in Blackburn ready to sign. Just more excuse making when we're sat doing nothing to ensure the season isn't derailed. Conclusion - they're quite happy to see it derailed - Eustace knows this.

So why aren't we sorting those three out? Should be easy in theory. Or maybe the whole plan here is to leave it as late as possible and treat them as shoddily as possible that they do the same as Lenihan and Rothwell, conclude that their future's belong elsewhere, then get something sorted elsewhere and then the club can shrug shoulders and play the victim card that the players had their heads turned. 'We did all we could' etc. Well no because you'd have been sorting these contracts out last year if you were serious about it.

If we were a normal sensible properly run club I've always liked Nigel Clough and think he'd be a good option for us. But we aren't and he's not going to work for liars and spivs at Ewood.

Oh I fully agree, I found the anti-Allardyce stuff ridiculous and have never taken much interest in 'styles' of play. All about the results from here and then the owners and board can smash the team to bits in May if we miss out. But there are plenty who obsess about such things and Harris is a bit like Rowett - boring yet effective at this level.

A safe pair of hands but not long ago Millwall were giving him stick for his style of play. Might upset one or two here.

Warnock has said he's retired every time he's been out of work for the last 10 years, he keeps on coming back because he can't resist it when he gets the phone call. I remember when we had talks with him in 2016 before insanely appointing Coyle instead - there were folk on here saying Warnock only had 1 year left in him before retirement so we should avoid - he carried on for another 8 years after that. I'm pretty sure he'd love it for 15 games and a free shot at another promotion. Nothing to lose. Allardyce has never been able to resist a hefty contract or lure of a bonus - he took the Leeds job in almost impossible conditions because they offered him a mega bonus to keep them up, pretty sure he'd do the same here if the package was right, but I agree I think his best days are behind him and it's a while since he was involved in the chaos of the Championship.

Fully agree. We are looking for the best man to come in NOW and deliver over 16 games or whatever we've got left now. Not the summer. Not a 'style of play' Not 'working with young players' Not 'building for the future' Or any of the other claptrap and soundbites that people often come out with which are totally out of the question at this operation, unwilling or unable to even offer improved deals to its few quality proven players beyond this/next summer. I'm already annoyed that we're going to West Brom without a manager - we should have had someone in immediately. We've tossed off January due to a dismal and negligent approach to transfers and now are risking tossing off two more games this week whilst we pretend to conduct a managerial search. This summer is going to be a disaster, everyone knows it, the club are actively preparing for it by running everyone's contracts down and not signing anyone for the long term. Is it really too much to ask to throw the Eustace compo to Warnock or Allardyce and offer them a couple of million bonus if they somehow get us up? At the very least it would be entertaining even if it ended in failure.

Waggott's response to this departure has been to cobble together a pitiful club 'statement' that ludicrously claims to have invested heavily in January - this the same bloke who brags publicly about hiring a new bus and repairing the lifts in the Blackburn End - just total nonsense that anyone with half a brain can deduce. He's also been busy ensuring that Alan Nixon and no doubt other friendly plants in the media spend their time this week circulating anti-Eustace propaganda. It's working already and he's not even been announced at Derby yet. That's what he's good at - manipulating the narrative to suit his and his paymasters. Give it a week or two, a new managerial appointment of the latest through the revolving door under false expectations/promises and the majority of our fanbase will be over this and looking forward to 'getting behind the lads FFS'. Consequence is that Venkys, Suhail and slippery Steve get away with it, pocket the compo and buy themselves another year until the next bloke finds out what they are really like.

Or.....one season in League Two where he had a very solid budget at Forest Green, better than most of their rivals Yes ignore Watford as not there long enough Luton...inherited a side just outside the top 6 and doing very well already under Nathan Jones, rode the crest of the wave and got them through the play-offs, but since then they've been relegated and are now on track to potentially go back to back down to League One. So really only half a season at Luton that stands out as genuinely impressive.

Edwards looked to me like he was in the middle of some sort of breakdown at Luton earlier this season and let it not be missed that the reason they are stuck in a relegation battle is because of their dismal form under him and he was totally out of ideas. Evatt a similar story at Bolton, although he did a good job in the lower leagues for a few years since the end of last season he has just looked totally lost and has come out with all sorts of odd comments and behaviour. Bolton fans were largely glad to see the back of him. Lowe - never liked him and something clearly not right to leave PNE 1 game into the season. Preston fans breathing a sigh of relief when he went.

What do you think caused all these 'facts' that you have listed? Do you genuinely think he's just decided to drop a side in the top 6 the week after another pathetic transfer window closed to go and have another relegation battle for the fun of it? Or perhaps he has been forced into jumping ship, like JDT was, due to intolerable conditions brought about by the worst owners in English football?

Fully agree, just a totally pointless existence isn't it.

Johnson isn't even third in command, is never seen on matchday and clearly had little role to play in Eustace or JDT's set ups. Once again the old story of ex player and nice bloke so logically should be considered a viable option to run this freak show of an operation. I fully agree that there will be decent names interested in picking up this job for the rest of the season and having a free hit at the play-offs. Unfortunately we've got a pit of vipers at board level who clearly have no interest or remit to take the club forward, a CEO who thinks big investment is signing 5 loans and short term signings and all sorts of other hidden interests in play. Combine those things and you could have Pep Guardiola interested and they'd pick a cheaper easier option. Remember like when they had the option of getting Daniel Farke, but turned their noses up at him because he wanted his own coaching staff and wouldn't work with the immovable group at Brockhall? Or when we had Warnock ready to come in after Lambert then turned him down because Coyle offered to do it for less? These are the factors that matter - who is interested in the job is almost irrelevant - it is how much they cost and how desperate they are that Venkys and Waggott like.

Under contract at Stockport and they would fight to keep him. I imagine that their setup and budget beats ours hands down.

Infuriating and depressing yes, interesting almost certainly not. Just an opportunity for Waggott and Gestede to get their 'agenda' out now Eustace is out of the way. Eventually that becomes fact and like with JDT the outgoing manager becomes the villain of the piece.

There's no plan or future here beyond the next few weeks / couple of months and there hasn't been for the last few years. The owners don't give a feck and their stooges are just limping from one stage to the next. This is a disaster club and unless we get promoted (or even if we do get promoted) things are only going to get a whole lot worse come the summer. Eustace knows this which is why he's seen the writing on the wall and got out now. So the appointment should be until the end of the season to galvanise and maximise the return from this squad before the board take a wrecking ball to it and smash it to bits again and then we have to cobble together a new squad from frees, loans and the youth team. Fancy talk about projects, plans, development isn't needed now. The sham has been exposed - there is not and cannot be any of those things here. People are being hoodwinked if they think or believe that there is some grand strategy here. The end of the season is long term here. So we need to simply focus on who is out there who is a) Available - rules out any currently in work managers b) Affordable - rules out established names or those collecting pay-offs like Cooper c) Willing to come for just 15 games - rules out those looking for a multi-year long term job d) Bonkers enough to take it on and embrace the challenge - rules out those worried about the worst owners and board in football For me it has to be Warnock now. He's shown at other clubs - Rotherham, Huddersfield, Middlesbrough - he's prepared to come in at very short notice and take on a challenge even where the situation looks desperate or there are ownership issues. He's done it extremely well. I think he would absolutely love a free hit at the play-offs and then go back to Torquay in the summer. What we will actually get is firstly a toss off of Wednesday's 6 pointer by leaving the drone pilot and bib and cone man in charge and then eventually a dismal yes man delighted to be back in work just to finish the dismantling of the season in 6 weeks off.

Cooper joined Leicester on a 3 year contract in June and was sacked in November. He will still be collecting severance pay from a Premier League club contract. There is no way he gives that up to join this circus for 15 games even if he was confident in getting promotion. Far too much to lose and too much sense. The best we could do is get Warnock in for one last promotion shot. No risk. Retire again in May whatever the outcome. Affordable. Big bonus if he pulls it off. But that's too sensible and obvious. I saw someone suggest Valerien Ismael earlier with a potential Gestede link - that's the type they'll go for.

It is interesting to observe Nixon now a fully signed up member of the Waggott propaganda machine. Last week he was lavishing praise on the Rovers 'supremo' for pulling off a masterstroke in waiting until 11pm on deadline day to get Dennis at 'only' £20k a week contribution from Rovers, suggesting this was some brilliant piece of negotiating skill and ignoring the 5 fixtures in January that we lost whilst this game was being played. Now in his latest piece he's carefully constructing a pro-Waggott and anti-Eustace narrative: Claiming that Eustace has been keen on other jobs as has been a 'habit' during his career so far - implying that he was always going to look elsewhere regardless of Rovers' approach to things Blackburn are 'strange' behind the scenes - that's one word for it - I'm sure there are plenty far more accurate Eustace likes 'older players' and showed that by 'hardly using some talented ones on loan when he arrived' - I'm not sure what he is getting at here, presumably a reluctance to rely on kids and loanees when fighting relegation last season - but of course this is to be taken as a negative 'In the end he got many he wanted.....but still he complained' - Eustace being unreasonable then 'The January window brought SIX signings and many came in the right age group' - again the number and age of the signings largely irrelevant compared to the quality, timing and short term nature of them all yet the 'SIX' used just like Waggott has in the club statement to convince people Eustace has been well backed. 'So when Derby arrived one insider said 'There is a lot of relief around here' - implying that there is an unhappy camp and his departure will be welcomed at Brockhall. 'Steve Waggott picked Eustace in a hurry last time and was one of his big allies in the end' - so a double dose of Waggott gets the credit for appointing Eustace to begin with and quick to ensure no suggestion he was in any way behind his departure It's so blatant all I ask is what's in it for Nixon in return for his construction and distribution of such propaganda.

Are they? Not sure about that. They're obviously not in a great league position but having just got out of League One I'm not sure that's to be unexpected. They're not a club that throws big money around but you don't need to be at this level to do well. I can absolutely guarantee that they have a better structure when it comes to ownership, board, investment. Going there dealing man-to-man with their owner and CEO will be like chalk and cheese compared to working for the evil in India and their stooges in Blackburn. But even if correct and Derby are a shambles, the fact he's running to join them tells us all we need to know about how bad things are at Rovers. Taking the positives from this it will hopefully apply another dose of pressure on them and strip away at the facade of normality they've hid behind thanks to good management by JDT and Eustace. I said last week there's an iceberg straight ahead and these owners won't change course. The only question is how long it takes to hit it and then what condition the wreckage is in by the time the rescue boats arrive.

Here we have Waggott's attempt to direct the blame away from the scum in India and the boardroom and blame Eustace - we can see it now - he's the problem for leaving mid-season, we've made 'significant investments', we're disappointed - shameless, classless, liars, scum. Unfortunately some of the numpties - fortunately not many on here but plenty on Facebook and Twitter - are ready to lap this up and buy Waggott's lies and nonsense. Despicable.

One of the responsibilities and abilities of the administrator is to review past transactions, and if necessary can apply to have them set aside or challenged. Action can also be taken directly and personally against directors of the company where appropriate. I imagine there would be some interesting stuff going on there if ever such a process was to happen.

I've wavered on my season ticket for the last 2-3 years. I refused to attend the Stoke game after the JDT debacle last season, and was intending on it being my last season ticket, but the galvanising effect of Eustace keeping us up and hoping things would change persuaded me to renew on deadline day. I'll probably see the season through because it is paid for but suspect there won't be a renewal in the summer. I can't keep doing this and there's only one thing I can do in response to it.