Part of me hopes it’s Ismael… so that I can stop buying a season ticket. had enough of the club and a Cooper, Gerard or O’Neil type appointment would have kept me going. Ismael or Wagner will just flatten the faint hopes of the fans and the players.

They are appointments no other clubs would have made if they were 5th. Yes we were 5th when we needed a new manager. Tragic stuff.

Another career Venky's and Waggott have harmed then? 🤔

Recently as in the entire season? Hedges has been anonymous in nearly every game since August. It's staggering he's still starting.

I can't get over the first goal today. It's a totally unacceptable error, one of the worst I've seen. Have we seen more individual errors and points cost by a goalkeeper in our history over the course of two seasons? He's absolutely terrible and it's criminal as said before that we didn't push the extra 500k etc for a proper number 1. He's had a "decent season" because Batth, Hyam and Tronstad have protected the life out of him. You can't go into any playoff games with a keeper like this. Toth must be f*cking useless.

We knew the lack of investment in a top quality keeper would bite us again eventually as it did last year. Just like the lack of investment in a top quality centre midfielder has. Common theme here.....

He was a fantastic squad player, replaced by a semi retired footballer. We tried the same thing last year with Fleck coming in for Wharton. It's extremely desperate stuff and you have no right being in or around the top 6 operating that way. - read this Waggott and fuck off.

I was desperate to get a manager in before today's game. Any decent connected owner would have been too, but the happy clappers weren't ....... must be waiting till deadline day "when they're cheaper". Every match is absolutely vital and any decent board would have realised the situation, capitalised and done everything to keep the confidence going with an ambitious appointment last week. When will people wake up?

Can see why Sanderson couldn't get a game at Birmingham.

If Waggott didn't have a decent manager fully tied up before today's game then I'm afraid he won't get one. One of the worst CEO's we could have alongside disgraceful owners. It'll be panic stations on Monday and likely a desperate appointment before the end of the week. It's decisions like this....... or in this case again a lack of them, that costs you. The performance today was the performance of a team that's been let down by those in charge. Affected by the incompetence above.

Absolutely shocking performance from the team, in particular Pears, Hedges and Gavin Ward. 2 or 3 subs needed at HT.

I think it's safe to say they don't know who they want. Perhaps the board are considering no manager as the way forward, since there's less questions asked that way.

This is quite an old interview from Sigurdsson and was immediately after he found out. He's since thanked the fans and moved on, as should we. The club did do him a little dirty though and we need to get more organised behind the scenes. Not sure why Jackson's "reporting" that interview so late after it happened. Really poor journalism.

Pretty appalling list of candidates

Only Waggott and Venky's could struggle to sell a team in 5th (with 13 to go) to the unemployed!

I mean minutes. He'll sign for another Championship club and find himself unused first. He's featured for us too often due to a lack of investment in those areas. I've seen enough of him over 4 seasons to know he plays badly more often than he plays well, and there is a risk he drops down a division in 3 or 4 years time. I'll be interested to see how his career goes and I suspect through a combination of overhype, bad advice, greed of people around him and not enough ability... it will be downwards. He'd be better off focusing on the length of a contract here rather than the amount, then improve his game but yes... he deserves a pay rise and will be asking for too much from the club that sees him every day. He and people around him have pushed the "Championship Baller" agenda too much, without doing enough in games, as a top earning winger should. The Sky cameras will get him a better contract elsewhere but I don't think that will help his career. We're actually the makers of our own downfall here as usual, if you don't invest in better quality the ones that aren't quite good enough feature more and more, then get carried away with their demands. If he goes I will miss his running and enthusiasm on the pitch but that's about it.

I like to think I know a good footballer when I see one and I'm confident despite recent form that Dolan shouldn't be starting in the top half of the Championship. In fact, if he doesn't sign a new deal here I don't think we'll see much more of him at this level, certainly not as regularly as we're doing. Happy to be proven wrong but don't think I will be. He doesn't progress the ball enough for the amount of touches he takes, generally doesn't strike the ball well (yes I saw his finish at the weekend), has a poor natural crossing ability and no left foot when passing or shooting. He also has poor awareness (yes I saw his assist at the weekend) but in most games he repeatedly misses opportunities to switch play. He isn't quick enough either. Thankfully he's willing to run his socks off and pressing is his best attribute, he's also not injury prone. If I were him I'd jump at any 4 year deal at this level, particularly with us if the wage is reasonable. I suspect he's receiving some bad advice and his career will suffer. There will be people in his ear telling him he should be a top earner..... he shouldn't.

A luxury not many teams can afford.

Any ideas on the thinking behind only offering him a 2 year deal?

I'd imagine the season objective in the summer and the budget provided would be the usual "enough to survive" in the Championship, would it not? Currently the objective is to get in the playoffs. I'd expect there to be a dramatic difference in the calibre of candidates now vs in the summer. It would be stupid not to capitalise on it and I don't trust the board to appoint a decent manager without having the playoff carrot to dangle. Why else would you choose to work with and for them now? Or have I been on a different planet for the past 2 years?

Exactly why I'd be behind Gerrard, the bigger the name vs the owners the better.

Rovers should do everything they can to make an appointment now, since the only thing we have left going for us in terms of respect at this level is our current league position. Right now it could be used to get us a manager better than we deserve. Away from that, "the owners and longterm project", what most managers look for... is not going to get us anyone of note. Sadly plenty fans STILL have their heads up their arses.

I can't believe what I've just seen tonight. and Gueye was OUTSTANDING.

Completely agree, I'm a season ticket holder so I do "back the lads" but I can tell you as an absolute fact, one thing that gets teams into the Premier League (and arguably the only thing) ISN'T a full crowd, it's a well ran football club by connected owners and in my opinion the club have to get themselves in order first. Which will be in many, many years time... when Venky's are gone.

A few things we already knew have been well proven in the past few days... Rovers are one of the most badly ran clubs in the country and Simon Jordan is an absolute plant pot.