No reason to play Pears now. We know what to expect from him and he should not be our first choice keeper next season. Also his performances have been so poor that he deserves to be dropped. Play Toth for the remainder of the season and see if there's any reason he should be at the club at all.

Unexpectedly a big improvement in the second half but yet another poor result so why is Ismael smiling? Did he forget where we were in the league when he took over?

The fact that Gestede actually is our director of football is pathetic. Still disgusting to even see him mentioned in this context. Should be nowhere near the job.

Ismael comes across as clueless and arrogant and has the charisma of a potato. The performances and results have been pathetic and he doesn't seem to accept any responsibility for it. "The players lack confidence and it's out of my control". "Injuries blah blah blah". Shocking decision to hire him.

Was sceptical about appointing Ismael but zero points from these three relatively easy fixtures is even worse than what I feared. It seems like he has no idea what he's doing.

The tactics clearly aren't working. It didn't work against Derby either and there were no visible improvements against Stoke. Seemingly the game plan is to just cross the ball into the box at the first opportunity. Low quality crosses towards Gueye with a very low chance of success since there are several defenders in position ready to defend. It was so obvious that we needed a different approach and yet Ismael didn't make any meaningful changes until it was way too late. I think his post match interview can be described as reality-defying nonsense. There was nothing to be happy about, and if he's actually pleased with the second half performance it's very worrying.

This might have been Ismael's team talk at half time.

Disgusted with the performance. No improvement and no lessons learned after the horror show against Derby.

Picking Forshaw over Tronstad is brutal. Worrying.

He has decent pace for a central defender but so far that seems to basically be it. Seems to have poor football intelligence and has looked very clumsy. Hopefully he can improve.

Would like to see Pears dropped for the remainder of the season. Toth has not looked impressive in his performances so far, but we really haven't seen much of him. Pears on the other hand has been given so many chances now.

What a poor and spineless performance against the worst team in the league. We might have had a point if it wasn't for Pears but we needed 3 points here.

Derby are piss poor. They just look like they want it more. Big improvement needed in second half. And can Pears please be dropped now?

Obviously there was no plan in place to find a replacement for Eustace even though he wanted to leave for quite some time and had a ridiculously low release clause in his contract.

I think this was the worst performance of the season. Swansea is not a good side. Makes you wonder what Lowe did to prepare the players for the match. We offered nothing going forward and despite the very defensive tactics we also looked poor defensively.

Disgraceful performance and spineless tactics. We should be fired up for this game after our recent performances. Why are we going to Swansea just praying for a 0-0 draw? No way Hedges should be starting.

Swansea look poor but we look even worse. Shocking goalkeeping from Pears.

Definitely feels like it's going to be Karanka, doesn't it? Championship experience and even won promotion with Middlesborough (Middlesborough link, check!) many years ago. Would not get another job in the Championship as his career has fallen off a cliff. Should also be cheap. If we're not going for a short term option like Warnock I would have liked us to go for Rob Edwards but maybe he wouldn't accept the working conditions.

If the clowns in charge actually give the job to Boateng, it would be a malicious appointment. Has Waggott identified him as spineless and cheap so he'll do? Him and Boa Morte stand out like a sore thumb among the other names on the odds list.

Maybe the club leaks info like this so that when someone like Karanka is appointed the fans will be a bit relieved that at least it's not someone like Boateng or Boa Morte.

Yes. Saying he had a very good game is generous. But his performance was a nice surprise since he has looked so poor previously.

Very happy with the win and impressed with the performance. I have slagged off Forshaw previously but he actually had a very good game today. Nice goal too.

Would not be surprising if the snakes who run Rovers are doing their best to delay Eustace's appointment as long as possible out of spite.

The club statement is a disgrace. So unprofessional. Wording it like Eustace is the villain and just throwing him under the bus. Disgusting.

This will upset the Venky brown-nosers in the comment section. Don't think they expect this kind of article from their beloved Venkygraph.