He's not signing a contract in blood. If they make assurances and then don't follow through with them (i.e. tying down important players to contracts between now and the start of the summer transfer window) he's well within his rights to just leave in the summer - undoubtedly to a better club than Derby in a better situation.

I think this is him playing his trump card. It's him saying to Waggott / Suhail "let me speak directly to the owners or I'm off". Mowbray was backed financially because he flew over to India and hobnobbed with the owners in Pune. It's quite clever really.

"Something I'll have to discuss with the owner". Good luck, John. I'm not even sure they know who you are.

He's a symptom, not the cause. Don't get me wrong he's a horrible, horrible man who should be nowhere near this club, but the owners have turned the taps off. If we were awash with money many of us wouldn't even know his name.

He's probably watched Kargbo and Dennis for 60 minutes and thought "Ey up".

Because Derby are promising him a plan and structure. Everything at Rovers is about surviving until the next bill is due.

When isn't it? I've probably enjoyed about 5 weeks in the last 15 years these guys have owned us.

Isn't the rumour that he was offered to all and sundry during the transfer window (particularly Scandinavian and Greek teams) and he was turning them all down? It can't have come as a surprise to him that he was on the chopping block. It's a disingenuous reaction from a very disappointing player who has taken us for a ride during his time here.

I actually thought the CBs were poor today - both showing why they ply their trade in the Championship. Too many free headers in the box because they couldn't deal with the movement of the Wolves players.

The £40m we banked from transfer fees doesn't seem to have helped. What's another £200k?

It's not the cost, it's the fact they know they can approach a bigger, more successful club sat in the playoffs confident that they can take their manager. Beggars belief.

Was that error any worse than the errors Pears has committed the last 5 games? No. Give someone else a try in net - he might get better with more confidence.

We could have scored 3 or 4 ourselves.

The thing that makes your blood boil is that imagine if this was happening to one of the media darlings. "How could Manager X leave Team Y for Team Z? That's unheard of. What is going on with the owners? This needs to be addressed". For Rovers it's just "Well he hasn't been backed like he thought he might have been (audible shrug)". I hate football and football fans and their lack of concern for others - cretins from a place like Wolves singing "you've seen the Wolves, now fuck off home / Blackburn's a shithole, I want to go home" sums it up.

Hardly scathing.

Why hasn't the ref booked their #5 for diving for a penalty there?

#10.

Commentators talking about Eustace linked with Derby in passing. Not a single critical comment about the Rovers owners. Lovely stuff.

No idea what Woodrow was doing there - yes the GK should have come, but you can't just stop your run when you CLEARLY see he's not come for it. Run with your man you moron.

You can see why Hyam and Batth are plying their trade at this level. They can't pick up a good run from deep to save their lives.

All the pace has gone off the field and with it our attack.

Is Dennis sulking now he's been put on the right? Surely he can't have lost ALL of his energy in 5 minutes.

He played as a RB that was given free license to drift into CM. Cunha needs a booking for consistent fouling at this point.

Genuinely wonder if those two changes are Eustace's last look at whether he wants to stay - Dolan in a more natural 10 position, Dennis playing wide right off Gueye. If it obviously clicks that COULD fire us into the playoffs.

All the new signings have looked very good, they just came 30 days too late.