A shit 'head coach' or a shit head 'coach'. I can go for either but I really need to know which you mean.

Sadly, I completely agree on the first point and on the 2nd, I'm coming round to that idea.

I'd say we just need to get to 50 points asap but it's only rinse and repeat until the inevitable relegation in the next couple of seasons. What the hell have we become.

How the hell is a near 35 year old going to fit into a high intensity pressing style of play? What a load of shite.

Abso fucking lutely. That back 4 just can't play out from the back. Every goal they scored stemmed from our piss poor fannying at the back. Scotty Wharton is a big solid lad who will win his share of 50-50s bit he will never be a ball playing centre half while he has a hole in his arse. Hyam has regressed to non league standard and if Brittain had a flag it would be a white cross on a white background. Add to that a keeper with no discernible goalkeeping attributes and it's a heady mix of going the fuck down. Shite.

So proof, if it was needed, that Waggott is a proper shithouse.

Give it a few days and the recall of Jack Vale will be heralded as 'like a new signing'

Come on Andy, if the players and staff had the same heart and passion as the fans (even the most pessimistic on here) we wouldn't be in the mess we currently are.

Where would our esteemed DoF be without his little black book of PL Academy coach phone numbers?

Apologies. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. One of our self proclaimed ITKers used to trot the opposite out to quite the amount of (deserved) derision.

Struggling to believe this, are our owners refusing to sign cheques?

Travis, as a player, isn't bad but isn't great either. The problem here is that he'll be a hell of a lot better than the pile of dung that replaces him. That's if we even do replace him.

On a slightly related topic, I saw Keith Andrews in Hawksmoor restaurant in Manchester last week. He was in with all the Sheff Utd staff prior to them playing City - how the hell has he pulled that gig?

The retention of these 2 through various regime changes has always felt iffy to me. I mean, look at the state of Stig of the dump Lowe, he wouldn't look out of place in a shop doorway yet he continues in employment at Ewood overseeing year after year of decline.

That would suggest that, as I have suspected, all is not well within the squad and maybe the players have stopped playing for the manager? It would explain a lot.

I thought it when he was left out earlier in the Christmas period. Surprised he played today to be honest because he's getting sold along with a couple of others - hence the Indian delegation at Ewood.

Good, those leaks in the Riverside might get sorted then and he can give the stadium a power wash.

Indeed. "Balls of Steel" Buckley is exactly what we don't need in a relegation battle.

In the 40+ years I have been watching us there has always been some ambition, even when we literally didn't have a pot to piss in. Now, not only is there the intimation we cannot compete but our CEO is actively telling us what the 'height' of our ambitions are - survival with billionaire owners. Your last sentence stands tall, what is the point?

How many of our cash buys could we actually sell now at a profit? Szmodics - possibly Hyam - maybe Markanday, Pears, Wahlstedt, Brittain, Pickering, Gallagher, Telalovic? Not a chance. And before these we had jokers like Edun and Davenport who made no impact and disappeared out of the club. It's piss poor recruitment and it's been going on for years. When you're checking the back of the sofa for loose change you can't afford this many mistakes.

Oh I don't doubt that.

Like our lads he's giving up football for Lent. Or something like that.

When you have billionaire owners selling players to pay the bills and a large part of the fanbase thankful to them for keeping the lights on you know you're in trouble.

I reckon they had a game of beer pong. Ennis won of course.

I see Morgan Whittaker has bagged another brace this afternoon, excellent player at this level and costs about the same as a German pub player.