TimmyJimmy

There is no long list. There is no short list. No one wants this. You'd either have to be: - insane - given up on your career and need a pay cheque - a fanatical Rovers supporter. Cue Gareth Ainsworth.

When you mix together incredibly bad luck with a team that's just awful then there's only on outcome. We are shockingly bad and deserve all we get yet really, we can't buy a break this season. Own goals, worldies, deflections, abandoned games, half a season with 14 injuries etc., etc.. Nothing can disguise how bad we are but coupled with luck like that we are truely doomed this season. No escape. There's two people responsible for this, everything stems from them. Their performance is an f'ing disgrace and they should piss off asap and leave us to our misery. Who on earth in their right mind wants to manage this shit show.

And another. A Hail Mary up and under and our guy slips. Can't make it up. Doomed. Inescapably doomed.

If it wasn't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all. The number of times a player scores just because the ball falls at his feet.

Age old tactic. Float around the worst possible fit as a candidate then any hopeless case appointed looks good by comparison. Short odds on Coleman? Really? What's Mick McCarthy doing these days? We'll end up with either some poor sap wannabe, a complete unknown from League Z in Luxembourg or a guy whose been out of work for a decade. The days of Hughes, Souness, Allardyce and Kenny are so far behind us it's untrue. Barrel meet Scraper, Scraper this is Barrel.

Another predictably awful window. The only thing to change at Ewood these days are the excuses.

If you're into gallows humour, Mick McCarthy. That's the pond we're fishing in.

T h i i i n g s, can only get b e ... oh wait a minute

Kenny.

Misspelling I think ... leg end.

Heard this lad Travis at Derby might be worth a punt. Maybe we should take a punt with an offer. Oh wait ...

I have no understanding of what our transfer policy is. It would make more sense to buy 25 goalkeepers. What's wrong with round pegs in round holes. We need a goal scoring striker. Just f'ing buy one and add it to last years squad! I know they cost BIG money but whats the point of buying wingers and forcing them to play out of position just because their agent says "he can play anywhere across the front". That's on top of buying a squad that's got virtually NO Championship experience and selling one that pushes for the playoff each season. I mean what did they expect to happen. I'm no footballing guru but even me, an armchair schmuck, said at the beginning of the season we're fucked. We're all at a loss to explain it I know but how the Hell do Pasha, Gestede et al get away with it?

Love it B16. This lad's show real looks really promising.

Keeley. Can still visualise the challenge on an icy Ewood pitch that sent the player into a vertical 180 landing on his head. I'm still wincing. Todd though has to be capo di tutti i capi. Genuinely terrifying.

Thanks chaps and to Frosty in particular (very handy site that). I was interested in what the league as a whole defines as a firing level of incompetence and how VI compares. These were the points when Championship managers were fired compared to us at the same time. Watford had 5 more points yet they still fired Pezzolano Swansea had 1 more Yet they still fired Sheehan Leicester have 11 more than us now and they fire Cifuentes Southampton had 1 less than us when they fired Still, so virtually level pegging Norwich had 7 less than us, so Manning deserved it! Seems we don't hold our manager to the same level scrutiny. Other boards look to have more of an idea as to how to manage a club - especially when you see they are all ahead of us now.