That was a totally unnecessary self-inflicted defeat. The Rovers line-up was on this message board 24 hours ago and if it were here we can be absolutely certain it was in Swansea giving a rooky stand in coach plenty of time to make his selection and game plan and prepare his players. It was clearly leaked because nobody in their right mind would have started with that eleven from the squad of players we had available today. The subs made a difference after the game was lost. The first goal was a Pears horror show and we have seen several Championship keepers against us this season who would have saved 2 and 3 as well. And yet again we failed to convert a golden first minute opportunity to score.

Coventry and West Brom both winning. Looking like a really bad afternoon.

That was drifting towards the most 0-0 of 0-0s. Then, Pears oh dear- being found out big time. The replay of the first goal is nauseous. Sanderson is very clearly grappled off the ball for the second. The best players are on the bench. Let's see if they come on.

5%. Be realistic.

Ok let me say publicly I am keen on becoming Rovers head coach and if anyone is reading this, please count me as the 151st applicant for the job. cf. Boateng

I am very strongly of the view Kargbo should start but that is a tackling from the front with high press side. Whatever the caretaker management of Swansea does, they don't have players who can reliably handle those sorts of tactics. My concern is we are relying on them making mistakes more than us creating goals and we are not giving ourselves enough time at 0-0 or losing 1-0 to.go win it from the bench.

Watching the Bristol City Middlesbrough game and neither of these sides look serious contenders and are making basic1 errors all over the park. Boro ahead 1-0 and this far frustrating the Bristol City bid for 6th tonight.

I am far more concerned it is Karanka. Always thought there was a high chance it would be. Would far rather have Duff.

A throw away line in Lowe's interview yesterday was we will have to check the injuries. Sounds ominously like new injuries we don't know about. Lowe effectively said he has concentrated on Rovers because we have no idea what the interim Swansea management will do. I hope he has done better than that and has used his experience of stepping into the hot seat to think through what he would do if he were in the same position at Swansea using their players. One thing is for sure. Whereas at Rovers it was simply a matter of playing Eustaceball better, at Swansea the last thing you want to be doing is more of the same which lost 8 of the last 10 fixtures. Something I feel very strongly about is playing Kargbo from the start. Getting him running at them should disrupt any plans and need a hasty redeployment of forces at which point the Swansea players will have been coached into the sacked boss system, trying to play the new way introduced from Wednesday and getting touchline instructions to do something else again. If that's not a recipe for a Rovers field day, I don't know what is.

The thing which is striking is how weak and ineffectual the Venkys men have been at Ewood. From letting Anderson run rioteven in the waning days to the farce of being in Court against their own chairman to the stupidity over Warnock and Coyle to wars with Broughton and JDT then JE and now the continuous leaks of disagreement with Swag and Gestede, anyone would think they are powerless....

Has to be a Lancy take-over of North London.

As someone who has made senior appointments and looking at how quickly/slowly other clubs make appointments, this is not protracted. The cost of getting a senior appointment wrong is enormous and the band aid in the meantime is holding 100%. The issue is not how long it is taking, it is the clowns who are making the decision.

Two things worth pointing out. 1. the bookies list isn't any one of the various Gestede/Waggott/Pune puppet lists (yes lists- they don't agree on anything between themselves) 2. Warnock regards the Rovers set-up with utter disgust and distrust after he had accepted the job at Ewood, the guy he was dealing with went on holiday and Coyle was appointed

Very interesting one if true. Karanka unfortunately ticks all the boxes. Known to Gestede Almost unemployable So desperate he won't kick up a fuss about half the squad leaving in summer

swim