Dingles as good as down and needing a third complete rebuild in three seasons.

Think the manager ratings are fair although whoever prevails in the playoffs will deserve an upgrade and the other three a downgrade. Playoffs are a lottery and even more so with one off semifinals. Despite their points totals, all 4 have limped to the finishing line and cases can be made for and against. West Brom and Norwich are facing life without parachutes so will be extremely desperate. Leeds and Southampton can be handled by Rovers under Eustace playing safety first and exploiting defensive weaknesses on the break. Expecting negative bore fests.

Waggott has to go. Retired Sail off into the sunset Booted Depart with thanks Given a golden watch Shoved out Whatever Be gone

No more extrapolation or prognostication. 50 points weren't good enough in the end. 14 wins and 53 points kept us up. Sammy kept us up.

Utterly drained after that but so happy. Can we play promotion teams every week next season please?

Must win. Cannot go to Leicester needing anything. After the outfield players had a collective brain fart at Bristol, Pears was father Christmas for Ipswich and Wednesday and Eustace totally ballsed up the last game, Is it too much to ask for everyone to be on their game today????

Haven't got a clue what formation, players or tactics either I would chose or what I think Eustace will choose. Might as well use a random number generator or play the under 18s..

If Birmingham win at Huddersfield I think we are certainly down.

Thanks Rovers for a totally sleepless night

That defeat was entirely on Eustace. Rovers completely set up wrongly. Bristol City could have been just a very bad day. To have two such abject performances in three games means he is clueless. No benefit of the doubt now. Just doubt.

If we lose all the last 3 I think it more likely than not we go down if Brum beat Huddersfield Draw today and the odds of relegation are thousands to one against. Win and obviously the job is done

Today is all about the quality of our passing and decision making in the final third. We will get the opportunities. If we mess them up we open ourselves to the lottery of defending corners with 5 Wednesday giants in our 6 yard box as points stealers rather than consolations.

You obviously haven't been watching Wednesday recently..

No matter how we approach this game, it is an absolutely must win for Wednesday. That should make it very open. I would stick with 3 at the back to counter the alehouse tactics from Wednesday freekicks, throwins and corners.

A draw is a let down A defeat could well be going down

I have been on Ewood with 4.5k and 7k fans in the away end. The noise difference between the two isn't that much.

I have the transfer deal privately from more than one reliable source plus it has been posted on here by others. As for 90m. The kid is just 20 and is still learning the PL game and is already a revelation. If Caicedo went for 110m (which he did) then Wharton 12 months from now, new England management etc etc... You can be pretty sure Palace will fight to keep him the way Brighton drive their transfer fees up.

You need one to pick up the Wednesday guy on the D but yes one to give an out ball and keep Wednesday "honest" keeping at least two back to prevent the break.

Michalski has played for the u-21s and been on the bench for the First team on one occasion. Everyone is forgetting Barnes. With the new coaching team at Ewood, we need to remember there are three new sets of eyes looking at not only the whole squad of players currently available but the 5 or 6 under 21s whose seasons were written off through long term injury. I would imagine if we manage to retain Tyjon and Finnernan, it will be with a view to them getting into the first team squad next season plus a likely break through for Duru. And let's see what we achieve with the loans in and out which frankly have been crippled by the late late non-shows in the last three windows. I do expect considerable churn.

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Muric has cost the dingles defeat in the 6 pointer against Everton and the win against Brighton. Good lad.

Initial fee 18.5m rising by another 5m in add-ons which Adam is well on his way to triggering all of them. Assuming we get 23.5m, the sell on is 15% of any Palace profit beyond what they paid to us. On current progress that could easily be another 10m and pretty soon. At Anfield, it was noticeable that Wharton was tackling anything getting close to him and his lack of involvement was quite possibly because they were playing around that space in front of defence he occupies for Palace. It was a sublime performance from him and not in the lest bit surprised his passing accuracy was almost 90%- I can only remember one pass going astray.

Having seen the "highlights" of Wednesday v Norwich, a back 5 and doing everything we can to avoid corners will be essential. Norwich were worth more than their two goal lead but Wednesday scored two identical goals from corners with the 6 yard box packed with bodies. We will need all of Hyam, Carter, McFadzean and Gally in there to compete in this version of alehouse football.

I believe Wednesday have sold their 7,000 so the home restriction is to prevent Wednesday infiltration. That really would kick off with a 27,000 crowd (assuming Blackburn End upper remains closed) with another 7,000 from Sheffield spread around the home areas and some Rovers fans unable to get tickets... As it is, it will be a rum do if we can't get 15,000 home fans for this one and a crowd of 22,000+. Back to my boring a MUST NOT LOSE game but a draw pretty well secures Rovers finishing above Wednesday unless they can get a 17 goals swing in their favour in the last two matches... We will be playing knowing the Huddersfield v Swansea and Rotherham v Birmingham results so we could be playing for a win that makes Championship football in 24/25 a certainty.

If we beat Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield have to have beaten Swansea AND Birmingham need to have drawn at Rotherham to leave us needing just a point to be safe barring a 9 goal swing in the last two rounds. If Huddersfield draw or lose, a Rovers win sees us safe. Birmingham also need to avoid defeat at Rotherham for a Rovers win not to seal safety with two to go irrespective of the Huddersfield result. If Rovers beat Wednesday, we will be in the land of extremely unlikely probabilities to go down because not only do Huddersfield and Birmingham need to win all their three remaining games in effect, ALL of Millwall getting 2 points, Plymouth 4 pts, QPR and Stoke 5pts each AS WELL have to happen in their last 3 games. If we draw with Wednesday, Wednesday would need to win remaining games against West Brom and Sunderland, we would need to lose the last two AND Wednesday need to make up a 17 goal difference to finish above us. If Huddersfield lose against Swansea and we draw then they too need to win their last two and us lose our last two to finish above us. If Rovers beat Wednesday, we will be in the land of extremely unlikely probabilities to go down because Millwall will need 2 points, Plymouth 4 pts, QPR and Stoke 5pts each AS WELL from their last 3 games. A draw is probably enough. Only defeat to Wednesday puts us back in the soup but even then all except one of Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield, Birmingham, Stoke, QPR and Plymouth still would need to collect more points than us across the last three games for us to go down.