That for sure is not happening. We will never pay the asking wage.

Normally when Managers get poached, they go. There was none of this got to speak to the owners palarva when Souness, Hughes et al got offers. Or for that matter I cannot remember any managerial moves this season when a club moved for another club's Head Coach - it was done and dusted once they approach and offer were made. I agree it is very likely Eustace is gone but there is an open door for Swag, Suhail, Venky's, the club cat.. if they want to walk through it to keep John Eustace.

With Var, the Hyam goal would have stood and the penalty shout looked at. I doubt we would have got the clear and obvious error reversal of the decision but equally had the penalty been given, VAR wouldn't have deemed that a clear and obvious error the other way either.

At this point we can only go off the words Eustace said the LT. Anything else is conjecture seen through whatever lens we chose to see it through. If he had decided to leave he would be saying lovely things about the town, the fans, the players, the club and the owners but family pressures are too much.... As it is, there is a very clear route for him to stay IF Swag and Suhail chose to go down it with John.

That really puts the ball in Venky's court. Get the contracts sorted and what's the budget for the summer? Or good bye and good luck because the fans know you have done the dirty...

To do a Souey, he'd have to have planted a Burnley flag in the centre circle! Incidentally, I thought Buckley played well.

The previous two Januaries, we couldn't press send. This January we can't count to 25. I suppose it is progress of a kind.

Russian TV coverage went straight to adverts at the full time whistle. Did Eustace wave goodbye?

Not going to beat a PL side when a perfectly good goal is wrongly chalked off and a penalty is not given you. Kargbo was jinking into the penalty area and jinked onto a foot that was never going to get the ball. Plenty of penalties have been awarded in the PL this season for exactly that reason. Toth should have stopped the first but Cantwell had carelessly lost possession in a dangerous area for the second time in a minute. Forshaw didn't follow his man for their second. Plenty to be optimistic about the performances of Kargbo, Dennis and Ribeiro- all of whom look plenty good enough for a squad challenging for the play-offs.

No way are Venky's going to suck that one up.

Is Sanderson injured?

Midfield will get shredded.

Been reading the local Derby paper and it looks like a frying pan to the flaming furnace jump by Eustace. Things must be in an absolutely horrendous state at Ewood today and far worse than is remotely on the public eye.

Dougan transfer request on the eve of the FA Cup Final against Wolves. Eustace resigns on the morning of the FA Cup tie against Wolves?

https://x.com/i/status/1888513177245081989 In his BBC interview, JE had multiple opportunities to answer on behalf of the club and on every occasion he puts distance between him and the club. No way should any CEO allow such. a situation to occur (AGAIN). SWAG is an abject failure.

If it is any consolation, every time I have bought a Rovers TV match subscription, we have lost except Dingles and Preston away- I am not buying one today.

Lee Carsley to Rovers? Two pointers- it is a 3 from 8 scrap at the bottom including Swansea who are also in free fall. I wouldn't rate the Derby squad as better than any of the other 7 so survival even for JE is far from a foregone conclusion and he cannot bring anyone in. - Derby have also had their transfer ban woes and I think have a suspended sentence hanging over them. So while far from a done deal that he is staying, I would say it is not automatic that he is going to Derby. There must be other clubs on the point of firing managers in a better position than Derby who would tap up an open to offers Eustace.

Disappointed Markanday didn't get on for Orient. Watched (suffered) the Accy Wimbledon goalless draw in which Accy dragged the Dons down to their level. Lots of shots high wide and ugly, can't remember anything on target. Batty was good tackling and the best passer on the pitch. A bit slow even at this level getting back and seemed to be asked to play as the out ball option at set pieces given the size of several Wimbledon players.

This is a play off 6 pointer and we seem to raise our game under Eustace in these sorts of games. Based on what I have seen of West Brom against Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday, we should be able to defend against their players which pose threats, none less than Adam Armstrong who has just scored a delightfully guided left footer against Wednesday. The two wide attackers were dropped to the bench after the Plymouth defeat. The Albion defence can be got at and will be without Kyle Bartley who was sent off after the final whistle with a straight red for violent conduct.

To the extent the new signings are serious, we will be taking this seriously. Wolves are likely to have a second eleven out which even so will be an extremely tough test seeing as they are an established PL side.

Anywhere but to OT!

I gave this prompt to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude: which senior professional footballer should blackburn rovers omit from naming in the 25 man squad registered? One answered Szmodics (very AI) but they all suggested Adam Forshaw based on age, rating and lack of game time.

It looked like Trav was following management orders as skipper taking control of the ball and calling up the penalty taker for the two penalties I saw in real time. The enthusiasm to take the penalties suggests they have been practicing and feel really confident.

Good summation from Rich

The QPR defenders were monsters and they were all up so there were too many big lads to mark for their opener. Gueye didn't look unusually large last night and was battling to win aerial balls he usually wins almost uncontested. QPR slaughtered us in the aerial duels statistics.