If Norwich beat Swansea at home at the weekend (which they probably will) then with their goal difference v Hull they are probably in even if they lose to B’ham on the final day no matter what Hull do I think the result is actually more important for ensuring West Brom will be keen to get something at Sheff Wed this weekend as if they were to lose they could be going into the last day level on points with Hull

The life of a Blackburn Rovers fan encapsulated in four days.

Glen, sorry if this has been asked and already answered but how did the admin girl find out at 11.04pm that it had not been sent? In other words why was it her that found out and why not earlier?

Excellent from Trav

Pears at fault x 2…again

Yep but it was the crazy game that I thought it would be - not getting 3 points against Luton was the problem rather than Sunderland getting a point

The last minute goals against Coventry and PNE will stick in the memory for a while - those 4 points and we are already safely in

Yet again the opposition manager changes things at half time JDT doesn’t react (or doesn’t know how to)

Sunderland getting a point might be a good thing as if Sunderland beat Preston then a point would not be enough for Millwall against us - so if we manage to beat Luton then both teams would be out for the win - that might just be the type of crazy game we could come out on top in. If Millwall only needed a point I could see them sitting in and us really struggling to break them down

That was a long night without much sleep. It feels just as raw this morning as it did at the final whistle last night. As others have said the stupidity of Brereton to get flagged offside from the free kick in the 94th minutes really sticks with you. If he doesn’t do something over these last 4 games he’s going to walk away with everyone glad to see the back of him which is a real pity after the last couple of years. I do think he genuinely cares (you can see it by how he celebrates the goals etc) but his head and heart just don’t seem to be fully in it anymore. I hated seeing us sitting back inviting them on to us but I don’t think that was all JDT’s fault - Dolan just couldn’t get a hold of anything so we couldn’t get up the pitch. That said I think JDT has lots of flaws. I was worried that Robins would change things at half time and that they would get on top of us with JDT not being able to see or counteract it and that’s exactly what happened - his in game management needs a lot of work. Also Adam Wharton showed again last night that he is clearly head and shoulders above Morton and so JDT has to take some blame for leaving him out in the cold for so long. I also don’t buy into the thought that he has worked miracles this season - we finished 8th last year after collapsing in the second half of the season and whilst we lost some players in the summer those who replaced them are arguably better or at least equal. So whilst I would like him to stay and see what next season brings after a hopefully decent summer of recruitment I am by no means convinced.

Steve Waggot is the CEO of the business - to head off to watch the match when the business is trying to complete one of the most significant transactions in its recent history is a complete neglect of his responsibilities and a serious error of judgement for which he should ultimately resign. Whether transfers is his area or not he should have stayed and helped ensure the transaction was completed - get agreements signed, deal with the EFL on their relegation question, whatever. There can be no excuses for him. In summary after reading the judgement in detail our appeal really had no merit. We messed up ourselves as a result of a series of mistakes and we only have ourselves to blame. Whilst the appeal was a fruitless exercise I am in some way glad it happened as we got full disclosure of the timeline and events via this decision that clearly shows the Club at fault. Up to now I had assumed we had been dealt with unreasonably in some way (for example the way the relegation question was being portrayed suggested that the EFL asked the question right before the 11pm deadline which caused a delay in submitting the paperwork whilst the club dealt with that) which clearly wasn’t the case. The Club needs to front up here and show accountability to the fans

The loan agreement was only sent to LOB for signature at 23.09. But Forest sent it to us signed on their side two hours earlier. To have only realised after the deadline had passed that we hadn’t got the player to sign one of the key documents for the transfer (that we had been sitting on for nearly 2 hours) is unforgivable

He says he left the medical at 9.15pm in his interview with Rich Sharpe so he definitely wasn’t at the match. Also says they only got the green light on the deal around lunchtime and O’Brien trained with Forest in the morning so that would also suggest the medical couldn’t have been in the a.m.

It would be interesting to know if other clubs that announced signings last night are also still waiting on EFL ratification but just went ahead and announced anyway as they assumed this was just a matter of course - could be the case that we are just being cautious and waiting until everything is signed off - if so I’m not overly bothered about that approach but would be good to know!!

I’ve read a couple of reports that say Gallagher ”slipped” for the chance - I think that’s being kind to him as I didn’t think he slipped at all he just dived at it or more probably just fell over - no composure when the goal was there for the taking I remember when Gallagher was on loan here first there was a piece with him and Coyle on Soccer AM when Coyle was firing passes at him and Gallagher had to finish them first time - he blazed about half of them wide or over - Coyle actually started having to encourage him it was so bad - since that day I knew we shouldn’t sign him - tries hard but just doesn’t have the quality