Jesus, has the lad shagged your wife or something? Flapped at a couple, but had safe hands otherwise - came for a few crosses that Pears wouldn't have had a clue how to handle. Save at the death was good also. A thousand times better than Calamity.

Pears out / Toth in, win and a clean sheet away from home. Thought we defended well, Yuki took his goal well. Luton are absolutely shite.

Literally speaking, correct. But Pears has been (rightly) targeted as the weak point in our side by most opposition this season - and it's paid off for them (early goals / etc).

We finally drop Calamity Pears (injury my arse) and we don't concede in the first few minutes. In fact, a clean sheet at HT. Almost like it's a coincidence.

Does anyone actually give any credence to anything that joker Nixon says?

I genuinely refuse to believe that either Toth or Michalski would be performing worse than Pears. He's consistently atrocious, costs us goals/games and is - understandably so - targeted by opposition as our weak point in the team. Persevering with him, when he's so detrimental to the team, is mind boggling.

Waggott should perhaps be reminded that it's impossible to be sued for telling the truth.

Too many insiders. However, it does seem as though the owners have been intentionally kept in the dark and/or have neglectfully left SP with full autonomy to run the whole club. You would hope that this information and his blatant abuse of power / lack of competency in role will get back to them. It would seem that he's the root of all evil - as well as being the one constant - as far as what's wrong with the club.

From the information and who it resolves around, you'd suspect that comes either directly from JE, or somebody with close links to him. Also, I've been (mentally) calling you Irac. Today I learned that it's just 'Carl' backwards.

What is quite interesting is that we're seeing a lot of leaks of legitimate information - and this has ramped up recently. Certainly members of the backroom staff want to get certain points across. I'm still joining the dots at the minute, but we have the opposite of a united camp within the club.

I said the same when I drove past earlier today. They seemingly jet washed the area near to the away ticket office, but the rest of the stadium looks like the inside of a neglected fish tank.

I'll be somewhere over the Atlantic in a metal bird when this game takes place - which, under normal circumstances, I'd be a bit gutted about. But, quite frankly, it'll be nice to forget it's even happening. We know it'll be more of the same; we know Pears will play, we know Sheffield will get an early goal and we know things will go from bad to worse. All while Ismael stands gormless on the sideline and the 3 stooges are gormless in the stands.

With the right people running the club, with the right intentions, we will see at least double the crowds we've been getting. With the right people running the club, we would not haemorrhaging money. Suggesting that Glen has some kind of underhand agenda is both bizarre and outs you as a Venky's stooge.

Fair play to Chris Ilumumomomo, or whatever he's called - the host was going down the sympathy route for VI. But he was correct in saying that the results speak for themselves. And the players look lost/confused on the pitch, no purpose or direction.

'Blackburn's a shithole, I want to go home'. ...from people from Middlesborough. Anyway, absolutely dire again tonight. The senior management haven't got a clue what to do, how to handle the situation and all they will do is close their eyes & ears. Ismael has been an unmitigated disaster.

Pears doing his best to gift yet another goal to yet another opposition. You'd have to be a bit simple to think he's anywhere near good enough to start games at Championship level.

I don't drink (alcohol), but it's nights like this I wish I did. Nobody has any bollocks at the club. You could see it in all of their faces, they have no idea what to do.

Gestede said that it wasn't discussed to his knowledge, or that he wasn't party to that discussion. Whilst it's clear that Eustace wasn't interested in staying whatsoever, it's also clear that the club 'had him in the departure lounge' as soon as he showed interest in speaking with Derby. Look how it's panned out.

This is what it all comes back to. We've employed amateurs and we're being run by amateurs. The outcome is inevitable. I didn't expect much from Gestede to start with, but listening to his podcast interview with the LET reporter (who I thought asked some good questions, in fairness), it left me gobsmacked at how poor his responses were and how he came across. Just imagine what we could do with a senior management team who a) knew what they were doing and b) cared more about the club than their own salary/pension/career prospects.

It's either all lies, or none of them genuinely have any idea what they're doing. Or, actually, both.

I have to be honest, listening to that interview tonight, if he's an intelligent and successful business professional...he's doing a good job of sounding anything but. I think most of us can spot a blagger a mile off.

Yeah, I'm his biggest anti-fan, but yesterday's goal wasn't his fault. Defending was awful. He did however make his routine cock-up in the second half - coming out for the ball, standing still and leaving the goal unprotected. Fortunately for the team, the defenders got him out of it. Now the season is over, give the rest of the season to Toth or Michalski. Pears shouldn't play for the first team again.

I think the 'players not being paid' thing is just chaos creation and nothing more. Stick to the facts for any protests, rumours just detract from what's trying to be achieved.

Yeah, both showed a bit of desire and quality on the ball that none of the others (possibly barring Ribiero) had in the proceeding minutes. Football can be a simple game and team selection is one of those elements. Pick your best players, put them in their most effective positions and give some clear instructions.

Just on this forum alone we have many experienced professionals who could step into either of their roles tomorrow and genuinely do a better job.