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.

Unfortunately, it's what most of us fully expected.

This the is route I'd go. Quite frankly, the form literally can not get any worse, so let's blood some of the talented kids and use the senior players who will be here next season. You cannot tell me that Tyjon (if he's fit) would not be a massive upgrade on what we saw today from Woodrow, for example.

At what point do we consider setting up an offshoot club, ala FC United? Unless these current ideas (which are ace, btw) force something to happen, it looks like Venky's are stubbornly in this forever. Which means the likes of Suhail, Waggott and Gestede will be leeching from the club forever as well. We'll have to consider something completely left field.

Warnock would have been perfect. I said at the time, what we needed (and still need) is a motivator. The hours on the training ground to make us a solid enough unit had already been done. What was needed was somebody to find that balance between giving them a cuddle and lighting a fire under their arses. Ismael does neither.

That is absolutely dire. Another very, very poor side made to look mediocre as a result of our own 'performance'. As I said earlier, no plan and no strategy. The players have no patterns of play or direction; they look lost on the pitch. This is unacceptable.

Cantwell has been one of our better players, since he came on. He's actually put the effort in and tried to make things happen, unlike the rest of them.

There's no plan, no patterns of play and no strategy. We're just on the pitch knocking the ball around (poorly).

I'm amazed that Woodrow has stayed on the pitch this long. Granted, one decent scoring opportunity, but aside from that...I mean, I've genuinely seen better players down at Pleasy on a Sunday morning. Just all a bit grim. We're existing, nothing more. We've become a Preston.

I'm failing to see any reason to buy one other than habit/blind hope. Absolutely everything is pointing to a further lack of investment in the playing squad, more neglect of our club and very likely a season ending with relegation to League 1.

Probably the dullest game of football I've seen this season. And I've not missed a Rovers match.

What he achieved with what he had available to him was nothing short of remarkable. The tragedy is that it would have only taken a very modest bit of investment to take us back to the promised land. In reality, the exact opposite of that happened.

I was only 11 or 12, so watching it on Sky with my mates was my only option. But I'll never forget that emotional rollercoaster. Or walking down to Ewood after the game for the impromptu celebrations! Rovers in '95, then England's Euro '96 campaign the year after - 2 of the best summers of football I'll probably ever experience.

I'm not sure, to be honest - JE knew what was coming and couldn't get out quick enough. I doubt we'd have lost all 3 of the last 3 matches, but I don't think we'd have maintained a top 6 position under him.

He's fully on the club's books, recent posts confirm this. Just look at last week, suggesting that Calamity was being linked with Man Utd - after (yet another) display of total incompetence. He blocked me a long time ago for calling out the obvious flaws in a number of his 'stories'. Red top rag gossip merchant, nothing more.

Let's hope Tony Coton wasn't there today - we need to maintain any illusion of basic level competence for a chance of offloading him. However, there was never anything in the story in the first place, just Nixon putting out a fluff piece. The first one looked soft today, but his actual diving technique for the second was beyond amateur. Play Toth, for God's sake. He must be sat on the bench wondering who Pears has intimate photos of.

I was surprised how poor he was - struggled with basic passing and movement. You cannot tell me that we don't have better players in the Academy. I played LW in a charity match at Ewood last year and I was genuinely several shades better than ACD was today.

You know what? I'm glad we're out of the play off picture - we'd be absolutely embarrassed against the better sides of the division. Last 3 games against the dregs of this division and we've lost all 3. We are going down next season, put your mortgage on it.

Surely you're trolling? Pears has been the single weak point and reason we've conceded goals and lost games, far too often - and very much recently. Dennis has been decent, as has Dolan. But we need to step it up a notch in the 2nd half. Cardiff are atrocious and even we should be beating them quite comfortably. Wasting time after 5 mins is beyond embarrassing.

Starting to wonder if a cardboard cutout of Brad would be more effective in goal than Calamity, at this stage.

If, as it sounds, VI is writing this season off and planning for next season, we might as well play some of the kids and get rid of the shite. Unless VI is blind, he'll have already seen enough of Pears to know that he'll never be good enough to be a number 1. In fact, he is figuratively and literally a number 2. Michalski Brittain Hyam Carter Ribiero Travis Tronstad Dunn Gueye Tyjon (if he's fit) If the likes of Dolan isn't sticking around, then he's played his last game for me.

Agreed, I was always impressed with Johansson when we played against Rotherham and he would have been a huge upgrade on Pears.

Season over. Unacceptably poor.

And yet still didn't make a tenth of the regular errors Pears makes. It's not just the errors either, it's the lack of positional awareness, lack of any kind of bravery and his distribution is shite also.

The irony is that I saw some of these fans taking selfies with actual Maggott, at a motorway service stop...