In the aftermath of relegation there have been a number of developments over the last 24 hours. Rovers director of football Paul Senior resigned yesterday. The reason for his resignation was not disclosed. A statement allegedly written by the owners (which also bears striking similarities to one that was released in 2014) was published on the official website. The statement described relegation as a “temporary setback”, “shared the hurt of fans”, backed manager Tony Mowbray and vowed to turn things around. The statement did not contain any commitments about providing financial support to the manager. Rovers player of the year Derrick Williams told the official website that the club was not able to recover from the poor start to the season "We shot ourselves in the foot too many times during the season so it is just gutting really. "I think our form lately shows that we are a much better team and we should be higher. But at the start of the season we just weren't good enough. "It was our fault, you can't expect other teams to pull us out, you have to do it yourselves and we didn't do that." View full article

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Ahead of the season finale at Brentford, Rovers manager Tony Mowbray has said that his squad will be “fully ready and prepared for Brentford”. Rovers head into the final match of the season facing a final day relegation battle with Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City. Talking to the Lancashire Telegraph Mowbray said “We will be fully ready and prepared for Brentford, We are at least taking it to the last day. The worst case scenario on Saturday was that we lost, everyone else won, and it was finished, it would have been a terrible week. We now have this week to really build it up, get the players at their peak and maximum fitness, mentality and quality and really build up to this game as a cup final.” Brentford’s recent home form has been very good having win their last 4 homes games which included impressive wins against Derby (4-0) and play off hopeful Leeds (2-0). Mowbray knows that even a victory might not be enough but he wants his team to win and put the pressure on their relegation rivals “If we go to Brentford and win, it might not be enough, but we have to put that doubt in everyone’s mind. “I believe quite strongly in this group of players and that we can go there and make life really difficult for a team who are strong at home. “But recently we have won at Nottingham Forest, been to Wolves and drew 0-0, so we will go to Brentford looking to keep things tight, nick a goal, and hopefully win the match.” Rovers announced yesterday that they had sold out of their initial 1600 allocation for the game. The game will kick on at 12pm on Sunday and will be televised live on Sky Sports Mix. View full article

There is has been plenty of reaction from both Rovers and none Rovers fans to the club getting relegated to League 1: Lancashire Telegraph on Fans Reactions: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/15270524.Communicate__invest_or_go_call_to_Venkys_from_politicians_and_fans_after_Blackburn_Rovers_are_relegated_to_League_One/ Excellent piece on the Blue Eyed Boy blog: https://blueyedboy.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/grotesque-the-frightening-and-not-so-wonderful-world-of-rovers-fall/ Another excellent piece on The Marple Leaf Blog: http://www.themarpleleaf.co.uk/2017/05/the-precise-moment-when-i-realised-my.html Selected Twitter reaction from Rovers fans: https://www.footballfancast.com/social-media/twitter/blackburn-fans-distraught-as-they-suffer-relegation-to-league-one A (bitter) Burnley Fan Perspective: http://www.uptheclarets.com/me-and-blackburn-rovers Twitter Reaction from Bolton Fans: https://www.footballfancast.com/social-media/twitter/bolton-fans-taunt-local-rivals-blackburn-as-they-suffer-relegation View full article

We are where we are because the players that we have are not good enough. The other teams in the relegation scrap (Forest, Bristol and Burton) have got the big results at home when they really needed it. I fully expect Birmingham to follow suit on Saturday (they must have some quality as they were top 6 contenders before they bought in Zola). Even after such a poor season we had the chance to get out of trouble in recent weeks but yielded just 2 points from home games against Preston, Barnsley and Bristol. I would be delighted if somehow we can pick up points but have no expectation that we will.

Of course every manager is judged by results and that is what ultimately we will judge Tony Mowbray. Have to say though after hearing the claptrap that Owen Coyle has come out with from day one it is refreshing to hear Mowbray. I liked what I heard and now it fingers crossed that he can get some results. Coyle should have been sacked weeks ago but it is yet another failing of those running the club and now it leaves Mowbray in a position where he is very little room for error. I think 6 wins will be enough to keep us up.

Yes I think Wigan will stay up. We are into February and have won just 6 games out of 27. From our remaining 57 points we will need to get 25-28 points to finish out of the bottom 3. Statistically looking at Coyle's last 4 jobs (including Rovers) he has not shown that kind of form in any of them. So on that basis alone we will go down. Other teams are showing that even with poor squads they are able to perform because they have a good manager in place.

Wigan might have gained an advantage over the other teams in relegation scrap with the signings that they made yesterday if they can bed them all in, they signed Grimsby striker Omar Bogle, Rangers goalkeeper Matt Gilks, Eastleigh striker Mikael Mandron, Hartlepool midfielder Josh Laurent and former Rover Jack Byrne. They also got Gabriel Obertan on a free transfer and tied up loan deals for Alex Bruce and James Weir. As you say Matty we have won just 6 games out of 27 and not shown any signs of going on a winning streak with the current failure of a manager. I think we will soon get cut off with Rotherham. A change in management might give us a chance but have I have very little faith in these idiots making the right appointment even if Coyle was sacked.

Elton John will be doing a concert at Ewood Park on June 10th.

Huge respect to Amir for taking on this challenge, I didn't think that he had in him. He actually took a paycut to have a shot at greatness, he could have made much more money with less challenging fights. I though that he gave a very good account of himself and was ahead, but I always felt that as the fight went on Canelo would cut down the ring and then hit him with a big shot and that was a hell of a shot. I am just thankful that he didn't get seriously hurt. I always thought that Amir was a bit of a P****K all based on stuff that I had read and heard, but last year I was involved in a project called "Mother Tongue, Other Tongue" we asked for Amir's help and he was fantastic, he did way more than we could have expected and he was genuinely very nice guy, however the people around him, well the less said about them the better.

It is much the same here in UK/Europe. The Wii U is dead in the water, it never took off and now with virtually no third party support the system is finished. In my opinion Nintendo have to get the NX out this year and it has to be a powerful machine and not an extension of the Wii U. If they do that and get the third party support then they have a 2 year window to establish it before the next generation of Sony and Microsoft machine are out.

Fight of the year will be on 21st November, Canelo v Cotto, has the potential to be an absolute classic.

Going of those stats we should get circa 60 points, but the major difference is that we have lost Rudy's 20 goals and not adequately replaced them so that is going to effect the equation. So to compensate we have to become better defensively (not seen evidence of that) or we get Rhodes to score 30 odd goals and we get 10 additional goals from likes of Delfounso/Koita.

In calendar year 2015 Rovers have picked up 35 points out of a possible 81 (we have played 27 league games). Interestingly we have only lost 8 games, drawing 11 and winning 8.

I would agree about bringing back Ballance and put him in at 5 where he seems to be more comfortable. We struggled against the spin of Lyon which does not bode well for having to face Pakistan's spin duo of Ajmal and leg spinner Yasir Shah on spinner friendly surfaces.

Got the new Batman game, only played an hour or so and it certainly lives upto the hype. It also does not hold your hand and throws you straight in at the deep end. he only slight weak bit of the first hour or so is the batmobile sections, not as awesome as I thought that they would be and control scheme for the batmobile could have been much better but other than that it is all good.

I normally hate games like the Witcher but after reading the reviews I bought it a couple of weeks ago and have to say that I love it. I close to 100 hours and still not finished the main story never mind the hundreds of side quests. I love the world and the story telling which takes things to a complete new level. The levelling up system is also excellent. For me it is hands down the game of the year and possibly the game of the decade.

I am sorry Chris, do not agree with this. You cannot compare KP to Jimmy, one is a bowler and the other is a batsman. Jimmy has without doubt been our standout bowler over the last 10 years, but equally KP and Cook have been our standout batsmen. KP has over 8000 test runs and an average of 47, which is fantastic in anyone book. He has won so many games for England over the last 10 years with his attacking style and is regarded worldwide as one of the best of this generation. As for the IPL he has lost out on a heck of a lot of money. He will only be joining the Sunrisers for about 10 days to take part in the playoff and will not receive anywhere near the money that he would have done if he had played for the entire 6 weeks of the tournament. His appearances for Surrey were for free. Even the huge KP critics in the media have acknowledged that he has been treated in a very poor manner and he has every right to be angry. I also cannot understand Strauss's reasoning how can he on one hand say that there are trust issues but then offer him an advisory role with the one day side? It all goes back to the original point, everyone had accepted that KP's England career was over until Graves opened his mouth, this whole subsequent mess could totally have been avoided if Graves had kept his gob shut.

The blame for the current situation has to be put at the door of new chairman Colin Graves, most people had accepted that KP wouldn’t play for England again until Graves for whatever reason decided to say that the slate was clean and that he would be considered if he scored runs at the County Level. I feel for KP in that he has been completely mislead by Graves, he has given him false hope and that has led to this situation completely blowing up once again. It is a huge shame that he won’t play for England again

I think this is the end of the road for Moores as coach and possibly Cook as captain as well. It was a stupid decision not to give Lyth a chance and what is the point of taking Rashid and then not to play him on a pitch that offer so much assistance to spinners? Ali did well last summer and looked a genuine front line spinner, he didn't give runs away and took wickets. However over last games he has lost his confidence, too many long hops and not building the pressure on the batsmen.

If you have read the books like I have then the season 5 has veered away from the books, but as Tom says that is down to the fact that they would catch up pretty soon if they didn't. Still great viewing!

Good night of boxing. First of all Broner is a classless idiot, his end of fight was ridiculous Amir - for the first time ever I have seen him fight properly for 12 rounds, He kept his hands high and then used is superior speed to totally dominate Callazo. What was most impressive was that he came in did his work and then moved out to get out of trouble, I thought that he would tire in the last 4 rounds but his conditioning was superb. That said Callazo was desperately poor, slow and only had one tactic which was to try and catch Amir with one big shot. Thought that the Mayweather v Maidana fans was great. I had Floyd by 3 to 4 rounds mainly because Maidana threw so many punches but during the second half of the fight landed with relatively little and Mayweather landed a lot of shots on the counter attack. Look forward to the inevitable rematch.

RIP Tashor. Your unique posting style will be missed, always liked reading your posts.

Well done to the Australians. This one hurts me more than the 2006 whitewash, this aussie side is no where as good as the 2006 side. But they way we have capitulated has been alarming, at times we have played like a pub cricket team. No way did anyone see this coming, I thought that it would be a close series with it being decided by the odd test or so. What has gone wrong? The buck stops with Cook and Flower, they need to look at this horror show and start the rebuilding process. One bad series shouldn't mean that we dispense with Cook/Flower, but they must not allow this to happen again.

It's going to be a long night if the first 10 balls are anything to go by.