Blackburn Rovers head coach, Valerian Ishmael brings his side to the swansea.com tomorrow night with a big section of the Rovers support wanting him out of the club. It hasn’t been a good time for Ismael and going back over their last ten fames they’ve won just once.

This is Ishmael’s twelfth club but he has never experienced a win rate of 27.5% before.

Rovers have signed Mathias Jorgensen from Bodø/Glimt and he will play we understand but the real issue is top goalscorer, Andri Guðjohnsen (23) who is out injured. He has scored seven from fifteen appearances this season but since the defeat of Millwall at Ewood Park just before Christmas he has been out with a hamstring injury. He scored in that game, plus in the win against Preston North End away. His contribution cannot be overestimated, he also scored goals in Rovers draws against Ipswich at home and Wrexham away. Put that with a winning goal against Southampton at home and two in a 2-0 win at Leicester City and he will be on a lot of clubs radar come the summer.

Jorgensen (below) has played Champions League football this season against Dörtmund and Juventus and is rumoured to have cost in and around three million euros.

Blackburn have an extensive injury list which has no doubt affected their performances and Ishmael is really under pressure. Ryan Alebiosu is out after the end of the Africa Cup of Nations. Otherwise, Andri Gudjohnsen, Ryoya Morishita will return at the end of the month. We can also reveal Ryan Hedges is out and won’t play tomorrow evening. Hedges will be lucky to make the end of the season. Lewis Miller is under the microscope despite being allegedly fit. Kristi Montgomery Is out as well. Add those players to Sidnei Tavares and Scott Wharton and numerous others it really all boils down to who is left for this one. Especially after this long and very poor run. Ishmael reintroduced, Dion De Neve on Saturday but he had a poor game. He will be relying on Todd Cantwell and Yuki Ohashi who played up front in their last game against Ipswich, a 3-0 loss.

It’s a damned mess for sure.

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Off the pitch the Blackburn Rovers Supporters' Coalition is calling for a boycott of this game and a change in the club's ownership. Yes, Venky’s are still in there and spending three million euros this month hasn’t changed the fans opinions. In fact there is a real tangible hatred towards everything that is going on at Ewood Park. Results aside there’s an atmosphere of total resentment and distrust.

*3 year contract for this joker was a great idea, truly up there with one of the best footballing decisions of all time.

*January 23/24/25 we had a very good shout of promotion/playoffs. The administration of our club ensured we fucked it. January 26, we’re hovering above the relegation zone, and have an even more appalling bunch of dickheads running the club. I have no hope we’ll stay up.

* Ismael is absolutely ***** at his job. Problem is, so are the people choosing his successor. This is a really bold statement and not one I ever wanted to have to make about the club I love, but: I have absolutely no confidence in the competence of anyone in a senior role for Blackburn...

It goes on and on.

Blackburn Rovers have always been a club that is hard to beat in any fixture, but the Swans support is very positive and appreciative of what is happening at Swansea. They see progress under Vitor Matos. Ishé Samuels Smith is out as is Adam Idah, the latter regardless of some of his lackadaisical performances this season is still a big miss as an option. Ricardo Santos is fit despite his transfer to Reading falling down after a medical this week. The @300k fee reported exclusively on this site was lapped up by Peter O’Rourke and Darren Witcoop with an uncredited report. There is still some hope the Swans will secure a club for him but without knowing the issues his medical showed up it’s a hard one to call. He went to Reading for his medical passed fit so we can only assume potential issues in the future were causing concern.

Now the Swans need to seize upon the bad times that Blackburn Rovers are going through and get back to putting the ball away as they still remain unable to score more than two goals in a league game this season. It’s as simple as that.

There is no transfer news we can share at this time but we are aware that the Swans are open to bringing in two more players either on loan or permanently before the window closes.

More build up tomorrow morning on the Indy.

Photographs : Open Source & Blackburn Rovers FC