WHEN it came it was inevitable that it would be with a whimper rather than a bang, writes Simon Smith.

Owen Coyle’s six month reign ended the same way that so many saw it would from the get-go: in bleak relegation trouble and total chaos.

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My great-Auntie Edith had a phrase; ‘buy cheap, buy twice’.

As a club struggling for finances this whole mess will further deplete the bank balance as the club pay off four inept employees.

It was not Coyle’s past that caused all of the problems, even if it didn’t help. It was his lack of managerial ability.

I daresay if Kieron Trippier, Junior Stanislas and Jay Rodriguez turned up at Ewood their Burnley connections would be forgotten once they had impressed.

It was Coyle’s lack of ability and tactical nous that cost him.

One hopes Tony Mowbray will heed Coyle’s folly and set about the Rovers job with motivation, decisiveness and offer a clean slate for all players, and that is all we can offer him.

He needs 100 per cent support for the next five games as he learns about who is able to keep us up and we have the ability take 10 points from those games.

Meanwhile, Mike Cheston’s admission that any money has to be generated by player sales, and those magic beans he has bought, rubber-stamped the fact: a relegation will be followed by any saleable assets at all leaving the club.

Soon it will be local lads paying £500 to the club to pull on a Rovers shirt and play.

We are continually fed this tosh that Venkys put £109m into the club. They didn’t. They gave more than that.

The problem was, and still is, that they immediately gave it all to advisors, agents, inept managers and the increasingly work-shy players those managers bought and put on ridiculous wages, such as Danny Murphy and Leon Best.

Money that all went OUT of the club.

The club has since stayed in the division by dint of Gary Bowyer’s excellent trading and total asset stripping.

If the owners will not sell until they get their ‘investment’ back then they’d better get ringing the buzzers on the outer gates of these folk.