Steve Evans has won his last two games at Leeds so has surely won himself a stay of execution for now, but when number eight did come it was, I have to say, something of a surprise at a club that only a couple of years ago was such a farce that nothing they did surprised anyone.
I was sat in the Brian Miller Lounge at a meeting at Turf Moor yesterday evening when I got a nudge from the person sat to my left. He quietly said: "Boywer sacked at Blackburn." A quick look on my phone confirmed the news but it was only later I saw the extent of the changes.
Out with him have gone his number two Terry McPhillips, his two first team coaches Craig Short and Tony Grant with John Keely, the goalkeeping coach, making it a nap hand of departures.
Our former midfielder Grant had worked with Boywer in the academy prior to moving up to the first team and was in the Blackburn dug out for our FA Youth Cup semi-final against them in 2012. He's been with the club since the start of the 2010/11 season.
You could say Boywer has been a long serving manager in the Venky's era at Ewood. He was caretaker on two occasions during the 2012/13 season but has been in charge since 19th March 2013 following the departure of Michael Appleton just two days after we'd been Dunn with that offside goal at Ewood.
I was asked the question last night as to how manager managers they've had during the time Sean Dyche has been at Burnley. Whilst unable to compete with Leeds, Bowyer was just the third.
When Dyche walked into Turf Moor on 30th October, Blackburn were without a manager and still looking for a replacement for Steve Kean who had departed at the end of September. Two days after the Dyche appointment they handed the job to Henning Berg.
Both clubs held their 'new manager' press conferences on the same day and both managers had their first games on the 3rd of November 2012, Dyche's Burnley beating Wolves 2-0 and Blackburn losing 2-0 at Crystal Palace to two Glenn Murray goals.
With the delightful Shebby Singh in full flow, Berg's reign was, shall we say, almost Leeds like in length. He was gone in eight weeks, departing on 27th December with Bowyer stepping in until mid-January.
On 12th January 2013, I got my birthday present when they appointed Michael Appleton. Now Appleton thought he'd done himself a favour. He'd been at Blackpool since early November but had got out of the clutches of the Oystons but landed himself with Shebby.
It was a marriage made in heaven, or certainly at Ewood. Wasn't it said they'd never met until Singh flew back into England to sack him in March, two days after they'd scraped that very undeserved draw against us?
Bowyer has been in charge since and, given all the circumstances at that club, his record is not bad with 44 league and cup wins and only 37 defeats.
But the now rarely seen Indian chicken company have let the axe fall in Pune and the search for a new manager is underway. It won't be long; it never is when the entire back room staff have gone in one act.
Paul Lambert was immediately installed as favourite and last night actually reached 1/15 on Sky Bet. Right now those odds are down to 1/4 with David Moyes as second favourite at 5/1. Moyes, sacked the day before at Real Sociedad, lives locally and is a good friend of Blackburn's managing director Derek Shaw who was chairman at Preston when Moyes was manager at Deepdale.
Only yesterday I joked about Shebby with QPR discussing their managerial situation in Malaysia. It's not the same fun for us now down at Ewood since he departed and since Mrs Desai's husband was snowballed outside the ground, but there were a few smiles in that meeting last night in the Brian Miller Lounge.