Might be for the best for O'Riordan honestly. Him not playing means he can't be tainted with the stink that comes off of this squad at the moment, I would expect to see more of him next seasons, especially if we go down.

Pears has that one game in 10 where he looks like prime Buffon, but in the other 9 he ranges from a steady championship keeper to a Sunday League bench player. Unfortunately, the latter almost always comes up in key matches where we're expected to do well, like yesterday. Was barely qualified to be on the bench when we signed him and should never have been a number 1 at this level. Whoever made the decision to keep him in (JDT or otherwise) last season needs to give their head a wobble.

Honestly, there will be few left and even fewer who will fluorish. O'Riordan perhaps? It will be hard for an attacker to stand out in Euselessball.

I guess the argument is less that the replacement would be ineffective, but more that he wouldn't have been replaced at all. I don't know what happened to Harry Leonard, but he'd have got a couple in the last month I'd have thought.

Interestingly, though Hyam was also at fault, the first one to me is worse - because he keeps doing it. I can't remember who but someone posted a short video of I think 5 examples of howlers he has made this season, and 3 of the 5 were him thundering out of the box, heading it to the opposition and getting lobbed. Once is a mistake, three plus times is a pattern. I said at the time that Pears and Hyam shared the blame and I still stand by that assessment, if not more so now I've seen that clip.

Well, he managed to grind out a result last week and then yet again when the impetus is on him he completely fails to deliver. 2 wins in 15, 0 wins at home with some abysmal football to boot. The "pragmatic" approach is fine is you're actually getting points but we're doing nothing to try to win. At this point he's basically Gareth Ainsworth with better PR.

What a result does eh? I was fully accepting of going down after the Bristol game, and then conceded that the Leeds game would change things and then that happens. We desperately need Huddersfield to beat Brum now, but whether we go down or not there needs to be a massive overhaul in the summer - I'm struggling to think of 5 people (players or staff) who deserve to be here next season.

One of two things happens here: 10% chance: We get battered and grind out a point or three 90% chance: Cov barely turn up, we also don't turn up, we gift them 2 or 3 goals without them having to bother.

Ultimately the only person in the squad who deserves the captaincy in Sammie. The fact that he has to watch this clown lead the team out game after game and put in the performances he is doing must be killing him. The second Carter was back Hyam should have been dropped, but no one at this club has the cojones to do what is right for the club at any point.

I hope our fans give them both barrels. Abysmal.

He's the best possible striker we could get for his wages and the £5m he cost us though, or so I've been told.

We now have a huge problem - we now can't even rely on GD as a points buffer with Brum being the team in the bottom three with a currently equal GD. This teams ability to play up to the big teams but be completely and totally inept against poor teams needs to be studied.

100%. This is on the manager, this is on GB, SW and Venkys. Time and again we go for bargain basement or academy replacements to key players and time and again it bites us.

And here lies the problem I just mentioned. Every goal we concede is an "individual error" which shields the manager from any criticism despite the fact that they're the ones setting up to create the environment that those mistakes happen.

Hyam and Pears combo again, literally the Chuckle brothers - punt them both down to the reserves for the rest of the season. Pathetic.