Literally the only good thing to come out of this season will have been that a portion of our fans will have gotten something out of it in regards to the Diaz bet.

We haven't been great but we go in one up at HT and that's all that matters. Need another two to sneak back into 6th.

And yet as it stands still somehow only 3 points off 4th.

And the fans can see that. There's no need for the manager to publicly shame the players. Not a single good reason to do so. The only (formerly) good manager in recent times who has resorted to that is Mourinho, and it stopped working years ago. Now it has the opposite affect as player power is more prominent now than it ever has been. How often did/do you hear the likes of Ferguson, Wenger, Klopp, Pep, etc berating their own players? It doesn't happen because they know that what needs to be said can and should be said in private. Going public is a sign of a manager who has either lost control or doesn't care.

As soon as Lampard started publicly slating his own team so early in his tenure I figured it would end badly. He doesn't have the accolades and respect as a manager to do that - and even managers that do have that level of respect rarely make a point of criticising their team in public. It's counter-productive and gives the impression of a manager shirking responsibility.

Honestly it'd be funnier for Everton to go down than Burnley. I'd also rather not be in the same division as the six-fingered ones next season, as I'm pretty sure their team would be far superior to whatever dollopers we have left after this season's nosedive into oblivion. As an aside, I came across this article the other day... https://www.tsn.ca/martin-odegaard-arsenal-bumley-1.1695096 How does one make the mistake of using 'Bumley' in the headline? 😄

Sickening, but fully deserved. We've had a disgraceful 2022 and Mowbray will now be remembered for a record home defeat and blowing our best chance at promotion in a decade just as much as getting us out of League 1.

I can only speak for myself, but I wouldn't be remotely concerned about Mowbray managing a Championship rival if our goal was promotion.

Doesn't seem like many people are taking it as gospel tbh.

This summer is probably the most perilous off-season since 16/17 when a combination of poor transfer business and Owen Coyle sunk us. Replacing Mowbray and bringing in 8-10 players, at Venky's glacial speed and with what will at best be a modest budget? Can't see that ending well.

What surprised me about Logan Paul is how natural he looked. Legit seemed more at ease than a lot of the wrestlers you see starting out in NXT and on AEW Dark/Elevation. It was really impressive. It's hard to explain but his poise, the way he moved and his timing for everything was just spot on. Didn't look out of place at all. Stone Cold's match was OK - his limitations were obvious, but I think they hit the beats that needed to be hit, and the crowd ate it up. Attitude Era going over at every WM is getting a bit tiresome now though. Especially when most of the AE guys look pretty old these days. It's not a great look for the current generation and it isn't something the likes of Stone Cold, The Rock, Undertaker, etc had to go through as their generation eclipsed almost everything that had come before them. Hogan would have been the only real exception and he spent most of his time holding down WCW's fresh talent as opposed to going over WWE's fresh talent.

We all know why Gallagher is getting into the team, and I imagine his team mates do as well. All about the amount he was bought for and likely what he's being paid in wages, nothing to do with his ability as he really doesn't have much of that. £5m for a footballer that cannot properly control a ball from a simple pass. And we gave him a new contract.

None of the other managers managed us in League 1, so you can't really use that promotion as a legitimate comparison point. I suspect you already know that. As far as being the most successful of our past managers, that isn't exactly a high yardstick. Kean was the worst manager the club has ever had. Bar none. I doubt anybody will ever come close to the disaster that was his tenure. Berg, Appleton and Lambert were here for a cup of coffee. No useful comparison to be made. Coyle was useless but also only here for something like eight months. Mowbray will have to finish above 8th to better Bowyer, as otherwise his Rovers teams have always finished below where Bowyer placed us in his full seasons at the club regardless of whether we were in the top six for 'x' amount of time. Final league finish is all that ultimately matters, as unfortunately you don't get extra points for time spent in the playoff spots.

The old 'his second touch is a tackle' cliché feels like it was invented for Gallagher.

WM night 1 - mixed bag. The Usos Vs Nakamura & Boogs - Didn't really feel like a WM worthy match. Boogs getting injured obviously screwed up the finish and they had to come up with a new one on the fly, so who knows if the Usos were going to win anyway or if Nakamura & Boogs were scheduled to win. Bad luck for Boogs. Drew McIntyre Vs Happy Corbin - This one definitely wasn't a WM worthy match. Pointless. McIntyre deserves much better than this. The Mysterios Vs The Miz & Logan Paul - The recently traditional celeb match. Logan Paul did really well. Can't say I cared a great deal about the match itself, and I'm not sure what they were going for with Miz turning on Logan Paul at the end. If the idea is that Paul will be the babyface... WWE may have to think again. Becky Lynch Vs Bianca Belair - The first match of the night that really felt like it deserved its place on the show. Belair's character needs to evolve at some point from 'smiley, dancing babyface' though. It's the default position for WWE face characters and it's boring and leads to crowd apathy pretty fast. Cody Rhodes Vs Seth Rollins - Wrestling's worst kept secret was finally unveiled. I find it really funny that Cody was able to keep his entire AEW entrance, including his theme song which is literally a direct swipe at WWE. He even had the codyvator. The commentators obviously pretended like AEW doesn't exist, because WWE. They'll only mention AEW when it's dead, owned by them or irrelevent. Maybe all three. The match itself was solid, and considering how little prep time these guys had I thought they did a great job. Now let's see how long it is before the crowd begins turning on Cody. Charlotte Flair Vs Ronda Rousey - Apparently Rousey threw a temper tantrum on Friday after being told her and Flair wouldn't be main eventing. Seemingly she thought she should main event over Stone Cold Steve Austin in Texas. Quite the ego she has. Match itself was fine but I don't care much for either Flair or Rousey, so I wasn't particularly invested. A little surprising to see Ronda lose though. Kevin Owens Vs Steve Austin - So, turns out old Stone Cold had one more match in him after all! They kept it simple and didn't have Austin take any major risks. The crowd went home happy and it was a nice way to end the show. No complaints here. Overall the show didn't really get going until the Lynch Vs Belair match. This event does not need two nights. All that happens is that Raw/Smackdown/secondary PPV calibre matches end up on the WM card, giving the entire event lipstick-on-a-pig vibes. As for tomorrow's card... Lashley/Omos I am expecting to be really shit. Raw Tag Team Triple Threat should be decent. Zayn/Knoxville should be entertaining. McAfee/Theory could be anything, Smackdown Women's Tag means nothing. Edge/AJ should steal the night. Roman/Brock is either going to be really good or really bad.

Chelsea 1-4 Brentford - signing Eriksen turning out to be a masterstroke for Brentford. Has turned what was looking like a perilous situation completely around.

"Just one win in six"... between 29th Jan - 12th March we won 1 in 9. Even today we're still sitting at just 2 wins in 12.

Sad how poor JRC has proven himself to be. I don't think this is a temporary thing. Either injuries have knackered him, or he was never that good to begin with, and we're only seeing now how far below the required standard he is.

If we're being honest we were lucky to go in at half time only one down. Probably should have been two or three. So, whilst you could consider a 99th min equaliser unlucky, on balance, as you say, probably fair. I'm not feeling hugely angry as I fully expected something like this to happen, even when we were riding high. When ridiculous comments about erecting statues in Mowbray's honour were being made, there were a fair few ("negative") counter comments noting that the season doesn't end in December and we should wait and see. I was very much in that pessimistic camp, and in this instance I'm glad, as it limits the disappointment somewhat. I never had faith in TM and always expected him to screw this up. Not quite this bad - I at least thought it'd be the playoffs we crashed out in - but in a way this might be better as a playoff finish would have made for an argument for him to stay, irrespective of how we performed in the playoffs themselves. Finishing outside the top six after getting ourselves to second and something like 10 points clear of 7th can only be seen as an abject failure.

Should have seen it coming really. How often do we come from behind to win under this manager? Home and away you could count it on one hand. A spineless mentality that needs to be erased.

Me either, but it's the only positive I have right now, even if it's just a hope .

Only 6 more games under Mowbray. Hopefully.

Genuinely don't think Pickering is better than Bell in any respect. He's been pathetic today.

I wonder where we'll finish in the end? 10th - 12th? To finish mid table after being 2nd at the turn of the year will surely be one of the biggest collapses, if not the biggest, in Championship history? Surely even Mowbray's staunchest defenders, on here at least, will have to stop deflecting to the owners and admit the second half of this season has simply been rank bad management at every conceivable level?

Game over. That was the third time in about 4 minutes they'd sliced through the middle of us.