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False position, simply put. I genuinely think at the present time we are the worst team in the division.

Hopefully. We've been the second worst team in the entire division since Christmas, and we just lost to the only team who are below us in the form table. That's a fact the manager can't hide from - not that any journalist will dare confront St Tony with such blasphemous facts.

Hopefully the spark needed for the crowd to really get on Mowbray's back. Not expecting it but let's see.

Dyche clearly didn't lose the players 3 years ago and the article doesn't even say that specifically. Extremely clickbaity headline. That aside, I've been seeing all the same nonsense as we got here when Allardyce was sacked. Same old story of owners wanting champagne football on a beer budget. It rarely ends well.

The clown in the dugout needs to be sacked tonight. He doesn't deserve to see the season out.

That or the model they have simply doesn't work in the second tier, so they're panicking now in a desperate attempt to survive.

Actually saw a comment on their forum calling it a Venky-esque decision.

Very strange timing. Have to assume they have someone lined up - a shock return to football for Allardyce?

That or we would have chased an injury prone player, who'd fail his medical at the last minute. Tony fans would say "well how could the manager possibly forsee that recently injured/regularly injured player could possibly fail a medical?" whilst Mowbray and club would act like this player was the only possible option, therefore we did our best and let's crack on with that standard February death spiral and mid table finish.

I agree with you that such an appointment at this stage would require a level of foresight Venky's and those working for them do not possess. People at the club would need to have seen and understood that things were going badly wrong at least a couple of months ago and began sounding out potential options should Mowbray completely fuck things up (as has come to pass). We can be sure that nothing like this has happened, and if TM was removed at best you'd get Johnson possibly leading the team for the remaining games. With that said, not sure Johnson would be a worse option? He'd presumably at least play everybody in their correct positions and we probably wouldn't have to worry about Gallagher on the wing or Bradley Johnson or Bucko playing as a false 9. Pointless to even bother speculating though, as we know Mowbray isn't going anywhere.

The season is over anyway as long as Mowbray is in charge. Even if a new appointment didn't have any noticeable immediate impact, at least they'd have a handful of games to assess the squad before the summer began. It doesn't matter anyway though. Venky's won't be removing Mowbray until the summer - if he's removed at all - so the season will draw to a slow, painful conclusion with the manager taking us right back to where we normally sit - mid-table. Whilst I agree with others that this is a bang average league this year, I don't think we're above average in any way. Brereton was for half a season, and that was the difference. Without BBD banging in the goals we showed ourselves to be a relegation calibre team, as was predicted at the beginning of the season. Just fortunate we had Diaz in form for as long as we did.

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.