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Sounds like he's doing a bit of a Danny Murphy at Sunderland. Fans can forgive lack of talent for quite a while if the commitment and desire is there, but if a player is clearly half-arsing it that is never tolerated for long.

QPR's form over the last 5 games has matched ours, I think. Fortunately they've lost form at the exact same time as us!

Missed most of Elimination Chamber, forgot it was on tbh, but caught the Men's match... Decent start, then Brock comes in roughly 9 minutes into the match, destroys everyone and wins. Lol. Lashley protected somewhat by getting 'injured' before he could come in, meaning he never actually faced Lesnar. or anybody, for that matter. No Cody debut either, which is probably for the best. There wasn't really any obvious spot for him on the card. Madcap Moss took an absolute brutal bump in the match with McIntyre. https://v.redd.it/f6ixp0pq3ui81/DASH_1080.mp4 Hopefully he's OK.

Lampard is an extremely risky appointment given the position Everton are in. Risky on both sides really - Everton gambling their future on a relative novice, and Lampard with the very real possibility of having relegated Everton on his CV.

People are obviously talking about our recent form, though, not how we were playing months or years ago. Our problem is that we are not finding a way at the moment, and the one player who consistently bailed us out with goals, helping us find our way in the past, is potentially out for a while. Keep in mind our next top scorer is Gallagher with 6, and then it goes down to 3 goals for our next top scorers. We were hugely reliant on BBD for our goalscoring, and suggesting others will step up goes against everything we've seen since 2022 began.

Looking like it was going to be Buckley false 9 and Gallagher right wing again, so yeah, maybe the ref did everyone a favour.

WTF. Hasn't he been out of management since 2014? Where did that come from? They must really want to get relegated.

Probably, but no harm in looking up rather than looking down. The Championship is a strange league! With that said I expect Fulham's result today will be a blip rather than the start of a TM-style death spiral.

Well, this isn't true in recent times, is it? We didn't find a way in 6 of our last 8 matches. You can't cherry pick the two games we did score a single goal in and say 'we always find a way'.

Overall another solid set of results for us today. Fulham lose, Boro lose, WBA lose (now overtaken by Luton & Coventry), QPR drop points. Sheff Utd picked up a win but can't expect every single result to go our way.

Tbf if we actually had anybody in the team who could score a goal we would have beaten them soundly as well. They were absolutely terrible.

I'm not in the habit of feeling sorry for Millwall fans either, but yeah, this is bullshit. Literally the only game in the Championship called off today, and to do it at 2.15pm... some accountability needed by whoever has made this call, because it's not good enough.

Absolutely shocking. Whoever is involved in this situation needs to face some consequences. Completely unacceptable to wait until now to call the game off.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've thought 'no way WWE can fuck this up' and they then proceed to go and do just that. For Cody it's dangerous as he's walking into a situation where he has no control over his destiny as far as creative is concerned, especially compared to AEW where he had plenty of clout. He'll once again be at the whim of an old man who regularly makes ridiculous decisions, and who is only bailed out by TV Networks' need for regular live programming and the Saudi need for sportswashing. I think he'll be booked somewhat strong for the first year, maybe even two. The thing with Vince is that if he doesn't see somebody as a main event talent, it's very, very difficult to convince him otherwise. Even if a talent has gone elsewhere and been successful - if it didn't happen in the WWE bubble, it basically isn't worth anything to Vince (and for some reason that even includes NXT). Cody was clearly never seen as a true main event player during his previous run - by the end he was losing on B and C shows in his stupid Stardust gimmick. Make no mistake, regardless of what Cody has done since, Vince still sees him as that guy. The opportunity to pry an EVP from AEW is just too good for Vince to miss out on.

Huge viewership drop for AEW this week. They've been doing over a million pretty steadily since moving to TBS, but just 869k this week and a 0.31 demo. Those are the kind of numbers they were doing on TNT when opposed by NXT on USA (although I contend there isn't much of a crossover at all between WWE & AEW fans, not in the same way there was between WWF & WCW back in the day). Strange as AEW's last two shows have been pretty good. Can't imagine Cody's departure would have had that kind of impact, especially considering he hasn't even been on TV much lately. Maybe people were disappointed in Keith Lee and Jay White being the big reveals last week?

It's WWE, they'll fuck it up. 100%. I'm more interested in how they'll fuck it up. They'll be paying Cody a fortune (rumoured to be in the $3-5m a year range) so you have to think he'll be pushed pretty hard at the beginning. Then it's just a case of how long before Vince loses interest in his shiny new toy and Cody ends up in mid-card feuds with the Miz and Apollo Crews. He may even get the chance to put Shane McMahon over when the best in the world eventually returns. We might even get the return of Stardust one day. It's disappointing from my perspective. Cody has been a huge part of AEW, and had an incredible potential storyline with his meta-heel turn. Instead it turns out he never had any intention of turning heel, and thought everything he had done and was doing with babyface material. Lol. I really enjoyed Cody's work in AEW but it sounds like he was pretty deluded by the end. His final promo was a total rambling mess that made no sense at the time - but if you listen to it now, assuming Cody knew he was likely to be going, it makes a little more sense. Rewatching Cody Vs Dustin at Double or Nothing now. Fantastic match. Might be the best of Cody's career.

Yep, looks like Cody Rhodes is done with AEW. Apparently going back to WWE... never would have thought that would be happening at this point.

Considering how poorly we've been playing since 2022 started I would hope we're at the end of a DS rather than the beginning of one. Just picked up more points than we usually would thanks to a much steadier defence than previous seasons.

Great set of results for us tonight.

If you've seen any of our last few games then you've basically seen tonight's game as well. Long stretches where we looked hopeless, interspersed with periods which briefly remind us that the team who got to second are still out there somewhere. We are just badly down on confidence at the moment and it seems to be affecting the entire team, and as tends to be the case under the current manager when that happens it takes a long time before we bounce back. The only real difference between this spiral and our previous ones is that we actually have a solid defence this time around, so we're picking up draws and scabbing the occasional win, such as Boro.

Nyambe MOM for me. Thought he was a fantastic presence at the back. Losing him on a free is going to be a real kick in the gut.

2 goals in 720 minutes of football. Must be closing in on some kind of record at this point? That's how it is with this manager though. Always total extremes. From being the second highest scorers in the division to a team that looks like it is never going to score again. Bruce has some work to do with WBA. They are really poor. Not hard to see why they've fallen out of the playoff places. With that said, I think by this time next month we'll be out of the top six. This run of form doesn't look like turning around any time soon, and if Diaz is out for any period of time then we're in big trouble. Our next top scorer is Gallagher with 6.

Our casual giving away of possession in this match is fucking ridiculous. We are lucky WBA are as bad as we are offensively.

Brilliant from Khadra there. Shame he was having to do it all himself.

Ffs, forget 2 goals in 8, we might not score again until Diaz returns. Was the only forward player who had any threat and can actually score goals.