In the relegation season a lot of damage had been done by the time Mowbray arrived, and honestly we were a bit unlucky to be relegated with 51 points. I've never held that against Mowbray. Automatic promotion from League 1 was fine by me. Would have been nice to win it and settling for 2nd showed something about Mowbray's personality imo, but there have been some big clubs stuck down there for a while now so I'm just happy we escaped at the first time of asking. Since then it's just been... average. I've never had a sense we're building to something identifiable on the pitch or within the squad. This season has been a pleasant surprise but doesn't feel like it was part of some kind of masterplan. More like a combination of Mowbray being restricted by the squad available to him and the league arguably being the weakest in terms of quality than it has been for a number of years. I know it gets said every season but when you look at the teams between 4th and 18th this season it really does feel like everybody is at the same low bar of quality. It feels like any team that gets lucky on the injury front and gets some momentum behind them has a shot of top six this year.

I'd mostly remember Mowbray's tenure as one of frustration and missed opportunities after the League 1 promotion. Very similar to how I remember Bowyer's time at the club.

Didn;t see that... oh well, one less team for us to worry about.

It's definitely a more even league this year in the sense there are a lot of teams at a very similar level, with the top two breaking away (although Bournemouth are wobbling a little recently) and the bottom six being some way below the general standard of the divison. From 4th down there are no outstanding sides, and even WBA are significantly underperforming relative to their budget. Their gamble on Ismael not really paying off yet. I've said we have a team capable of the top six from early on in the season. That's not saying we're great, it's just an observation that the rest of the division is very, very average. Any side able to maintain consistently and have good luck with injuries has a chance of top six this season.

He stepped in as caretaker when Wilder left, so assume it's more that than Heckingbottom being given the role permanently. Who knows, though. Not to dissimilar to us giving Bowyer the job back in the day.

Can't imagine we'll ever be able to seriously rely on JRC. Decent player but his injury record is ridiculous and probably not going to get much better as he ages.

But if we fail to get into the playoffs in both seasons that will also tell a story. Having a regular goalscorer is a key component to success, but as we saw with Bowyer it's only one part of a larger puzzle.

Yeah not surprising, They were one of the worst teams we've played this season so far, and are hugely underperforming this season.

QPR's result isn't a total disaster as it does push Hudds further below us. Somehow we're within 3 points of the mighty WBA and their parachute payments...

With the ridiculousness of the Chile situation factored in as well I'm not sure there's ever been anything quite like this.

So it's not even December and he literally needs 4 goals to get to the mythical 20? Crazy.

Sometimes you can just tell from the opening minutes whether the opponents are up for it or not - Posh are 100% not. I feel sorry for the few hardy fans of theirs that attended - the Peterborough players are basically giving them the middle finger here and saying they can't be arsed. Great for us though. Could definitely bag another two or three in the second half as I can't see them suddenly getting motivated at this point, and even if we take our foot off the gas somewhat there are still goals to be had here.

Famous last words but I can't see Posh coming back into the game. They've had the appearance of a team wanting to get right back on the bus and go home since the opening minutes.

Like clockwork 😅

Posh don't look up for this at all. Think we could hit them for a few here if we keep it up.

Solskjaer overachieved relative to his experience and ability up until this season. Defeat in the Europa League final triggered a downward spiral he's been unable to halt. Ronaldo has provided some temporary relief but has also completely altered Solskjaer's original vision of how he wanted his team to play. He either wasn't strong enough to voice his opposition to the signing or simply never had enough power for his opinion to make a difference anyway. From Utd's point of view I don't think he should ever have been given the job permanently. A stronger boardroom would have ignored fan sentiment after the successful caretaker run, thanked Ole for his contribution and hired a manager that conformed to the club's vision of where they saw themselves going forward. I doubt United ever really had a clear vision, though, so appointing Ole was the easiest option

The MEN reporting Ole has finally been sacked. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ole-gunnar-solskjaer-sacked-news-21962075 Shame, it's been a fun few weeks.

Always the way. One abysmal half, one decent half.

Brereton is going to end the season on about 40 goals at this rate

Enjoyed that. Always good to have no shots on goal for 45 minutes against the 18th placed team in the league,

More to the puzzle than just keeping the same lineup, it seems. Just shows how utterly poor Sheff Utd were a couple of weeks ago. Mowbray's luck always seems to come in just when he needs it.

I'm not sure AEW would be interested in going near Paige and her notoriously poor judgement, even if she was cleared. Nox would be a solid addition to their women's division, though.

I seriously think there is some credibility to the rumours WWE are shaping up to sell to Disney or another interested party. Everything they are doing at the moment points to that being the most likely scenario. Whoever buys the company will be purchasing an entity with some big names to build off, but not much insofar as roster bloat is concerned. They'll basically be able to shape the company in whatever way they desire. I guess that would make WWE an attractive proposition in many circles, particularly combined with record revenue and profits. Honestly though the WWE product just bores me at this point. Raw has been awful for a long time and Smackdown nowadays isn't much better, as they've played out the 'Tribal Chief' thing and there's no credible challengers left for Roman - except Drew McIntyre, who WWE have cooled off massively in the past few months. Now that they've nerfed NXT as well there's just nothing left in WWE that interests me.

Yeah Full Gear was pretty great. Sounds like Omega is done for a while now, though. Multiple surgeries required. Sounds like he's been working with significant pain, so credit to him for putting on some outstanding matches despite being injured. The good thing about AEW is that they are consistently building talent up, so even when big stars leave there are people ready and able to take those spots for themselves. Meanwhile in the hellscape that is WWE, a bunch more talent has been cut including the only recently called up to the main roster Hit Row, Tegan Nox, John Morrison & Drake Maverick. WWE have now released around 150 wrestlers over the course of the past two years - 80 this year so far - all whilst posting record profits. I've stopped watching Raw and Smackdown and am probably done with WWE at this point. The product doesn't interest me and the company as a whole is just so unethical and gross that I just don't want to support it anymore. It's AEW here on out for me!

Somebody posted meeting notes from one of their fans forums where a person from the club said directly that there were financial issues.