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Grabbed a PS5 today, preparing for PSVR2's launch later this year!

Good old Shelfy "going rogue", then proceeding to keep his job for another three years.

Yeah, although from memory it was a very small amount.

The problem is people have been saying this for a while, especially about the three home games we're nearly done with. So far one point out of a possible six. Games are only winnable if we can score goals, and we simply can't. At some point we have to accept this isn't bad luck, we just have a team who are absolutely useless at scoring goals without BBD in the side. Dack coming back is a welcome boost but we can't expect great things from him considering the amount of time he's been out and the two serious injuries he's had to recover from.

The fact we have nobody else capable of scoring from 12 yards with a free shot is frankly an absolute disgrace. Dack having to step up 10 or so minutes into his return to the first team is a pathetic reflection on the rest of the team. He duly missed with a terrible penalty because he simply wasn't ready.

You gotta be confident in your technique to pull off those kinds of suplexes. The likes of the Steiners, Taz, etc all had incredible technique to go alongside their strength. Holland maybe needs to leave moves like that alone until he's sure he can pull them off without injuring a colleague. Thankfully it sounds like Big E is going to be alright.

Not scoring from open play in 810 minutes? Yeah that's a pretty fucking glaring sign of something being seriously wrong.

The fact Dack was the one to take it says it all about the rest of the team on the pitch today, and the levels of trust management has in them.

Remember when the three home games were when the season was getting back on track? Players were gonna "step up"? 🤣

We are fucking cursed.

Again...

Another 45 minutes, another zero on the scoreboard. Mowbray has somehow managed to field what must be one of if not the least potent attacking unit in the club's entire history. Bravo.

Meanwhile Big E suffered a broken neck on Smackdown after a botched belly-to-belly suplex. Fortunately he's tweeted from hospital that he can move his digits, etc.... so fingers crossed a speedy recovery.

I think Regal is one of those wrestlers you appreciate much more when you're older and smarter to the business. As a kid, in WCW I always saw him as the British fella who worked slow matches that looked a lot more real than the other bouts, whilst in WWE he was just the comedy commissioner. That was about it. It's only now, much later, that I recognise how talented and underrated he was. Yeah this was seemingly just Meltzer's poor grasp of the English language causing confusion again - thankfully. Although Regal's fatalistic promo certainly added fuel to the fire. I think Regal is in the same bracket as Scott Hall - an insanely talented and smart wrestler who was held back by his demons.

Fantastic news. Travis' grit and fire is something we don't have in many areas of the squad, so it's great that he's signed on long-term.

According to the Observer Austin has not agreed to a match with Kevin Owens, and it will basically just be a fight/brawl type segment. Probably for the best. William Regal's debut interview from Dynamite is worth a watch: Apparently his comments about 'not being long for this world' were legit, the Observer says that his health is much worse than is generally known 😞 hopefully he's still got a decent amount of time left. I first watched Regal way back in 1996 when he was with the Blue Bloods. I was a kid at the time so I wasn't looking out for workrate or promo skills, but obviously as he was a Brit it made his appearances more memorable to me anyway. His brawls with Fit Finlay around that time period were ridiculous, just straight up beatings delivered by both men to each other. He really came into his own in the WWE in the 2000s though, playing the commissioner role to perfection on Raw and later NXT. Never afraid to adapt and make a fool out of himself to entertain people. I have every confidence that AEW will give him an awesome final run.

Just needed the 'beady little eyes' to hit all the bases! I don't think he'll wrestle a match. Not a proper one, anyway. At best it'll be a talking segment ending with a stunner and beers, imo.

Only taking into account players that actually belong to us... Whilst he has had made some poor mistakes lately, I think Kaminski would be a reasonable lower-PL goalkeeper. Nyambe is a solid defender but his attacking ability and injury proneness would need to improve at a higher level. Hard to say with the likes of Dack and Brereton, the former due to two severe injuries and lack of pace, whilst the latter still has a lot to prove despite a scorching first half of this season. Buckley has the potential to develop into a PL player if coached correctly and played in a position that plays to his strengths. I think some bulking up would be required. Don't think Rothwell is first team Prem quality personally. Realistically we'd be looking at close to an entire squad overhaul if we were to somehow get promoted with the current team and actually wanted to make a go of staying up. The likes of Pickering, Wharton, Lenihan, Buckley, Rothwell and Travis could be solid squad options at a higher level but hard to imagine any of them coping week-in week-out in the PL as part of the first team. In terms of quality we are currently nowhere close to a level where we could even slightly hope to avoid the drop if we did go up.

Mainly because it's a league where 90% of the teams are of roughly the same relatively poor quality, and any team with some momentum behind them can suddenly go on a good run out of nowhere. We went on our own run from November to the start of January on the back of our heaviest ever home defeat. This really does feel like the best opportunity we'll ever have to go up under the current owners, and it's painful to watch that opportunity being so brutally squandered.

Whilst I do agree in general, certain players have to shoulder some of the blame here. The likes of Buckley and Lenihan have now missed multiple easy chances in this awful, barren run. Khadra too, although he was the source of our single goal in the past eight matches. Gallagher doesn't look like he's ever been coached on how to play as a striker, or a footballer in general really. Our attempts at set pieces are laughable, although I concede that will at some level be down to bad or non-existent set piece coaching. We've had enough chances to win a fair few of the matches we've drawn and lost recently. The manager shoulders a lot of the blame for what happened in January, but a fair few of the players have let themselves and us down as well.

I love how we signed Giles to sling crosses in to Dolan & Buckley as well as the useless donkey that is Sam Gallagher. Brilliant idea there Tony.

Just embarrassing at this point. Footballers in the second tier of the professional game, utterly incapable of scoring a goal from open play. Barely capable of scoring a goal at all. It's some achievement gathering a group of players so collectively poor at sticking the ball in the net. The saddest part is that if someone, anyone, in this team could score we'd be doing fine. Still not playing great, but winning matches like tonight. Millwall had 0 shots on goal. None - and they still took a point from us because we don't have a single player in this team with the confidence and/or ability to score a goal. This isn't just a bad phase or a poor run of form. This is genuinely all we have until BBD or Dack returns.

Certainly wouldn't trust him post-Bournemouth. Also accoding to Transfermarkt he's never taken a penalty before!

If we were given a penalty we'd probably miss anyway. Who in this team would be taking it? I don't think there's a single player on the pitch I'd feel confident in stepping up and dispatching.

Another 45 minutes where we fail to score. Must be close to 700 minutes since we last scored from open play?