Say you signed for a season long loan with Wigan and we don't need you back here, sorry.

Also I watched an interview Chris Van Vliet did with Chris Benoit's son, David Benoit. Chris is a great interviewer but it was hard for him at times with this one. David seems quite introverted and would often only give three or four word answers to questions which led to Van Vliet having to constantly prod for more - and not always getting it. Can't help but feel for David though, you wouldn't wish what he's been through on anyone, and he still clearly idolises his dad despite what happened at the end. He did say some pretty crazy things though. He thinks his dad should and will go in the WWE Hall of Fame someday (literally no chance). Also wants to become a wrestler, use the name "Chris Benoit", wrestle like Chris Benoit, use Benoit's "Whatever" theme by Our Lady Peace and even use the same gear as his dad. I thought this part of the interview was really sad as there is no chance of him ever getting anywhere in wrestling by copying his dad in every possible way. He has apparently tried to get into New Japan and AEW but no luck - although primarily because he doesn't seem able to commit to being trained. He seems to have his dad's love of the business but not the work ethic required to actually be in it. Looks scarily like his dad too. Spitting image.

Another good episode of NWA Powerrr this week, they've gotten into a really nice groove since coming back from the Into the Fire PPV. Not sure how I feel about them teaming up with ROH. I guess they need the exposure but ROH is at its lowest point right now so not sure how much it'll help. Flip Gordon challenging Aldis for the title at Hard to Kill is cool I guess, but at the same time I'd rather it was someone from the normal NWA roster. Not convinced Flip Gordon is a big enough name to draw in extra PPV buys, but who knows. Random observations from the episode: - I love the Rock n Roll Express but damn they look old, especially Robert Gibson. - Bald Scott Steiner looks really weird. He also looks pretty immobile now, was kind of sad to see him in the ring in such a limited capacity. No idea if that's all he can do now or whether NWA is just protecting him for future events. I haven't seen him wrestle properly in years so not sure if he's like this normally or just looked limited here. The guy is 57 to be fair. - Pope should have been so much more than he ended up becoming. So much charisma and mic skills, decent in the ring too. - Ashley Vox and Melina made me wonder what the point is in having a women's only show for Powerrr. I really don't think their women's roster is good enough to carry an entire show.

She basically got blacklisted from WWE for having a really shitty attitude. Lots of stories of her being a pretty terrible person - bullying, arrogance due to her family name, racism... all the good stuff. Still a young lass so I hope she's done some growing up recently as she has the potential to be a huge star. Going to take a while to distance herself from the negative reputation she's built up though.

I never had any of the proper old school microcomputers. I think my grandad had an Acorn. My dad had an Atari 2600, and the next computer I remember us owning was an Amiga 500. Might have gotten the Master System before the Amiga actually... hard to remember! I did love the Amiga though. So many games (mostly pirated from memory!), and the Mega Drive controller worked with it which was handy. I actually replaced the Amiga's floppy disk drive a few years ago due to the original one wearing out - works perfectly now although I haven't used it in some time. Beautiful machine

What's even stranger is that apparently they didn't put Mulgrew on set pieces? If there's one reason to bring him to the club it would surely be that... I honestly don't even think Mulgrew is good enough as backup these days. He's too slow and positionally poor to be a good Championship CB and doesn't have the legs to play DM at this stage in his career. I'd have Williams and Nyambe playing at CB before Mulgrew, although granted the pair of them are both disappointingly injury prone this season.

Yeah the headline is technically correct even if it left out the part about Mulgrew asking to be recalled. Hope he isn't coming back to be involved in the first team as his time has long since passed, but considering how fragile (and shallow in depth) we are at CB it wouldn't surprise me if we see Mulgrew play for us again at some point in the next few months. Obviously that's assuming we don't mutually terminate his contract or he moves somewhere he's allowed to play.

Appreciate your friends wouldn't be offended by being called names like that, but people on here are essentially strangers and I think it would be considered quite rude to call a group of people in the pub, for example, 'asshats' or 'tosspots' for their opinions, regardless of how you view them. Just asking that you try to consider it in that way rather than 'if I said it to my mates it would be alright', as that isn't really suitable context in regards to a public forum. The injury situation is unfortunate but something we should have been prepared for as we have a lot of injury prone players in the squad. Nyambe, Lenihan, Tosin and Williams have all struggled to stay fit this season so far, and that's just defence! We seem to have a habit of picking up players that struggle to stay fit, perhaps just because of the market we're operating in wage/fee wise, although if we had £12m to spend on Brereton/Gallagher I'm not sure financial poverty can be used as an excuse.

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Never played any of the Assassin's Creed games tbh... knowing me I'll end up playing them in about 15 years when nobody's talking about them anymore.

Nope you're right. The original Master System had "Snail Maze" as a built in game, then they had various games but mainly Hang On/Safari Hunt, Alex Kidd and later Sonic 1. I think Sonic was only on the Master System II though. From recollection my three OG Master System's have Snail Maze, Hang On/Safari Hunt and Hang On/Astro Warrior on them. My two master System II's have Alex Kidd and Sonic 1 built in. It's kind of crazy to think that Master System consoles came with built in games tbh. We didn't see that again until the PS3/360 era. Way ahead of its time!

Tessa Blanchard is a horrible human being to be fair, but yeah, it was interesting timing. Tessa kicked it off with what appears to be a very hypocritical tweet about supporting women, mind. As for her winning the world title, stupid but it's Impact so whatever. It was only through the twitter war that I found out they even had a PPV at the weekend.

Mowbray.

I'd rather give Chapman the minutes out wide than Samuel. At least he's an actual winger rather than a striker shoehorned into that position based on a fundamentally flawed philosophy that has rarely bore fruit for us.

Tony Mowbray. That's literally what he's said in interviews, that it was his signing and he then listed off the multiple attributes he felt Brereton had as reasons for the signing. If you want to choose to believe he was lying then OK, but the narrative that Brereton was forced on Mowbray is little more than a conspiracy theory. The simplest answer is often the correct one. Mowbray had money to spend, he'd heard enough from people about Brereton to think he'd be a great signing, but found out when Brereton arrived that he wasn't particularly good and has realised now that he's made a mistake and has little choice but to wear that albatross around his neck.

#Character ?

If we had signed Bauer I doubt Tosin would have been signed. It was likely one or the other.

We don't. He offers nothing as it stands. We could call up one of our u23's and they'd probably be more effective.

You could argue 3/4 of our last managers have been decent choices. Bowyer underachieved somewhat but had us finishing higher than anybody else. Lambert was only here a few months but a choice almost everyone was happy with. Coyle obviously a total disaster that pretty much doomed us to relegation, but Warnock was in the pipeline so we were looking in the right direction even if certain influences ended up ruining that. Mowbray couldn't keep us up but did get us promoted again and relatively stable in the division. Bowyer had very little money to spend, Lambert was brought in when we were under embargo and Mowbray hasn't had much to spend until recently either. So I don't think it's cut and dry to assume it's highly likely the next appointment will be any worse than Mowbray. Obviously there's the risk it could be another Coyle but most clubs hire a total dud at some point so we shouldn't necessarily live in fear of that mistake.

60 isn't that old for a manager so I'd be surprised if he's seriously thinking about retirement at this point. He's obviously looking for the 'right' job which would probably rule us out - but you don't know unless you try. In the event Mowbray did leave and Hughton was still available I'd at the very least want the club to put out feelers - even if he ultimately wasn't interested or too expensive for us.

Theoretically we have Bennett as well but with Nyambe's injury problems that would then leave us short at RB (not that Bennett is particularly good there anyway).

The manager has always been very clear in stating that signings are his decision - particularly with Brereton - so I think in the absence of any other credible evidence we have to take that at face value. The only other take on his comments is that he's a liar and covering up for the continued shady goings on at the club, and that doesn't paint him in a great light either. I'd rather believe he was being truthful and had just fucked up as it would really be shit if he turned out to be another Venky puppet.

It's just a weird extension of the 'cult of personality' thing Mowbray has going on where he is the messiah and cannot be questioned. All for coming second in League 1. Bowyer got it all wrong. He should have let us get relegated when he first got the job, then assuming he would also have been allowed to keep all of our best players and be given a budget far exceeding all other L1 teams, just gotten us re-promoted. Then he would have had the flag. Would probably still be here now.

And now the manager is saying we can't buy anyone due to financial restrictions. We could literally not have spent a penny on either Gallagher or Brereton and we'd be no worse off. There's no positive spin to it.

Incredible job Gerhard Struber has been doing at Barnsley. Just a point off safety now.