Yep, nearly cost us again today. He needs to be relegated to backup at the very least in January. TM and his team should be searching for a new goalkeeper now.

We're now within 4 points of PNE (although they do have a game in hand).

Great result, well done TM and the boys!

Luton 5 down to Brentford and Hudds being beaten 4-1 by Bristol City... The new manager bounce for them appears to be at an end!

Mowbray needs to bin Venus and use BRFCS as assistant manager. We got this TM.

Well done TM. First time possibly ever that he's picked the team the majority of the fans want. Up to the players now to prove that our support for them is justified.

If the console is factory reset then no there aren't any issues. In fact even if it isn't you can still set up a new account and just delete the old one. I've had great times with the PS4. I bought it primarily for VR back in 2016, but ended up playing a lot of really good non-VR games too. Plus there are a ton of older games from other systems that you can buy from the PS Store which run flawlessly. There's also the benefits of being able to watch YouTube, Prime, etc on the console which is great for me as I don't have a smart TV. The PS5 is probably still about a year away so there's still a bit of juice left in the current system (including the FF7 remake coming out in a few months) and I think there will probably be some really good deals on the PS4 this Christmas (likely the last holiday season where they're going to be pushing the PS4) so it might be worth keeping an eye out.

There is that, but I think it also puts pressure on people not to lose too often as it'll show up every time they come out. There are some wrestlers who aren't jobbers whose records read as having mostly losses. Even guys like Omega and Hangman Page don't have very good records and they are supposed to be two of the best in the company. AEW have an edict to not have DQ finishes either, which means when they put on high calibre matches (as they often do) top wrestlers are beaten and it's added to their record which makes them look less impressive in future. I just don't think wrestling fans care that much about statistics. It might have made sense in an era where people still believed wrestling was real (basically the 80s and early 90s) but in the modern day pretty much everybody knows it's entertainment - especially AEW's audience. It's more about storylines and having great matches than it is about stats and rankings. Every time a company has tried to do this kind of thing (TNA a few years back and even WWE briefly a while ago) it's fallen flat on its face and been abandoned fairly quickly. Who knows, maybe AEW will make it work, but for me it just seems like extra effort for little gain and a lot of restrictions imposed as a result.

My guess is that Gallagher will play instead of DG. The question is will he play at CF, or will TM revert to type and chuck him out on the wing whilst putting Armstrong or even Dack up top? I'd like to think Gallagher will play his naturaal position, but I can't say I trust the manager to make the right call in this instance. As for LB, let's hope Downing's fitness allows him to play on Saturday... else we will have to endure another 90+ minutes of Bell, and Stoke will be the only ones who benefit from that.

Those quotes are especially funny/depressing because he's literally highlighting the problem seemingly without realising that he's misinterpreting the solution. There are teams who have win, win, win consistency Tony, but unfortunately they have the opposite mindset to you and play to their team's strengths rather than worrying themselves silly over the opponent.

If you buy a Championship club and want it to be successful you're basically guaranteeing yourself significant debt. The only way to make money is to get into the PL and try to do a Burnley.

Yes they are planning to have a mid-card title at some point in the future, not sure they've settled on when but it's definitely needed. I thought they would have had one set up for the opening show to be honest. A title is an easy way to begin strong character development and establish goals. It's why WWE has had so many (too many at times). I think WCW had it about right back in the day when they had the Cruiserweight, TV, US, Tag Team and Heavyweight titles. AEW could probably do with one less than that but otherwise that is what I'd be aiming for. My guess is that AEW have some locked in ideas for the future but are remaining flexible. Card subject to change and all of that. I reckon they have a solid idea of where they are heading for the next year at least, but they are very reactive to crowd response (the total opposite to WWE) and obviously have to account for potential injuries, new signings, etc. In regards to casual fans, I imagine most of them don't even know what the PWI rankings are! They just turn on their TV to watch some wrasslin' and when they're done turn it off and largely forget about it. Not the kind of fan that's going to invest big in a promotion, but at the same time the type of fan who is going to massively boost your TV numbers (although not necessarily PPV). The only place people have really been able to watch Omega in the past few years is New Japan and every so often in ROH. Unless people are seeking him or those companies out directly he won't have been on their radar. Essentially the 600k fans AEW lost between their debut and now are those casual fans who didn't understand what they were watching and tuned out. As a side note I'm still not sold on the win-loss system they have going on. I'm not sure it's necessary or helpful to have wrestlers' win/loss records displayed before every match. I wouldn't mind if they had it on their website, but I'm not sure it needs to be broadcast so intrusively every time a match happens.

AEW are basically using Jericho as a star name/focal point to build new stars. They obviously have Moxley/Ambrose as well which is a big get for them. Cody has a little bit of star power as well, although not as much as the other two. Omega and the Bucks are big names to people who follow wrestling seriously, but not so much to casual viewers. They have the potential to be big stars but as of yet they aren't being showcased in a way that makes them feel huge. That's part of my problem with the way they are booking Omega at the moment. Yes, it's great that he's willing to put people over and work with people lower down the card, but in order for the rub to be effective he needs to be built up first as a legitimate star. I don't think AEW has done that with him yet.

There were a couple of incidents on this week's Dynamite which highlighted a consistent problem AEW has - thinking the fans know more than they actually do. Cody was attacked by three people, who were later revealed to be "The Blade", "The Butcher" and "The Bunny". Problem is nobody in the crowd and few people at home knew who they were. Even on commentary JR was confused, asking "who is that?", whilst Excaliber just kept repeating "THE BLADE" over and over, without giving any context or explanation as to who he or any of the others were. At one point JR even prompted Excaliber to elaborate by saying "we haven't seen these men in AEW before, have we?" and Excaliber STILL didn't take the hint. "The Bunny" is actually Allie who has been wrestling in AEW anyway, but this is a total gimmick change (from face to heel as well) which hasn't been explained in the slightest. Just confusing all around. Second incident was the build up to Jericho Vs. Scorpio Sky - or rather, the lack of. Scorpio is a 17 year veteran getting a huge opportunity off the back of last week... which wasn't shown in any meaningful way. No hype package, no sit down interview - hell, not even a ring or backstage interview. The commentators mentioned it a few times but once again AEW are just assuming fans know everything about Scorpio Sky's history when that just isn't the case. They need to produce the show as if it's aimed at people who know nothing about what these wrestlers have done before they arrived in AEW - otherwise you risk alienating people who don't know and feel like there's too much to catch up on in order to get the full experience. The rest of the show was OK. I liked the main event despite the lack of build up, the opening Jericho celebration segment was great and MJF/Hangman and Omega/Pac were solid matches (although really the sort of matches that should be saved for PPV with some actual buildup). The Dark Order vignettes are really well produced too. Didn't care for the opening women's match at all, Lucha Bros being beaten by Best Friends seemed strange, and the Cody beatdown & Dustin Rhodes segments fell flat.

He literally keeps himself relevant through over the top found bytes tbf. It's basically his entire gimmick at this point. Will be interesting to see where he pops up next. It certainly won't be AEW as he's been consistently critical of Kenny Omega (and the Bucks to a lesser extent).

Well, that and we aren't paying half of our team 50k+ p/w.

The fried chicken comment made it worse (although I don't think he was saying it to be racist, it's just a common food, particularly in his neck of the woods) but a joke about famine isn't exactly good form either. I personally wasn't offended by it, but if I was editing the show I still would have cut it out knowing full well it would likely offend people and is just out of place nowadays. As for Aldis saying that episode was going to air no matter what - not sure I believe him, but even if that is true it's strange to me. They made no effort to let anybody know that this week's show was going to be wildly different to previous shows. There was no prior advertisement of an "empty arena match" and they had been plugging the Thunder Rosa MMA segment as a seperate YouTube release... so I'm not really buying it. Some of those segments may have aired on a normal episode, but the whole show? Not convinced. You're telling me it's just a coincidence that after the Cornette controversy the very next show has absolutely no Jim Cornette on it? Hmmm... Exactly. It comes off as Cornette having some extreme cognitive dissonance when it comes to what he perceives as "real wrestling" and what he perceives as "fake wrestling". His arguments simply don't hold water for me, and if anybody challenges him with logical arguments he just blocks them. I actually agree with some of his criticisms, particularly on false finishes, but many of his arguments have huge holes in them.

I thought his "joke" was in poor taste to be honest, and he certainly has said some racist things in the past (there's a video floating around on YouTube which is absolutely indefensible) which doesn't help his cause. With that said I don't think Cornette is inherently racist and IMV the onus is on the NWA Power editing team to remove anything like that from the show before it's uploaded. These shows were literally done weeks in advance, so there is absolutely no excuse for not catching something like that and editing it out. As soon as I heard it I cringed and knew it wouldn't end well. If NWA have nobody with the common sense to hear something like that and realise you can't say something like that in 2019 then they need to hire somebody smarter to go through their shows before they air. Unfortunately for Cornette the wrestling business has passed him by. He's still stuck in the "good old days" and can't adapt to what wrestling is nowadays. He's got a great mind for the old school part of the business but he doesn't seem to grasp that it's an extremely small niche within the industry nowadays. As Brian Zane said in his video about Cornette blocking him on Twitter, wrestling never stands still and you can't go backwards. Promotions need to keep up with the times and whilst a specialist, retro show like NWA Power will always have a set of fans, it will never be as big as the likes of WWE or AEW. It's not 1985 any more, and it's important for shows to pull in the younger demograhic as well as the older demographic. You'll only do limited business if you're focused on pulling in fans from the 80s. For the record, the "cosplay" argument Cornette makes is baffling to me when all wrestling is cosplay, and it always has been! These people are literally pretending to be fighters. The NWA show is cosplaying the 1980s for goodness sake. It's a silly and nonsensical argument.

Jeez, just seen the YouTube reactions to this week's NWA Power episode... not good to say the least. Granted that's to be expected for a wrestling show that had hardly any actual wrestling on it.

We've been here before, so many times. I'd like to think TM will finally realise what's been going wrong and push on from here, but I've had that hope before and it never lasts. It still wouldn't surprise me if Rothwell was dropped on Saturday and Bell was back in the team.

It was an old 80's joke that Cornette has said at least twice before (once on an old NWA show and once on a WWF show in 1995) and I doubt he intended it in a genuinely racist way, but nonetheless he decided he'd rather quit than apologise. Apparently NWA did give him the option to say sorry and continue on, but as we all know Cornette never apologises. As I said, I think they could have aired the remaining episodes (ensuring there was no other commentary gaffes before airing them) and it wouldn't have been a problem in the knowledge that Cornette would be gone for the next set of tapings. Obviously they felt they couldn't risk the PR backlash by doing that though. Interestingly both Corgan and Lagana, who own and book NWA have some pretty questionable posts on social media themselves relating to race.

Downing could be 45 and he'd still be better than Bell. The lad is simply not Championship calibre. We need to be looking at moving him on ASAP and bringing in somebody up to standard. He only cost us a few hundred grand so it's not like we need to ask for much, and I can't imagine his wages are anything crazy either.

EFL on Quest is on at 10.30 tonight btw.

By ratio 4 shots on target out of 7 might be the best we've had all season.

Fantastic result, and a clean sheet to boot. Can't ask for much more than that. Gutted that Nyambe picked up an injury and hope it's not serious. Rothwell must start on Saturday. Can't imagine DG will after playing almost the entire game tonight - get the feeling we might see Brereton. That or Armstrong or Dack will play up top with Holtby coming into the attacking midfield.