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A nice bit of karma at the end

Certainly makes all of those "forever a bluebird" tributes seem a bit hollow.

You're telling me Gandhi Babu doesn't have his finger on the pulse of modern football?

He was unquestionably a mistake and set them back far more than anybody could have predicted. He doesn't seem to be doing much better at Scunthorpe. 1 win in 11 so far. One thing Hurst proved was that a lot of the fans had no idea what they were talking about when they celebrated his appointment. They wanted different to Mick McCarthy but he was basically a lower league MM with far less intelligence, experience and man management skills. They just saw "young manager" and instantly thought they were getting exciting, attacking football, when in fact Hurst's teams are functional and attritional. I had no sympathy for the majority of Ipswich's fanbase when they got relegated as they largely brought it on themselves, even if most of them still won't admit it now. They got it right with Lambert but if they think he won't go straight to the Mick McCarthy playbook of grinding out results when they're back in the Championship with a shoestring budget then they are in for a rude awakening.

Hurst's recruitment would have been decent if Ipswich were in League 1 at the time, as a lot of the players they bought were stand-out L1/L2 players and unsurprisingly are doing well now they're at their level. Unlikely they'll be able to make the step up when Ipswich are back in the Championship though so more recruitment will definitely be needed to avoid another relegation.

Ipswich fans have pretty much always liked Lambert tbh. He's great at PR so he got the fans onside immediately and has had their loyalty ever since. With that said what he's doing at the moment doesn't impress me much. League 1 is really poor so I was always expecting a team like Ipswich to be up there challenging. The test for Lambert will be when they're back in the Championship with the same anaemic transfer budget.

Dack is the only natural goalscorer in the entire first eleven. None of the others regularly contribute. The closest we have after Dack is Armstrong who is extremely inconsistent when it comes to performances and goals. Graham is no longer a regular starter and is now rusty from lack of game time so can't count him. Our style of play is pretty stodgy and insipid as well which doesn't exactly lend itself to scoring goals. It's not often you see Rovers score more than two, especially in this division.

I honestly don't think it would have gone any worse for them if they had kept Lambert on.

Meanwhile the man who was in charge when Stoke were relegated from the Premier League will likely be passing them in the opposite direction if Stoke do fall through the trap door again.

What's funny is that Stoke dominated the match in terms of shots on goal. Huddersfield only had 4, but they scored one, whilst Stoke scored none of their 18 attempts. Statistically they've already given themselves a big hill to climb to avoid relegation this season.

Unless Mowbray finds the courage to let this team off the leash we're stuck in mid-table purgatory until Venky's lose patience and the whole thing collapses again. Much like under Bowyer we have assembled a squad that can compete at the top six, but we probably don't have a manager with the attributes to deliver it. It's a shame because Mowbray has done a lot of good here, but he's going to need to completely change his mindset to deliver success beyond finishing mid-table every season.

Would a bookie even take a bet on 0-0 HT at Ewood at this point?

Our style of play has rarely been good on the eye under Mowbray. Functional is the best way you could describe it. Flashes of decent play at times, but most of the time attritional football which generally meets expectations over the course of a season but never exceeds them.

I won't be watching it on BT but they might be getting it at a very good time with Raw and Smackdown undergoing a transformation at the moment. If they've built some momentum by January then BT could be in a good position to capitalise.

Yep WWE starts on BT in January 2020. Obviously a step down for them. Probably willing to pay a fair bit more than Sky though even if the ratings are nowhere near what they used to be.

Rothwell is 24 and if he has any ambition will want to be starting games at this stage in his career. He'll undoubtedly be off by next summer unless Mowbray starts giving him more game time. How could anybody be happy being benched for a plank like Armstrong who has one good game in ten?

From what I read the breakdown in UK TV discussions was between ITV and TNT over ad time. The original plan was purportedly for AEW to air live with a replay the following day and the Sunday morning slot. Instead they've now just got the Sunday slot, which is death. I think it will get resolved and they will get a better place in the schedule, but it'll kill the early momentum right out the gate in the UK which is a shame. Smackdown will be very interesting. FOX wanted a more sports-orientated product so we're likely to see something quite different.

Honestly I'd stream it next day anyway so it doesn't affect me.

AEW have released the Dynamite intro video: https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1178701033712820224?s=08 Pretty huge week for wrestling. The new Raw/Smackdown presentations with Smackdown debuting Friday on FOX, plus the debut of AEW Dynamite on TNT on Wednesday and the beginning of the 'Wednesday Night War' with NXT airing opposite on USA.

You can't really argue with those stats. Suggests an extremely fragile and weak mentality. Would suggest these figures are put to Mowbray at the next press conference but more chance of Rothwell being picked as captain than local journalists asking the manager useful questions.

We have a lot of soft lads who can't deal with adversity, hence heads dropping when we concede a goal. They didn't select or buy themselves though. The manager has filled the team with these types of players and got shot of anybody who challenges the status quo. I imagine Rothwell and Nyambe will be the next ones to be pushed out of the club.

10 games in and our second highest scorer is Derrick Williams with two. Dack leads the way with three. None of our recognised strikers have more than one and the £12m duo have zero between them - although at least Brereton has the excuse of being injured at the moment.

Some people never learn I'm afraid.

We've lost almost half of our games so far this season Chaddy, including two home defeats to teams who were in League 1 last season. I don't think we'll even get close to the playoffs, let alone actually promoted.

We've scored less goals than all of the teams above us and a fair amount of the teams below us. Conversely we've conceded less than every team below us except Brentford so whilst defence could be better I'd say scoring goals is one major problem at this juncture.