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A draw is still an OK result, but it's a real shame we can't hold onto leads. That's four points now we've already thrown away in the last few minutes. We deserved to win this one. I suppose we just dust ourselves down and move on. The performance was good enough to take positives from and Reed in particular looked very good. If we keep playing like this we'll be comfortably mid-table, but our inability to hold onto wins like this may cost us a lot more points as the season goes on, particularly as we struggle to score if Dack isn't in the team or on form.

Well deserved. Stay solid and this will be an impressive win for us.

We'll see at the final whistle. Villa haven't been causing us many problems so I can understand his thinking.

We usually just wait for Dack to do something. If that goal was given he would have been the one putting us ahead. I don't know if anybody else would have steered the header in like that.

Doing well so far. I just hope that wasn't our "good half".

Our goal was definitely onside. No way the linesman could have seen a clear offside from his position (mainly because there wasn't one). Still, we were let off the hook too so it's just a case of both teams having to put up with the usual poor officiating.

Ipswich on course to another resounding defeat. It's probably already dawned on the club that they've made a huge mistake. Not sure the fans have gotten over their unjust hatred of McCarthy yet to admit they hounded out one of only a handful of managers that could keep them competitive on a non existent budget.

Well, we already pretty much knew Samuel was done for the season. Gladwin was realistically never going to play a part anyway. I'm not sure we'll see either of them playing for us again, although Samuel may get another chance next season if he keeps working hard. Honestly though I'd hope by then we have better options to choose from.

Yeah, he's bringing it back in 2020.

Nah, Vince is sinking a ridiculous amount of his own money into this XFL nonsense. Can't see him being interested buying a (real) football team, let alone Bolton.

It seems like Anderson has tried to weasel his way out of paying the full amount due - after stating for months that it would be paid by the deadline. BluMarble obviously believe he is capable of paying in full, just not willing to do so, and have taken the risk of legitimately putting the club into administration to get the full amount (apparently £4.8m). Assuming the rescue deal is approved I suppose we'll find out soon enough which party ended up blinking, but it's certainly no way to run a business.

Looks like a last minute deal may have been reached for them to avoid administration. Deadline extended to noon. You have to think under Anderson it's a matter of time before the house of cards really does come crashing down, even if they get through this latest scare.

A 12 point deduction would completely derail the otherwise impressive start they've had to the season. Hard to see them coming back from that, especially as in January they'll likely have to sell as many players as possible to stay afloat. Parkinson has really done an incredible job there with a lot going against him, but you can only push that boulder up an increasingly steep hill for so long.

The apprehension and negativity regarding Mowbray's appointment was completely justified at the time. It wasn't some masterstroke from the owners, they went for another cheap option and this time they got lucky. Similar to Bowyer every so often the cheap option works out (to a degree). Of course it was also their cheapskate antics that got us into trouble in the first place by bringing in Coyle and we ended up relegated as a result. Why we're suddenly able to spend £7m on a single player after multiple seasons of poverty I don't know, but I'll never trust these snakes.

Perhaps all of this nonsense is part of the reason other clubs avoided signing him before we did? He's obviously pretty immature and the adulation and money coming from football is making things worse. It could easily spiral out of control so somebody needs to have a word with him and ask him what his priorities really are. It's possible Mowbray already has and it hasn't worked. He's our most talented player by far so we really need his head in the game. As good as Dack has been for us nobody is irreplaceable, so if I was Tony I'd at least have one eye on who to bring in as the next Dack should he be sold or be unavailable for non-footballing reasons. We don't want to put the club's future in terms of results on the pitch in the hands of a man who clearly hasn't grown up yet.

Surely it's obvious what Booth meant. It's the Kevin Keegan school of football which works great IF you are able to defend well, but we often can't so more often than not we'll end up drawing or losing if we don't pay more attention to the defensive side of the game. Particularly as we struggle to score from open play without Dack in the team.

Wrestling with Wregret is fantastic. I've pretty much watched everything on Zane's channel! His movie reviews are great as well.

I think they've uploaded a ton more back issues in the last couple of years. There's roughly 52 per year up until 2001, I think they're planning to continue uploading until the full set is there. It'll take a while though. I find Alvarez pretty funny, he's okay as long as you don't take him too seriously. His gimmick is basically being an angry fanboy and on occasion he does pull Dave up on being biased or contradictory about things. That said I found it hilarious that he refused to criticise any of the nonsense at All In, considering he'd crucify WWE for pulling some of those stunts. I subscribed to the Torch years ago (around 2008-2009) but I found a lot of the columnists to be kind of annoying so dropped it in the end. Keller seems like a decent guy though and I'd say his opinions are a bit more balanced than Dave, who has a heavy bias towards Japanese wrestling.

Do you subscribe to the Observer? If you're interested in the history of the business it's a real goldmine. All of the back issues up until about 2001 are available, and there's some really great stuff there, especially from the 90s. If you want to get up to speed on NJPW and ROH Meltzer and Alvarez are a great source of info too. Their radio shows are pretty entertaining too. I'll end my Observer plug there, but definitely recommended if you aren't a subscriber!

NJPW's recent surge in popularity has been built on the back of Okada, Naito and Omega. The three of them have been outstanding over the past couple of years and really put NJPW back on the map after a number of years in the wilderness. Guys like AJ Styles and Cody have come through and made an impact too, as well as the Bullet Club stable which is essentially the modern day nWo/DX. As with any company on the rise it's just a combination of factors all coming together at once to create a real sense of momentum. I don't watch NJPW regularly but I've caught the last few Wrestle Kingdom events and the production is on par with WWE, whilst the wrestling and storylines are way better, even with a lot of it being in Japanese. They've made their stars feel huge, and even the undercard wrestlers are made to feel like the next big thing. ROH haven't done anything special but they are benefiting hugely from their ties to the rapidly rising NJPW wave and association with hot indy acts like Cody, the Young Bucks, Colt Cabana, and even historical connections with the likes of Styles, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Bryan Danielson, and so on. Most of WWE's biggest names nowadays got their first major exposure in ROH, and with fans being smarter and more interested nowadays it only makes sense that a portion of WWE fans end up checking out promotions like ROH to see what all the hype is about. Meltzer definitely has a soft spot for Omega and the Young Bucks. Hell, the latter have named their finisher after him (the Meltzer driver). It's funny because if you listen to Dave when the Bucks were in TNA as Generation Me he has no real love for them, but obviously over the last few years that's changed a lot. In all honesty the Omega/Okada matches have been incredible. I don't have much of an opinion on his star ratings but the effort and commitment from Omega to make every match a stand out is very commendable. Okada has the look and presence of a superstar which obviously helps. Naito is right up there too, although he's scaled back a bit since losing his feud to Okada. I don't really watch old school wrestling for the same reason - too slow and it looks antiquated compared to the performances now. In their day those matches were something special for sure, but as with most things age takes its toll. Things that were unique and new back then are common place now. Fans expect and receive more than was needed back then. WWE doesn't seem to have grasped that yet, which is why NJPW may have a chance to establish a real foothold in the modern landscape. Or they'll go the way of AAA in the 90's and fade back into relative obscurity, still popular in their own country but with little international presence. The big advantage NJPW has now is the internet and the ease of access to footage across the world. Back in the 90s AAA didn't have that advantage.

I think it probably was AAA. They had some incredibly popular shows in the US in the early 90s, I think there was a large Hispanic audience there. That said CMLL tried the same thing and didn't get the same traction. All In was totally paid as far as I'm aware. It was at the Sears Centre in Chicago. The event sold out in 30 minutes. It's made enough of an impact to break WWE's 30 year stranglehold on MSG. ROH have it booked now on the back of All In's momentum. You could argue All In made more of a mark in one night than TNA ever did, even at their peak in the late 2000s.

As an aside I watched "All In" yesterday and thought it was pretty good. There were some minor production issues but I think I only noticed them because WWE's production is so slick and well done these days. By any other standards it was still very good. I don't watch the "Be the Elite" stuff on YouTube so a lot of the storyline elements went over my head a little. I thought the "Hangman" Adam Page stuff was weird and the inflatable penises and general Joey Ryan stuff all felt a bit cringeworthy. That said the crowd were obviously digging it so I can't really call it a negative, just something I personally felt was unnecessary. In general the matches were really good. The women's four way was solid, Page Vs Janela was a very entertaining brawl, Cody Vs Aldis brought prestige back to an NWA title that had been long dead, Omega Vs Pentagon Jr was superb, Okada Vs Scurll really got going towards the end (although they apparently went 12 minutes over which contributed to the main event being cut seriously short) and the six man tag at the end was incredible despite being cut from 28 minutes to just 12. Rey Mysterio looks better than he has in years. All In was a seriously impressive achievement from Cody and the Young Bucks. The first time since 1993 that a company that isn't WWE or WCW has drawn a crowd of 10,000+. I hope they can keep the momentum going as it can only be positive for the overall scene. If wrestlers feel like there's viable alternatives to WWE then maybe they won't put up with the bullshit they're currently subjected to in Stanford.

NXT is basically the best of independent wrestling. It also takes the really good parts of NJPW and ROH, usually using wrestlers that have come from those organisations. Funnily enough during the Attitude Era WWE took the best of ECW and WCW and made it better, again often using talent taken from those companies. Main roster WWE (Raw & Smackdown) has nothing to draw inspiration from except itself, which is basically Vince's idea of how wrestling should be. It's fair to say the industry has largely passed him by and because he has no serious competition he can afford for the product to be stale. CM Punk's pipe bomb promo from 2011 rings as true today than it did back then. I actually disagree, and it's imo one of the biggest problems with NXT. It doesn't prepare the talent for the main roster because it's absolutely nothing like Raw or Smackdown. It's why so many NXT call ups end up buried. I wouldn't want NXT to be like Raw or Smackdown, for the record, but as a developmental system for talent to be called up to the main roster it's no good. Fortunately it regularly produces some of the best wrestling in the world, particularly during the Takeover events. I just wish the main products were a lot more like NXT. Yeah and imo it was a stupid idea. Granted there was a crash pad under the table, but still, the risk outweighed any positives. We've already established Braun is a monster who's out to torment Owens. We didn't need an unnecessarily risky cage fall to hammer that point home - particularly as Owens has repeatedly been shown to be no match for Strowman. Like everything else in WWE nowadays it was just a "moment" with no real substance. The time to turn Cena heel was years ago. Pre-2010. Absolutely no point doing it now. He's not relevant enough anymore for it to matter. It's ironic though - WWE has been doing everything possible to get Roman Reigns cheered, without realising that turning him heel would probably end up making him a face. It's just further proof that Vince doesn't understand the audience any more. A heel Roman Reigns would initially get nuclear heat but if done right I'm positive he'd soon be cheered. The anti-hero will always be far more over than the white-meat babyface. Roman has improved so much over the past couple of years that it's a genuine shame he's still being handicapped by ridiculously bad booking decisions. He's not on twitter yet but he is on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/undertaker/?hl=en

Tbf it's only the truth. No amount of morale boosting will make Nuttall any better than he currently is. He's just nowhere near good enough to even be on the bench. He can't make an impact when he comes on and he's no good as a starter either. He's not the only one but he really shouldn't be anywhere near the squad at this stage in his development. Being on the pitch and consistently making no real difference is surely going to be no better for morale.

Couldn't agree more. There's no doubt that there are some overly negative posters on here, just as there are overly positive posters. The best debate lies somewhere in the middle and too often it's unfairly jumped on by both sides on the extreme ends of the spectrum. There's nothing wrong with being critical somewhere like this. It's not like the players or management are going to read comments on there and spiral into depression and stop performing. I'm sure TM has been plenty critical to the players behind closed doors regarding the latest defeat. By the same token there's nothing wrong with taking a positive outlook and pointing out the good things happening at the club. In my view the positives are the team spirit, the energy and the overall atmosphere around the club. You have to give kudos to Mowbray and his staff for that. On the other hand there are some serious question marks over the transfer strategy this summer, our tactics at times and blind loyalty to certain players who clearly aren't cutting it at this level. Again, nothing wrong with expressing either side or disagreeing constructively. I just don't know why it has to devolve into cheap digs or silly arguments.