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Yeah, as Kamy mentioned above writing about the 2011-12 has become a bit of a mammoth task. I knew it would be big but I didn't expect it to be this big. I'm not exaggerating when I say by the end of it the 2011-12 season's recap will be half the size of a full length novel. Hence breaking it down into smaller parts! If anybody notices any mistakes or omissions, please say so. These articles can still be amended if necessary.

Mowbray did a good job last year, but we needed better than good to survive. I'm not sure there were any managers within our grasp who could have gotten more out of the team we had. Tony did his best and personally it was a relief to have a decent bloke in the dugout for the last part of the season, even if it ultimately ended with relegation. My belief is that we are destined to failure as long as Venky's are here, regardless of who is in charge. Mowbray is a good guy but he's got a real uphill struggle on his hands and I don't envy his position at all.

They aren't, but a lot of good teams have tried and failed to stop them. United's tactics made them look like children playing a man's game.

Both teams looked laboured to me - the effort was there from both but United were just set up perfectly to nullify anything Ajax attempted. A tactical masterclass from Jose. It might not be pretty, but he knows how to win in finals. Ajax looked like a young team who had no idea what to do when Plan A failed. The entire match they never deviated from tippy-tapping the ball around the eighteen yard box. More experienced players would have seen much earlier that it wasn't going to work and tried different things.

Pretty disappointing Europa League final. Ajax had no answer to Man Utd playing ultra defensive and got hit with two sucker punches. Say what you want about Jose, but he wins trophies.

Hopefully they tell him "we're leaving soon, hold tight and in the meantime here's who the new owners are going to be." Meanwhile, there are some lovely pigs flying over Pune.

Just to note, I'm already at 3500 words and I've only just gotten to the first match of the 2011/12 season. Incredible how much happened during that summer. I'm hoping I can get part 2 done soonish, but it'll take a bit of time as - to quote a famous song - I don't want to miss a thing.

I've noticed recently that WhatsApp has started suggesting I replace words with emojis. The end is near.

Only problem is it might have to be rewritten in emojis.

Thanks for the comments guys. This was like going back to a tragic novel that I've read over and over, most of it was scarily easy to recall. I had forgotten how much Venky's talked at the start of their reign. Desai in particular had a comment for everything, then suddenly went silent. 2011-12 will be a big effort. So much happened during that horrific season. If anybody wants to remind me of events, articles or anything else from that season that I might overlook, please feel free to PM me or leave a comment here. There's so much to cover that any help will definitely be appreciated. Cheers!

Backs up his comment regarding talking to "the people who matter at this club". Seems like it was a little dig at Cheston, Senior and The Invisible Pasha.

Coyle should never have been supported by the fanbase IMV, for numerous reasons. I said that at the time and still very much believe it - however, most of the ire should have been directed towards Venky's rather than the man himself.

The squad and club overall is a joke, so to get us up to 51 points was good going. I dread to think who we'll appoint if he goes. Probably David Dunn.

We're already facing a restricted internet with certain websites being blocked by our ISPs through Government order. It's not a stretch imo to think that eventually this will lead to an entirely regulated internet experience in the not too distant future.

To be perfectly honest, I'm surprised that the internet has been allowed to remain as 'free' as it has for this long. We're still in a position now where you can go to google, type in an album or song and usually find a link to download it for free within moments. ISP's have started to combat this by blocking torrent sites, but that's still a flawed and incomplete tactic. I expect that in the next ten years we will see a much more regulated internet in the UK. Possibly a selection of portals and specific websites that you pay to have access to, as opposed to the entire internet. I'm sure I remember reading about this being in the works a few years ago, but then it died down. Ultimately that is the only way the Government will be able to get a firm grip on how people use the internet, as the current tactic of blocking websites and scaremongering can only ever have a limited effect. Some will say that the people wouldn't stand for that, but they will. There might be a few protests, but once that dies down we will all accept it as the norm and start to forget what this period of the internet was like.

You can use a VPN anywhere. For now nobody is going to jail for privately streaming, but as Glen says, it's likely to start happening in the future. It's scary how indiscriminate they are being over this type of thing. It's only recently people were getting warning letters over downloading torrents even if the torrents they had downloaded were completely legal. At the moment those letters have no power, but over time that will change. The UK Government is pushing to erode our rights day after day and once we leave the EU I expect that process to accelerate substantially.

With the UK essentially morphing into Big Brother (from 1984, not the TV show) it is in everybody's best interests to find a good VPN.

They basically needed to win one game and made very hard work of that against Huddersfield's reserves. There are serious problems at Big Club and if they don't bring in the right manager (how about that Gary Rowett fella?) they have to be among the favourites to drop next season.

That's been our strategy in most of Mowbray's games and part of the reason why we've picked up so many draws. In a full season of 46 games this type of approach would almost certainly have kept us up, but it isn't what's required now. I hope that's just a smokescreen, though based on the last month or so it probably isn't.

Not me, I don't think I've posted about that airheaded buffoon since he left the club.

It's completely, not mostly. Huddersfield have nothing to do with us failing to win 34 out of 45 of this season's matches. That's all Rovers. The fact is Huddersfield were losing to our relegation rivals with a full strength team and when they were still chasing something. There's no reason to think a full strength team - most of whom would have been looking to avoid injury - would have fared any better. If the situation was reversed and Rovers had put out an understrength team I doubt we'd be complaining and demanding that the league take severe action against us. We are where we are because we're a @#/? team with @#/? players, a @#/? manager for most of the season and @#/? owners. Nothing to do with Huddersfield and personally I could not care less how they perform in the playoffs or in the future. Every ounce of anger should be directed towards Venky's and nobody else for leaving us in a position where a team like Huddersfield actually have a say in whether we get relegated or not.

It'll be a good day for them either way. If we win or draw then it increases the chances of Big Club taking the drop, if they win then they'll see their team win at Ewood. There might not be too many times that'll happen as we drop through the divisions or simply cease to exist.

Exactly, it's not like they've been ripping the league apart before tonight. Maybe the pressure being off will help them play better. Alternatively the players might not want to get injured for the playoff games and take it very easy. Either way, Huddersfield aren't to blame for our horrific form over the course of the season. If our management and team want to get out of this mess then they had better start acting like it, because the game against Wolves suggested they were already dreaming of being far away from Ewood.

Yep, he's massively overrated on here based on a couple of decent performances and goals. He has talent and some skill in his locker, but one look at his career stats will tell you he has never consistently produced and likely never will. There's a reason he's here and it isn't because he's particularly good.

Villa have a lot of quality on paper but their league position shows that it doesn't always translate onto the pitch. A bit like us in our first championship season. They are beatable but I think this will be another draw to add to the collection.