Probably would have missed the penalty anyway, but what a cursed season.

Our form since we lost to Sheff Utd in the quarters has been shockingly poor, there's no question about that. We've completely collapsed and when it comes down to it, we were in the playoffs for most of the season with the same squad, so it's certainly not all down to what happened in January. It's by far the biggest factor overall though for me.

Based on the match threads I don't think they've been given a free pass on here tbf! Ultimately BBD has always been a confidence player, Gally has never been a player, Vale is far from the required standard and Dolan isn't a striker in any real sense of the word. It was so obvious we needed reinforcements, and we didn't get them. It's absolutely killed us.

18 goals in 19 games tells you all you need to know. 7 games without a win at the business end of the season is a killer blow. We've been unlucky in some games, but ultimately it all comes down to the absolute balls up that was the January transfer window - for the second season in a row.

Can't help but wonder how often JDT has watched us recently and wished the recruitment team hadn't screwed us over in January.

We struggled for the first fifteen minutes or so, but grew into the game from that point and ended up dominating the rest of the half. We just lack quality up front, as has been the problem for most of the season. Really frustrating as with a couple of decent attackers you have to think we'd be a goal or two ahead now. Wharton a class above everybody else on the field. You have to think the vultures will be circling for him in the summer. Not sure what we can do to change things, without any real options on the bench. Just have to hope we can scrape a goal from somewhere and keep a clean sheet. Big difference from our performance at Turd Moor, at least. Appreciate it's a weakened Burnley team but the difference in attitude is obvious.

Wharton is just sublime. You have total confidence every time he has the ball.

Wharton's composure in a game like this, at his age, is so impressive.

Barnes doing what he does best. Ref needs to get him booked and stop this from getting out of control.

We've weathered the early storm and are starting to get a grip on the game now. Just need a bit more quality in the final third.

Good pressing to force their keeper into a mistake. Need to do a lot more of that, don't let them be so comfortable in their own half.

Jesus lads. This passing around at the back bollocks nearly costing us again.

For a £200k-ish purchase of a player in their mid-20s from Aberdeen he's done better than I expected. A versatile squad player who can do a job. Every team needs a player or two like that. If we had actually signed a decent striker at some point in the last year maybe we wouldn't be relying on Hedges to score us a second goal in the dying minutes of a match.

Can't really think of any highlights of his time here, barring the face-clutching that helped cost us the quarter final, which obviously isn't a positive. 2 assists and no goals, isn't it? I appreciate we don't have the best options in attack, but even Travis, Ayala and Pickering managed at least one goal. Wharton has 2 assists with much less time on the pitch. His time here has been unimpressive, but sometimes it just doesn't work out. Doesn't mean Morton is a bad player, and good luck to him in future. I wouldn't have him back though. Would much rather develop Adam Wharton and John Buckley than have Morton blocking their paths, particularly with loan agreements that may stipulate % of playing time.

Redknapp last managed six years ago, leaving Birmingham second bottom of the Championship, being sacked after five defeats on the spin. Not comparable to Roy in the slightest. Would love them to appoint him though, just for the laughs.

We definitely wouldn't have gotten relegated in 16/17. With that said, the squad and the club as a whole was in a very sad state at the time, so it may have just contributed to us treading water for another few years at best. Warnock may never have been given the backing Mowbray had, instead having to contend with what Bowyer/Lambert/Coyle were given around that time period. In some ways the relegation seemed like a bit of a wake up call for the owners, as at the very least we haven't spiralled back into the same dire situation we were in between 2015 - 2017. The squad hasn't regressed to that point at any time since then, and we haven't had to suddenly rely on emergency loans (cash, not players) to get by, as I seem to remember we were in 2015.

Problem is if we kept Gallagher and only signed one striker, we'd have to use Gallagher if that striker got injured and as our main sub option. Vale is nowhere near ready and JDT doesn't seem to think Leonard is anywhere close to stepping up either. If he did then Leonard would surely have been on the bench yesterday. I don't think a team with Sam Gallagher as second choice striker has enough depth, so for me we need at least two good strikers whether Gallagher stays or not. It would be great if we were able to sell Gallagher, but I doubt he'd get much interest.

Thomas gives us something different, albeit his contributions can be inconsistent. It doesn't help that he has zero quality in terms of strikers to feed, as he came in after BBD reverted back to BB. I'd be happy signing him if it was a sensible deal and we were committed to bringing in a couple of proper strikers next season.

Szmodics is one of the players who can hold his head high regardless of what happens - absolutely tireless and one of the bright spots of the season for sure.

With Rovers, Mowbray proved he could lead a club to solid mid-to-upper table finishes in the Championship with a relatively small budget (albeit not having to sell players regularly) and even have the club flirting with playoff positions. He could never get us beyond that point though. It'll be interesting to see if he's given time at Sunderland to show he can go beyond that.

It was on the BBC live update at the time, wouldn't be the first time they got something wrong mind.

I certainly agree he wasn't the man for the job permanently. It was just Venky's going cheap and untested as they had done repeatedly up to that point.

Debate is fine, but saying I'm being revisionist seemed unnecessary. I don't think I've said anything factually incorrect or unfair. I don't rate Bowyer particularly, but do think he had his own problems to contend with (including being a novice manager himself), which made the job difficult for him as well - albeit in a very different context.

Absolutely brutal. Fastest 5-0 scoreline in PL history.

I'm a bit surprised you'd label my post as revisionism when I'm just trying to debate my view, but if that's how you feel I'll leave it there.