It wasn't just the Wigan game whenever he played in his first two seasons he looked dreadful and the Wigan game was just the final straw. But he improved massively last season and continued to go from strength to strength ever since. He is now without a doubt our undisputed number 1.

Hard to believe that was the same group of players that played at Birmingham and Cardiff on the previous two Tuesdays. Pears' growth continues he really is completely unrecognisable from the goalie who played when we went out at Wigan 2 years ago, Markanday finally looked like the tricky pacey player I hoped we had signed 2 years ago. Also first look at the Liverpool lad and he looks like he's got all the attributes to be a good defender. The players set a standard tonight that needs to be the standard for the rest of the season starting with Swansea on Saturday, it's no good playing like that tonight against Newcastle and then losing at Swansea and potential being 1 point of the drop.

That Burnley keeper is terrible and yet they keep picking him. Can only assume it because of the crazy sum of money they paid for him.

Thought Gent played well and no sooner had he gone off Celtic scored two goals from down his side.

Sheffield United and Burnley have to be two of the very worst teams in Premier League history.

Is that your way of saying they are terrible?

That was terrible, reminiscent of the dross served up during Covid season. 1-0 flattered us we made them look like world beaters. The mentality of this group of player really is shocking, you'd have thought after Saturday and this being the managers first game they would have been up for it but from kick of it was laboured. Even after going behind there was no urgency and until the last second we never even came close to scoring. Add into that what people have said was said in the 'fan meeting' about the players no liking being booed off at half time then you have to worry if this squad has the mental toughness for a relegation battle. Talking of player mentality Callum Brittain (😆) gives it the big one after one good performance and then backs it up with that. I couldn't help but smile at his 'defending' for the goal. I don't think Eustace is a great appointment (far from it in fact) he has just been appointed because he is cheap and to be a yes man for those above him. But I'll give him the same defence that I gave JDT and that is that this is a poor squad he has available to him it is where it belongs in the table and to be honest it would not look out of place in the drop zone. Gregg Broughton has a lot to answer for we are so weak in midfield, Garrett is not a Championship quality midfielder, Fleck is obviously no way near being fit enough and Ayari is now seemingly on his third manager this season that doesn't fancy him. Then you look at the attacking options on the bench to bring on when we need a goal you have Sigurdsson, Moran (who has been awful for a few months now), Markanday (it's a damning indictment he still makes the bench and Telaovic who looks every bit a German 4th division striker.

You can't say it wasn't coming. Shocking defending from Brittain

If you mean by reset, cash in on a few more players and replace them with a few free transfers and kids on loan.

A class act. The best thing to happen to this club in the last 13 years. He's better of out of it, he deserves much better than to be constantly let down by a club which has no professionalism or ambition.

Stewart and Henry weren't on Coyle's team when he was initial appointed they only came to the club after Irvine and Kelly left.

Surprised that he isn't taking charge tomorrow. You'd have thought that he would be chomping at the bit to get going

I forgot him but yeah it would be him. Always found it strange that we went for Coyle over Warnock in part because he would work with Irvine and Kelly and within a few months they were both gone anyway.

Who was our last Manager allowed to bring in his own coaching staff from the start? I suppose you could count Bowyer but McPhillips and Grant were already employed by the club anyway. I can't even remember what Appleton's coaching staff was other than Darren Moore. It always seems to be a case of you can bring one coach with you and that is your lot.

Out of work, cheap and uninspiring a classic Venky's appointment. But lets be honest no manager with any sort of reputation is going to go near us after the events of the past year so, to take this job you'd have to be desperate.

The problem is none of them were replaced well enough. Kaminski was replaced with Wahlstedt & I think everyone would agree that he is significant downgrade. Diaz no one has come close to replacing, I supposed Sigurdsson is supposed to be the replacement but it is hard to envisage him scoring the same amount of goals. Dack still featured in 33 games last season and when he was let go I'm sure the manager was hoping that he would be replaced with a better player given his wage but in reality he hasn't been replaced at all, I mean just look at the attacking options to bring off the bench last week. Ayala started half our league games last season and was by far our most experienced defender, we kept 9 clean sheets in the games he started and only 5 in the games he didn't (and in one of those he came on as sub), in the summer his experience at the back was not replaced. Midfield was an area that we were light in last season losing Morton, loaning out Buckley and only bringing in Tronstad has only served to make us even lighter in there. The problem was he was given numerous players he clearly didn't rate. Also whilst not backed so much in transfer fees Mowbray was well backed the Covid season in terms of the wages that must have been shelled out for loan players. The likes of Douglas, Elliott, Tyrbull, Branthwaite and Harwood-Bellis won't have come cheap. Also just naming those names look at the drop in quality of the loan player we are brining in.

Look at the defences those two had to build with and look at our defence now. How anyone can look at our goalkeepers, defenders, defensive midfielders and expect us to be defensively solid staggers me. We've been relegated from this league with a stronger defence than we currently have. We are 18th in the league (with a game in hand on a number teams) that is give or take a few places either away where the current squad belongs. We massively overachieved last year and the squad has been significantly weakened in the two windows since then. Also there is an apostrophe in doesn't.

So in the space of 4 hours he has gone from being an upgrade to a big upgrade and being compared to Sparky and Sam. I think you are getting ever so slightly carried away with a man whose sole managerial achievement to date is finishing 17th in his one season as a manager. Also given that Birmingham's new owners had planned all along to replace him with Rooney I highly doubt that he was responsible for those summer signings.

Based on what? He has had one full season in management where he guided to Birmingham to 17th. If in the summer we had sacked JDT and appointed Eustace no one would have said it was an upgrade, Eustace has only developed a reputation thanks to Rooney doing such a dreadful job at Birmingham.

Eustace's reputation has been enhanced not because of anything he did but because of the disastrous job Rooney did at Big Club. As you say Eustace did a similar job to the numerous Birmingham managers before him.

The club has never been stable since the takeover, Broughton is merely a symptom of owners who in the last 13 years have taken the club back decades. In which case the two situations cannot be compared. Because as you acknowledge Mowbray had a lot of control of his situation whereas JDT has had little.

Williams (player of the season that year if I remember correctly) was as good a full back as Pickering. Mulgrew was a better centre half than Hyam. Lenihan was a better centre half than Carter. I'd take Craig Conway on the wing over Dolan, much more end product. It didn't have a player like Szmodics but it did have more goal scorers in it with Graham, a better version of Gallagher, Emnes and Joao. The midfield if you include Wharton (but we don't have him anymore) was stronger.

The only main player Mowbray lost during his tenure at the club was Adam Armstrong. His final season was the only season where the club received more in transfer fees than it spent.

Look at the current midfield. Greer was in his mid thirties and signed on a free from a fellow Championship club where he was captain, sound familiar? Stokes was no worse than Ennis. I'd take Emnes over Telaovic everyday of the week. I don't think there is much between our current squad and the squad that went down I'd say the one that went down was slightly stronger as it had some good experienced pro's life Mulgrew, Graham and Conway.

Look at the money Mowbray spent £12 Million on two players alone. JDT has had players bought for him by that clown Broughton with the biggest fee being a couple million. Mowbray also until his final season when Armstrong went never lost anyone of his key players. No sooner had JDT taken over and the club captain had gone along with our best midfielder. Then in this summer he lost his goalkeeper, his top scorer and now in the winter has lost his best midfielder.