Tom

I’ve gone for review in summer, he’s more than worthy of his job at present and the foreseeable but you have to decide whether he’s the man to take us further if there is some money to spend. If they want to roll the dice and splash the cash there may be better options but it would represent a huge risk. Think Mowbray can help us get to the next level but it’s going to be a big summer and one he will need to get right

We can all list our preferred line up but chances are non of us would include Conway yet I feel that’s the most likely change from the manager.

If Venkys are looking to put some money in as a roll of the dice it may be decision time for them, especially if Tony isn’t willing to spend it

In fairness there are options right now; Jokanovic and Wagner are both free and proven successes in this league for a start. You’re a big fan of Hughes who is also available. Not to mention managers that have had some success but gone off the boil the likes of Carvalhal or even Rowett for the desperate. Not saying it’s the answer but there are options at the moment and that’s just obvious names without looking further afield like other teams have done

My concern today is at one point we had Bennett left wing back with Dack playing as deep as our centre halves at times, not quite the same level but had echoes of the infamous Souness / Matteo game. Doubts will start to surface again and whilst Mowbray is in credit he’s going to have to start answering some questions soon enough. A poor end to the season and not as many people would question us rolling the dice if there was a Jokanovic / Wagner in the offing

We hardly ever shoot from outside the box even though we have players capable of it, not sure why

To be fair Shajan actually make lovely chips!

Definite red, only would have been a booking had it been inside the box if I understand that rule correctly

Chaddy says Pulis is drab and shocking, his team just battered Tony’s having 26 shots to our 5 in the process!

How on earth can you say it’s not a red? Not seen a replay but looked so obvious live, if it’s a foul it’s a red

Glad he got a start today but I think that’s the worst I’ve seen him it doesn’t help that he kept getting moved around but I think every time he got it he ran into a man and then bounced ten feet off them before slowly getting up and skulking away

A better second half but it shouldn’t mask the fact that we were so bad first half and Mowbray had to try and adapt his starting line up yet again. We were slightly unlucky not to score our golden chance but on another day they score 5 or 6 it really wasn’t close at all and they just went through the motions second half

Bell clearly out man of the match

What a ball from Bell

Three subs seems crazy at half time, no need to take Rodwell off

Mulgrew screwed Williams there; feel for him really

Dack having to play in line with our defenders to even get involved at times

Shocking start Brereton getting lots of encouragement when he gets the ball from the crowd but that patience is running out he keeps running backwards then losing it

Probably a tougher game than the last 3 defeats but I think we’ll scrape it 2-1

My worry from the interviews is that he actively doesn’t want to spend money so it can’t be used against him and he prefers to keep expectations low. Think most managers would have used the funds on offer in January.

Sunderland making hard work of it at the moment, wonder if the documentary makers are hoping for promotion or last minute heart break?

I agree

I’d give him a few games now, we won’t be going up or down and he’s a big investment so let’s invest in him and get him playing. My main concern was the corner second half where he didn’t seem to want to get in the box, wonder how much his penalty miss on England duty got to him

Interestingly he’s counting the half chances that Bell and Conway sliced wide from a tight angle as nailed on goals yet ignores the identical one they missed plus the two sitters they missed second half So why chance we had was as good as a goal but their equal or better chances don’t count against us Bonkers

Of course it’s down to the manager; they were comfortably the worst team we’ve played this season, we played a weakened team and lost. They missed the best two chances of the match, one from a corner once again showing frailties at things we should be working on. I thought we had a lot of the ball but didn’t create much the first half chances were mainly half chances but we should still have done better with them than we did.