Eh? Even odds-on shots are profit if you know the outcome.

But that's the thing. It really isn't a possibility.

The point remains the same. It would have to be so tiny and so often. I've bet on next manager markets and putting 100 pounds on either radically shifts the market or makes it close altogether. You cannot make millions, hundreds of thousands, or even thousands betting on next manager markets easily. Do you really think they're charging someone with placing 50 pound bets at dozens of bookies? They might be dodgy, but they are billionaires. Hardly worth it.

Quiz question I had not too long ago: Southampton went down from the First Division in 1973-74 (along with Manchester United) but Mick Channon was top scorer in the division with 21 goals.

Yet another awful goal to concede. Ordinary defending throughout the buildup and some very casual defending from Hyam inside the box. Another example of the keeper not exactly covering himself in glory, but the criticism really has to be directed at the defending. There are so many moments within the game where we lack commitment, intensity, and even just basic effort within our own defensive third. That isn't down to quality, although the skill level doesn't help, that's culture.

He's already lost all credibility for me. He came in and made a big song and dance about a 'no excuses' culture and every poor performance has been accompanied by excuses. Just a man happy to have a job. I'll be glad to see the back of him.

Sell Pears. Let's hope that someone watched that cup game and thought that he was Premier League quality. Get rid ASAP.

I think that's very generous. He's relatively big and strong, but he doesn't have a ton of pace. He's the level of athlete you would genuinely expect in the Championship.

I'll say it now and my opinion won't change: I'll never be a fan of Eustace. This is an awful brand of football and he has the charisma of a sponge.

Gallagher is such a donkey. Zero chance he was going to beat 3 defenders, but has an easy pass to Brittain in space. Instead he has his head down, zero awareness, and in the end is only slightly saved by the fact that the ball somehow found its way to Brittain. And instantly 2-0 down. Giving the ball away in midfield cheaply. Inability to close down yet again and I'm not entirely sure how to describe what Pears has just done.

You've left some steps out. Poor clearing header that went 4 yards and straight back to Swansea. Pears flapping at a cross you'd expect an under 15s keeper to take.

More clueless defending. Several opportunities to get the ball clear, zero urgency in closing down, poor goalkeeping. Same old. Same old. The Pears praise will have quickly evaporated.

This is a very revealing thread. It combines both those acknowledging that they were perhaps to quick to judge Pears and those stating that Wahlstedt is a dud. Lesson learned.

Yep, not a terrible one. In another world and a few more favourable inches, his would have crept in and Pears would have tipped their 4th onto the post. That's just a shootout for you.

Everyone outside of Blackburn calls us Blackburn. If you don't call us Blackburn it's impossible to expect people to know who you're talking about. Name a neutral pundit. Linekar was in his underwear after Leicester City won the league. Neville spends most of his time talking about United. Carragher makes no attempt to hide his Liverpool allegiances even though he grew up an Everton supporter. Micah Richards is an open City supporter even though he's from the Midlands. You'd love it if he supported us.

Yep, the same supporters being critical of him will expect Adam Wharton to be speaking fondly of Rovers 20 years from now on TV. Or expect David Dunn to appear like a Rovers supporter if he were in studio for Rovers v Birmingham. Or probably even expect Damien Duff to come across as a Rovers supporter for Rovers v Chelsea. We can't have it both ways. You can take absolutely no issue with a born and bred Newcastle supporter being, wait for it, a Newcastle supporter.

Bit of a hard question to answer. I could list a ton of centrebacks and you could tell me no. All that being said, Harry Maguire took one of the best penalties I've ever seen in the final of the Euros. Bet you wouldn't put him on a list of penalty-takers. All down to who feels comfortable taking them. How they feel going into it. What the plans were beforehand. We're not privy to all of that, so it is pretty difficult to be critical. Had Ayari missed you probably would have said you didn't want a 20-year-old loanee taking one. I thought Newcastle took the biggest risk by having a fresh sub take one. Luck of the draw at a certain point.

A disappointing end, but an enthralling cup tie and a performance that all of the players should be proud of. Anyone being critical should go and do something else with their lives, nights like this are why you are a supporter. Every single player deserves credit. Yes, a few were better than others, but that was the definition of a team effort. Most of all, I think that performance should shut a few critics up for a bit. Several of those players have been slaughtered for being terrible signings, not good enough to wear the shirt, and a sign of a future in League One. The pressure is now on them to replicate that performance and show consistency, but many have been judged before they've even been given the chance to play.

Is he? I remain hopeful and he deserves more time to get his system in place, but so far I see a reduction in our attacking threat with little improvement defensively. If anything, he's just benefited from having a slightly fitter squad than the one that JDT was dealing with for the final 5-10 matches of his tenure.

I'd assume it was a joke.

I hope he's a great manager, but the constant use of 'you know' as a filler means that I can no longer watch his interviews. It didn't last long.

One thing that disappoints me, although I'm sure I'll get flack for it, is what a shame it is to have a manager whose native language is English, and yet he is less eloquent than our previous manager. A post-match statement full of clichés, 57 'you knows', and endless 'the boys'.

This is an idiotic response. Even for the internet.

The two kind of aren't related. Needing depth at CB didn't rule out our ability to bring in a CM. We simply didn't sign a CM (aside from Fleck) and that deserves criticism all of its own.

Because we might have multiple injuries in that position. He's one injury away from being needed in the matchday squad. It would be like asking why we would bother having 3 keepers.