Honestly can't see him getting more than 4 or 5 with the way he shoots, and I'm sure I read before we signed him that he wasn't much good with his head either. We don't really play in a way where he'd have a lot of chances to fire a header towards goal anyway. He's got 3 league assists so far and I think he could get into double figures there, as he has shown capability for an incisive attacking pass. In terms of goals, though... I'd love him to prove me wrong, but I don't see him scoring many. Other players are going to need to step up there if we're going to play him as our primary striker. Goes without saying that's a bit of a concern.

It's disappointing that after keeping some clean sheets we're back to shipping goals again. Our away form hadn't actually been that bad before the last two matches. A draw against Norwich at Carrow Road is respectable. Same with Burnley at the Turd. Preston was an awful performance, but a local derby and we took a point. Our home form has obviously been better, but it's not like before Tuesday we've been struggling badly away from home. The obvious concern is that we haven't won a match away from home yet, but the draws we did get before Tuesday were okay. Coventry and Plymouth were two good chances to get our first away win but we've been really dire in both. Whilst we're in an okay position at the moment, thanks to our home form, we've seen this script play out countless times before under Venky's when we start losing. Should we pick up a win at home to Swansea then there's no need for panic, particularly as we have another home match against WBA after that. No need to be majorly concerned quite yet, but the next couple of home matches feel like they'll be a real barometer as to whether we need to be seriously worried or not.

When Dolan's form craters like this he needs to be taken out of the firing line. We've seen that time and time again over the past couple of seasons.

Gueye has already shown some good link up play in previous matches with some very nice passes, so I think as a general footballer he's better than Gallagher. Problem is he can't really shoot properly. His technique for shooting is just... strange. Like watching a goalkeeper trying to shoot. For a striker it's quite unusual not to have a somewhat decent technique, but he doesn't seem to have that. I think Gueye has something about him, but he hasn't been the same player since returning from his suspension. Then again, the team as a whole has largely been poor during that period, so have to hope for some improvement after the international break.

I think Eustace's comments actually reveal a lot without him outright stating things. He admitted that our gameplan today was to frustrate Plymouth for an hour and then try to nick a goal in the last 30 minutes. If he was talking about one of the division's better teams then you'd say fair enough, but he's saying he doesn't think our team can match up to teams like Plymouth for an entire match - away from home at least. Absolutely no disrespect to Plymouth, who seem to be going along nicely after a rough start, but imo those comments alone speak volumes about where Eustace sees us as a team. He's probably not wrong, especially after witnessing our last two performances, but yeah... a lot between the lines there.

Yep, think this downward spiral could be even worse if we don't get a grip on it immediately. The fact people are pinning hopes on Siggy says it all. The 15 minute man (on a good day) ain't saving us.

He simply has to. We still have too many weak minded players and no serious budget to replace them. This will certainly show if his man management skills are up to task. Remember, it was November before we started properly falling apart last season under JDT. We're in trouble if the same issue is appearing this season one month earlier.

Said after Coventry this match would show if Eustace has really changed the mentality of the team. Forget the result, the performance emphatically answered that question. No change, same old. Hope we can get to 50 points before May and let's see how things are looking then.

Players have made Eustace look like an absolute idiot for staying loyal to them today. Will be interesting to see if he just takes that or realises, just as JDT did, that most of them can't be trusted.

Lmao, lesson to us and Eustace, never underestimate the ability of these dickheads to throw away points.

🤣 Brilliant. Plymouth fans will feel absolutely robbed, but at the same time a lesson to them and Rooney that you can never rely on a 1-0. Need to be ruthless when you're on top, or this is often the end result.

12 shots to 2 against Plymouth managed by Wayne Rooney FFS. At least put some effort in lads.

Same as always. Mentality crumbles every time we have a setback. Shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Maybe if he finds out next summer he has previously unknown Venezuelan heritage or something.

The potential was always there with Gallagher and it showed in brief glimpses, but I just don't think he ever had it drilled into him how he needed to play in order to maximize his strengths. He'll never be a prolific striker as he simply doesn't have that striker's instinct, which was notable from his often poor positioning during attacking moves, but he was also often shunted out to wide positions where he was largely ineffectual. By the time we finally moved him into the centre it was too late. I don't have any personal ill-will towards Gallagher though. In general he put a shift in, with a few exceptions - generally when the whole team's heads dropped, which was and occasionally continues to be a sporadic problem for us - see Coventry on Tuesday. It wasn't his fault we paid a silly amount of money for him, put him on an inflated wage and then put him in an unnatural position for a significant amount of his time here. If we'd paid a much smaller amount and he'd been on a squad wage it wouldn't have been considered such a disaster. Of course, the biggest issue during his final couple of years was that he became increasingly injury-prone. Whether that continues to be an issue for him remains to be seen.

I like Dolan but I hoped by now he'd be more consistent. Granted he's still only 22, but he's been in and around the first team for some time now. He seems to benefit from spending some time as an impact sub to boost his confidence a bit, but then when he regains a starting place it seems to inevitably end up the same way. It's frustrating, but I do still see a lot of potential in him. I just don't think he's quite honed his game enough yet, and it's something Eustace and his coaching staff really need to focus on as he can be an asset if he plays to his strengths and improves his consistency as a starter.

The product has definitely undergone a radical change since the late 80s and early 90s. Back then it was a combination of spectacle and star-power. Larger-than-life characters playing out fairly straightforward storylines rooted in classic archetypes and, indeed, stereotypes. Nowadays the spectacle remains - in fact it's even larger on a regular basis than ever - but there is much more emphasis placed on work rate in both of the biggest US companies - WWE & AEW. You can't really get away with just being a gimmick anymore, you've gotta be very solid on fundamentals as well. WWE is pretty good with storylines these days, AEW less so, but ultimately not too much has changed in that regard. The main difference is that both companies lean far more into the adult demographic these days, which was a shift that begun in earnest during the Monday Night Wars era of the mid-to-late 90s. WWE moved back into a more kid-friendly direction from 2007, whilst AEW has always been aimed more towards adults. Nowadays WWE tries to combine both an adult-orientated and kid-friendly product, and I'd say does so more successfully than in any other period in wrestling history. I may not have much interest in the product these days, but from an objective standpoint I have to give WWE and Triple H props for delivering a show that can appeal to a very wide audience range without upsetting anyone. Probably the biggest difference between the older days and now is simply the sheer amount of content that's churned out by companies, particularly in the US. WWE has a huge amount of programming available, and so does AEW. It's arguably a bit overwhelming if you're coming in as a more casual fan. Back in the day WWE had 1 hour of Raw and then four PPVs each year. Everything else was untelevised house shows or syndicated programming, most of which was squash matches or recaps. In modern times you've got 3 hours of Raw, 2 hours of Smackdown (soon to be 3 hours as well, reportedly) plus a PPV (or PLE as they are now called) every month - which regularly go for 4 hours and Summerslam is now a two night event alongside WrestleMania. It's a lot to handle if you're coming in cold. The Bloodline storyline WWE produced was admittedly one of the best angles ever produced, albeit imo dragged out a bit too long with too many false finishes. It didn't pull me back in to watching full shows, but I did watch all of those segments up until the WM where Roman beat Cody, at which point I tuned out. I tuned back into the Bloodline segments for this year's WM, but again, not the full shows, and stopped watching afterwards entirely. I still catch the big AEW PPVs and generally enjoy them, but they never make me want to watch the TV product.

I'm not really a fan of the current product, across all the American companies, but I keep up on the backstage stuff and general news. I started with watching WCW in 1996, then WCW and WWE from 1998 to 2001. Once WCW folded in 2001 I pretty much stopped watching regularly. Started watching again in 2005 because some work colleagues were really into it, ordered all the PPVs, etc... so it was mainly a social thing. I stopped watching WWE again around... 2007 I guess? I'd started watching TNA though and more or less followed that weekly until 2013. Used to catch it on Challenge, if memory serves. Had another break, then got back into WWE via the post-draft Smackdown in 2016. That was a fantastic show for 6-7 months. I watched WWE somewhat begrudgingly during 2018 and 2019, although typically just in the background whilst I was doing other things. AEW came along and I really enjoyed their product for a couple of years. Lost interest rapidly after they plastered ROH all over their shows, and CM Punk has his initial falling out with the Bucks. I still catch some AEW PPVs by haven't watched any of their TV in nearly 2 years now. Haven't watched WWE TV regularly for years now either. Occasionally catch one of the big PPVs but that's about it. So yeah, I've been an on and off viewer over the years, and even when not watching tend to keep up on the backstage stuff via Reddit and the Observer. I'm currently very much in an off period, although I could still watch classic shows and enjoy them.

Obviously a shit result and performance, but we already know most of these players have it in them so not really a surprise. The big test will be what happens going forward. If it's the beginning of a downward spiral then we'll know the mentality still isn't where it needs to be. Bounce back positively and maybe we can have some genuine belief that Eustace has changed the team beyond streaky purple patches of decent form.

I mean, yeah, in an ideal world you wrestle safe without getting head trauma - but I don't believe for a second that Austin didn't have at least half a dozen concussions in his career, if not more. Sometimes it's nothing you do - if you get put in there with someone green, mistakes can happen. Look at Bret Hart. One of the safest workers of all time, but one kick to the head from Goldberg and that was his career ruined. It was weird because the way Austin phrased it was like CTE doesn't exist, when it clearly does. Maybe it was just bad wording on his part.

I thought the documentary was a good general overview for casual fans, albeit there was nothing new there if you've been following the business regularly. It did a good job of chronicling all the key events, although it was very much the WWE-version of history which isn't the entire truth. Vince largely came across as an unlikable, arrogant sociopath who is either very comfortable with lying or outright delusional. One imagines if the scandals hadn't come out, the documentary would have been very different. Probably the weirdest part to me was Vince contending that Undertaker never had a concussion during the Lesnar match and was just "traumatized" by the streak being ended. Vince went to the hospital with him ffs, he knows full well that Taker had a concussion. I have no idea what he gets out of pretending otherwise, especially when Calloway has been his most loyal soldier for decades. I think for more hardcore fans the hype wasn't justified, but maybe for casuals it was. Netflix being the imminent home of WWE obviously meant the documentary was never going to go too deep, but it certainly went harder than it would have when it was originally scheduled to be released pre-pandemic. Most of the talking heads were pretty pointless and had little to add. Hogan was his usual bullshitting self. Pritchard knows where his bread is buttered and behaved accordingly. The past and present wrestlers were largely reduced to vanilla soundbites. I'd say Shane came out of the series looking the best - he was portrayed in a really sympathetic manner. Heyman was as always very captivating when on camera. Tony Atlas was the most honest and transparent, to the point of absolute bluntness. I can only imagine what was left on the cutting room floor from his interviews. Meltzer came across well - balanced and knowledgeable.

Scoring just after half time was pivotal. Completely changed how the game would play out from that point. A home win, another clean sheet and Cantwell showing glimpses of what he can do. Solid wave of momentum building behind us at the moment.

Early days but results went very well for us today.

I also did end up getting a pretty hefty PC upgrade with a 4070 Super Ti and the AMD 7800X3D... runs everything in VR very nicely indeed, the PSVR2 does indeed work on it, although I've found it to be a tad glitchy at times. I bought a Rift S for £50 from eBay and have been using that more simply because it's so easy to just plug and play.

Walkabout is one of my favourite games on the Quest! My dad and I have played it a ton. That and Wander are probably the two apps I've spent the most time in on the Quest.