That's their biggest problem. It's not exactly an attractive proposition to any decent manager: - No transfer budget - Poor, demotivated squad - Jaded fanbase willing to hound the manager out if he doesn't play the style of football they want - Limited ability to bring in staff Form an orderly queue... They'd probably have to gamble with another lower league manager. Or go for an out of work manager who's had past glories but fallen on hard times and hope it's just a slump - kind of like we did with Mowbray. I hear Coyle is still available.

That first half performance was probably the best 45 minutes I've seen so far this season. Our pressing and work rate was genuinely phenomenal. The second half was more of a slog and you could see by the end most of the players were knackered, but it's impossible to fault the effort that was put in today, and that only happens when a team has full faith and confidence in their manager.

What's funny is that if the idea was to bring in a manager to play more attacking, expansive football, Hurst shouldn't have even been on the shortlist. His Shrewsbury team weren't known for that at all, quite the opposite. They were a defensive, counter attacking team that won games by the odd goal. Not too dissimilar to how McCarthy had Ipswich set up! It feels like Hurst knows he's expected to play a more entertaining brand of football, and as a result as compromised his own ideas to try and placate the owner and the fans. It would explain why Ipswich often look so clueless on the pitch. Ipswich fans are hoping it means he's had enough and will be imminently sacking Hurst. I'm not convinced. Today's performance was really, really bad though. At half time they'd had a single shot on goal, at home to QPR, coming off the back of beating Swansea 3-2. You would have expected them to have gained some belief and confidence from that result, but they played like Swansea had beaten them 10-0.

I probably should have clarified a little - McCarthy himself wasn't the symptom, but the style of football he was playing was a symptom of the lack of investment. He overachieved by playing an extremely rigid style, but he had no choice. They have aimed it at Evans online, but at the ground it was all aimed at McCarthy. Evans attends quite a few games, he was there today but apparently got up and walked out when QPR got their penalty. Didn't stick around to see if they even scored it.

A shame they aimed all their ire at McCarthy last season instead, then. They targeted a symptom of the problem rather than the root. McCarthy was the guy frantically bailing the water out of a sinking ship, whilst Captain Evans sipped a cocktail on top deck. The fans decided to throw McCarthy overboard.

Similar in a lot of ways. Particularly when it comes to overrating the ability of the squad and underestimating the knowledge and experience needed to get the best out of limited players. The main difference is that we had no idea how Venky's would act as owners. Ipswich fans knew full well that Evans wasn't going to invest any more than he had done previously, and that outside of Mick he had a pretty poor track record of selecting managers. I think a lot of them became complacent, thinking that keeping a club in this division was no big deal and even if the new manager turned out to be a dud at worst they'd be lower mid-table again. Alarm bells would have been ringing for me the moment Hurst came out with his line about the Championship and League 1 not being any different, whilst publicly berating the existing players at the club before the season had even started. He was clearly out of his depth from day one and the only question is how long Evans is willing to play the waiting game before realising he has no choice but to twist again and hope somebody is available to get what is a very poor team out of trouble on little to no budget. Good luck with that.

So are Ipswich fans, which is funny as pretty much everybody outside of the anti-McCarthy crew saw the writing on the wall as soon as the supporters forced him out. They're still refusing to accept responsibility for it, too, which amuses me. They keep saying "it was his time to go" - but Mick didn't want to go, the owner didn't want him to go and the players definitely didn't want him to go. The only reason it was time for him to go was because a section of the fans made it impossible for him to do his job properly. I'd argue that regardless of what anybody thinks of Mick and his style of play, that is a poor state of affairs, and the fans who showed him the door should accept their culpability for the current situation they find themselves in.

I understand the thinking behind the substitution, but I would have expected Rothwell or Palmer to come on instead. You'd assume they'd be more suited to the role. As for Brereton not being a target man, that's unfortunate as our system relies on having a target man, especially away from home. Are you saying we brought Brereton in with the intention of converting him to a winger/wide-forward, or that you think we'll eventually change our system to adapt to a different type of striker?

Great. So why bring him on as a winger and move Dack into the striker role then? Mogga seems to think striker and winger are synonymous for some reason.

Back to normal at Ipswich. 2-0 down, getting battered. At home. To QPR. Hurst looking likely to go down as one of their worst ever managerial appointments. Suffice to say Mogga made the right decision when he told Ipswich he wasn't interested.

A combination of their good start to the season and Bielsa's reputation led to them being massively overhyped. They aren't the first and won't be the last team to start well and then fall away. Look at our first season in the Championship. On today's showing Leeds will be lucky to make the playoffs. We bossed the first half and could have been two or three up by the break.

Up to 5th. Who could have seen this happening back when Mowbray was first appointed?

Superb result. The sheer effort put in by the team today was on another level. Could have easily let our heads drop after conceding at the end of the first half, but kept going and got our reward. Well done Rovers!

Conway's first touch an assist from the corner. The next twenty minutes or so are going to be torture.

Lenihan, 2-1!

Because Mowbray. Loves playing strikers on the wing.

Brereton playing on the right, Dack is now essentially our striker. OK.

Graham off for Brereton. Time for our £7m man to come on and change the game.

A couple of nice touches in the first half but hasn't imposed himself on the game at all. Other than the early goal Graham hasn't been able to get into it either. Our best players by far have been Reed and Armstrong.

I suppose I should have said theoretically, Bell should be a better attacking option due to his pace. Bell's main flaw is his decision making, it just isn't very good at all. The positive is that it's something that can be worked on and should improve over time if he has an extended run in the team. At one point in the first half he made a great run through the middle of the pitch, but once in the final third seemed to have no idea what to do next and lost the ball, even though he had a couple of passes on.

He was a £250k buy from Fleetwood, so it is what it is. You can see he has a lot of the physical attributes to be a good wing back but his decision making and defensive positioning is below the level you'd expect for a team in the upper reaches of the Championship. Williams is probably a better overall player, albeit with less of an attacking threat.

It's pretty accurate tbf, although normally it's the first half we struggle in rather than the second.

Disappointing but the two obvious problems are that we haven't taken our chances and we just can't seem to stop conceding goals. Very very poor goal to give away as well, defence just went to sleep as they are prone to do. A huge shame as we had a great half until then. It's just that lack of quality at both ends of the pitch that means we don't score when we should and concede when we shouldn't. You can't fault the effort of the players though. It was a great first half performance punctured by a Leeds goal right at the end. Keep playing as we did in the first half and we still have every chance of winning this one. We tend to be a team of two halves though so I'm pretty nervous about the second half now.

Another great effort from Armstrong, unlucky not to score. He's been superb this half.

He was the same in the last match, things just weren't coming off for him as he lacked any real support in front or behind him. Thought the criticism of him in the last match was very unfair. He may not always make the right choices but he's always trying to make something happen.