WWE has its moments, but by and large it's a pretty poor product these days. I rarely watch it unless something big happens. NXT is the show to watch. Top talent and storylines that are much more grounded in the basics of what made pro wrestling worth watching. It's just a shame that when NXT talent get called up to the "big leagues" of Raw and Smackdown they inevitably get saddled with bad gimmicks or get jobbed out to the regulars.

There's a lot of fantastic talent coming through, some of whom will hopefully take Bryan's place. I still can't get over seeing AJ Styles in WWE. I watched TNA for a long time during their better years, so it's a little off putting seeing AJ on Raw. I hope they give him the respect he deserves.

Never really got the whole YES movement, but sad for DB nonetheless. Haven't seen somebody as over as he was since the days of Austin and The Rock. Thought his WWE career was patchy with some crazy highs but also long periods of lows. Pre-WWE he was one of if not the best performer out there.

Yes, I don't really count that as the modern game though! I mean more in the last twenty five years or so, after the influx of money and the massive advantage it's given the likes of Man United, and later Chelsea, Man City, etc.

Without question. We were considered genuine title challengers in 94/95, Leicester were being pegged for the drop and Ranieri as the first manager to get the sack at the start of the season. Not sure there's a precedent anywhere in the modern game.

Another loss for G Nev at Valencia. Deary me.

I didn't want Graham either, but as always hopes he proves me wrong. Get the feeling he's a busted flush but if so then we simply don't sign him in the summer I suppose.

Yet we always manage to concede, which is a problem. 7 league games without a clean sheet now.

The last half of this season was going to be a struggle with or without Jordan. Our pitiful performances have never been down to one man, the team as a collective are very poor and Lambert has not been able to improve the players Bowyer left for him. We have to trust that Graham, Watt, Bennett, Jackson, Gomez and Ward will bring a completely different element to the overall squad and improve the sad nature of our displays up until this point. I'm not sure we can expect too much from them, though. Most of them will have been sold to us because they weren't good enough for their previous clubs - though at least we can say a few of them have come from the league above, rather than teams around us.

Indeed. Has there been a transfer in recent times where part of the clause has been "but they can't play against us?" ... loans aside. It just doesn't happen. Rhodes will probably be on the bench today anyway.

Or perhaps Neville should be considered a reminder that talking about management and actually doing it are very different things.

Oh dear. Valencia's President finding out the hard way that hiring your mates isn't usually the best way to do business.

Bolton badly needed the cash, so bad news for them that they didn't sell anybody. I don't think any of the teams below us have really strengthened, and we will hopefully have enough about us to stay up.

Nintendo have always targeted younger gamers. SEGA managed to break into the untapped market of older gamers in the early 90's with the Mega Drive/Genesis, but the NES/SNES were always geared towards kids. The N64 deviated from that to an extent, but the Gamecube and especially the Wii went right back to Nintendo's roots of games for kids. With the Wii U flopping, they may make one last attempt at the older market with their new console, but that will be very difficult with the XBox One and PS4 having such a tight grip on the mature gaming scene. The Saturn was designed as a 2D console with 3D backgrounds, it was only when SEGA saw what Sony and Nintendo were up to with full 3D that they realised they had made a massive mistake and threw in a second processor to, in theory, enable full 3D on the Saturn too. Problem is, they never told the developers how to use that second processor to create 3D games. They probably didn't even know themselves. Most of the Saturn's best games are largely 2D based, as that was what the console was originally intended for. Funnily enough, despite bombing everywhere else, the Saturn was a relative success in Japan and support wasn't officially discontinued for it there until 2001! Hence most of the platform's best games were only ever released in Japan.

It was never likely to be Jose. Not right now. Still too many bad memories lingering from his last stint at Madrid.

Looks like Benitez is set to be sacked by Madrid. Zidane lined up to replace him if the media are to be believed...

Typical of Bowyer's Boys to be fair. Get close then utterly bottle it. Get rid of as many of these losers as possible, please, before they drag us back into a relegation fight.

RIP Lemmy. Shared a mosh pit with him about 10 years ago in a rock/metal club in Ipswich. Crazy bloke, but lived his life as he saw fit and nothing but respect for that.

A right back, two centre midfielders, a wide man and a striker are the very least we require to replace/challenge Henley, Guffrie, Akpan, Marshall, Koita, Brown and Rhodes. Ideally we'd get rid of at least 75% of those players in the process, but doubt there will be many takers.

Thought he retired years ago! What a player though. A huge part of our renaissance in the early 00's.

Sticking with FM15 for now. Probably won't get FM16, as I was still playing FM11 until I finally picked up FM15! Probably won't be such a long time before I get a newer one this time, but my next one will probably be 17 or 18. For anybody interested, Sony/Square released a short teaser for the upcoming Final Fantasy 7 remake:

Yep. The pro-Kean propaganda from the red tops doesn't bother me any more, as it's obvious the people who matter aren't interested in employing him. I don't think he's ever on the betting lists for next manager of a club. He can have his glory in a league that isn't even Scottish Lower division standard, who cares. He ruined his reputation in the leagues that matter, and I can't see his fortunes changing in that regard any time soon. The only way I could see him returning is if one of his agent friends got their claws into another club, but we all know how that story ends.

Incredible performance from Fury tonight. Outclassed Wladimir the entire way. His team knew as soon as the last round finished that they'd lost it.

Cesaro won't get pushed as long as Vince is around, unfortunately. Vince has made it clear he doesn't view Cesaro as main event talent - mainly because he's Swiss, apparently. There are rumours that Ambrose will turn heel and join the Authority in Seth's absence, leading to an Ambrose Vs Reigns match at WrestleMania. I can see merits in the idea, but think it's the wrong direction to go in. Ambrose is popular as it is, whilst Reigns is entering Cena territory of being both liked and disliked by certain sections of the audience. If they went with a heel Ambrose Vs a face Reigns at WM, I could easily see the crowd booing the supposed face and cheering the heel. Reigns would obviously be pencilled in to win that match, which would lead to a pretty weird ending to WM where the face has won the title but is getting booed. The most obvious route to take would be Reigns turning heel and having Ambrose (or Brock) facing him as a face at WM. However, WWE have put a lot of effort into trying to get Reigns over as a face, and I can see them being as stubborn with Reigns as they were with Cena.

I would say WWE is close to 1995 in terms of creative quality. It really is at an all time low, which is reflected in ratings dropping dangerously close to the 2.0 mark. Smackdown is now close to getting the same numbers TNA Impact was getting during its Spike TV run (roughly 1.3-1.5). The worst part is there is no sign of this changing. Seth's injury was a massive blow, but even he wasn't being presented particularly well as champion. Losing 3 times in a row to Cena was just pathetic. On the plus side, I recently watched all of the Nitro's from 1997 on the WWE Network. A great time to be a fan of the product.