Who was the shifty looking bloke next to Gestede?

Anyone else think Pears was to blame for the second? A pointless performative dive for a shot heading for the corner flag.

Going back to my pre-retirement life, if I’d encountered those three in the boardroom, the only one I’d have listened to was Sunhail. I didn’t like everything he said, but at least he said it clearly and briefly. The other two however, are obviously out of their depth. The Geordie Sir Les Patterson blathers on endlessly, saying nothing and with zero charisma. Jeremy the trainee next to him was even worse, he makes Greg the Egg sound like Warren Buffet.

Is one point from the firs five games our worst ever managerial start?

It was a good save, he got an un-Pearsy like strong hand to the shot so it went up and away to a defender.

Two crosses into our box all afternoon - courtesy of two giveaways by us - both given free headers by the weak as piss Hyam, both easily beating the truly abysmal Pearsy. 5 goals in a week that would all have been saved by any of the keepers we faced.

Yes. A header from beyond the penalty spot that lost pace bouncing well in front of the goal. xGOT is correct, it should be virtually impossible to beat a keeper from there.

Even though the goal yesterday was not down to him, I thought he was shit in the moment. It’s going to be either a shot or a ball slipped in to the six yard box. Sanderson did a good job sending him wide making the shot unlikely. Pearsy though didn’t see that, was protecting a shot unlikely to come so made no attempt to cut out the ball. Even worse, he went onto the floor even though he was nowhere near the ball, precluding the albeit slim chance of being hit by the shot had he thrown himself across to the back post. Useless.

And what, 20-25 goals thrown in? Ishmael showing a lack of balls.

Gone to 3-5-2

Rest of Championship keepers -363 mins Pears - 2 mins 27 secs

I have to say I’m liking the cut of his jib so far. Reminds me of Souey coming in: imposing man, somewhat of a mixed record but old enough to have learnt lessons along the way, quarter of the season to see what he’s got. I would also see the contract situation as an opportunity - last thing you want to hear in a new job is you are stuck with all these dollopers for the foreseeable. I predict we won’t see a Eustace/Kidd arms-windmilling performative appearance on the touchline after 60 mins nor will we ever hear “Pearsy and Picks” again.

Wolves WERE a top club while Waggy was there: league cup winner, Uefa cup finalist, top 5 finishes - the surprise is he was turning out for us a few years later.

ANY decent keeper stops the first two. The first goal would defy belief if it wasn’t Pears: a barely still rolling ball straight to his feet and he literally kicks it in. The second one exposed one of his long term flaws: he has no idea where he should be or even is - he didn’t come out early enough or far enough to narrow the angle, but he came out too far to make it a routine dive save. After that 6 minute shitshow it didn’t matter who’d been picked or how they were playing. He should’ve been benched after losing us the Bristol City match and we’ve zero chance of the playoffs if he isn’t benched now.

Nobody has played well but how much of a morale-killer was that first goal, easily one of Pears top-3 howlers, a pea-roller straight at him.

Never ever! Just ask Bob Paisley.

Refreshing to hear the (interim) manager refer to him as “Augustus” and not “Gusto” or “Kargs”.

That kind of spirit lasted ten years at Wimbledon.

Although he’s no Adam Wharton, I think we’ve been missing Bucko’s forward passing.

You’re right, I’d forgotten that everything written on social media is true! When Cantwell is chasing back in the 89th minute to put in a tackle something big has changed with that group of players. I’m not suggesting give him the job, just do a Tony Parkes.

I don’t think anyone is advocating giving David Lowe a 3-year contract, but I can see advantages in not rushing the appointment. The biggest thing we have going for us now is a dressing room united in their anger at the narrative that John Eustace alone got them into the top 6 and John Eustace doesn’t think they can stay there. I think that anger can get us into the playoffs and the best way to puncture that balloon right now is to bring in a different voice saying different things.

I’m still in the camp of deferring the decision till summer. Any new boss would almost certainly want to make his mark, which means changing things. It’s too late in the season to do anything other than tweak slightly, which Lowe et al did last night anyway. Bet the farm on the extraordinary team spirit we saw last night and playing it more to Mak, the two new forwards just behind him and Cantwell warming the bench. Plus, the two possible outcomes of this season demand two very different managers. If we stay down it’s going to be a rebuild on a small budget. If we go up we need a big name spending a big budget. Best to wait and see.

I can’t recall ever seeing such a dominant performance at both ends of the pitch.

Shout out to the set piece coach for the first goal, Dom’s run from front post to the back of the area wasn’t tracked at all and he put a good header back into the mixer.

Why not? A new manager would take a month to even remember everyone’s names. Eustace may well have done us a favour, that was a fully committed performance, even Cantwell put in a shift.