Tosin needs a better manager than Mowbray

Stuart was a hero for me. Always a wonderful ball player for whom the term sllky skills was created. Terribly sad to see him gone.

Mowbray still in charge. Zero

I'd fancy PSG to score from the sort of chances Lyon created last night.

Looking forwards to it. Went nowhere, did nothing would be my summary but I am sure it is far more entertaining than that!

Irish football punditry

Just heard Everton on 1st September

I am going to stop my standing order but what a nightmare trying to get through to stop it.

I am all in favour of a 60% reduction in stadium capacity for 20/21. Rovers will have a level playing field....

The BMW proved to be good Championship standard but you could see them failing horribly at a higher level. Fulham will struggle but Brentford would have sunk.

We were certainly had for Gallagher for £5m

Won't get relegated but will never be in contention for the play-offs. About 17th.

Plenty of time during the first 100 minutes of the Play-off Final last night to reflect on what an absolute plank Mowbray is. If he had kept Raya, gone balls out to bring Harrison Reed back for another season on a loan with option to buy and left Walton, Johnson and Gallagher well alone then... 1) we would be financially in a better place 2) Travis and Reed would have been the best central midfield pairing in the division- probably worth at least half a dozen points. 3) Buckley, Rankin-Costello, Vale, Davenport and Chapman would have had more game time and we would have seen a lot more of the promise shown in the fag end of last season and I bet at least one would have kicked on as a challenger for a first team regular slot 4) Raya would have dropped clangers but less than Walton and would have pulled of saves Walton can only dream of- probably worth at least another six points. 5) We would have made the Play-offs even despite Mowbray cock ups gifting away points left right and centre. I am not following the transfer thread this summer. If it is anything like last summer we will be materially worse off at the end of the window than we were at the start. In fact I hope Mowbray has been superglued away from phone, fax and internet and the tea lady told to go get a new keeper.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/sports/soccer/fifa-gianni-infantino-investigation.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20200731&instance_id=20856&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=51793659&segment_id=34861&user_id=ea9bf3fba8ef2ae1ebee7fe2fad99a21 Infantino, Head of FIFA, under criminal investigation.

Incidentally, do watch the highlights of the Forest Stoke game for the grown men crying at the end. Stoke really rode their luck but absolutely slammed them at the end.

But for Mowbray, we'd be playing tonight

I would not give Mowbray any transfer budget beyond £2m or £3m to replace Raya with. The Cat A Academy is producing talent and when fit we have good cover in every position.

We have learned that Mowbray mistakes are costing us at least 12 points a season from his 2.3 seasons in the Championship with us. No way will we get a team good enough to overcome that inherent handicap. Wake me up when Mowbray is gone.

Championship has some of the most biased referees in Europe: Use this link to see what has happened to referee bias and home advantage in the era of no fans: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/25/empty-stadiums-have-shrunk-football-teams-home-advantage?utm_campaign=coronavirus-special-edition&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2020-07-25&utm_content=article-link-7

One of those defeats which feels even worse the next day. We owe Charlton fans a big apology.

Now a no brainer to remove Mowbray.

Have to fancy Swansea against Brentford now. But for Parker as boss, Fulham should have walked the league. They will be better than Cardiff but Cardiff found the guts when we didn't.

We finished 20 points off automatic promotion and 7 points off the play-offs. We are a lot closer to relegation than the Premier League. With this squad of players over 46 games, that is managerial failure, Plain and simple.

W17 D12 L17 Zero progress Rubbish resumption Players good enough for top 6, Mowbray isn't.

That has to be the end of Mowbray