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Only came in from work right at the end of that one but it certainly looked good. Black v Lashley - who cares, in fact Lashley v anyone, who cares? Ziegler v fat bloke - Oh dear. Purchased this against my better judgement last night, more out of morbid curiosity as to how their flagship main event would translate to being behind closed doors. On the evidence of last night - not very well, shows how important the crowd is. Ordered it last night, it kicked off with a decent trailer showing some of the roster in a mythical adventure setting. Then it showed real life footage of them to "For those about to Rock we salute you' by AC/DC and I'm sat there with a beer thinking "Yeah I can really get into this". Then on came an advert saying "Wrestlemania sponsored by Snickers" and it killed the moment stone dead for me. Silly women's tag team match to start. Unlike comments above, I think Asuka is absolutely top class either as a baby face or a heel and should be at the top of the roster with Charlotte Flair instead of being wasted in mid range tag team matches. The less said about the other 3 the better. Nikki Cross in particular must be one of the worst professional wrestlers ever. Another silly match followed, Corbyn v Elias, again who cares? Becky Lynch v Baszler was the highlight of what I saw. Whilst I don't really get the obsession with Becky Lynch or "The Man" gimmick at all - (is it an age thing?) it was a great 10 mins of action. Disappointing accidental looking ending though, much like her win at Wrestlemania last year. The ladder match - JHFC thought this was dire. Couldn't have cared less about any of the contestants and if you don't have very skilled operators who have got their timing exactly right it looks really contrived and you get the farcical situation where one of them is halfway up the ladder with no-one else in sight and about five minutes to get the belt and they have to somehow manage not to get it. Halfway through that match I fell asleep. Annoyed I missed the Undertaker/Styles even though I find it difficult to invest in a big man/much smaller man feud. Oh for the glory days of Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, Earthquake, Rick Rude, Million Dollar Man, Savage Flair Undertaker in his prime etc. Plausible superheroes and dastardly heels. Jumpers for goalposts? Looks like £20 largely wasted. Edge and Orton making an excellent first of it though.

We don't know what cuts Bankers may or may not have voluntarily agreed to though, as the Public dont care. And unlike Bankers, top level footballers benefit massively from their high profile most of the time in terms of image rights, sponsorship and social media following. They cant have it both ways, take all the benefit normally, then complain they're under too much public scrutiny when it appears they've committed a massive faux pas.

There seems to be a slight groundswell of support building up for the Premier League players on the basis they're being singled out by the politicians etc but I think most people are missing the point. Everyone is making the mistake of putting all PL Clubs in the same bracket. The "big 6" are undoubtedly highly profitable but for the rest, most of the Club's income goes straight into the players pockets. When we were in the PL wages formed 85 - 90% of our turnover so PL players should be taking a wage cut without even batting an eyelid, not to save the Country or the NHS but first and foremost to guarantee the future of their own Clubs and the non playing staff that work there. Then hopefully money can also find its may down to the lower divisions as well to avoid mass insolvencies. The PL Clubs also have the threat of the TV Companies asking for about £35 m each back off them. Not fatal for the big 6 but could be crucial for the rest. All this crap from the PL and PFA about Clubs"unanimously" agreeing to discuss with the players about the possibility of "conditional" wage cuts and "deferrals" plays out terribly when ordinary people on a few hundred quid a week have to take a 20% pay cut no questions asked. Maybe Taylor should sell a few of the PFA's Lowry's to help out. On the other hand its ludicrous that Clubs like Liverpool and Spurs are taking advantage of the furlough scheme so quickly just because it is there. An absolute disgrace all round. (Apologies if wrong thread. Just seen other one)

Apologies if already discussed. Imo this season has to be finished to maintain the integrity of the competition. No matter when that may be. Scrap or reduce next season, whatever. Sad, as it would have been hellishly funny to see this season expunged from the record and Liverpool 31 years without a PL title.

I like WWE but how can this go on behind closed doors when apparently nothing else can?

Absolutely spot on. Not sure what our predecessors and ancestors would make of all this nonsense, some of them fought world wars in intolerable conditions to guarantee our freedom. Now we're CHOOSiNG not to go about our every day lives because we might catch a bit of a virus for a week or so. Still it gives the 24 hrs a day media something to obsess over and go overboard on now Brexit has been sorted I suppose.

Such is the level of over -reaction and hysteria regarding this virus it now seems likely matches will be postponed but I will still be disappointed when it happens. Surely the best way to beat the virus is for the vast majority of the population to carry on as normal and if a decent chunk of the population contract the virus and are subsequently immune then that will be the best way to prevent the further spread. If everyone goes into hiding the practical effects on people's every day life and the economy are exactly the same as if they had contracted the virus with the exception that when everyone emerges from hibernation the chances of infection are exactly the same. For anyone who's in a vulnerable category due to age or underlying ill health then it would make sense to self isolate but this is no different really to any other illness in that respect, you wouldn't visit an elderly relative if you had a bad cold or flu either.

Have to agree with chaddy for once, to say there has been an over reaction to the corona virus issue is the understatement of all understatements. For the vast majority of people the symptoms are relatively mild. How many people die of flu each year? Way more than Corona virus. Yet no -one seems to care or go running around putting people under house arrest or telling them what they can or can't do because of that. Are we now such snowflakes that we will have to go through this nonsense every year each time a new virus is discovered? The encouragement all this must give to people whose motives are not pure is incalculable as well. If a relatively mild virus can bring the world to a halt and cripple the economy think of how much chaos they could cause if they were able to manufacture a more virulent type of virus. And we'd better not hope we need to fight any wars in the meantime. "Little Johnny can't come out to fight today, he might develop a sniffle." Still, nothing we can do about it.If I thought we had any actual chance of making the play offs I'd be even more annoyed about the prospect of the game being played behind closed doors or cancelled.

I can't believe anyone still believes it's "a big week" look how we've reacted for the last four "must win" games, looked like they couldn't be arsed and three points of which one was an extremely fortunate 94th minute draw against Swansea. For me the season is as dead as a dodo and I can barely be bothered going on Saturday. Imo yesterday was the last chance saloon to try and force ourselves into the reckoning. We needed three points and can't rely on everyone else continuing to drop points, sooner or later either someone above us will put a reasonable run together or we'll be gobbled up by a couple more of the sides behind us, we've already dropped behind Cardiff and Millwall during the recent poor run and there's no indication whatsoever we have the ability to turn it round or even that we're particularly bothered about doing so. Pot Mowbray however and the situation changes completely. Game on. Unfortunately little chance of that happening so the season will fizzle out into another dismal lower mid table finish.

We'll probably end the season behind Millwall because imo they have a good manager at this level and we do not.

Need to reply to a post from Mashed Potatoes that was deleted. He accused certain posters of posting once when we win and 15-20 times when we lose. Absolutely correct. I probably come into that category at the moment. The reason is that Mowbray is NOT the man for the job and a one or two streaky results doesn't change that. Yet some people still can't see it. Form is temporary, class is permanent and all that.

If Warnock is/was prepared to go to Ipswich, we should steam in and nick him off them before they move in. Failing that as far as I am concerned there is absolutely no downside to potting Mowbray before the day is out and using the rest of the season to see if Damien Johnson has got what it takes. We're not going down and imo with Mowbray in charge we'll struggle to get to 60 points. There's absolutely nothing to lose for me.

I usually agree with most of what you say but Walton is abysmal imo, he's turning into the new Jason Steele, the opposition only have to take a pot shot from 25 yards and in it goes. Also I will be very surprised if this doesn't turn into another desperately disappointing season just like the last one, one point from four games..... we'll be hard pressed to match last year's tally of 60 points.

What are you talking about? He went to Bristol City a few days later so obviously we were trying to get rid!

Absolutely spot on. Mowbray was talking about sending Travis out on loan shortly before Smallwood received a red away at Sheffield United last season. Mowbray then had little option but to give Travis a try and the rest is history. Nothing will convince me that Palmer and Travis weren't suddenly playing out of the blue that day to put them in the shop window for a loan move. Then holds Nyambe back for ages to play Bennett in front of him. Terrible manager.

That'll be Buckley ostracized never to be seen again much like Travis was when he got a red early in his career. Bennett got a couple of reds a season or two back and went straight back into the side when the suspension was up.

Remarkably often in our case. Wigan Birmingham Stoke Swansea Derby .........

"Nice guys" put in a decent performance every week.

Just to rub salt in the wound..... Bennett!!!!! Whoop Whoop!

The body language of the side is absolutely appalling. Buckley just ran over to retrieve the ball to speed play up. Mowbray and the experienced players will soon drum that nonsense out of him.

Yup. Panic over. They can start thinking about the summer hols now. Lovely jubbly.

To be fair I think Bell's been one of the very few who's been ok. Thank God for Nyambe. He's got a broom up his arse trying to play CB and put fires out down the right because of the hapless Bennett.

**** off Mowbray. **** off Bennett **** off Gallagher **** off Walton

Gallagher's worse. And Bennett is worse than Gallagher. Whilst Mowbray insists on shoehorning those 2 into the side we've no chance.

£5m plus? You're having a laugh. He isn't worth 500k. Paying £5m for him would be as suicidal as paying £5m for Gallagher who also failed to impress whilst on loan here. Which probably means Mowbray will do it. Strange how Walton suddenly turns into Gordon Banks in certain posters eyes whenever we have a game or two when he has nothing to do.