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Think it was messed-up. The Last Post is usually played before the 1 or 2 minute silence.

Well that was a horror show and, IMO, the resultant of Pasha and Gestede's moronic attempt at playing Football Manager. The horror of starting with Miller, McLoughlin and Hedges as your 3 centre backs says it all. Pears nervous and unconvincing - just a calamity waiting to happen. Our defence. Inevitable we would get ripped one and it could and should have been more than 2 for Derby. Miller is poor, full stop. Wing backs / midfield. Alebiosu - has he run out of steam or has one eye on the AFCON. TGH decent loan signing but a bit of a loose cannon. Morishita just continuing to live up to his name and we chased him all summer! Henriksson, yet another loose cannon but far less effective than TGH. Strikers. Gudjohnsen is a 'good time' player, lazy and ineffective. Ohashi the pick of a poor bunch. Our bench. That tells you just how far we have fallen. Sadly, we are still in a relegation fight and fear we will slip further down the table. Injuries are no excuse, it's what you have a squad for. As for our medical team, I think they are hopeless and need firing. Wharton 'could be okay for today' but now ruled out for 3 months and sat in the stand wearing a medical walking boot and Toth 'out for 4 to 8 weeks' but now 3 months. Think our club has been dumbed down from top to bottom in all areas and the results are painful to see.

They have had injuries all season and still waiting to get players back! You first have to build the foundations before you become more expansive (we played crap football when he saved us from the drop but noticeably improved the following season). The fans firstly want winning football - if you want 'fancy/sexy' football trying following one of Russell Martin's teams (loathed by fans at Southampton and Rangers).

He's going isn't he?! Great move for both Edwards and Wolves. For Wolves, will be very difficult to escape the drop but they will have a manager with a strong track record in the Championship who will have had over 6 months to assess the squad and work out what's required to bounce back next season. And should Edwards pull off the great escape.....!!!!! For Edwards, a move to a club and area where he has a clear affinity. A move which will give him and his family more long term financial security and a better quality of life. In my books, a no brainer for both parties

Pretty sure your family would tell you not to be such a fool! Anyone who turns down an opportunity to give their family a serious uplift in their standard of living and quality of life really needs to give their head a wobble. Alan Pace - if you want to bring me out of retirement for a short term consultancy, I'm ready, willing and able!

Difficult one to call. A draw would be no surprise. However, if I had to make a bet it would be on Derby as given our player absences, I just can't see us keeping a clean sheet with Derby's physicality and also calamity back in goal. IMO, any stick given to Eustace will be moronic given how he saved us from relegation and left us top sixish. It's our, IMO, moronic owners and executive management who should be getting pelters in no uncertain terms for what they have done to our club including the loss of our last two managers (JDT and JE) who would have given us a very good chance of getting to the PL if backed.

@chaddyrovers Burnley Football Club offer you a position at Turf Moor at DOUBLE your current salary and there would be no night shifts (which you tell us you do at the moment), presumably, you would take the job given the big changes to the quality of your life it would bring (certainly think your missus would be salivating!).

Huge blow for both Toth and Rovers given the way he has established himself. Although MRI scans are highly accurate, I was told by a leading NW Orthopaedic Surgeon in a consultation that circa 20% of common injuries are missed or misdiagnosed, commonly those issues in and around tiny structures and even with ACL's, it's sometimes difficult to tell the difference between a minor/partial tear and a full tear. Until the surgeon gets in there...............!!!!! Would be amazed if only 4 weeks and getting on for 8 weeks feels more realistic.

Three wins on the bounce, very good. Last night, especially 2nd half, a dire watch. How anyone can criticise Big Sam's football when we were getting results against all comers in the PL!!! Ismael seems to have hit upon a formation that works for us - would be folly to change it, our players need to develop and grow within that system. Injuries to Toth (huge worry with a knee and seemed to be playing with issue until forced to come off) and Wharton (shouldn't play on Saturday <three games in a week> even if 'fit' given what he's coming back from) big worries, compounded by Tronstad's suspension, will sadly show how shallow our squad is on quality.

A very welcome, almost essential given our next few games, 3 points. A win that I think is a temporary reprieve merely papering over the cracks. Two poor teams and this could have gone either way given chances spurned by both teams. Undoubtedly, Toth won us the game and McCarthy cost Southampton the game - the resultants of good and poor goalies. I don't think we learnt too much over what we didn't already know. A major concern is Tronstad who I don't think looks too interested and bothered. Worrying how easily we were sliced open and better teams will punish us. I look at our November fixtures and I can't see where we get a point.

Confidence and momentum everything in this league. Coventry will take some stopping. Lampard has done a terrific job.

I think our only hope is that a 'whistleblower' from the last 15 years comes forward and opens up any can(s) of worms! Doubt it will be that straightforward! Difficult to comment without more specifics but a lender which has taken security has a number of options available when it comes to enforcing its security. Reasonable care must be taken to obtain the best price reasonably obtainable for the asset - these duties are owed to all creditors (other secured, preferential and other unsecured) and also to the borrower!

First goal will be all important in this game. Armstrong can score goals for fun at this level and, sadly for us, think he will on Saturday. Southampton by at least 2 goals

If I was a 'remote' owner and my business was declining and the brand image was being tarnished, both as a result of so many poor decisions having been / being made, my Chief Operating Officer would not be in post for very long let alone 15 years. Given Pasha has been involved since our owners bought the club, you wonder if Pasha has 'a hold' on our owners which makes him unsackable / irreplaceable. IMO, there is something sadly wrong and awry with our club.

Manning is on thin ice but has been in post for a much shorter time than Ismael. Norwich usually reasonably patient - think he'll get another 2 or 3 matches. Would you want Pasha and Gestede in your corner when things are going badly wrong? IMO, a sacking now would be about 'self preservation' for the 2 stooges - I think we are in that territory now.