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Poor effort from Sykes. Think he made an almost identical error from a similar chance vs Blackburn too.

Agree, Twine is clearly a good player, but doesn't seem a great fit for us in some ways. In terms of pressing and defending, he leaves a a lot to be desired. That's okay if you're getting a goal or assist every other game, but Twine isn't. In general, Twine hasn't quite been the huge outlet of threat and creativity that I'd hoped. A good player? Yes. A player I'd spend £4m on? No. Are these views based on what we expected of him, or his actual performances for us? Don't get me wrong, he's a decent player, but I wonder if the fact "it's Twine" is making people see his performances through rose-tinted glasses.

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I agree that 53 points would be incredibly unlikely to get you relegated. No doubt we've been in relegation form at times though, as per Silvio below. 13 games is a reasonable sample too - more than a quarter of a season. Glad that we're improving now though.

That's 23 points from 20 games, so 52.9 points if you extrapolate to a full season. Last season, that would have produced an 18th place finish, so it's in the bottom third. I think we're splitting hairs a bit about whether you call it "lower midtable" or "near relegation zone". By the time we had 5 losses from 6, I think fans' frustrations were very much justified. No need to compare to Pearson, but if you do want to, then most metrics (including points per game) were showing that we were worse under Manning than Pearson (especially if you consider the relative injury situations). I'm glad we've looked better in recent weeks, but it really wasn't that unreasonable for people to be questioning Manning's job. I very much agree with your last point though. I don't trust the board to make appointments in any part of the club, manager included. The ownership is undoubtedly the reason we're stagnating.

Is it that shocking? Across Manning's first 20 games or so our form was near relegation standard. Results were poor, performances were poor, underlying numbers were poor, eye test was poor. I never got quite as far as calling for Manning to be sacked, but you can absolutely understand why some people did.

Good performance and good result. Think everyone played well. We look much better when we press more aggressively. Really feel we need to caveat the game with the fact that Blackburn were SO bad. Very rare that you get gifted 3 or 4 goals for free.

Personally think we need a few more before we can say that with confidence

Back turned, clearly not deliberate. Defender knew nothing about it. More that if there was any uncertainty, the referee could have easily not given it and it wouldn't have been a particularly controversial decision in the context of the game. FWIW, I can absolutely see why it was given. I'd just feel very unfortunate if I were the Blackburn defender. I always hate the penalties where it just hits someone's hand accidentally, rather than them deliberately moving their hand towards the path of the ball. As someone who also played at CB for a while, I also tend to side with the defenders in these situations

We've been good, but have to massively caveat our performance with the fact that Blackburn have been utterly dreadful. I can't remember us ever being gifted so many goals in a game.

Think that's slightly harsh. Not a deliberate handball, didn't really deny a goal, and Blackburn already 3-0 down.

Good goal from Mehmeti.

Poor effort from Sykes

Blackburn look absolutely awful defensively. 2 gifts of goals.

Not only was it a great start, we were also "dominating possession"