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It’s difficult to blame Lansdown for things going wrong with Pearson when 99.9% of the fans were elated that Pearson joined us.

This is the first time this season I’ve been genuinely worried about relegation. Jesus Christ.

We’ve gone from Paterson, Pack, Smith and Brownhill to COD, Bakinson, Massengo, Scott in just over two years. Sigh.

Reminds me of that season in the Championship where Cotts played Wilbs every game as he had nobody else!

There’s stuff you can get in the pharmacy for that. Oh sorry I misread

Looks like we’ve gone for a flat 442 with Scott and COD on the wings. Bit nervous in CM with Bakinson / Massengo but there aren’t many other options. Feels like a bit of a waste to play Scott but not start with Wells and Weimann to be honest.

Why do our hopes for the entire season rest on one game out of 46?

It’s all relative though isn’t it. We are 19th but closer to the play offs than relegation. The actual numerical position in the table is fairly meaningless as it’s relative to the position of the other teams.

How many of those contracts would have expired by now?

You will never convince me it was a good idea

His failure to get the best out of Wells is exacerbating the issue. He could be the striker we need if he had some confidence, but it was sucked out of him by not starting at the start of the season. Terrible man management in my view.

I have a genuine chip on my shoulder over us releasing Paterson. What a bone headed move that was.

Only towards the end. We were then worse under Pearson until the end of the season.

Too late to pry Ryan Lowe away from Plymouth?!

I am now leaning towards Pearson out. Turgid terrible football

Not going to lie, starting to have my doubts about NP now. We are definitely worse than we were under the majority of Johnson’s tenure, and for a lot of Holden’s.

Anyone else totally uninspired by this team selection? Very little attacking flair

Not having a replacement lined up already makes me wonder if he was pushed rather than left voluntarily

It’s not the same situation, we’d lost two games against two of the three best teams in the league and should have beaten Forest had we not suffered from our psychological issues at home. I don’t expect another losing run for a while now.

Are Barnsley’s team similar in personnel to last season’s play off team? I know they lost Mowatt who was influential but I don’t know much else about their squad. Either way, they were a shambles compared to how they played when they beat us 1-0 after Holden left earlier this year.

Very happy for Moyes after everything he has been through. Arguably a better achievement doing it with West Ham now than Everton before because the levels are much higher in the Premier League these days in my opinion.

Aitor Karanka (Birmingham), Neil Warnock (Cardiff) and Gary Rowett (Stoke) spring to mind

Fixed that for you.

I don’t understand