Ed Vinegar

Decent with his feet but fairly poor at all other aspects of goalkeeping. No hard feelings but this is the right decision.

We lost 17 league games and finished far below a newly promoted Sunderland team composed of random £15m-£20m signings and championship cloggers. We never put together a single run of good form. We've spent the last 3 months arguing about whether our manager or players or "mitigating circumstances" are to blame. Being a newly promoted team is the ultimate mitigating circumstance and we finished way below one and one point better than another. Osula's goal to beat man u plus the 4-3 against Leeds were pretty good though. 2.5/10

We've lost 17 games this season, joint worst among sides that didn't get relegated. Didn't watch this one as I was lying in the park enjoying the glorious sunshine. Sounds like I made a good choice.

Very likeable player. Thinking about his first goal yesterday: it's not an amazing finish or anything but it feels like none of our strikers have been regularly putting that type of chance away this season. Not that he has either! But it's promising. We should keep him and make sure he gets playing time, unless some worldie striker falls into our lap.

Given for handball according to BBC sport website.

I actually can't believe that was given. They were desperate to give a penalty. The ref looks like he's about to explode with glee when he does his stupid little gesture. Fucks sake man.

That is a fucking sickener man. What the fuck. Cheating cunts.

Watched the past two hearts games with my Jambo mate and his dad (who still isn't fully recovered from 1986). I'd love them to win it!

For people saying he needs to rebuild this summer and start well next season - how well does he need to do and how long would you give him? If he heads up a rebuild and we give him effectively a 12 game probation next season... Is that a good plan? Would he want that? I don't know either way, just thinking about it. If we're making the decision based on start of next season, what's the cutoff point?

I don't think we could go down. I think it'll be Spurs because West Ham are in form. But we could very well end up finishing below two of the promoted teams and uncomfortably close to 18th.

The man is a liability now. He does something mad like that every ten games or so.

I still want him to stay but I'm beginning to worry it's wishful thinking from me. If he stays the summer and starts next season like this then he'll get sacked imo. So we should keep him only if we have real confidence he can turn it around. He has turned around from poor seasons and done well. But if we do sack him mid season, we'll have a worse set of choices. And we'll be bringing in someone new to use a squad Howe built. It's a big risk whatever we do at this point. Dispassionately, if there's a standout choice available in the summer and Eddie has shown little in the remainder of this season, I think it would be sensible to replace him. At the end of the day I do think he's a good manager, and I respect him and think he has earned another chance. But I can understand those who think another chance requires some signs of change first. It's all pretty miserable.

This is all really hard to explain. What are we doing? It's difficult to pick out anything to be hopeful about or any sign that things might change. How many times can we do this in a season? The season now is a pure write-off. We're not getting into Europe so how do we start a rebuild from here?

Oooooof. Poor Wales. Johnson not beating the 'being shite' allegations

Heard Robbie Earnshaws peculiar accent on the Wales commentary just now, wiki'd him and learned he's the only player ever to score a hat trick in the top 4 divisions of English football, the FA cup, the league cup and in an international match. Quite a record for someone I don't remember being that prolific.