Lambert had these liars sussed out 10 years ago. Amazing how so little has changed.

Not going to be a great look for the club if we lose our manager to a club sitting in 22nd place, whilst we're 6th. Obviously for those of us following the club closely, we know Eustace likely sees the writing on the wall insofar as being able to keep us going for another season, but you'd like to think such a strange move would raise some eyebrows from those outside of the club. Of course, it won't, but it should.

I can understand him being upset if we didn't inform him ahead of time that we were planning to bring in players to fill positions and there was a good chance he wouldn't be registered for the second half of the season as a result. The cynic in me wonders if they did this on purpose so that if a transfer did fall through we could still register him. One assumes so, as otherwise you have to imagine we would have wanted him and his agent to help us in moving him on before the window shut. It doesn't benefit us anymore than him to pay his wages to do nothing for months.

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The current squad has massively overachieved to get us where we are, huge credit to the manager for that. We won't finish in the top six and the deadline day signings won't be enough to change that, but I think Eustace will have us finishing higher than we have any right to under the current ownership. Eventually they'll do another Coyle, appoint a dud and their shambolic running of the club will once again be exposed for all to see. My only hope is that one day I wake up to the news they are finally selling.

Positives: We're only 1-0 down Negatives: Everything else Horrible performance so far. Eustace needs to give it the old 'Aggressive', 'Show me something else in the second half'.

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JDT tried this and I believe they said he could go but they'd make him sit out his contract. Assume it'd be the same for Eustace, which means he wouldn't be able to work until Summer 2026.

Ridiculous if we've had two managers in two consecutive summers offer their resignations due to the club's lies - and both forced to stay on regardless. Shameful really.

Worst transfer window until next January. It's like they have a target to make every January more depressing than the last.

Can't argue with any of that.

Definitely the player who seems to have benefited the most from working under Eustace.

A real shame we couldn't keep a clean sheet, but a win is a win and I'll take it. If our owners had a shred of ambition and backed the manager with some proper reinforcements, we'd have every chance of a playoff spot. As it stands I think lack of quality squad depth will be our undoing, but you can't fault the effort of the players or the manager and his staff. They deserve more support than they're getting from the usual suspects. Oh well, I'll enjoy the three points for tonight, and it's always very nice to come out on top in a local derby.

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If £0 was going to be reinvested of the fictional transfer fee for Pears, why would we, as fans, want to sell our first choice goalkeeper? So that Waggott and Suhail can add it to the list of financial targets met to spend as little as possible whilst bringing in as much as possible?

Pretty sad seeing the parachute payment affect in full force. Three teams steaming ahead at the top who aren't even particularly good, but the gap between them and the rest in terms of finance makes the competition aspect a bit laughable. Only Sunderland unexpectedly keeping up at the moment. There's already a 12 point gap between 3rd and 5th ffs.

Yep. For whatever reason the owners seem happy for us to plod along in Championship purgatory forever, as they've never shown any ambition to push on despite numerous seasons where we've been doing well at the half way stage. Eustace has gotten the team to overperform until recently, meaning yet another season where the owners feel no need to put in anything extra. If there was a genuine ambition to get promoted we would have seen it by now. There's been plenty of opportunities and we never look to push on.

Pears is alright, and he's improved beyond what I thought he was capable of. Yeah he makes the odd mistake, but show me a keeper at this level who doesn't. We know we'd get sweet FA to reinvest, and I don't trust Gestede to pull a rabbit out of the hat, so I'd be totally against selling Pears.

Why are you entitled to rely on it when the people telling you it have proven in the past to be liars? I very much doubt Eustace is that naive.

Absolutely Eustace knew what he was getting himself into. He isn't stupid. Fact is you don't want to be an out of work manager for too long, and we're still a club with significant visibility in the overall landscape - and despite the lack of investment, we still have a capable enough first eleven even with the squad depth being pretty pathetic. I'm sure Eustace will be disappointed with the support he's received - but surprised? I highly doubt it. He just knows that releasing his grievances to the press won't achieve anything, and will make other clubs think twice about hiring him in future. JDT had wanted out from the previous summer before he departed, and was likely confident his name alone would get him another gig, so he didn't hold back in the same way. I get the feeling he won't leave without something else at Championship level lined up. Even if he does offer to resign, as we saw with JDT, there's no guarantee Venky's would accept it anyway.

From memory I think there were some harsh words exchanged(@J*B I think was there?) but it was mostly met with a response of 'get behind the lads ffs' and that the boos were making the younger players upset at half time or something.

If the heat was turned up at the ground, I wonder if Waggott would get the fan groups down to Ewood again to get a telling off from the senior players committee or whatever it was amusingly called. I just remember Szmods sitting there looking like he'd rather be anywhere else.

The points we accrued during the first half of the season should be enough for us to scrape to safety in the end. I have no other expectations at this point.

Chronic lack of ambition will always make things difficult, regardless of whether it's the summer window or the January window. Clubs who genuinely want to achieve things do whatever needs to be done, rather than peddle excuses and complaints.

I can only think of two realistic reasons (if you assume that the rumours they have had serious offers and turned them down immediately): 1) There are skeletons in the closet they don't want investigated. 2) Pride/Not wanting to lose face by selling and essentially admitting to failing. I don't think there have been any Indian-based owners of UK clubs previously or currently (although I may be wrong), and if so we are unfortunately the precedent for how owners from that culture may behave. It's also possible that they've had offers but they've always been contingent on them writing off the debt, which they are unwilling to do, but without knowing if or what offers have been tabled, we can't know for sure.