I don't think he's better than Leo, let alone Pears.

When it comes to Venky Rovers I expect nothing but incompetence.

1-0 up when the momentum is with us and it's a different game. The officials have properly fucked us over. Hard to expect anything from some random cheap keeper plucked from obscurity. He's just a symptom of the Venky disease.

That wasn't offside.

Impressed with Kargbo so far.

I imagine Eustace knew from the moment he signed that there was a chance he wouldn't be backed. JDT was very public about what had happened to him. I'm not sure if he attempted to get a break clause in his contract, but evidently he didn't include one and decided to take the risk. I'm sure he fancied himself to get us out of trouble, at which point he'd retain his visibility and have his stock go up. Sure enough, summer came and there was no backing. Paul Mani says he tried to resign but much like JDT this was refused unless he paid up his contract. I'm sure the feelers have been out ever since to get another job at this level, especially with his stock have risen even higher getting our threadbare squad into the top six for portions of the season thus far. If he's going to a club in 22nd then it's clear pretty much any club in this division will do. I hold no ill-will towards him as it's clear the writing is on the wall for the summer, with multiple players out of contract and seemingly not being renewed, and likely the same pittance available to rebuild the squad. A lot of parallels to Lambert's situation ten years ago, except Lambert knew he could leave whereas Eustace doesn't have that certainty. You'd imagine there would be a better job than Derby available that he could get, but it's impossible to say for sure. It seems he's desperate to jump before the ship sinks so that he has a stable place to land, no matter where that club currently sits in the division. Fact is we'll be lucky to be in this position in the future, as eventually they're going to hire a dud who will sink us. It'll be 2016/17 all over again but I don't think we'll bounce back in the same way we did back then. Our only hope is that a miracle happens and these owners finally do the right thing and sell the club. I fear for who they decide to sell to, though, considering the amount of detrimental decisions they've made since they darkened our doors.

Half of them out of contract in the summer, probably looking at the housing market in Derbyshire.

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.