It's not outrageous not to give your staff hot meals, I don't know of anyone who gets free food in their job and some work for bigger companies than Man Utd. It's just funny that they can't afford it and shows how desperate times have become.

So now it all slots into place. Venkys keep half an eye on us from a far and see we're in and around top 6 so all is well. Meanwhile Pasha is a money man not a football fan and waggot is being incentivised based on financial performance so no incentive to splash the cash for a promotion push. He may be incentivised with a big bonus for promotion but that's too much of a risk for him. Realistically our only chance is the play offs which is a lottery so why spunk any potential bonus for financial performance based on a 25% shot at the PL?

£3.3m profit but we don't have FFP headroom to invest a little bit of money in a play off push.

A bit of time gets wasted but advantage switches to the other team

Can i just save a few months of pain? After narrowly missing out on the play offs and losing several key players over summer Valerian Ismael was able to guide Rover to 5th place at the start of the January transfer window. Injuries hit and a Rovers failed to invest in the Janaury window causing Ismael to leave to reduce Barrow from relegation. Rovers are once again on the hunt for a new manager. So who do we think the next manager will be?

Peanuts isn't it. Pretty insulting to the staff when you see some of the dross they've spent tens of millions on

Yeah I was sceptical at first but that's got JDT or a close connection written all over it. Saw one tweet saying that Eustace was substituted with Rooney at Birmingham, no native English speaker is saying that. So clearly a foreigner posing as an English man called Jack.

It's mental cos Leicester and Southampton were established premier league teams for a number of seasons. One season out of the top flight and they can't compete and look destined to yo yo for a few seasons. Ipswich with back to back promotions you'd expect to go back down but all three promoted clubs to be relegated? And then how are we meant to compete with leicester and Southampton next season. Systems fucked

Today at the assessment centre the graduates managers are doing a group exercise where they will be assessed on their techical ability and how they work together as a team. The graduates managers will be required to plan their squad and draw up a list of prospective transfers for the summer transfer window. The assessors, part way through the exercise will interrupt the exercise and inform the graduates managers that there is in fact no budget, they need to sell anyone in their current squad with value and make do with Fleck for the next season. Candidates will be assessed based on how they react to this change with the job going to the one who is grateful for the opportunity to work with Fleck and suggests using the remaining £8.99 transfer kitty to buy Steve Waggot a Lamb Bhuna

CVs, two interviews? What is thia? a graduate assessment centre? We should be selling the club to the best managers available out there not have the most desperate sell themselves to us.

How many interview stages are there? Surely anyone of any calibre isn't jumping through hoops to work for this regime? Surely we're only attracting those desperate for a job and grateful for the opportunity to work under waggot.

So why didn't you hire them then?

Boateng surely only being considered as an extra coach if Lowe were to be given the job?

Scores when he wants

Gerrard is middle of the pack for me. Mixed bag of a career so far and no championship experience. Strikes me as manager who would prioritise his philosophy over results but as has been alluded to could come in and give it a bit of blood and thunder for the run in which could get us over the line. Would much prefer someone with championship experience and promotions under their belt (there's a few out of work) big name, pump the JE compensation money into an almighty incentive, short term deal and give it a real good go. Then reassess what we need in summer.

John Whostace?

David Lowe with a 100% win record

Looks like Dolan is wearing the shorts of a man three times his size.

Not the proudest wank I've had...

Stupid gamble for both parties that.

As angry as I am at the club and venkys, I'm a bit miffed at JE too. He's preached about togetherness and jumped ship at the first opportunity leaving the players behind.

Trawling Facebook there is the odd happy clapper having a go at JE but on the whole people are pissed at the club. Atleast this could be a turning point for a portion of the fan base.

If there is a release clause would he still be made to sign an NDA? It's not like with JDT where they had to negotiate his contract and NDA would have been included as part of those negotiations. That said I have no idea how these things work. I just hope that one day we have someone come out and say "I've left because they're fucking clowns running the show" and I think it would sound good in a Brummy accent.

Nothing we couldn't have already guessed and he's probably spot on. However I don't for one second beleive that JE has gone and spilled his guts to a random Derby fan.

I totally get JEs frustration with the club and understand him wanting to jump ship. If he'd gone to West Brom I'd get that. But Derby? Come on. He's sat with a good chance of getting play offs and it looks like we've got a couple of good additions from January, plus players starting to come back from injury we have a chance to make a good fist of it and aim for play offs. Surely you'd see out the rest of the season and potential get a play off finish under your belt. If we finish outside the play offs it's not going to damage his reputation too much given that we're not expected to finish there. Poor move jumping ship to Derby but shows what a shit show it is here that he'd swap a potential play off for a potential relegation.