No it isn’t! The Championship is a big league, with big clubs, big stadiums and big crowds. The quality of football is pretty decent and it is exciting and unpredictable. It is won by different clubs every year. Although parachute payments are currently having an adverse affect on the level of competition, one club without parachute payments will usually have the chance of a transformative promotion via the play offs (Luton) or even better (Ipswich). I will defend the Old Firm clubs against English people who ignorantly deny how enormous those two clubs are. There are also several other Scottish clubs who could be half decent IF they got a chance to play in a real league, like the championship. However, the SPL is an absolutely dire league, I assure you. My family and I would love to be able to watch Championship football every week. Some of the SPL football is way below Championship standard and as a competition I’d rather be watching League One, League Two or just about any other league in the world!

If Watford beat Sunderland we go second - unless Burnley & Sheff Utd both win (with Sheff Utd winning by 3). Or at least I think so!

I can’t see where to pay to watch? Listening to the audio.

If we could start the JDT way, but then go Eustace for the last 60 - then we would be on to something. Or even start Eustace, and then hit them with twenty minutes of JDT ball at some point in the second half. If we could manage both styles in the same 90 minutes I feel we would really be getting the best out of what we have available. If we stay up I sincerely hope the players don’t forget how to play JDT ball as next season progresses. Being able to go between both styles could make us a strong championship side.

Swag has many, many failings both as a CEO of a world famous football club and as a human being. Broughton isn’t perfect, he lacks experience and his signings have been mixed. The root cause of all our problems are the dysfunctional and contradictory family that own us. However, Broughton and the family member who appointed him at least have one thing - AMBITION. Swag, Silvester and maybe Suhail - and the family members who are controlling these malignant entities and their sabotage - not only have zero ambition they clearly appear to be actively ensuring we can never ever have the ambition to leave this league. People attacking Broughton are backing the wrong side in this power struggle - unless your only ambition is that we fail so badly that the Raos sell us. IMO this is flawed thinking though: The club will only be sold when ALL the squabbling siblings agree to sell. That may happen because of court proceedings in India, but it will never ever happen because of anything that occurs in Lancashire or in the championship - be that protests, relegation or managers or personnel coming or going. SWAG OUT should be the aim of the fan base right now IMO. He is not immovable and his experience of attending football matches and dealing with fans should not be a pleasant one that he wishes to persist with. I also wonder if the slimy maggot is responsible for turning some players against JDT. Hyam, for example. They were being made to train very hard, run their assess off in games, senior and popular players like Travis were deemed not skilful enough and when things started going wrong there is Swag to sway them towards dreams of the old days when they didn’t have to bust a gut just to let Szomdics and Wharton get all the plaudits. It’s a conspiracy theory, but we know the man is such a self interested asshole he would do anything to cling on to power at the club. SWAG OUT - it is achievable.

I wish Eustace all the best. However, my dislike of Waggott is now becoming almost irrationally intense. I mean, I really, really can’t stand the guy. Everything about the guy gives me the creeps. I haven’t disliked someone at the club like this since the days of Anderson and Kean. I hope he gets his comeuppance sooner or later. Hopefully he gets stabbed in the back just as coldly, messily and publicly as he has stabbed JDT and GB in the back.

Absolutely the best option available. Would sort out our set piece nightmares and thus save us from relegation. Probably the only appointment that could save me from the feeling of grief that our only genuinely ambitious manager in 13 years is leaving. Big Sam would be coming here to take us up, whatever the conditions. Only caveat is that last time he was here though he had John Williams to oversea that financial affairs were above board and honest. Now we have a dishonest snake who is not particularly bright in that role. It will never happen, I know. Just the thought of this potential redemption is going to make the actual appointment even more underwhelming though.

Be like Coyle all over again, except swap the doughnuts for cocaine.

Thanks so much - I had tears in my eyes. Go listen if you have not heard this. It is a worthwhile distraction from following developments at our dysfunctional club.

Exactly! If you want the social media and the press to change the conversation throw a dead cat on the table. Don’t fall for it.

The Raos don't think or act with unity of purpose. They are a multi-headed beast.

And why he was banned from speaking to the media. We thought it was so he couldn't rant about the f**k up/sabotage over the McGuire deal - but actually it was probably even more crazy shit than that which caused him to gagged. They are some family, they really are.

And you can be sure that Mrs D's reinstatement was nothing to do with her knowledge or belief in who the best coach for a relegation scrap is - it would be to do with the fact the she won't sanction any money spent on a pay off and a replacement. I hope JDT is up for the scrap that we now have facing us for survival. It's him, the players and the fans v the club & the owners now!

Many pages back someone argued that ultimately it will be good if the McGuire deal does not go through, because it will push the Raos closer to a sale of the club. I wonder if it’s the other way round and that the £500k fee could be what forces the issue within the family. If one part of the family is refusing to fund us and another part of the family is trying to fight this (my theory only), then the overturning of the Slyvester/Waggot sabotage attempt by the EFL actually stirs up the tension in Pune. An EFL decision to void the transfer leaves us more likely to continue with this (hypothetical) status quo. Where we are caught in their civil war (perhaps) and the stop sending £ side of the family is winning, but not decisively enough. My hypothetical status quo (Conspiracy Theory #99) btw, is that one part of the family is wanting to cling on so as to eventually give a job to a younger Rao, whilst the rest of the family have given up and just want rid of the damn thing. The more I reflect the more it fits, but maybe I am thinking too hard - like all conspiracy theorists!

I thought with the situation in the summer that it was possible that one member(s) of the family may be acting to undermine other(s) members of the family. This is a theory that can't be proved, but perhaps, for example, Balaji was responsible for selling the dream to Broughton and giving permission and assurances that money raised could be re-invested, but Mrs or Mr D thought "sod that" and then told their man at the club - perhaps Slyvestor - to sabotage the deals. We know that their is tension between Waggot and Broughton and Waggot and JDT. Is it possible that Waggot and Slyvestor and maybe Suhail work at the command of the real boss - perhaps Mrs D, but Broughton only has the ears of the wannabe boss - perhaps Balji? Maybe some Rao's are despearte to rid themsleves of the club (understandable) and deliberatley screwing things up, but other Rao's are still clinging on to it and hiring people and making them promises that in reality they can not always fulfill. It is all conjecture - but there is nothing at this club in the last 13 years which doesn't fit with the scenario of warring siblings giving lesser minions different and often contradictory instructions.