This particular situation seemingly does affect chaddy negatively, albeit in a quite minor way. But hes backed himself so far into a corner that he cant even bring himself to be annoyed. The argument put forward to defend moving so many games this season from sky was "justified" by him because at least they gave months of notice before moving a ridiculous 7 games to each Saturday dinnertime each week. Now they have reverted back to type for half a season and even thats supposedly not an issue.

They clearly would like to get rid of Casemiro, that terrible signing has already been made though so theres no way of shifting him. Its not particularly relevant.

Comments full of people who cant go anymore. Only 4 weeks notice given too to add salt to the wounds.

Weimann has been a very useful addition amongst the squad but has shown signs of aging and now has a serious injury. We shouldnt offer him a new deal.

He is an absolute waste of space, one of two deplorable lap dogs. But any opportunity to get promoted being sacrificied is down to the owners, no one else, even the idiots they pay too much to carry out their objectives of (ironically in this case) solely minimising costs.

According to you, every manager ever has been happy with the staff because they always say that they are when they join. I have no idea if he genuinely is happy with the staff or wishes he could bring in more, thats my point, we dont truly know. Im not saying he isnt happy. Do I think he would have taken the job? He has been out of work for a year having been sacked fairly soon into his reign at two previous Championship clubs. He said that every other club he has spoken too since has been in relegation trouble. We were in the play off places, he gets a 3 and a half year deal and knows that the job is there as long as he wants it regardless of success or not. So yes, I think he would have taken it regardless of the staff changes he was permitted to make.

Has he said the same thing that every single head coach or manager has said? Ill be impressed if anyone ever comes in and says, im not happy that I cant have more of my own staff but I will have to make do with these.

How do you know that Ismael is happy with his current staff?

Although its only on goal difference, weve now become 4th in a race of quite a few to get into 2 spaces. Hard to feel any confidence that we have a reasonable chance but we must get 9/10/12 points from these next 4 to stand a chance. If we dont it will just fizzle out.

The £1.4m will be the likes of Wahlstedt, O'Riordan and Telalovic. Not that the 25 accounts will show much more. Cantwell, Kargbo, Toth, Gueye and Ohashi so probably at most £3m.

Just seen a regurgitated Alan Nixon article on twitter about the accounts who puts the profit down to the first chunk of the Wharton sale and selling Szmodics. Surely that shows a total lack of understanding regarding accounting treatment. The (pure) profit on Wharton will 100% go into the accounts on an accrual basis, timing of payments is irrelevant. And Szmodics was sold after the accounting year. Also, is there a chance that the highest paid director is Suhail?

A theory that might have more credibility had it not been an ongoing prediction by the same poster for years and years.

Its the owners I hate. Their lapdogs Suhail and Waggott are also dragging the club down too. They have pulled a blinder purposely or otherwise though where now Eustace takes all of the flak and many seem happy to overlook the mess that still remains. You agreed that he had been let down when it emerged that he was going, now hes the villain of the piece. As has been mentioned, and he deserves some stick, but seems a bit wrong that on Saturday 100% of the bile will be chucked towards Eustace and 0% at the root causes of our problems. If expecting a player playing in an attacking position to offer any sort of attacking threat is expecting too much or expecting things that a player cannot do, then yes I am. I dont hate him by any means, sure he is a nice guy and no doubt that he tries his best. But I dont like seeing players play for my club who clearly arent good enough. And Gueye managed basically the whole game at the weekend. Ohashi might only be able to do an hour but Weimann or Cantwell can come on for him when he tires. But lets attack them from the start, get 1 up and get their fans on their back.

If Hedges is even a consideration to start then yes, it is a difficult decision. Derby are not only crap but their confidence is on the floor. We should be going to attack them. Is Hedges going to do that? Scoring, assisting, beating players, speed, dribbling, creating, youve repeatedly admitted that hes "not that type of player." If you are in favour of leaving Ohashi out for if and when Gueye tires (in his last 8 games, he has played 90 minutes 6 times and 88 minutes twice so im unsure why) then it really highlights our January "attempts" to sign the striker we need. We signed a player more suited out wide who hadnt played for ages and is also suspended, and Cauley Woodrow who seemingly doesnt come into your thinking as a potential sub. Little wonder that Eustace got so pissed off. Although you seemingly have gone from brief outrage that we had messed him around as he left, to constantly picking apart his media comments.

Hedges was ok but he didnt really do much going forward and certainly not to outrank a season (and beyond) of poor and ineffective performances. Weimann is a very useful impact sub to have but as we have seen playing him away from home in particular, he can struggle from the start. So as I said, difficult decision to make. Our wide areas are a very weak position. You look at some of our rivals and the options they have in those positions, and its night and day.