The academy is not something that has improved under these owners and they dont deserve credit for not getting rid of it. As has been touched on, yes there will have been more graduates into the first team since Venkys took over, but that is because we dropped down a division and the standard of our team is so much lower. Players who now make the first team would have got nowhere near in the past.

We need to be ruthless, but cant because of the continued lack of investment/reinvestment. Hedges has 1 goal and 2 assists in 40 games as a player who plays in an attacking position. No matter how hard he works, he offers nothing going forward. His contract his also up. We reward underperformance here especially when it is cheaper to do so than source a decent player, but its the perfect chance to move him on. Weimann has been a good short term pick up but he had started to show signs that time was catching up on him as the season went on before suffering a serious injury at a point in his career which makes it harder to make a full recovery. With his contract up I would thank him but not offer a new one. The Gueye signing hasnt worked out. Not only do I not think he has the quality, but he is so different in terms of type of player that he requires the whole team to set up in a certain way. You cant just slot him in for Ohashi so it disrupts anything we want to try and build. In recent weeks he has also shown poor body language when he has come off the bench.

Not one for a simple answer to a simple question.

What we need in the summer is an overhaul in the attacking areas to be honest. Its the weak area of the team clearly. Dolan and Ohashi would be the 2 we would want to stick around, Kargbo still an unknown quantity but obviously keep him around. A chance to shed the likes of Hedges, Woodrow, Dennis and ACD. Gueye I would sell if anyone will pay a fee as it hasnt worked out, Cantwell there is obviously ability there but he will be more tricky to get rid of. What we will get is an entirely different matter. Dolan will go, Hedges will stay, and it will be a case of loans and cheap signings and most likely more sub par recruits.

I dont think Toth has really had much to do at all since he came into the team so its hard to properly judge. Similar to when we kept was it 5 clean sheets on the bounce with Pears earlier in the season, we have defended really well as to not need much from the keeper.

Mentioned in my review of the game. Only had 2 shots all game and one was blocked. Very limited squad going forward, Hedges isnt good enough, neither is Woodrow, Ohashi has his uses but struggled today. Dolan the one bright spark but soon to be let go. Defensively it says a lot that we had no attacking threat yet defended so well that Toth barely had anything to do, and never felt likely to concede. It was an extreme version of Luton away which also had the feeling of a Eustace performance. Gestede might not be happy as it isnt the style he insists we should play but it was again very effective.

But in an attacking sense he didnt do anything which was my point. It wasnt a Buckley game, I would agree there. No Championship game is as he isnt good enough.

The difference is, if someone asked me if I am happy with how the club is run, I wouldnt see that as relevant to the question. Its a yes or no question. If somebody asked specifically about the commercial operation or the match day experience, then your answer would be more relevant. With the regular post christmas collapses and the repeated managers choosing to leave, there are clear patterns and underlying reasons. I find it absolutely incredible that you still havent joined the dots and picked up the pattern, instead putting it down to a series of individual circumstances. And of course doing your trademark move of laying the blame solely at individuals who you consistently defended/praised when at the club before pinning all blame on upon their departure. Im not asking if you are participating in protest movements or anything here, or what you would do, just for your opinion. Simple yes or no questions upcoming. And its nothing to do with the commercial side or matchday experience. Are you happy with how the club is run from an ownership and board level? And what do you think (not did you participate) of the protest movements in the last month or two?

You said you cant stand the bloke. That is on a personal level.

The amount of hatred towards him even now on here especially considering what he has been through is absolutely bizarre.

Wasnt a pleasant watch but a very impressive defensive display and subsequent result. Obviously mathematically we can still make the play offs but it feels like too little too late and considering how bad we were especially when Ismael came in and how even just a win or two extra in some favourable fixtures could have had us right in there, it is so frustrating and all stems back to the owners. Going forward bar one attack we were totally non existent and it is little surprise considering how bad our set of attackers are. Ohashi was invisible, Hedges again offers nothing (1 goal as a regular with 2 games to go!) and Woodrow aside from a nice pass leading to the goal was well off the standard needed. Dolan was again the one who stood out, great finish and linked play well. Hes shown real improvement and his inevitable exit is another symptom of how the club is run. Defensively though, considering basically the whole game was played in our half, for our defence to ensure that not only did we not concede but Toth was a total bystander was outstanding. Batth and Hyam as a pairing were superb and not for the first time this season. Ribeiro had a shaky moment or two but in general was solid and put in one crucial tackle and Brittain was not at the same level as the other day but still very good. Having Tronstad back fully fit makes a big difference too. Subs wise, thought Montgomery slotted in very well and Forshaw had his best cameo in a Rovers shirt. Still would be strongly against a new deal and overall dont think hes good enough but credit where its due, really good. Gueye again showed really poor body language. Tyjon was a surprising sub and didnt obviously get long. With such a small squad to work with, it feels like the out of favour duo of Buckley and JRC are on borrowed time.

They are more minor issues in the grand scheme of things and arent really answering the question. Forget the commercial side and the bloody food. Are you happy with the actual way that the club is run? Managers leaving because they cant cope. Incompetent idiots running the operations of the club. A general high staff turnover. Absent owners who havent bothered attending in a decade and who Suhail has said have more important things to attend to. Pitiful budgets. A total unwillingness to reinvest a competitive amount of sales proceeds. Seasons that consistently nosedive half way through because the squad is never sturdy enough to compete over the full season. A novice director of football telling the head coach which style he wants to play and how many youngsters he needs to play. Youve regularly defended a lot of these things in the past and seldom show much frustration in things above a commercial level so just curious as to what your actual opinion is. Do you genuinely see a chance any time soon of getting promoted in the coming years with the current owners and board?

Why should someone be "applauded" for buying a shirt? Also, 5XL tight fitting football shirts? Not sure about that.

What a joke of a club. Nothing will change for the better.

You build trust by running the club properly. Here we have terrible, absent owners and an incompetent board. Its not what they have said or not said that has caused me to feel like that, its what theyve done and not done. Same with everyone but you it seems. The problem was that the terrible owners and board had led to a head coach feeling that he couldnt possibly stay. It should never have come to that. Everything else is immaterial including the shite they come out with to try and justify it by making out as if it was an opportunity that Eustace couldnt turn down rather than him being si unhappy. Do you believe a word that comes out of Suhail, Waggott or Gestede's mouth anyway?

I never said that you specifically said that. I am saying that communication is immaterial, all that matters to me and seemingly everyone beside you is what happens, not what is said. Any communication will be not worth their breath anyway, the 3 stooges have a sole priority of making themselves look as good as possible and also our terrible owners who pay them. They will lie or at least skew the narrative wherever possible, and there will also be legal issues. Surely even you can see that? You repeatedly go back to the way we dealt with that Wolves cup game. The issue to every other person was solely the fact that a second talented manager in 12 months just couldn't cope with working at this club anymore. A desperate attempt to appease the fans does nothing for anyone. He isn't going to give a neutral view anyway, as I highlighted with what they said in that interview the other week. We know he didn't leave solely because he wanted a club closer to home/one where he had played. But if they told the truth, they would look bad. What would you have taken from Gestede coming out and saying why Eustace left? And why are you so bothered about when everything happened? Just seems like a morbid curiosity over something that is neither here nor there. It's the same with all issues: - managerial appointment - why was the plan so important? Just judge when an actual manager is in. - transfers - again, we have heard many times that we plan to do this and that and it hasn't materialised. Every window, they seem to reflect on transfers we couldnt get done, and it isnt contested anyway. Why was Plan B in getting a striker for a fee, one on loan? Makes no sense - contracts - the players have either signed or not signed. In this case, not signed. Whether they claim to be in talks, plan to sit down with them, whatever, its a binary issue.

But the issues that caused these things can happen cannot be talked away. And to be quite honest, I dont trust a word that comes out of these jokers mouths. Take the Eustace one. It was an absolute enbarassment that a manager at a team in the top 6 would choose to join a side in the bottom 3. The 3 stooges DID "communicate" through that stupid interview but anything they do say is going to be warped, with the intention of pushing the blame onto Eustace himself which some of our fans swallowed at first. They arent going to say that he left because of interference on transfers, on pathetic transfer budgets, on players put on him that he didnt want, on potential broken promises, on an inability to give him a new contract or on an inability to give key players new contracts because that makes them and the owners look guilty. Hence why they mentioned his "attachment" to Derby and family reasons. With the Broughton situation, itll no doubt have legal issues eg non disclosure agreements. With the court case, they keep lying and saying it has no impact on the club. Nothing they say should be given any credibility. Anything they say will be a mixture of lies or at least bending the truth. Did their interview the other week make you feel any better about the situation?

Again, its not about what people say. Lets see how we actually play on the pitch.

Well we dont know if that will specifically the way we play in general going forward. Its easy when we win a game to assume that is exactly how we will play going forward. We didnt play like that against Luton for example. A very good win yesterday albeit in a dead rubber, long way to go before we can assume that will be consistently replicated as the style we play. I read absolutely nothing in him shaking the hand of Tronstad at full time. Irrelevant.

Actions are important, not words. Take this instance. These players have either signed a contract or they havent. I dont care whether the 3 stooges say they plan to offer new deals, they have offered new deals, whatever shite they might spout in interviews isnt worth anyones time. Its a black and white situation.

All we need is communication as stakeholders though, right? Not actions.

Tomasson didnt seem like much of a people pleaser either.

They scored 2 from those 2 attacks but it wasnt wave after wave. And with that head start, it was never going to be attack after attack and they came closest again due to Sanderson making a mistake after coming on. The team was imbalanced with 3 right footed centre backs and we did lots of passing between them and barely had a shot in the second half. He then stuck with the formation against Stoke where we were appalling.

He initially came off his line and seemed to go back slightly and hesitate. In the end he saved it and they got a corner but it felt totally avoidable. Unsure whether the TV showed that initial indecisiveness.

Do you not think that he would have picked up more than 1 point from those 6 games? The bad run wasn't that level of bad.