The English is too good for me. JDT spoke very well, but I very much doubt that he would write like that. It doesn't strike me as the speech or writing pattern you typically get from someone writing in their second language. *Although looking deeper there are some slightly oddly worded responses.

Agreed and, more importantly, we can't count on picking up many points in our final few matches, so we very much need to make hay while the sun shines. If we can pick up at least 4 wins from that set of fixtures then we will likely find ourselves in a very good spot with a handful of matches to go. The teams below us are decent, but we probably won't see any of them go on a 4/5 match-winning streak.

Who's saying that?

Short-term deal, buy-out clause, non-promotion clause. Lots of solutions to the second problem. Eustace was an idiot.

Are we sure that Dolan has that much flair? I think that's part of the issue. He sometimes thinks he does, but he doesn't really. In the same way that he looks like he's quick, but he's not. His decision-making is an issue, but not because of flair, more because of selfishness and a tendency to run down blind alleys. He does the occasional stepover and the flips after goals are good, but I don't think there's a lot of flair within his actual game. That isn't meant as a criticism, but he probably does need to realise that he's not quite the trickster he may have imagined himself as when he was 17/18. He's a lot closer to Alan Mahon than he is to Damien Duff or Keith Gillespie. He's a workmanlike winger.

League position is everything. We have fairly decent squad with a dozen matches to go and the playoffs entirely within our own control. That's much better than taking over a 'project' club that is currently 15th. I'll be as critical of the club as anyone, but we would do ourselves a disservice to not realise what a good situation the club is now in for the next 3/4 months. Any unemployed manager worth their salt should want to be taking charge of a shot to nothing and see if this ends with them being a Premier League manager by the end of May. If they don't take us up? Well, they can walk away if they want. Nothing lost at that point and they won't look bad given what happened with JDT and Eustace.

And, not to be a Broughton defender, but it is where the DoF + Head Coach approach has another huge advantage. Do we have a clear system now? A style we want to keep? An approach for the future in terms of types of players signed? No. So we have no easy criteria to use to sort applicants.

You're probably right, but we are also infinitely more attractive now than we were 12 months ago. Of that there is no doubt. We should now appeal to every Championship manager who has yet to have a real shot at the Premier League and every Premier League manager who has made their living in the bottom half of the table. Plus a host of foreign managers looking to break into England.

It's an interesting comparison, but I think that Nyambe was a 'bigger' name. Nyambe had a genuine moment of being a bit of a talked about prospect. Dolan has never had that.

I like him as a squad player and he can definitely do a job as either a sub or a player starting in the right situations, but I fear that he will expect to be paid as a starter and that would almost certainly be too much.

We have hopefully saved ourselves a bit of money and he has the chance to go somewhere and actually play some football. Showed glimpses of his ability and was certainly one of the best finishers at the club. His lack of pace was a major issue and made it difficult for him to make a position his own. His constant injury problems also derailed any opportunities to build form and consistency. Made sense why we signed him, it was worth a punt, but didn't work out.

Maybe, but I can't think of many players who continue to improve after 200+ first team appearances when they haven't shown continual improvement throughout that time. He will likely get a bit better, but not by much.

He's also not THAT young. He'll turn 24 next season and he's already played a lot, as you point out. There's not much improvement to be expected. It reminds me a bit of the clip of Mourinho discussing Rashford. Dolan already has so much experience that you can't expect further experience to really improve him unless he is to play at a higher level/standard. There's no reason to think that another 100 Championship matches will radically see what we get out of him now. Over the 30ish matches we get from him a season we will get 10 good, 10 bad, 10 average and we will see an end product of 10 goals/assists. That's fine, but his limitations are serious enough that he should be viewed as a squad player.

Well, you know, Kargs and the lads, have, you know, been working hard. We are, you know, really pulling together. The lads are, you know, enjoying it.

We're going in circles on this one, but there are some major elements within that where I disagree.