Should be bringing Dennis on to just get some free minutes in his legs.

I was criticaL of Dolan first half, but he’s been excellent in the second half and deserves his goal. Kargbo has shown enough that he should be starting.

Dennis and Kargbo on. Get some pace and power on to actually stretch and challenge them.

Need to take Dolan off. He is simply not good enough to be given this license to roam around the pitch. ACD has also been fairly anonymous.

I wouldn't have. I can get wanting to leave. I can get enquiring about other jobs. I would probably have handled some of the public aspects differently whilst doing that. But more importantly, I wouldn't have jumped ship for Derby. A similar job would be on the table at the end of the season and he is at serious risk of overseeing a relegation and having his managerial reputation take a major dent. This isn't someone with a lot of experience behind him. A couple of half-decent seasons at Birmingham and Blackburn will be quickly forgotten once he finds himself in League One.

Tonight's result did bring a smile to my face.

I'm not advocating continuing the policy, but there also a couple of players that I think are best not renewing (Dolan included).

It is almost the reason to not give him the job. Comparing him to Tony Parkes would be going way overboard, but if you want to keep those types of characters at a club then they can never actually take full charge. Being the manager/head coach comes with an expiry date.

I know this will get downvoted by the usual suspects, but he speaks better than Eustace. That is for sure.

Yes and no. Most of them are mediocre. I'm sure a lot of them will re-sign, but it was one of the things that Broughton actually managed to fix.

I don't know how many more shots we will have at promotion - at least until Venkys are gone - and I don't want to be sat in the summer thinking we wasted one by having Lowe take charge of the side for the final few months. He has no experience as a manager and this is a big step up. He's the perfect short-term caretaker and a nice figure to the keep in the coaching staff to maintain some continuity, but I don't want to see him actually managing the side for anything more than a couple of fixtures.

It is possible for multiple people to be bad actors in the same set of events.

Good to be getting more of this kind of stuff out there and good on Eustace using a source at a big media outlet - although Deeney isn't always the most reliable. I wish there was a more concerted effort to get some of this information out.

This is a much more appealing job than Derby. Derby might be more stable, but you're headed into a relegation fight. Take Gerrard, for example, no chance he would risk having a relegation from the Championship on his CV and have yet another setback to his managerial career. We're almost the perfect job to jump into for 6 months. If you can come here and get us promoted then you look like a real hero. Yes, we were in the playoffs when you joined, but we were on the slide and we weren't promotion favourites by any stretch. Miss out on the playoffs? Just blame the mess behind the scenes.

I’d believe you if you didn’t spend half your time responding or reacting to everything I post. If there are any cults here, you two are definitely in it. I’m most flattered.

How is it a cult? Every JDT 'cult member' is openly critical of him. You, on the other hand, basically won't hear a bad word said about Eustace. It's a surprise that your thumb has broken from all the downvoting.

Or maybe, in your haste to speak kindly about your former lover, you are underestimating why it would be so appealing to (probably) take a raise and take a significantly longer contract. Forget the football. Forget the leadership. That's more money and job security.

Huge differences. Both seemingly tried to resign the summer before leaving, but JDT made his frustrations patently and publicly obvious. This included public criticism of Waggott and openly mocking our leadership. I think he could have handled the situation better and he did fundamentally quit on us, but he at least made sure all of his feelings were known. Eustace was clearly frustrated, but you only knew that if you were really paying attention. He got on with his job, but the results over the last couple of months show that he may also have mentally checked out. JDT also left us for a job that is, in many ways, better. There's a bit of a debate to be had on club versus national management, but I think most would at least agree that it's understandable as to why someone would leave a midtable Championship club to manage Sweden (and midtable is being generous to our situation when he left). JDT also got to experience a level of betrayal and mismanagement that Eustace mostly avoided. JDT had the O'Brien fiasco that potentially cost us promotion the season before and then the Wharton sale followed by even more 'admin errors'. JDT could only have dreamt of the level of competence seen under Eustace from a transfer/leadership perspective. Eustace was almost certainly lied to, but he at least wasn't made to look like a complete fool in the process. Where he really differs from JDT was the fact that he was not really critical of anything - other than vague hints at really needing more signings - and he actually preached togetherness whilst (reportedly) looking for other jobs. Now, whilst his latest comments are somewhat complimentary, his initial Derby interview contains several massive passive aggressive digs at the club. He saw this club as a stepping stone and he used it - just probably not in the way in which he originally intended. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

That's the first and last Mourinho to Eustace comparison. Mourinho's big issue is that he runs clubs in a way that makes it hard to be part of them long-term. Some coaches are great in short bursts and he is one of them. After 2/3 years it is hard to deal with the intensity and the circus that comes along with it. As for why he's in Turkey? Well, that's more because he's run out of places to go. He's not going to go to the Championship. Nor would he manage any team in France other than PSG, any team in Spain other than Barcelona or Real Madrid, etc.

Good God. He's either got some horrible evidence on you or you've fallen in love.

I know. It's unfair to have a personal attack on Eustace. The owners. The leadership. (some) Players. (some) Former managers. But not Eustace.

He's too thick to lie properly or massage the truth. As for the permanent smile...don't you all remember the dumb grin he would have in post-match interviews even as we were struggling last season? He might be a good coach (jury still mostly out), but he's not a smart man.

Not sure we can rely on that historical trend to win us points down the stretch. We've also been awful in the second half of seasons... Win the 'easy' games. Hope for a bonus from the tough ones.

Sorry, poor mistake given the fact that Leeds are in the Championship. But you get my point. Just squeezing in the response on my lunch break and the brain failed me for a moment.

I don't think he would have. We were going down under JDT. He had checked out and we were not adjusting at all. But I think just about any manager could have kept us up.