Nick

Please not another season where a Red Bull is half a second quicker than the next car in the grid… I’m hoping teams are keeping their powder dry and it’s gonna be a real competitive field.

Yeah, I see that perspective but being honest I think another temporary type manager coming in to a bunch of unfit and wantaway player filled group may not achieve what we are hoping it might.

For me, Carsley is the top of that list.

Lee Carsley would be my preferred option but it’ll more likely be somebody not in work, so Gary Rowett or Kingy till the end of the season or Russell bloody Martin with perhaps Robbie Keane on the radar?

It was the kindest thing to do putting him out of his misery and releasing us all from pain in the immediate term.

It's felt for a while that that there's a reluctance to sack him until we know our PSR punishment as we perhaps can't afford the payout or hiring a new candidate. Let's be honest, he was bargain basement anyway. Even if we did have cash to get somebody decent there's nobody at the club I'd trust at the moment to carry out a recruitment process.

Yeah, if you have others in the family that watch it I guess you are hostage to fortune... My wife isn't interested in 'people who lie' - so the show is not really for her!

I don't 'zone out' during the tasks I don't bother watching at all. I just fast forward to the table - I've watched all 4 series and never sat through a task, just like you say the breakfast then round table and traitor meeting. Around 15 minutes per programme.

He's Oxford and Charlton next and only 6 points will do tbh.

Love an FT match thread, makes me feel like anything is possible.

We're gonna win 3-1

Just how much time do people have on their hands?

Man City away.

This.

I’d like us to take a look at Chido Obi from Man Utd (formerly Arsenal). They’d be open to an EFL loan but no idea what wages the young lad would be on.

When does the club’s financial year end? I’m just wondering if the cuts and stalls in payroll might be trying to trim the outgoings due to PSR?

Out of the three of them there was one person with a proven track record of operational business management at this level... and she resigned. Now we don't have anybody.

That should tell everybody what they need to know.

Righto.

BCD - awesome hit.

Did I read that Brentford turned Antonio away after training with them for a bit?

I just wondered if anybody has watched him play this year and if he’s nowhere near the grade but under contract should he not be out on loan to a League 2 club?

Have you seen him play this year?

I’m giving this a bump as whilst I fully recognise that the purchase of this lad was a PSR based exchange for KDH, he did have a good youth career and wondered how he was fairing in the U23’s… I wondered if he was anywhere near the first team considering some of our recent struggles and if anybody had any up to date info on him?

Ha!