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I can only speak for myself. As others have said maybe the time is ripe for a new approach. I'm not naive and can see this is intrinsically linked to reducing the wage bill but irrespective of that I'm liking some of the the signings and the energy they give off. The performance against Hull was really promising. More performances like that and we'll win more than we lose. Some have countered by saying Hull were poor, maybe so, but you can only beat what's in front of you. It's ultimately all about results and RG and VI will live or die by theirs. It's nothing to do with a 'swing' towards them, not from my perspective anyway. This season could be chicken shit or chicken salad, let's see how we go. Finally, would I still like new owners? Absolutely!

So, let's pretend this isn't football. You're being treated badly at work, you are a popular member of staff, made redundant and then (allegedly) replaced by someone close to a member of senior management. Not think they've a right to have their say? Or even, people not being paid what counterparts doing the same job at other firms are, seek parity with their peers, they get said parity only to be villainised. Football is a job to these guys.

It is possible for people on both sides to be wrong. I'm certainly not defending the club and have strong opinions on the culture and people in senior leadership positions, but I also believe that certain players and (former) staff may be taking advantage of that situation. There were clearly people within the club and the team who were happy to sow seeds of discontent. They're not exactly hiding it. Regardless of what else is going on, that isn't good for the club. Not only that, when it comes to highly paid footballers, that's something that I just can't abide by. Look at how poorly the Sheffield Wednesday staff and players have been treated over the last few months. It's on a different level to even our fiascos, but you still had players rallying around, showing commitment to the club, and focusing on improving the situation. I can understand why players want to leave, and do. I can understand why staff feel mistreated. But you should have enough respect for this club not to be openly mocking the club in public. That's all I ask. It's not asking a lot. As I've said previously, what they're doing is foolish. It makes it seem like those in the leadership positions may have been right about them.

Maybe stupidly but I'm fairly optimistic haha I know we've lost a lot of experience and ideally you'd spread that over 2/3 windows but the club won't lose players on a free anymore so if nothing else that is progress. I think it's far too early to judge any of the new signings individually. Id say the west brom game we deserved at least a point. Bradford was abysmal. Birmingham we played well, got caught with a sucker punch of a penalty. Usually we would then fold but instead were on the front foot and got caught on the break. It happens but I'd say thats progress. Saturday we really saw the potential of this squad. I don't care how good or bad Hull played. This is the championship the most unpredictable league in the world. We played as good as we ever did under jdt or Eustace. Id say Travis was the last remaining remnant of the mowbray era. A team that had promised a lot at times but never delivered. A team that never even made the play offs. Stagnent and just rinsing and repeating season after season. We can now spend the season concentrating on results instead of who's going to leave in the summer. Will they sign? Won't they sign? Everyone who wanted to leave has done. So good or bad these new players will be different, hopefully we can go on and play like Saturday because if nothing else it was exciting and entertaining. I definitely believe there are at least three worse teams than us and in this league everyone not battling relegation should have their sights on trying to make the play offs.

They hit the jackpot with this fanbase

Bogey side at Ewood and the ultimate blow hot one min blow cold the next min club. A much sterner test than last week and Brum. Rovers 1 Norwich 1

The not going for the title in League 1 did it for me. Steady pair of hands up to that point but happy with being one of the also rans whilst cultivating a persona that he's a "good football man". Should have gone as soon as we were promoted.

I’d exclude Dolan from that list he was never signing on here

More waffle It doesn't change the fact I think we will progress, move forward and grow." There's so much self-inflicted pain. Our response to disappointment is so poor

As can happen with performances sometimes but the were unbeaten had went to free scoring and promotion challenging Coventry and got a great draw away from home before scoring 4 themselves in their first home opener could they be awful down the line quite possibly but this early on downplaying a victory is weird

If you genuinely believe the club is going into a good direction you’re a fool, unless the venkys have all of a sudden decided to sell the club that is. It is more worrying they’re unable to tie down key players for me

You're presuming there. 3 games into the season isn't enough of a sample size to decide if who has been brought in are downgrades. Don't get me wrong, I'm not naive enough to think cutting expenditure isn't a factor in player turnover either. Let's be honest though, how many players can you think of over the years have left and improved? Szmodics, Lennihan, Diaz, Armstrong, Rhodes, Gestede there's many others I've probably forgotten... All played their best football for us, then left and fallen off big time. Brittain and Travis won't play any better than they have for us. They move on, we move on. At least we move on with younger players with more potential.

Honestly baffling, our fan base are so fickle it's laughable and sad.

So, let me get this straight. It's now the fault of Brittain, Dolan, Travis and the former player liaison officer for being bitter, greedy, or whatever else and not those in charge who've been clueless since pretty much when they arrived, have a plan? This a parallel universe?

I used to watch my rugby league team doing sprint training. It was interested to see who won the races. The guys that were nowhere over 20 yards would sometimes be the winners over 80 yards.

Based on that I watched the game and they looked a league two side. We could have scored 10.

Yes, next to ability confidence is the most important factor in a players make up.

I don’t get that argument at all this early in the season tbh an abysmal hull? Based on what in their opening two games?

The option is to buy of all things wrong this was one of the most sensible things done given the injury. If he performs and stays fit and meets their obvious high expectations for him then great we will take the option and sign him. If he doesn’t hit the heights or can’t stay fit then we won’t

He should have never been allowed back in the first place.

Think quite a few are getting carried away after our win on Saturday against an abysmal Hull team. This transfer window had been nothing but a downgrade replacing experienced championship pros with foreign gambles on low wages/low fees. Having said that the signings of Morishita and Baradji have stepped up the quality of incomings all of a sudden so perhaps the message has landed at the club somehow. If we can bring in one or two experienced or similar stature strikers then things would be looking a lot more promising otherwise I am still expecting a relegation scrap of a season.

Gestede should be on his way then.

Interestingly none from the last 15 years of destruction. I wonder why that might be. Best get used to it because as long as these owners remain memories from 20+ years ago are the best you'll get.

Id be grumpy too if I was given 100 things to do every day when it is only physically possible (apparently) to do 20-30 of said things

If only 😁 You can watch the court cases over the internet - he’s definitely sat there as grumpy as ever 😁😁.