Did anyone say that after not even winning but drawing v Southampton, a game in which he made a big error that nearly cost us that point? Strange argument. Hes as far removed from a leader as you could find, he sums this bunch up. He should have smashed it into touch but lost it for their first.

Every defeat and pretty much every goal conceded could be put down to a mistake in isolation. Thats not looking at the bigger picture and obviously just echoing what the manager has said post match. Eustace reminds me of Appleton. Really negative, defensive football, I totally get that we needed to tighten up but even then the Leeds win is straddled by shipping 5 and 3. Its fine if you win games but we dont. To have still not won at home having had some very winnable game is symptomatic of his approach. Nobody could possibly say what his game plan is from an attacking sense, bar being reliant on Szmodics taking one of his one or two chances every week and clinging on. How often do our centre backs (Wharton is bad for this) just chuck it aimlessly in the channel giving one of our forwards an impossible task of chasing the ball near the corner flag where the best you can get is a throw in deep in their half? I cant see him being the man to take us forward, even acknowledging the state of the club under these owners.

Another new low, another embarassing day, and another day where a useless manager in charge of shit players lacking bottle were massive symptoms of the owners and their total disinterest in their football club. Eustace still cant win a home game, he attempted to play negative football, 5 defenders again and with absolutely no game plan as to how to attack, at home to second bottom. Pears outdid himself today, still amazes me how people defended the decision to play him over Kaminski last season. Hes a waste of space. Gallagher was crap yes, but probably gets a bit too much focus considering he was no worse than anyone else. Hyam is a pathetic captain, Carter repeatedly made stupid mistakes, Pickering never a wing back, Brittain soft as anything, Dolan awful again, the 2 midfielders usually 2 of our better players both terrible and Buckley again showing why he couldn't get a game at Wednesday.

Whilst I back down to your expert Sheffield Wednesday knowledge, their strikeforce of Ike Ugbo, Smith and Cadamarteri is hardly one to really fear. But my point about McFadzean was specifically about him. Play him and you either drop deeper and that allows teams to push onto us or you play higher and he is like a fish up a tree like v Plymouth. It is down to budget cuts. We didnt sign another winger last summer due to budget cuts and we couldnt afford a competent striker. Telalovic is obviously nowhere near it, Ennis was rubbish and sold. Sigurdsson hasnt been very good, Leonard is still very raw so even if either was fit they wouldnt noticeably improve our options. Chrisene is not a winger as he proved when he played there last time.

But if you play him, you have to play much deeper because hes so slow, so you naturally give more opportunity for them to be closer to your net and potentially putting in crosses.

But failure to beat the worst team at home shouldnt be considered par for the course, it was a terrible result. I dont doubt that we are not particularly good or that we may very well not win tomorrow. I just think that if we cant at least think such a fixture is winnable and anything other than a win is a huge disappointment, then there is something wrong.

I think its not unreasonable to expect that you should be winning against second bottom at home. Doesnt mean we will, but a draw IMO would be underwhelming.

Even if it was the same wage, I doubt he would opt for bottom half Championship football over Premier league or even promotion chasing Championship football.

You say no point but if he goes to Brentford, he plays Prem football. Luton and he has a good chance to get to play it.

If he goes to the Premier League then he almost certainly wont be a regular but it would be the chance of a lifetime to even play some Premier League football.

Quite a few people have suggested that they would be happy with a point. We are playing the second worst team in the league at home with a win sealing survival, if we cant be expecting a win here then when can we. Team wise, we are limited because beyond that 11 last week, we are so weak due to budget cuts. If Wharton is struggling/unfit then I would bring in an attacking player though, whether thats Buckley and pushing JRC on, Ayari, Markanday or Moran. Not exciting options but at least its an extra attacking player rather than sticking in someone like McFadzean or Chrisene who themselves are a downgrade.

6 points from 7 games isnt very good but the league table isnt irrelevant as thats how good they have been over 43 games. I get what you say about us and Eustace but my point is more that we should be aiming to beat the 2nd worst team in the league at home and not fearing them or saying we would accept a point. Im not saying take them lightly, obviously not. Just that we should be targetting a win, there is a lot of fear towards a poor side when we are at home. A home win clearly isnt a formality, far from it, but a draw wouldnt be a result to be particularly pleased about.

Didnt he say that he has recommended that we spend, not that there is. We should expect to win. We are playing 2nd bottom at home, win and relegation is impossible, I dont get the general fear playing against such a poor side at home trying to focus on negating them. It suits them if we sit in and try to defend, if we be aggressive and press high then we can win.

Having made £22m and then with a further £4-5m to come from Raya, in theory the Szmodics shouldn't be necessary in determining what happens in this window. We should already have money to spend. Obviously not £26m or anything close, but we should have at least some money to spend. So any Szmodics sale shouldn't be required to raise even more, so then in that instance, it should be a case of weighing up what is best, a decent budget and Szmodics or an even bigger budget but without our only goalscorer and knowing how difficult he becomes to replace. So I would choose the former. Obviously it won't turn out like that, and I suspect we will be begging, stealing and borrowing even with a Szmodics sale.

Benfica got into the quarter finals last season and the season before I think.

Is Sky £30 a month all in including the Sports package?

Hes slow, injury prone and has been nowhere near their team for a while.

A draw won't do us "very nicely" a win would. A draw would not be a disaster but we have to be targetting the 3 points.

Very entertaining. Id have the first leg of Real Madrid v City as probably the most entertaining game of the season.

CI never thought that I would see empathy towards Legia Warsaw and Young Boys. I get the argument about making the strong stronger, but I think the quality of the Champions League is stronger with a few teams from the top countries. The entertainment value has been brilliant from it in recent years, and I think that it would take away from that if it was only one of the Prem/La Liga/Serie A/Bundesliga etc in every season.

Even without Prime and BT, just the sky sports packages are extortionately priced. How anyone can claim they are value for money is crazy. Flawed logic just saying well actually I want to watch the sport, that doesnt justify the prices. And clearly many wont or cant pay those prices hence why so many are forced to stream.

I do think that if they made it Champions only, it would massively dilute the quality of the Champions League. The knockout stages tend to provide brilliant entertainment and that might not be the case if you made it one team per country.

We have to go into the game with the objective not to avoid defeat but to win and seal our survival. Its a game we have to be favourites to win against second bottom at home. Sheffield Wednesday have definitely improved under Rohl but their team on paper is nothing to fear. Team selection wise, there should normally be the temptation to move away from the back 5. The only issue is beside the 3 attackers we played last week, I dont think we have anyone else in attack who is good enough, so that might force our hand to go with the same team again.

How anyone can justify the extortionate Sky prices is beyond me. That is a big factor in streaming being so common now, Sky have made it unaffordable to watch sport for many people. Those prices will likely only go up, inconvenience to matchday going fans will go up with even more games moved, attendances will go down, ticket prices will go up, wages will go up, who is winning here? Non parachute payment Championship clubs make considerable losses. Not saying that is just down to Sky, but still. Off on a tangent slightly. But there are no Premier League sides in the semi finals of either major European competition. Im not saying it is or isnt, but will it dampen the "best league in the world" narrative that Sky love to promote?

Sky prices are extortionate and you rarely watch a Championship game nowadays on TV without the song "Sky TV is fucking shit" such is their disregard towards fans. Leeds have been on basically every game, I bet they havent had many 3pm kick offs this season.