Who’s taking the job?

Absolute bollocks I’m afraid. Goldfish stuff.

Should’ve started. Might have had a touch at least.

Thomas looks decent. Worked hard too.

He’s a right footed right winger isn’t he? Academy Rovers FC

No senior executive of any business would go out in front of their entire customer base and state that the people above them are incompetent and they are seeking their removal. Neither should they. It has to be done right, in private, no matter your bloodlust.

Look I’m just spitballing the hypotheticals, I’ve no idea what’s gone on, how it all works or how on top of the contract situation we actually were. But if the question was - “It says here lads that you could be in League One having committed over 50% of your gate receipts to a single midfielder, sure that’s right?” then I’m bloody glad someone was asking. It would fuck the whole wage structure and cripple the club etc etc etc There‘s obviously some things that needed clearing up in the obligatory contract. Perhaps we have the necessary foresight and right kind of professionals to broker that kind of deal. Maybe the EFL have just saved our arses. Doubt we’ll ever know. If pushed I could take a guess. edit- reminder I’ve pulled this scenario out of my arse. Just trying to make sense of it.

I’d give a fuck. No relegation clauses are a fast track to Portsmouth-ville. Or worse.

To elaborate: in the highly hypothetical scenario we did go up, then signed him on a PL contract for 3 years… but then came back down - we’d be under the jurisdiction of the EFL again. Did we explain to them (or even know ourselves) what we intended to pay him and what his contract would look like after those two seasons? What about if we double dropped? It’s a highly complicated signing with all these clauses. With the last minute nature of it (and the personnel we have in place) I’m not wholly confident we’d have been on top of the legals at any point in the process. ”If we were relegated” is a nice way to dance around these questions too.

Fair point. Did we fully flesh out what the contract situation looked like after May and beyond in all the relevant scenarios? Can’t fax the back of a fag packet.

Has to be more to it. This is what’s called “taking control of the narrative”. Honestly can’t believe those are the actual reasons.

Didn't realise that O'Brien was on 65k p/w. Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist...

I think that’s exactly what you should do.

Nixon said Friday. Bet we get confused and miss the deadline.

JDT’s good enough. But the club is a shambles.

They haven’t wanted to announce it because everyone would kick off. A full window and we managed to snag a youth prospect for the u23s from league 2. Not fair on the lad! Just sneak him in the back door, hope he does well.

50/50 is optimistic in my view. I’d be shocked if it went through. It’s an absolute shitshow. What an incredibly costly fuck up.

If that's all they're going to announce there'd be hell to pay. Expect that'll be a footnote on the website, no tweet etc.

I'm worried about the O'Brien thing more now. Expectation management? Make us think we haven't signed O'Brien then announce him to distract from the striker situation? Or - we've ballsed it all up.

I'm usually a dyed in the wool 'happy clapper' but this doesn't feel right at all.

They're nailed on to go up. No point selling now.

It's an aside by Rich Sharpe isn't it? Not a club statement! Looks like we've failed with some money bids (say what you want about that), so why is everyone taking this as gospel?

I remember our squad in preseason when they came in and think 3 windows was a fairly optimistic statement tbh.

From a “cult hero” status, I’d much rather see him leaving and playing in La Liga with our best wishes than take 3m or whatever and see him playing for a Bournemouth or Forest. Not his fault we ballsed the contract, he’s always given his all and it’s a great opportunity for the lad. Plus he gets to fire us to playoff victory in the meantime.

Another 12 months is a different story. With all of the issues with the club though, if “nobody is mentioning promotion” what does sacking the manager actually achieve? You genuinely believe you can predict he’ll take us down next season and it’s all his fault?