I don't honestly think he's a bloke who really cares about job description. Obviously I'm only going off what I see and read, but he appears to know what he wants and demands of others to get it. I never really went with the recruitment/coaching division thing that was banded about.

Yeah , I know.

Since the transfer window closed, everyone else has stepped into the background. To me, there is no doubt that he is in total control of the playing side,much more than just being the coach.

It seems it to me as well, the team selection is becoming more and more difficult.

It's easy to say whilst results are going well, but despite his head coach title, there seems no doubt that Eustace is running the show.

We've just won 3-0,any season out of the last 13 or 14 at least ,it would be same again. The options right now are unbelievable, given we’ve spent next to nothing. I'll bet we get up to 12 to 15 different combinations on here by Sunday. I think I'd actually go the same except Gueye up front, Dolan left and Ohashi behind Gueye. I'm sure we're all actually trusting Eustace to get it right.

It's interesting that you should refer to him as the manager, because that is how he comes across. Transfer window is closed, everyone else has melted into the background, and there is absolutely no doubt that Eustace is running the show.

I would imagine they would have to man/woman/person the area for a busiest case scenario.

We were always going to be of a different opinion on this one. I was happy to leave last season and give him a fresh start, which you questioned more than once. You were always going to carry last season's form into this season.

Don't you think that the situation Eustace inherited last season had a bearing on how he set his team up, ie don't lose? Last season was always going to be a needs must situation, completely different from starting the new campaign after having a pre season.

Nowt wrong with a bit of luck. I don't think anyone envisaged us getting anything from those 2 away games. The Leicester game was written off, the only way we were staying up was other teams slipping up.

Can you remember a particular mistake?

This is the problem, would it be so difficult to acknowledge the other 3 performances? The save from Winks was something else, and probably kept us up. He was faultless at Leeds and even played a part in the winning goal.

One mistake in one game cancels out 3 clean sheets, including Leeds and Leicester? You're setting any new keeper a high bar.

He kept 3 clean sheets out of the last 4 games of last season, including a phenomenal save at Leicester which probably kept us up. It's really easy to highlight only one side of the argument.

Had this conversation the other day, good lads to be fair. They were saying about the players they'd lost. I said you've just spent £50 million, they said £48 million actually.

If we're talking last season, he did finish with 3 clean sheets out of the last 4 games including Leeds and Leicester, meaning we've lost 1 in the last 8 with him in goal. I don't think anyone is arguing that we can improve on Pears, but if I was Eustace, I'd be thinking now is not the time to change. It could create all sorts of problems going forward.

Bit of a poor comparison,any keeper is more than capable of playing every game,where outfield players aren't. The only quotes I've seen from Eustace are regarding Pears needing competition. Would he be number one at any other club? No idea, but half the teams have conceded more goals if that's any indication.

Toth may come straight in, who knows? But I'd suggest any chance of that happening all but disappeared with the start the team has made.

Rumoured today we're getting a goal keeping coach from Stanley, name of Dibble.

No it isn't the case. If you're so against Pears playing, I don't see how you can think picking him is the easier decision.

To me, it's s still a big contradiction to think Pears is so bad, yet think Eustace will pick him next Saturday.

If it's so obvious that Pears should be dropped, why are you so convinced that Eustace will play him next week?

No, I wouldn't drop him either.

As we're talking hypotheticals, if Toth had started the season exactly the same as Pears, who would drop him?