Your owner situation seems to be so similar to what we had for 10 years at Birmingham until the Yanks bought us last summer. We could see no way out of it and thought we'd never be able to get rid of them. We were so relieved, but were angry about the new owners sacking Eustace because they wanted their 'own man' especially as his replacement was the utterly useless Rooney. Eustace should be alright as he will be used to working under crap owners and I really hope he does the biz for you. He deserves another chance.

Head Coach, but he did have a big say in who we signed, helped by the fact we have an excellent director of football (ex player Craig Gardner) .

I'm a Birmingham fan but please be gentle! Any new appointment is a gamble especially with the shit owners you have. Eustace was in a similar situation at our club and this seemed to work in his favour. He created a type of siege mentality us against the world amongst the players and the fans. The players would run through brick walls for him and we fans appreciated their hard work and attitude. And his reputation as a defensive minder manager is a bit unfair, because we played some decent football at times. What he is good at is getting a team well organised and first and foremost making them hard to score against. Get the defending right and build on that to start playing good football. We were gutted when he was sacked. In his previous season he had stabilised a team which had been a shambles and kept us up with games to spare, and this season, following some low budget summer signings we were in 6th place after 10 games. I really hope he does well with you (after Tuesday obviously) and I think you could have done far worse. I wish he was still our manager to be honest, especially as we have much better owners now.