Our losses are a flat £20m every year without fail. We've pared down the playing squad tremendously in the last couple of seasons and have brought in £22m+ (not including Raya or add ons for Wharton) in transfer fees, yet it's still £20m. It's no coincidence that the owners are being investigated for tax fraud.

I thought he was really poor for us, but maybe he just didn't fit our system. When I've seen him play for Huddersfield he just seems to get his head down and whip balls into the box. Admittedly we only had Gallagher in the box for him to aim at, but he rarely did that for us.

Pretty much. As Jimmy Johnson once said (a College Football Hall of Fame and NFL Hall of Fame Head Coach - won the Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and the National Championship with the Miami Hurricanes): "it's about the Jimmy's and Joe's, not the X's and O's". We're running a L1 budget right now and it shows on the pitch.

I'd be happy starting Brittain, Hyam, Carter, JRC, Tronstad and Szmodics each week in a good Championship team. So realistically you're looking for 5 new starters. 6, really, because you know Szmodics is being sold this summer. I think S. Wharton, Leonard, Buckley / Travis / Garrett (don't think you'd keep all 3), Hedges, Dolan and Pickering have value as squad players. That's why JDT struggled at the end and why Eustace hasn't been able to do more than stem the bleeding.

If someone offers £15m for Szmodics you'd be mad not to sell. I think someone will offer £8m and we'll hurry him out the door.

No because the Indian court case is late August. We won't spend until that is resolved because otherwise the Wharton / Raya money will simply be used to keep the lights on.

He's probably not the man to run the club on a negative transfer budget and wage budget (which is what he's been asked to do) but to be fair those Directors of Football are as rare as hen's teeth.

JRC said it himself - he was the overload option in CM when he started at RB. It gave him loads of room because LM/LW rarely had the discipline to follow him when he drifted inside. Obviously the downside of that is when we lost the ball we were wide open down the flanks.

We're members of an exclusive club. PL winners need to look out for each other.

Isn't it pretty clear by now that our recruitment team (incl. Broughton) have next to no authority to make transfers? They wanted Batth, but it was vetoed, yet Fleck and McFadzean were rushed through in January.

I think JRC is trying too hard to be the creative force at the moment, hence the first-time passes that aren't on. As much as I think Tronstad is a great Championship player, he's not a creative one and in a midfield two that puts pressure on his partner to make things happen. I've always thought Hedges is a good option to have on the bench, but you're in trouble if he's your nailed on starter as his end product just isn't there.

You extend Dolan's contract because a) it'll be very cheap (his own fault for holding out) and b) we need warm bodies. Gallagher should be shown the door though. Sadly they won't let us spend his wages on other players - they showed that when Ayala, Dack and BBD left and weren't replaced.

And sadly neither has a footballing brain.

Good loans cost money. We don't have any.

Much like how I can never understand showing a player onto his stronger foot yet it's rife in football - inverted wingers should be so easy to defend. We simply don't have anyone that can score that Hutchinson goal, btw.

Ipswich have kicked lumps out of Carvalho.

Not entirely sure why #40 hasn't been sent off there.

Which tells you that he simply must be awful in training.

Ipswich have definitely sold their soul to the devil for this season. They're so lucky. Shit ball into the box, Morton air-shots the clearance and it falls to Hirst 6 yards out to put it into the back of the net. Painful to watch.

That's about where the squad is, sans Kaminski and A. Wharton.

The attendance numbers are awful for a reason.

Oh they'll absolutely do us. A bunch of talented show ponies with zero pressure and a party atmosphere? We're going to get battered.

This is not true. Chrisene is a better WB than Pickering. Ayari should, quite frankly, be starting most games in CM and McFadzean has won multiple MOTM awards in 6 months. The problem is we didn't bring in any pace or a CF. Again.

The blame lies squarely at the feet of the owners. This squad cost a tuppence and a button to assemble - and the tuppence was spent 4+ years ago on Gallagher.

Oh he was definitely trying to get sacked.