If you'd given Mowbray's budget to JDT we'd be playing Premier League football right now. I don't know how he managed it, because he's far from charming, but he managed to convince the owners to back him with significant cash and allowed him to have free run of the place (appointed Waggott, Venus was our defacto Head of Recruitment etc).

Picked him up from Aston Villa last year: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/nathan-dlamini/profil/spieler/1112481

Yep, incredibly lucky. You make your own luck with the way they play - just relentlessly positive and attacking - but just look at our game at Ewood. Two 'offside' goals and a GK throwing a weak shot into his own net.

Under this regime? Absolutely. I don't have the stomach to watch my team slowly sink down the leagues with absentee owners.

He's a better shot stopper and better positionally than Pears. Pears is slightly better at crosses - but he's still a puncher, rather than a catcher - and better with his feet.

xG doesn't take into account who takes the shot. It's why players over and under perform their xG.

Wasn't that house seized as part of the court case?

Nixon's response on Twitter as to why they won't sell is "they want the Premier League" (i.e they want to leave us in the state they found us in). Absolutely nothing they do remotely backs this statement up.

I wouldn't buy a L1 season ticket.

Sell Pears to another Championship team - if not, League 1. Try to sell Wahlstedt to a European side, but of the two he's the one I'd rather keep. If you sell both, get a good Championship GK in and an older, cheaper, but reliable backup. If you sell one just get the good Championship GK in.

Does it really need organising? We all know what happens at the end of the last game of the season - the players come back out with their families. An 80% empty stadium was the fans showing that they were thoroughly pissed off with what they've seen this season.

Vardy really does have the personality of a 5 year old hopped up on Sunny D doesn't he? What a clown.

He'll be playing in the First XI shortly - we're awful this year.

The Loan Manager at Brighton will be bitterly disappointed with Moran this season. After a bright start he tired, waned and never recovered. He hasn't looked up for the fight for months - that's a massive blot in his copybook.

Any DoF and Head Coach worth their salt will realise we have a massive problem between the sticks. If they don't resolve that issue then you're simply papering over the cracks with your other transfer moves.

They're the cheapest way, yes, but they still cost money. For the premium loans - like Diallo, who carried Sunderland last year - you have to pay a loan fee and contribute to their wages (if not entirely cover them). PNE were quoted £1m to loan Tom Cannon back this season (before he was sold to Leicester). We've had our transfer and wage budgets slashed for years - we had to loan out Buckley to afford Moran's wages. I guarantee Chrisene, Ayari and the French CB whose name I'm not bothering to Google were free loans with minimal wage contributions 'cos their parent clubs were desperate to get them game time.

Realistically it's 2 of 18 - cos we're not getting anything at Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday are getting something from Sunderland.

I've never understood these nicknames. They're neither big, clever or amusing.

Same EFL that delay punishing Sheffield Utd et al for financial irregularities until they get promoted so they don't have to deal with it - rather than, y'know, docking them 10 points in their promotion season.

We were fine against Sheffield Wednesday. The GK literally threw two into his own net.

Loans cost money. We don't have any. It's really that simple.

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.