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Players weren’t offered contracts because the club would have known the terms the players wanted through agents. Why would they put an offer in writing if they know the player would reject it? The bigger issue is not whether players were offered formal contracts, but why we can’t compete financially with the likes of Derby or Middlesbrough, given the wealth of our owners. Jumping on whether a contract was technically offered or not is missing the point entirely. I dont doubt there’s plenty wrong behind the scenes, but you’re desperate to whip up the fans at any opportunity to boost your ego. The conspiracy theories are tedious and distracting from the main problems. As an aside, Hyam being sold yesterday is a farce and has undone any of the good work achieved over the summer.

Why does booing the opposition during a match need to be taken as fans not caring about the mess behind the scenes? FWIW, Eustace abandoned us mid season for relegation candidates. He’s a good manager and did well but he could have at least seen the season out. Doesn’t need to get personal, but for 90 mins, I hope we get right into him/them. If fans can’t taunt opponents because abuse should only ever be aimed at the owners, what’s the point of going every week? Is booing Burnley allowed?

I’m content that we’ve rolled the dice this summer considering the contract situations. When replacing Dolan, Travis, Brittain etc, presumably we faced either going for cheap, experienced championship players with very limited potential for improvement (Forshaw, Sanderson etc) or get creative and tap into foreign markets for unproven gems. No issue with going for the latter approach but the overhaul has been extreme. If we come good this season, it’s likely to be later in the year and how quickly these players settle will dictate if we survive (or better).

We’ve signed 8 players this window, it’s clear we’re being active in the market. It’s the one summer you cant say the club haven’t made efforts to bring players in. Why would they bother to put a fake rumour out there that we’re trying to sign (checks Twitter) ‘Milan Smit’? Far more likely it’s agents putting names in shop windows.

It’s why he’s a loan with a view. Think it will be a bonus if he comes good in the next few months.

Eustace wasn’t sacked, he decided to leave. Clearly he saw the writing on the wall over the summer regarding contracts expiring etc and recruitment going in a different direction. BTW, I noticed Batth, Sanderson, Nyambe and Weimann all started for Derby at the weekend. If that was us, I’d be fuming.

Remaining professional doesn’t include ridiculing club representatives on social media, releasing versions of the minutes without the club’s consent and generally using the episode to boost your own standing with the fans. How is that helping? The FF is one of (the only?) portal of communication we have with the club. Is any of this going to improve fan-club relations? The club (SS in particular) don’t come out of the minutes well and that’s on them, but you have a responsibility on behalf of the fans to ask the difficult questions, not burn the thing to the ground. Demanding that the club apologise for how the Venky’s have run the club for example - what did you honestly expect club employees to say? It looks like cheap point scoring.

Will just be Alan reading out a list of players out of contract next year. Terrifying.

Conspiracies in regards to almost every post on the previous page. I wasn’t there so have no idea what was said. But this all seems over dramatic for a set of minutes. I mean, Glen’s going on a podcast about it..

This all seems very tedious. We’ve heard before that the club have generally been open with conversations during the FF and minutes were rarely disputed. Issuing public statements and alleging conspiracies over a set of minutes seems disproportionate and counter productive. We want to have more communication from the club but this will hardly help.

It happens at every club..

They get offers but want better deals. Unproven Scandinavians probably aren’t as demanding.

Eustace needs a restraining order. Got his hands all over us. Will need to start nailing cutlery to the tables at this rate.

When it comes to the referee, of the two sides, we have less to complain about than Norwich. Hyam should have gone in the first half and Dennis could easily have gone for his first yellow. The second yellow was soft but one way or another, I don’t think we could complain about being down to 10 by the end.

We looked average throughout and should have been down to 9. Norwich won’t make the play offs and we didn’t lay a glove on them. Hand us 15th place now and call the season off.