Lets hope he was under instruction to tap Elliot up !

For the umpteenth time we should have signed Bauer he might not be a great but he's a solid championship defender. Attention could then have gone into elsewhere like the keeper situation knowing we had a few capable defenders on our books at least. Instead we've now got to send back someones albeit talented show pony and scrabble around again no way is our youth ready for that position that would be suicide. Another bollock dropped.

We've remained not progressed at all in reality.

It isn't really though is it it's just water treading if we finished a point less or a place below most would just see it as mediocre stability now not outright regression. Can't have it both ways it's not progression it's just stability pull your head out of his arse it must be getting lonely up there now. You claim to be a realist well be one for once.

Not bothered about the result it was always going to be a big ask i was more concerned with getting some young players in these last 2. They've done that so no complaints on that score but as things stand i really can't be arsed with next season already and more of the same shooting ourselves in the foot water treading. Hopefully he'll get something to work with budget wise but even if so he won't rebuild he'll just rehash, same episode but maybe a few different characters. Other side of the coin things could be about to get very challenging indeed and if so i fully expect a relegation fight. A Hull fan said to me tonight that right now he'd love Venkys and TM at their place, understandably. I simply replied but us with Venkys and Mowbray could well be just 12 months behind you there's been that many similarities. At that point he said fair point we could well be swapping places this time next season !!

The plan is flawed

As someone said on twitter he's like that because his job is far too comfortable. Even if they wanted shut he's got the inside of the club stitched up with his pals and they risk a mutiny with some players who are firmly in his comfort zone ticking down their own careers. There's another 2 seasons of this muddled stuff and midtable finishes unless he jacks. He's looked and sounded fed up with it all plenty times this season so hopefully the lure of the settee and Mrs T's cooking wins the day and he takes a step back.

First time iv'e really listened to him and i was surprised how well he comes across. Always thought on the touchline he's just struck me as another of those one of the lads tub thumpers. They tend to do well in lower leagues but struggle with better more billy big time players and clubs if they step up. He sounded refreshingly clear and sensible.

Because it is. The non wins in god knows how many this manager regularly takes on means it could very well happen if there isn't enough points on the board when one kicks in and we get bogged down there.

After listening to Ainsworth tonight i think i'd see how he goes next season then take a punt.

An inherent problem in football driven as usual by greedy players and agents but in this case i can't think for the life of me just why he should've got a lucrative deal here, if indeed he did. Maybe he got a good pay off from Boro or something or a hefty signing on fee here but for an injured player one so young with the dreaded hamstring issues he wasn't exactly over flowing with big offers. Something not right about this one either by the looks of it although personally i think if he'd had a few sniffs of action earlier on he might have toed the line better. Why does he suddenly have so much disrespect for the club and manager after making such a big deal to get here again, or was it all just about getting another contract ? Like i said before though TM clearly had his sights on Gallagher & BB for the right hand side berth with Samuel always coming into the equation once fit again and then there's captain fantastic. Chapman has been on a hiding to nothing here anyway, maybe that's the root cause of his attitude.

Bowyer with him was a classic example of a manager who can't or won't see the wood for the trees holding back a team with his over inclusion at all costs. Probably just getting appearances into him hoping he'd become worth a few quid despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary glaringly obvious to most others. It also highlights what i keep saying about building a team with genuine top 6 ambitions or being happy to coast along and just try to produce players to sell. We are virtually in the same scenario we were back then with another crossroads approaching.

Poor running of the club again to let it get into that situation with FFP if that is the case. Aren't we now supposed to have a CEO on about 200k a year to sort these things out ?

Pay the bills and do what we want has always been their mantra and i agree the moment they can't or don't want to anymore we'll be dropped like a stone. Or worse just left to rot, drop down the leagues as a low cost outfit but still with their name over the door.

Collecting his pay and keeping his mates and former mates in the loop. Who does he actually represent ?

Now that's not true at Ewood is it and you know it. Down there the manager - whoever it is - virtually runs the show and reports to them. Therefore it's 100% his job to chase up his budget asap. The fact the managers always have the same representation enforces the issue as they clearly have the owners ear.

He let the fans see the writing on the wall about what was coming clearly enough by his actions and well chosen words.

Yeah, kick the young lads and cuddle the older pros who you've let run the dressing room. Self preservation society.

No mate it's cherry picking but leaving out the full details. Lambert would be a better example, he was promised but it didn't materialize so he asked why, was ,met with silence so said ok i'm out of here. All very amicable by the sounds of it.

Really is that the best you can do.

Paul Hunt also aked for a pay rise at the same time let's have the full story if you're going down that road. The guy was 100% after his pay off he knew questioning Keane and Anderson was the death knell for him but he stepped up and took the bullet.

Rubbish. You don't have to be doing it in a threatening manner.

Don't be so bloody clueless man the world isn't full of sunshine and rainbows there'll be all sorts of rows go on between managers/chairmen and owners. It's stupid and ridiculously naive to think otherwise it's all about having the balls to step up to the plate. Those in little self preservation societies never will.

The board of directors of MD or CEO are there to do what is in the best interests of the club and team not themselves. Seeing as we don't really have that it falls to the manager & his sidekick so they should press the issue as the matter of urgency it is. And let the owners know in no uncertain terms that it's holding their club and team back badly if they don't get on with it.

No doubt the player himself is largely at fault here but why did they chuck such a decent contract at him when it was a big risk, he was already injured and nobody else would've touched him ? Another of TM and his mates little projects here methinks and another that's blown up in his face. If the little plonker won't graft he should've been hauled across the coals ages ago but he's just winging it on his fat contract whilst his arse gets fatter. Then again he probably sees them spend 5 million on a striker to play wide, sees Samuel walk straight back in and Brereton take up the cameo spot when fit. He probably thinks what's the point. Another jobs for the boys gone wrong here.