Wow. I think that would be a massive gamble relying on that combination. It would be great if Buckley ever blossomed into the £10m player he was being touted as a few years ago but there's not much sign of it yet. Similarly, Garrett has promise but still has it all to prove and there are major questions over JRC's fitness.

The key question that everyone needs to be asking and getting an honest answer to is: Will the owners be going back to Court in March as originally envisaged to ask for permission to transfer more money for funding? Or will we just rely on the first installment of the Wharton money to tide us over? I expect the latter. Then come June the Raya money plus another modest sale should tide us over for another four or five months. Rinse and repeat. Either way given an embargo was seemingly placed on permanent transfers for money whilst Mcguire was mid flight, I cant see there being any change to that policy unless unless the owners resolve their issues with the Indian Authorities.

Same here. Off the top of my head I'm sure there have been a few games where he has come on and seemingly been just about the only one who's looked up for it or emerged with any credit.

So when JDT didn't rate Travis, you didn't either and were quite happy for him to be loaned out. However now it seems Eustace rates him more highly you suddenly think Travis is OK and are happy to have him back?

Indeed. JDT asked for "experience" and Broughton provided a crock and a guy with one foot in the grave in footballing terms.

Let's hope he can achieve that chaddy. Birmingham supporters appeared to be of the view his style of play was dull to say the least. Which is OK IF you're getting results playing like that.

It's all very good trying to run on tuppence ha'penny and an old Mars bar wrapper but there are only so many relegation scraps any Club can survive before they fall through the trap door. Waggott is probably aware of this but everything he's done since he's been at the Club seems to have been designed to downsize everything. He's probably hoping to eke it all out just long enough until he retires then he can sail off into the sunset never to be seen again with a bank account bursting at the seams and a rotting carcass left behind him.

Nothing against Eustace, nor am I a fan of the previous model of playing a certain style of football for the sole purpose of flogging players at a profit, however it does seem odd that we've gone from one polar extreme to the other. You'd have thought a more logical move would have been to get someone in with a not too dissimilar mindset to JDT but with the ability to dig in when necessary. It could end badly in the short term, however in view of the turmoil surrounding the Club I don't suppose we had too many options. I'm quite surprised Eustace came really, although unfortunately from his initial comments it seems he's happy to keep his head down and not comment on off field shenanigans, and work under whatever circumstances are thrown at him.

No way is he voluntarily leaping off the gravy train. We did say that anyone with any integrity would be walking out after that transfer window and I correctly predicted one only (JDT) would be leaving.

Can't believe we sold him so cheap. We must have been desperate, hope there's an extremely meaty sell on clause.

Waggott, Broughton Lowe and the rest.

Didn't someone say at one point that former head of commercial Paul Fielder's "plan" was to allow the Riverside to fall into disrepair in the hope that it would be condemned and that the Council would offer a grant towards replacement? With people like him and Waggott running the Club what hope have we got? I don't know where we find them

Not read the rest of the comments....by christ that was a tough watch. You wonder for the millionth time how dollopers like Hedges and Gallagher have ever carved out a career in professional football. What was Brittain doing for the goal? He's a bit of a liability defensively. If we play like that until the rest of the season we're in trouble. We probably needed a change but under JDT at least you felt we had a chance of outscoring the opposition. Last night we showed nothing.

As I said earlier, don't think we get those 3 points today without the managerial change. Vital win. Now let's shove Mowbray closer to the drop on Tuesday(?) then we can breathe a bit easier.

No way that happens without the new coach/manager.

That's a dire looking X1 to me.......let's see what happens.

Birmingham now 2 down. 3 defeats in a row in all comps incoming for them. The Mowbray death spiral appears to have kicked in early.

Amen to that my friend, amen to that.

Allegedly coming in initially in 3 lots of £6m and I bet they don't bother going back to Court in March and use the AW money in lieu. That only keeps the lights on until sometime in June by my reckoning. Not to excuse the situation or defend them in any way.

££££ which we haven't got.

Impossible imo to disagree, but you have to allow yourself that little bit of optimism that the change will bring about an improvement in the short term. There's nothing else left to cling on to.

A Agreed. In the long term this looks tantamount to rearranging a couple of deckchairs on the Titanic given that Venky's still have their financial issues and Waggott and Broughton appear to have emerged from the latest debacle unscathed. In the short term however a different voice and possibly a more pragmatic approach at times, hopefully he can provoke a reaction out of the players and get us the points we need to avoid the drop this season. A very warm welcome to the Club and the best of luck John.

Yep, you can clearly see where Broughton's coming from - he's well up for " the project" I.e. sell anything that moves. As for JDT, sad to see him go, I'll remember him not for the recent bad League results but as someone who tried to instill pride, standards and ambition into the Club. Ultimately to no avail sadly. Oh and some fantastic Cup results. Wish him all the best for the future.

Grrr.....didn't refresh the page. A lot better appointment than I expected in the circumstances, he's going to need all the luck in the world working for these owners, Waggott and especially if GB is picking the players for him.

Yes true. (Head Coach)