The boo boys?

Has he improved the death spiral? 3 points from 5 games.

I havent written him off and ill be open minded should he play again. But he didnt look like a professional footballer and I am certainly not eager to see him play again. Hopefully Wharton will stay fit and we wont need to consider him.

"Cos results haven't changed people aren't happy still." Weird how people question tactics when we repeatedly fail to win football matches. Even if Travis wanted to leave, it was an idiotic move to allow it, especially knowing the likelihood of pushing Wharton out the door. As it is, we are in a situation whereby with one injury, we are accompanying a fairly lightweight midfielder in Buckley (who couldn't get in Sheffield Wednesdays team) with weak and flimsy young number 10's who we borrowed to make the numbers up. If Szmodics had wanted to leave, would we have authorised a loan to Leeds or Southampton?

His shambolic cameo against Newcastle where more than once he caused us massive issues. He will chip in with an average of maybe 1 in 4, will certainly never be prolific. He does offer something in attack which most of the others don't, and has had quite a few good games since injury.

That would average as 2.5 successes in his time. He had good money to spend on 3 players. One was a massive success in Armstrong and generated a huge profit. Brereton was a success and would have generated some profit had the owners not intervened. Gallagher a poor signing for the money albeit he hae contributed, just not close to £5m worth. Aside from that, they were all a million or less so it wasnt constant huge spending. You look at Dack, Kaminski, Pickering, Rothwell, Dolan, Stewart Downing. Players like Smallwood and Paul Downing in League 1. The loans of Elliott, Reed, Adarabioyo, Harwood Bellis, Van Hecke, Khadra etc. Under Broughton, Szmodics and Tronstad undoubtedly, have to say Hyam too. Otherwise...

If we went down, then probably not. We had was it a 7 point and 7 or 8 team buffer when he came in. With last time, it was a bit different, we massively improved under Mowbray but not quite enough.

To be fair to Gallagher, he looked done after an hour yesterday after going over on his ankle but he had it strapped up and hobbled on. McFadzean is only 37. Give him some credit! If Koumetio is seen as a genuine alternative then we may aswell give up now. He isnt our worst attacker. Hes bang average but since his return from injury, hes been easily our second best attacker. Low bar admittedly. Scored v QPR, Preston and Wrexham, few assists and some good performances in there too, notably v Stoke. Also some shit ones including yesterday. Hes an average and inconsistent attacker at this level, getting more than his fair share of focus. Dolan had the one good game v Stoke and has otherwise been poor for a while. Markanday has had one good cameo ever. Sigurdsson hasnt done anything for months bar shirk challenges. And the others all equally terrible.

The squad is not shit. Contemplates the inclusion of Ayari, Markanday, Garrett, a young lad signed from Crewe and Chrisene in central midfield...

Id bring Travis in, a seasoned Championship midfielder who certainly wont go missing, who has been a regular and often captain of sides near the top of the table and is currently impressing the fans of a team going for automatic promotion. Oh wait. Lets hope Eustace can do the unthinkable and win a game.

We kept predominantly players for whom there was certainly no speculation of interest from anywhere and in at least some cases would have been difficult to offload. It wasnt a case of the owners desperately seeking an instant return. The players in question stood out in League 1 and then in the main proved to again to be very limited players in the Championship.

Had we let them go for free then maybe, but either way, them staying was not through the owners desperation to get back into the Championship.

As if the owners were desperate to "facilitate a quick return" last time. Many of the players we had were senior and would have hardly had teams queueing around the block for them, many a relegation of a season after joining on frees 12 months prior. Seemed quite happy to pay them? They had little choice although when the owners have been praised for "pumping £20m in every year" then I suppose again merely paying the bills and offsetting the losses their business made, both which are not optional if the business is to continue, warrant praise and can be turned into some warped sense of ambition.

Not sure that either of those things are true. Markanday's decision making is terrible, even in his cameo today his decisions at least twice in the final third ruined promising attacks.

I understand players being judged as a success or otherwise factoring in the cost, its a very valid thing to factor in. And overall, I think youd struggle to justify claiming that he was worth even close to £5m. He was really poor today, had to soldier on for the last half hour carrying an injury but like many others, he was rubbish. But he certainly isnt one of the worst players to play for us as Revidge claimed, and he doesnt deserve to be coupled in with much of the dross that would categorize him with. Hes a bang average striker at this level who is inconsistent and has his limitations. But he has also contributed and put in some good performances with some good contributions since he came back. Over the years he has been frustrating but he has always contributed each year without ever coming close to threatening the top scorer charts. We have signed some dross over the years for big money who havent contributed close to what Gallagher as, and in the Venkys cost cutting reign we have signed some cheap rubbish that arent a patch on him. Says a lot that we are still so reliant on him.

We have played Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea, Preston and Norwich under him and have not won any. Some fight.

He must have done something to you personally if you genuinely think that.

Hes no more use to us than Telalovic? Than Markanday? Moran? Ayari? Koumetio? Sigurdsson? Garrett? Both keepers? And theres a lot of players who he is at least equally effective as, Dolan, Hedges, Scott Wharton, Hyam, Buckley etc, all players are average at this level, effective at times but inconsistent, supplemented by some of the dross I mentioned. We held on to him because we need him. We needed another on top of him, but the owners refused to authorise a deal for a new striker at a fraction of the Wharton money.

There have been 5 league games under him, he obviously shouldnt and wont be sacked. Even if he has stunk the place out so far.

I know he was poor today but we had to carry on with him clearly not fit due to lack of alternatives. But your agenda towards Gallagher is bizarre. He is bang average, but there are at least 10 players in this squad alone that are worse, he clearly isnt one of the worst players to have ever pulled on the shirt. The owners that again seem to have been swerved in terms of blame have cut the budget to the extent that Gallagher is actually quite useful compared to some of the players weve had to beg steal and borrow for.

Not good enough yet again. Pathetic, limp performance and you would not fancy us to show the character or quality to survive now. The main issue (in terms of on the pitch) is just the conveyor belt of players that arent good enough that keep featuring. Moran, Ayari, Sigurdsson, Markanday etc, some may have shown glimmers against Newcastle but they arent up to it and one performance cant hide that. This is down to the owners, the budget cuts will always lead to these struggles. Its a poor squad but not a 2 win in 17 at this level squad. Tomasson's stubbornness in playing an ill suited style wasnt helping. Hes gone but Eustace has stunk the place out in these early days, 3 points from 5 is shocking and he just does not come across as a leader youd want to play for. I keep hearing how Eustace has at least sorted out the defence out and gone back to basics. Doesnt look that secure to me and ive no idea what the intention is going forward but ive never seen such a lack of coordination in our final third.

Buckley, Moran, Dolan, McFadzean and Gallagher played between 45 and 70 minutes. Pickering didnt play a minute. Pears cant blame tiredness on chucking one in. Not really sure this boastful post is quite on the money, weve been playing like this for months.

Some manager bounce from Eustace. Will this be 6 games and 0 wins?

Id be wary of getting too confident in the strength in depth just yet. Koumetio looked an absolute liability, wouldnt have any confidence in him. Markanday was very good on Tuesday but hes been here a while and flattered to deceive up until then, need to see more. Ayari has also looked poor both here and struggled at Coventry.

A draw wouldnt be the end of the world but we have yet to win under Eustace and we cant allow that to continue.