But again, those parties and their primary focus isn't the potential inconveniencing of match going fans.

I know there is going to be more notice, but it is still that same huge inconvenience when they move so many games.

And the fans and how they are inconvenienced is an irrelevance to Sky and the EFL.

The lack of notice is a problem but not the main one. The main one is the quantity of games moved, the lack of 3pm Saturday games has been an absolute joke this season and the problem will get worse. I cant blame people deciding to keep potential season ticket money in their pockets.

What prevents us is having owners who undermine by rejecting offers which allow contracts to run down and prevent reinvestment.

Moving kick off times regularly.

Sky can fuck off. No thought for match going fans.

Lucky or not, the subs invited further pressure and we conceded in both. They may have been accompanied with bad luck and/or individual decisions but they didn't work. If we were winning and then didn't see it through, they weren't the "right" moves.

No he didnt do the right thing in my opinion. And we lost leads in both following those changes so hardly an unjustified opinion. We invited pressure and lots of late corners v Coventry and a rusty Wharton slipping didnt help v Preston.

Even for modern day Rovers it would be illogical to pick our second best goalkeeper to try and generate a fee in the summer when we have been trying to secure a top 6 finish. Pears won't generate a significant fee, it will surely be a couple of hundred grand max for someone who could potentially be a regular in League 1 or at a push at a lower Championship side. Tomasson said he was carrying the injury before he broke down with it fully so it must have played a part. I would agree that it doesn't add up why Kaminski hasn't displace Pears who has been ok but not undroppable. Hopefully there is no intention to sell Kaminski in the summer but I do fear that. The only other thing I could speculate is maybe Pears is popular within the squad and it might impact the dressing room? Kaminski is undoubtedly the better keeper. If it is because Tomasson wants players to buy in to the idea that as long as your form doesnt dip then you keep the shirt then it isnt a policy that has been consistent.

Getting rid of an experienced, reassuring goalkeeper that has won us many points and would have won player of the season by a landslide had he not been hindered by an injury for a few weeks that eventually caused him to break down in favour of a bang average keeper is modern day Blackburn Rovers to a tee. Especially when we could potentially downgrade to Pears AND be left with totally inexperienced alternatives should Pears start to make mistakes leading to goals or get injured himself. I feel like a mistake with Pears is in the post, very lucky that it didn't come v Luton when he totally misjudged that cross. He has been in the main well protected but he doesn't keep us in games and there are often moments of indecision that have tended to thankfully only result in unnecessary throw ins and corners conceded amidst anything but total confidence in him from his defenders. He is a good solid back up, is it asking too much to have a good keeper in Kaminski and a reliable stand in?

Good luck to them?! Do you have a desire specifically for Chelsea to push on? Funny watching them toil. Would agree with that, I think they were perhaps hasty to sack Tuchel who unlike what has followed IS a top class manager. I get that Lampard inherited Chelsea not at the top but he has actually made them worse, and seems to pick his teams and systems out of a hat. 6 losses from 6 is laughable. Stick to punditry, you are not cut out to be a manager and have failed at 4 clubs now!

Our possession has increased but it hasn't made us any more threatening in my opinion. We are the type of team that creates a couple of decent chances a game. Coventry, Burnley, Luton and even Preston, keep the ball well enough but not manifesting into much of substance. Hull, Birmingham, not even that. Often come off games thinking we wouldn't score if we played all night, therefore whilst I appreciate that everyone knows that we need attackers, I can't judge us as progressing much when we create little and are so dull. We have even lost some of that control we had earlier in the season whereby we equally struggled to create but we could see out games with far more control, Tomasson has hindered us numerous times in recent weeks by inviting pressure with a 3rd centre back.

How does your opinion on Lampard stand having been such a keen advocat of his appointment? What next for him, still a Premier League move?

But equally, I can't deem us (in my opinion) as improving if we aren't creating chances. You could put a top striker in any team and they would offer more of a goal threat. I don't believe that as the season has come on, that our tactics have developed in a way that has seen us improve at all from an attacking perspective.

This Chelsea side is so poorly organised.

I dont think anyone has implied that we would be better off with Mowbray now.

We scored a goal against Brentford that was very similar to Pickering v Sheff United. Mowbray's possession focused team was ineffective, we finished 15th. Tomasson has had more success with that specific tactic, but I don't agree that this season we have been any better than last season, the league table cannot be argued with. We did also put in performances last season that were a million miles more entertaining than last season, think at home to Birmingham, at home to Peterborough, away at Preston, totally battered all of them. Bournemouth away, comfortably saw off the 2nd best side. Rankin Costello's development is definitely a huge positive tactically by Tomasson, but I don't think that his transformation has been matched by the team. The way he slots into midfield is such a useful asset to the point that even though Brittain is okay, we cannot think of moving him. But there were tactical nuances last season that worked, notably Brereton playing left of essentially a front 2 with Buckley floating between him and Khadra. Since the international break, the one performance that impressed me was Huddersfield away, domination and crucially loads of chances. Burnley didnt offer much, but I can barely remember a chance we created.

I can't personally say we are progressing when results have regressed. But solely on performances, I wouldn't personally agree that we are playing far better football. Even recently, yesterday, v Burnley, v Coventry, v Hull and v Norwich, not many chances created or much threat offered. Of course we all agree that we need a better front line, but I don't think I can agree that we are dominating in the absence of that. More of the ball but predominantly in our own half.

Since October, we have scored more than one at home once.

I do agree that a big part of chance creation is having the movement from attackers to get into positions in the first place. But equally, I haven't seen a real upturn in performances and I don't see the evidence of an attacking setup that is just missing that finishing touch. I would agree that Tomasson hopefully will stay but I don't think this season has been a progression on last as evident with our points tally. Much of that stems from above him though.

We have rarely looked like scoring in the last few weeks and months, just a couple of decent chances a game.

*Venkys legacy. And will only get worse now they have allowed another asset to leave for free and seemingly another summer of scrounging awaits. Im not convinced we are playing much if at all better recently. We havent been creating many chances or looking threatening very often.

We would have received more offers had we not taken such a counterproductive, stubborn stance but we should have accepted the bid from Nice. This situation was predictable and totally avoidable.

How can you still defend them if you think that we have staff who potentially purposely sabotaged transfers and they still haven't bothered to sack them?