He was around or top of the championship tackles/interceptions for the last two seasons running. Exactly what we have missed this season due to the way the team was setup. I have no doubt Eustace would find a place for him now the suicide football is gone.

Effort, presence, experience , represents the club well, vocal on the pitch and in the dressing room. It’s probably the latter why JDT got shut as imagine he pointed the same things out most us fans have done for months. Ability wise he is no Adam Wharton but for every one of them you need a Travis or Tronstad harassing and tackling.

Yeah starting to think he fancies letting it run down and see how much he can make as a freebie.

I’d take him back in a heartbeat and it was a ridiculous decision to let him leave on loan. Imagine he will be back in next season as captain.

Forgot what it feels like to win at home. It feels good!!! Today showed exactly why JdT needed to go, they throw most of his ideas in the bin and we could have been 5-6 by half time. They dug in the second half and made some fantastic clearances. Good to see Eustace take charge when it started to go stokes way as well making subs and urging them on. ”How shit must you be, we’re winning at home” 😂

Feeling more hopeful on the pitch now JDT has gone and hope there is a bit more pragmatism in our play. Early days though so might take a few weeks to see a change but some more directness in our play would be welcome. Also getting another defensive midfielder in is a quick change that will make us more solid. if we go behind it could turn nasty on the Venkys/Waggot front as it was bubbling up last week before we pulled it back to 1-2. Hope they get pelters either way after the last few weeks. please don’t play Moran 🙏

Did you expect us to stay up if JDT stayed in charge?

There was no point travelling to home games under JDT. Defo take Sam for the rest of the season if its doable he is exactly what's needed to get us out this mess.

No I wasn’t considering Eustace with regards to JdT performance. I was just responding generally to those that think JDT has just had a bad run and been unlucky. I think it’s more fundamental than that. i agree with you on Eustace he is an unknown quantity and will be done over by the club in summer. To be honest at this point I just want to stay in the league so anyone who focuses more on defence than attack gets my vote. Probably go for Alex Neill if I had a say.

Did you even read the first paragraph? I’m talking about this season and pointed to facts as to why I am judging his tactics as not working this season not just from December.

Disagree, his tactics haven’t been working all season not just since December. We had lost 8 home games prior to Xmas day. We lost 5 of 6 league games starting from September. We have conceded the most goals in the league. Most the league were likely a few points off the playoffs in December it’s the championship. The warning signs have been there all season if you take the blinkers off.

Agree but he knew he wasn’t getting them in the summer. He’s trying to manage the situation now by saying “I offered but they said no” to deflect the crap job he’s done. It’s like saying I told you we would go down if you stuck with me.

The guy was taking us into league one, he knew the score last summer and should have walked. instead he’s persisted with his brand with a group of players not suited to it. Plenty can and will achieve better with what we have got.

It’s hard to downgrade when you’re getting battered every week and falling down the table. Whoever comes in gives us more of a chance than where we were heading with JdT.

If he is going I wonder who replaces him? You would think given the shambolic nature of the last 6 months that Broughton has a list but we should never under estimate the clubs ability to be incompetent.

Unbelievable the players moaning about the atmosphere and a bit of booing. I have paid £400 to watch us lose 9 times at home already to mainly crap sides that have done nothing more than put more effort in and exploited lazy defending. That second goal against QPR was the players downing tools and us fans were rightly on our feet giving them shit for it. I have been posting on here long before December about how boring it’s been as a home fan under JDT and glad he’s going. his best days seem to be away and I don’t attend them. Hes a likeable guy and kudos for exposing the shit show behind the scenes but his approach to the championship is naive and with our squad stupid. In recent months he’s put his brand and reputation over getting results. I wouldn’t be surprised if the players haven’t also realised that and it’s part of the meeting today. in summary the entire club should be ashamed of itself and there isn’t a single redeeming feature about the place. They can stick my season ticket up their ass next year.

As expected the owners refused to invest the Wharton money. Let’s hope it’s due to an impending sale of the club.

Agreed him and Pears were the only two that deserved praise I thought. Gally put a shift in as well.

I’d reign in the gung ho approach generally. Things like stopping overcommitting full backs and midfielders forward so that when the opposition breaks we are either 1v1 or outnumbered. Happened loads yesterday and we were fortunate their striker was worse than Jason Robert’s at taking chances. I’d also focus on getting the ball forward quicker, we take that long the opposition have regrouped and we create nothing of note as a result. It also causes us an issue in defence as we get penned in and make mistakes leading to opposition chances. Scott Wharton and Dom Hyam are there to defend not play like Tugay in his prime so get the ball off them and up the pitch. From a formation point of view it probably looks like having fullbacks instead of wingbacks and at least two defensive mids. Then build from there after we get some clean sheets and maybe some 1-0 wins. Do I get the job Chaddy?

I think a lot look like turds due to the system we play. Go back to something more pragmatic and they start to look like championship players again.

I think I read on here that we were the only club in the bottom half of the league that hasn’t yet changed the manager this season. Not a trend I think we should be bucking.

No never said that. I’m sure he would have liked them to stay as bench players but the individuals and/or club weren’t happy with that scenario.

Yeah I agree, was just responding to people saying that Buckley and Travis leaving was nothing to do with JDT. It all starts with the fact he doesn’t rate or play them which is fair enough. He’s been shafted no doubt from a recruitment perspective.

I think it starts with the manager either telling them they won’t be playing regularly or not giving them games. Then the club has to deal with the situation from a financial and squad happiness perspective. It doesn’t start with JdT being told Travis and Buckley can’t be in your first 11 and you have to loan them out.