Eddie

Hopefully none. Have to hold out hope that we are in the Premier League and thinking far bigger than that.

I think it will be quite a bit more than that.

There is one alternative. He thought he could leverage serious interest from another club and felt that it was only shot at getting at least some of the things he wanted. A new contract? Some extensions for existing players? Perhaps more influence over transfer and budgets? Maybe he overplayed his hand and thought that the club wouldn't want him to walk away while they were sitting 5/6th in the table. If this is the case, then he failed to truly appreciate just how insane most of the decision-making is here.

Let’s say we get 1-1.5m. Is he worth much more than that? Would we be happy signing the Dolan equivalent for 2.5m? Doubt it.

He won’t be a free transfer. There will be compensation.

He does really need pace for the type of player he is trying to be. He blows hot and cold. He's having a bit of a purple patch at the moment and deserves his place in the side, but I can totally understand why he would be a difficult one to renew. We will end up overspending on a player who should really be a squad player. He was very good in the second half, but he was one of our biggest problems in the first half.

Agreed. Showed a lot more intent and confidence. Lowe also made more attacking substations. Eustace would have really sat back at 1-0 and tried to protect the lead.

We don't know enough to really speculate on how we are covering his wages and what we have to pay. We do know that we are paying a fraction of his actual salary, but no idea how that is structured.

Probably, but Cardiff and Hull picked up points. It’s been a very bad 24 hours for him.

Maybe we are paying him 15,000 to sit on the bench and 20,000 if he plays (or some sort of similar arrangement). We’ve seen it in the past…

If we are being cynical… Do we have to pay more for Dennis when he makes a league appearance? Is that why we might be less likely to see him late on in games where the result is decided…

Should be bringing Dennis on to just get some free minutes in his legs.

I was criticaL of Dolan first half, but he’s been excellent in the second half and deserves his goal. Kargbo has shown enough that he should be starting.

Dennis and Kargbo on. Get some pace and power on to actually stretch and challenge them.

Need to take Dolan off. He is simply not good enough to be given this license to roam around the pitch. ACD has also been fairly anonymous.

I wouldn't have. I can get wanting to leave. I can get enquiring about other jobs. I would probably have handled some of the public aspects differently whilst doing that. But more importantly, I wouldn't have jumped ship for Derby. A similar job would be on the table at the end of the season and he is at serious risk of overseeing a relegation and having his managerial reputation take a major dent. This isn't someone with a lot of experience behind him. A couple of half-decent seasons at Birmingham and Blackburn will be quickly forgotten once he finds himself in League One.

Tonight's result did bring a smile to my face.

I'm not advocating continuing the policy, but there also a couple of players that I think are best not renewing (Dolan included).

It is almost the reason to not give him the job. Comparing him to Tony Parkes would be going way overboard, but if you want to keep those types of characters at a club then they can never actually take full charge. Being the manager/head coach comes with an expiry date.

I know this will get downvoted by the usual suspects, but he speaks better than Eustace. That is for sure.

Yes and no. Most of them are mediocre. I'm sure a lot of them will re-sign, but it was one of the things that Broughton actually managed to fix.

I don't know how many more shots we will have at promotion - at least until Venkys are gone - and I don't want to be sat in the summer thinking we wasted one by having Lowe take charge of the side for the final few months. He has no experience as a manager and this is a big step up. He's the perfect short-term caretaker and a nice figure to the keep in the coaching staff to maintain some continuity, but I don't want to see him actually managing the side for anything more than a couple of fixtures.

It is possible for multiple people to be bad actors in the same set of events.

Good to be getting more of this kind of stuff out there and good on Eustace using a source at a big media outlet - although Deeney isn't always the most reliable. I wish there was a more concerted effort to get some of this information out.

This is a much more appealing job than Derby. Derby might be more stable, but you're headed into a relegation fight. Take Gerrard, for example, no chance he would risk having a relegation from the Championship on his CV and have yet another setback to his managerial career. We're almost the perfect job to jump into for 6 months. If you can come here and get us promoted then you look like a real hero. Yes, we were in the playoffs when you joined, but we were on the slide and we weren't promotion favourites by any stretch. Miss out on the playoffs? Just blame the mess behind the scenes.