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It's certainly the easiest. Everyone loves Onel. Unfortunately he's never going to be good enough to be a regular starter in a team going for promotion, but as a squad player/impact sub I guess he has a role to play. And if he has a larger role to play than that, then we won't be going for promotion.

I'd much rather go with our own youngsters (or indeed other clubs youngsters) than shell out millions in wages on a few hasbeens.

We DID change fan perception in 2018-19. We had a team full of promise and players proving people wrong and we rewarded them first correctly and didn't buy mercenaries. Webber then panicked as a result of the losses incurred in lockdown rather than continuing to communicate with the fanbase, since when he has lost his way. Losing Lewis, Godfrey and even Buendia to clubs paying them three or four times what we were prepared or able to WAS the model - yet he threw it all in the toilet. The Cantwell situation is a perfect example of that, and Aarons is well on the way to being another. They should both have been sold on ages ago at huge profit. Letting Pukki run down his contract is equally incompetent. What is the point in an extra £100m a year if all you do is spend it on transfer fees for players who are unproven? I'd rather we didn't have it in the first place than be so aware of the fortunes we have thrown away in an effort to be "competitive". We did that with Naismith, RVW and others before; now we've done it with Gibson, Giannoulis, Rashica, Tzolis, Sargent etc. None of them worth anywhere near what we paid for them. Every study ever undertaken emphasises the link between success and wages - not between success and transfer fees. We should stick to recruiting low and selling high. Grab a promising 19 year old from League One on £1,000 a week, treble his salary and give him first team football. You only need one in every three or four to succeed. Every time in our history that we've tried to do anything else, it's failed.

If we hadn't let him go, he wouldn't have become the player he now is. He plays in a different way now to when he was here. I'm convinced though that that's the reason behind Idah's 5 year deal - because he might develop as Morris has.

He put every forward player in the squad on the pitch. It was like watching an under-8's team. Absolutely clueless.

Something has to give to stop the wage spiral where we see journeyman players and completely unproven youngsters or loan players earning £50,000 a week in the Championship. It isn't the system of payments that's wrong, it's the incompetence of those employed by football clubs who themselves earn millions for doing very little. Our club should be absolutely loaded after our last 4 years - the fact that we're not is down to simple mis-management of resources. If we had any scrutiny at Board level it would help, but we don't. Hopefully, Attanasio coming in will change everything.

Heard that he's off in the summer. Handing over to Adams, with an assistant joining. All part of the American takeover.

I will dance naked at midnight singing On the Ball City in the woods near my house. There is as much chance of us getting £25m for Sara as there is of us playing in the PL next season. None.

Wagner is equally clueless and has shown nothing so far that indicates he can get this club success. Granted, his players are not as good as everyone seems to think they are but how we are not in the playoffs is mind boggling. Putting players in their best positions would be a start, but he doesn't seem to want to do that.

To answer the OP, realistically what we need to make the playoffs is a goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders, and three forwards, at least two of which know the difference between a barn door and a goalmouth. Unfortunately we don't have any of those right now.

There's just no spark or energy about them. It's just going through the motions again. Horrendous defending against a powder puff team.

There was me thinking that the club clearly stated he went back to Villa for them to deal with his season ending knee injury. It's almost as if they don't tell us the truth sometimes......

Southampton are gone; so are Forest with their remaining fixtures. It's between Everton, Leicester and Leeds for the last place. They all still have to play each other, but I'd say Leeds have the harder games so I'd go for them at the moment, but a couple of results can swing it for anyone.

At the moment we'd still murder them. Next season who knows what players we will each have, but let's hope we get to play them first at Carrow Road so we can keep the record going a bit longer.

I don't think we know that do we? There could be a Shareholders Agreement in force which we know nothing about. The Articles deal with the technical items on share transfers, but private agreements between parties in such an organisation are quite normal.

Yes, I'd have him back in a heartbeat. But he wouldn't make a huge difference to the current squad. As others have said, it's all about the players, and at the moment we don't have enough good ones.

For me, this is the crux of our problem as supporters. We all want to believe this statement. It isn't true anymore. It was, just two years ago, but it isn't anymore. Our players are actually bang average for this division. They are not playing above or, Friday excepted, below themselves. They're just not good enough to get promoted, whoever the manager is.

I simply cannot believe there are people on this board who think we will finish in the top 6. I can only assume they haven't seen us play recently. Whoever wins the playoffs have absolutely zero chance of staying up next year. Boro have 6 loan players valued at over £35m - that's half their tv money gone just to stand still; the rest aren't even very good Championship teams and will get mullered almost every week. Football has completely lost it's way in England.

I'm pretty sure that S & J are on record many times saying that they are not interested in making a profit out of their ownership of the club. It just might be that all these mechanisms now in play are designed to get Attansio ownership of the majority stake but getting his money into the club rather than S & J's pockets, whilst at the same time trying to ensure that minority stake valuations are not compromised. Technically, that is quite a tough thing to achieve and would take some time to put together, because he is probably also keen that his investment is not forever lost. I seriously think that a straight sale by S & J would incur the wrath of many and probably isn't what they want, given that much of it would disappear in CGT and IHT over the next few years anyway.

If you keep going with the same players you'll get the same results. Gunn, Macallum, Gibbs, Sara, Andy O, Sargent and 4 experienced new boys at right back, centre back, number 10 and CDM supplemented by the best of our under 23s. Unfortunately, getting rid of the rest may prove difficult.

I always want us to win, but I also want to be entertained. The first half was OK - good first 10 minutes but then Onel ran out of puff and after that it was all a bit meh. I don't think there was a lack of effort. We were a bit unlucky, but the golden chance of the game actually went to Rotherham. Problem is I came away from the match feeling like it was a waste of my time to even bother to go. Most of the crowd around me were equally apathetic. I don't really care either way at the moment because there's nothing about the way we play or the players we have that excite me. We haven't had a team like this since before Huckerby. We are paying players for not being very good. Idah isn't a striker. Nor is Kamara. Pukki was, but isn't anymore. The only player we have who might score a goal (Sargent) isn't played up front by a manager who is only playing our best player (Gibbs) because of injuries and who thought yesterday was "very good". Giannoulis comes on to replace McCallum and demonstrates for the umpteenth time in a yellow shirt that he is useless. Soresen, Gibbs and Omobamidele are virtually faultless yet Sargent gets the sponsors MOM award for being a striker in a 0-0 draw. The world's gone mad. I don't care enough about the playoffs or promotion because it's all so inexplicably boring.

Idah will be our main striker next season. We'll all get the chance to see if it works. I forecast it won't.

Apart from that it would be a failure of Webber's own stated measure of success which is to establish the club as a top 26 side. I can't remember such a poor Championship.

I'm not privvy to contract discussions, but I suspect when a player is out of contract at 26 and looking up, his agent will be looking for a signing on fee and a hefty wage. It would probably cost us more to keep Dowell than to sign a player better suited to the way Wagner wants to set up. Hernandez would probably be cheaper at his age and career stage but if both players are not starters in a team striving for top two, why waste our money?

Exactly this. Wasn't good enough for us two years ago in this league and he isn't a starter for a top two team. Assuming that's what we want to be. His current impact is in a fight for 6th place.