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Perhaps an element of truth to that. There does seem to be a schism between the true believers in Pep (like Russy, or maybe Potter), and those who would move the game on to a point where it's entertaining again. A spell abroad refinding himself might do him some good.

One way or another, Brett Cravatt is going to find out if he's actually as good as he's no doubt spent long hours telling him that he is.

Who needs scouts when you've got Dimi and the latest copy of Football Manager?

Midfield at the minute reminds me of the one we had at the start of the 2010/11 season. Three sort of similar central midfielders all trying to do a similar job. I think we need to find the space for a #10 type. Someone to sit behind the striker and just try to create, like Dobbie did that...

West Ham aren't in a good place and haven't been since they sacked Moyes. They hate their stadium, they hate Dai Topshelf, they hate Potter. A payoff might be the best thing for him.

Rangers had 66.5% possession mind so in a very broad sense they were the better side. The players just needed to be braver. Or something.

I think it's probably a case of the kind of coaches we've mostly had over the last six or seven years preferring him to play the "safe" way that is his forte. The only two to try and force him out of that were Potter and Duff, and for my money both of them got performances out of him that...

I can certainly believe in a disagreement on the type of players we're after. Monty might well be one of those deeply in thrall to Pepball and the club are moving away from that. I would find it much harder to go along with the idea that we've dispensed with him because the players he was...

Whatever division we're in, whatever targets we have, we're not going to turn our noses up at a bargain. Cravatt and Co didn't get wealthy by paying more for anything than they had to. I don't buy that idea at all.

Reading between the lines it seems like Monty and Dimi (could have been a kids cartoon) are at cross purposes, whether major or minor, and Dimi, being Brett Cravatt's guy, won out. I'd imagine that most of us old heads view the prospect of Dimi having even more power with some trepidation, but...

Will never forgive him for the way he sent the team out to play at the start of the 17-18 season. Trying to scrape a point against teams like Brighton, Watford and Newcastle, none of whom were up to much at the time. Another three or four points in that period would probably have kept us up.

Cullen doesn't get anywhere near starting upfront, ever, unless Sheehan has gone clinically insane or both Idah and Vipotnik are injured. Vip has possession at the moment so you'd think that he'll start against Hull.

People continually overlook the importance of confidence to a strikers game. Vipotnik upped sticks to another country at a relatively young age after effectively losing his job, then spent the first two thirds of the season playing for a moron who had no idea how to use him. Despite this he...

Primarily why I've tended to lay off the "Our transfer windows have been shite!" narrative. We've signed some decent players, but we've appointed some hopeless managers. The three years wasted between Russy and Luke Williams did us more damage than anyone we brought in during a transfer window.

The madness is that in terms of income it wouldn't actually make a massive difference. Say, for a basic example we sold 18,000 STs at full whack of £459, that works out at around £8.2m. In reality a fair chunk of those would be concessionary prices so the actual amount would probably be closer...

Even in the 70's they couldn't beat New Zealand.

In terms of day to day interest it's not even close to a 50/50 split and hasn't been for about 20 years. People still turn out for a piss up on Six Nations days but have little or no interest in club rugby. If you added the attendances of all the Swansea Rugby clubs (Dunvant, Glais etc) to the...

Unless there are expenses involved that make it non-cost effective, taking season tickets off sale makes no sense. Keep them on sale, but reduce the price by £20 for every game that passes. Plus I'd certainly look at the kids pricing. Considering how much we've spent over and above our entire...

Placing restrictions on supply thus driving prices up plays into the hands of the richer teams anyway. Probably even more so than the alternative. When we've reached a point where you're looking at a club paying £35m for a player (albeit a very good one in Guehi) and thinking "Christ, that's...

Window should be done away with altogether. Back to the way it used to be. One transfer deadline late in the season.