Solentarian

I think he is clearly a promising manager, and if the players want to work with him (big if I grant!) there is nothing to be gained by sacking him. Look at our history of appointments - what are the chances we make a good one? I just think you're mad at the wrong person. Did he cause the EFL/Boro to act in insane and unjustifiable ways - yes. But the fault lies with the EFL/Boro for acting in insane and unjustifiable ways.

Sure, sack him for losing the players, but not for any reputation or contrition reasons. Its like if you got caught speeding and someone accused you of "attempted manslaughter". The right response would be to say "that's insane" not to cube your car.

I really think we need to stop with this mentality. Yes, we broke the rules - but in a way that's basically insignificant compared the the industrial level cheating that football runs on. I'm sick of having to indulge the idea that what we did was a great injustice rather than a stupid but largely inconsequential breach of rules that should have been treated as such. It's probably too late, but it's just self-destructive to lose a promising young manager as well as the playoffs, and the penalty. If he's genuinely lost the players then we've no choice, but with hindsight we've done way too much self-flaggelation to appease a process that was rigged from the start. There's no credibility here to be had.