[St Charles Owl]

Jos was brought in for the long term I would imagine. His record is all about taking teams from one league and getting them promoted, and not necessarily in one season. He is exactly the manager we need to retool and mount a challenge for promotion over the next few seasons. Mick McCarthy is Mick McCarthy and there is no way I can see us going for him. So I call BS on the first article.

The second one wouldn't surprise me. One of the risks of playing youngsters is that the bigger clubs see them perform and might want to sign them. But that is a risk we need to take and when we can't hold onto a player we get the most we can for him and reinvest. Gone are the days of holding onto the really good youngsters, a bigger club will always come sniffing.

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I wouldn't be surprised at the first one. I know it's early days but Jos still has to show he has the mettle to get us out of what has become a relegation battle. I know there are still some on here that don't think we are in one, but that's a head in the sands outlook. I recognize that we have serious injury problems but he has to be able to somehow grind out some wins. Only one so far.

You have to build into the equation the draws we have got and who they were against - away at the blunts and Boro, home to Cardiff - all teams chasing promotion, these should be considered good results when you bear in mind how poor we looked under Carlos in the end. Our performances have greatly improved on the whole, even with the injury list, that as well is a positive. I don't think anyone is denying we are in a bad position especially not the club themselves, but there is still cause for optimism that we will survive.