[Slick_Footwork]

I can accept that we will not be signing Gayle and the fact we will probably sell a few others - Rondon, Dawson, Livermore, Gibbs, Phillips, at least - and replace them at a fraction of the cost, that's the cost of relegation.

What I'm worried about is the capability of the idiots that run our club in signing replacements.

These guys couldn't even identify a manager to replace Moore - when there were dozens of experienced managers available - so how on earth are they going to find someone to replace Rondon for £2m?

If these guys had an ounce of footballing knowledge between them then we would've been promoted with the squad we had.

The one thing that p*sses me off is nature of the Dowling's statement and some of the tripe he spouts to try and keep fans on side. In particular "We don't want to keep players on big contracts and have to lay the general staff off and make people redundant." What an absolute disgrace of a statement this is, to scare normal people with redundancies in a desperate attempt to try and keep the fans on side when they try to do things on the cheap.

This muppet needs to realise that fans aren't stupid. We know there are another year of parachute payments available and we know there is absolutely zero comparison with a player's wage and what a general staff members earns. We know that someone like Jake Livermore earns more in 1 week than probably 3 members of general staff earn in a year.

Please get this guy out of our club and replace him with someone with half a brain. If his ability to recruit a footballer is on par with his ability to articulate a logical story to the press, relegation is nailed on.