[BaggieSteve]

I won’t be unhappy if Big Sam stayed but I can’t help but feel it is time for yet another rebuild (new manager and a squad refresh).  
Sam knows how to build a team and no doubt we will be competitive next season but it’s what happens then. Maybe too far away to worry.....

Stairs, I share your view on this. If Allardyce stays, then so be it; there is an, understandable, desperate urge to get back into the Premier League in one season and Allardyce is seen as the guy to do this. It may happen but, if we do achieve that, I don’t see what will be different when we’re back in the EPL in 12+ months time. We will have lost our current loan players and, most likely Pereira and Johnstone together with anyone who has had a half decent season this year. We’ll be back to signing slightly passed it pros and hoping for another clutch of loans. I’d rather see us start to rebuild the playing staff by bringing through some of the young players, combined with our more experienced pros. This may happen under Allardyce but he doesn’t show any great enthusiasm for such an approach- I think his preference is to bring players in rather than develop.
For all our speculation and debate, however, I can’t help thinking that the ownership of the club will have a greater impact than the immediate appointment of the manager