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BBC reporting he’s signed a new deal. Legend.

He’s signed a new deal. Report on BBC. Legend.

This is now well beyond incompetence. Our club is being destroyed while the EFL stand on one side as this happens and say nothing. DC is quickly and massively devaluing his asset and he surely knows that. Why he's doing it in this way is anybody's guess, but the fact remains, our proud, great club is in a full on spiral to oblivion. There must now be every likely chance that we will be unable to fulfil our fixtures. Absolutely sickening.

It really is enough to make you cry for this club. What a desperately sad state of affairs. Danny has done wonders and clearly cares deeply for our club. Respect and thanks.

If you’re using a Mac on OS15 it will not work, as I’ve just found out! IFollow only supports OS14.

A gutsy and determined performance from the whole team today; Danny deserves a lot of credit for picking them all up off the floor after Boro. He just had to get them playing with more pace and shape and he did it. Credit to him. It was marvellous to see how much it means to him and coaching team in front of the fans at FT. Our fans....a credit to our club, out sang the QPR lot all afternoon. Play like that in the comign week and we have a chance.

What really got to me about the Middlesbrough game was the players just gave up after 10 minutes and then fell apart. Playing out from the back is fine if you have the players and confidence is there; we have neither. We had missed a great early chance to go ahead (as we can't hit a barn door from a yard at the moment) and then forgot about all the basics any team has to do to compete. It was shockingly bad. But, the most damning thing to see was the total lack of any apparent desire to try (possibly Vaulks aside). Losing is one thing, but losing like this is quite another. We had the wrong shape and never fixed it even after HT, players walking back into position, being caught out of position and treating the ball as if it was poisonous. I lost count of how many times we just gave them the ball back. DR was rightly livid and obviously despondent after the game. It must put doubt in his head that he can get his messages over to the players, and doubt in the manager's mind is fatal for the team. Amazingly, we can still get out of this as others are struggling too, but unless DR and his team can fix the massive attitude problem we saw on Monday, we will not stay up.

I totally agree it is obvious, to everyone except DC it seems. I wrote a reasoned and polite letter to him a few months ago in the Xisco time to make sure he understood the obvious. All I got back was an email from somebody in Communications thanking me for my letter which would be passed on to the Chairman. Predictably, no response. He has got a very rich (and successful) family, but at some point patience will wear thin. I'm amazed it hasn't happened already. The problem we have is that our club is a massively reduced value asset and my fear is that unless we get an offer which makes at least break even sense to DC we will most likely go on like this. I hope I'm wrong.

One of the UK's most successful business leaders, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, said today.. "The first thing to do is get the right people In the right boxes who are managing and organising the club and make sure we get recruitment right. It's such a vital part of running a football club today, finding new players. You need the right organisation structure. The coach reports to the Sporting Director who then reports to the Chief Executive. You need to figure out where you put recruitment and strategy, get the organisation right and then populate it with people who are best in class" Bit of a contrast to where we are today and the key point is the owner is not running the day today in this plan of approach. We have DR, his coaches and a new head of recruitment with pedigree in the game, but there it ends and if its is true DR is being asked to book hotels then perhaps there is room for some changes to make progress.

I suspect Danny would say a lot more about the state of the club if he felt he could and that it would make any difference at all to DC. In just one season, Ipswich have opened a chasm in quality and class up on us, which is driven and achieved by having a season by season plan and a strong structure and investment in place to deliver that plan; which comes from the top leadership. We have a good young manager with ability and vision and a decent coaching staff, but that's about it. Everything else about the club structure is years behind where it needs to be. A change in ownership linked to a top to bottom restructuring of the club is needed just to get us into a position to compete. Without that it will be more of the same and Danny and his staff will leave. Today, Danny got it wrong, but he certainly has my confidence and support. He is young and ambitious. He has to move on if he can't see a way forward and who could blame him.

They had a rotten night, there were loads of empty seats so what details are provided to justify a near miss?? and what is the definition of a near miss in this context anyway? A full safety assessment inquiry was carried out and major changes made post "Hillsborough". Those measures are in place. I think its got more to do with it getting a bit fashionable to have a go at us given the past tragic event.