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Gardiner now wants one million dollars!

Well done INVTONC for getting this over the line and thanks Scotty for starting it in the first place.

In response to four points Big Cherly makes above I feel compelled to give my tuppence worth: 1. I agree it's no guarantee of automatic promotion but being full-time absolutely should have a major bearing on where we finish. If it doesn't then it casts a serious question over DF's suitability for the job in hand. Moreover, I believe that we have a squad of players who are capable of delivering better results than we've seen to date. 2. The starting XI since the transfer window closed is consistently made up of reasonably experienced players who've all played at a higher level. We're generally starting with one or no academy players. These core players should, in my opinion, be capable of putting us in a secure enough position to be blooding younger players later in games when the hard work has been done. Unfortunately the tactics employed by DF on Saturday, when we were two up, exposed young players to undue pressure and likely negatively impacted their confidence. Just my opinion but seems to be shared by a number of us who were at the match on Saturday. 3. The very last thing we need is Ferguson let loose AGAIN on the English loan market come January!!! I would have thought that this was blindingly obvious to even the most ardent Ferguson proponents. 4. If we don't go up this season, from what is probably the poorest League 1 in living memory, then we couId feasibly end up stuck in League 1 for years (forever?). Given the composition of the Championship this season there's a fair chance that at least one sizeable club will be relegated which you would imagine would make it much more difficult for us to be promoted in subsequent seasons. I would stress that I do not wish to get into a barney over this apparent difference of opinion. We all crave success after an absolutely horrendous period in the club's history but I fear that persisting with the current management regime seriously reduces the likelihood of a potentially successful outcome this season. One win and four draws in the League to date is simply not good enough from my perspective and nothing I see or hear from Ferguson gives me grounds to believe things will improve with him in the hot seat.