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I hope this is one of those SISU lies.

"If you think Andy Thorn is a bad manager, then you don't know football" Let's hope BBC C&W brings in a new anchor for next season.

Good football is getting the most out of the resources that you have. Some would say that AT has done that, but I definitely would not.

How on earth can you boost morale when relegation is staring the players in the face? That's the absurdity of it all. Say "we'll give it everything for these last games" or whatever, but nonsense like "good run" just gets people - rightly - questioning his senses. Would it boost the morale of...

Yes and no. You're never going to get an Alan Curbishley or up-and-comer to apply for the job, but that doesn't mean that the pool of good managers has been exhausted. Everybody has to start somewhere, and the scarcity of managerial jobs is enough to make CCFC attractive for most. Besides, I...

...if we suck. But there's no question that we could draw some of the biggest crowds in the league if we actually challenge for promotion. That must play into the thoughts of managers who apply for the job. As much as we have all laid into the club over the last few years, we'd be doing...

I disagree. On at least a couple of occasions in the recent past, CCFC has announced dozens of interested candidates when the position has become available. There are some compelling reasons why managers would apply, if we put ourselves in their shoes: 1. it's a six-figure income; people need...

A forecast of a recession by a single group - massively different to financial services firms going under and mind-stonkingly enormous government bailouts. Nobody anticipated the depth of the crisis that came, mainly because it was criminal in nature...

Northern Rock was small potatoes compared to the domino rally that happened in the USA a year later. You can almost time the dramatic change in policy to the day.

I think SISU were prepared to cover the operating losses for up to a few years with the wheel-and-deal transfer policy taking care of fees. I actually don't think it was the worst way to spend £20m of investment capital (or whatever it was) IF the plan had been seen out to the end. Not sure...

Yes, he has done a magnificent job!

I'm not sure that it was the plan, tbh. I mean, look at the players CCFC spent money on in that period: Eastwood, Dann, Gunnarsson, Westwood, Fox. Grand players for sure, but none of them were established at Championship levels. They just aren't the sort of players you associate with a...

I think the Financial Fair Play rules offer one optimistic note. If all sides are similarly hamstrung in the amount they can spend, then surely a more even playing field will develop. It's a big "if", but if we can hold onto the majority of fans and be running a ceiling-level payroll...

No. I think it is much fairer to spread the blame - the Richardson legacy (which left CCFC with a second-rate income framework); the fans from a one-team city for not showing up in enough numbers to help square the finances and prevent player sales, as well as giving an unsuccessful manager...

Dignity is an issue, though. AT should know that the majority of fans are on his side and has a seemingly limitless amount of rope; there was no need to have a dig at ownership. It did strike me as pretty desperate - I'd have had far more respect if he took full responsibility (which, again...

Let's not pretend that CCFC was some sporty Jaguar that SISU "asset-stripped". We couldn't pay our bills, were literally minutes from admin with no known buyers despite public calls for investment, were facing a TRUE asset-stripping and possible extinction as a club. They found CCFC in pieces...

We don't know that for a fact - we can only speculate. For all we know, there might not have been a Coventry City Football Club had the takeover not gone through.

That's not what the discussion is about. It's not about the merits of SISU's ownership, but the strange willingness to whitewash Richardson's legacy. You can't fairly assess SISU - or any other hypothetical owner - without framing it against the Richardson legacy. How was/is the club supposed...

If the club was non-bargepole-worthy, then surely it follows that the seriousness of future culpability is very limited. SISU ought to be held accountable for what they do, but you can't wholly excuse the Richardson boardroom after it left future owners with a radioactive wasteland on which to...

Cast your mind back a decade - Richardson is ousted from CCFC after leaving us in the second-tier with £60m of debt and no stadium. How would you have turned around that situation if you think Richardson is blameless?