The point he is making is the same point that has been made time and time again on this forum and others in different ways, which is that there seems to be (unless our resources are way more than they appear to be) a gulf between what the chairman expects (and publicly says he expects) in terms of results, and the resources that are made available to the manager to try and get there.

I am not criticising the Chairman for not speculating more. I don't want us to take unnecessary financial risks. Neither do I mind him being ambitious. In his business life he is a success and he clearly doesn't like losing. But you can't expect to finish mid table looking upwards (his phrase) over a 46 game stretch if you have a bottom three budget. That is plainly obvious. You might have good runs a la Warnock over a shorter period, but Neil knew it wasn't sustainable over a full season which in my opinion is probably what made his mind up for him in the Summer. We were over-achieving by finishing fourth bottom.

Where I very much sympathise with Stubbs is that the pre-season noises from the Chairman may have given supporters an unrealistic expectation.

Whether Redfearn was misled in any way only he and the club hierarchy know. I agree that if he was told straight what his budget was and what was expected of him on it and he signed up for it, then he has no right to bleat about it afterwards.

Hopefully Kenny Jacket will be able to square the circle. But what if he can't and we get say six or seven points from his first ten games? Will he have to go too? My fear is that the club is asking managers to perform mission impossible and sacking them when they don't do it, and that is a road to ruin.