Equally unfortunately the latter is unlikely to happen anytime soon with the club approaching £100 million in debt even after all the assets have been sold off or milked dry. The only possibility is that a footballing sugar daddy appears or Troy Deeney gets a wealthy consortium together. On the former point, it seems pointless to sack yet another manager when he has been ‘blessed’ with a mixture of loanees, frees and long serving players now well past their sell-by date.

In terms of the match we were very poor and it didn’t help that the normally dependable Matija Sarkic had a nightmare. It also didn’t help losing Marc Roberts through injury but, to some extent, all the players (young Jordan James excepted) should hang their heads in shame following what was a virtual capitulation.

With Fulham up next we could soon be just one further defeat away from the bottom three but I suppose in the topsy-turvy Championship there is always hope – as well, of course, as despair.

After such a depressing result, it’s always therapeutic to pick a side for the next match to turn things around so here goes. I would go back to a more stable 4-4-1-1 formation and mine would be Etheridge; Colin, Roberts (if fit), Sandersen, Pedersen; James, Gardner, Woods, Graham; Deeney; Jutkiewicz. McGree wouldn’t play as reluctantly we have to learn to do without him and Graham would play out wide, but as a natural winger and not a pseudo wingback.