I'll say it again, are we 100% absolutely convinced our success is down to Manning.
The resources poured into Waldron's group - Rodrigues, Stevens, Beadle, Harris, Leigh - all outstanding players, selected by them and signed by Tim W.
The players we had in place already, who were already decent players but messed about with by KR's personal life collapse - added calm, added confidence, very slight changes to be better.
We've not seen him turn Murphy into magic, we've had a few bad games - performances here, not unlucky losses. Out of the games this season, there's been stinkers.
We have the 2nd highest wage bill in the division, we are where we should be.
It could be that the board may also be thinking, 6 months in, someone's going to pick him up for £500k. They dont seem to have thrown the kitchen sink at him to keep him, which makes me think they're also thinking off you go son, good luck.
The next few weeks are going to be exciting, I think we'll come out of this next 3-4 weeks in a way more interesting position.
We just dont know. lots of assumptions.