The name of the person who is causing the problems in the dressing room is in your post. Aided and abetted by a spineless coach who should know better but is protecting his own coin.

The worry is that players, who we expect to be hard and aggressive on the field, cave in to a diminutive figure who happens to hold the purse strings.

That scenario can't last. Flogging players like you might flog a horse will not sit well with many players and who knows what the outcome might be?

I asked a a racehorse owning customer about MK before he actually "bought" the club. His response was that he would interfere with the coaches and the day to day running, despite the fact that he had little experience of the game. My customer seems to have been spot on.

Draw your own conclusions.

Well if the issue was Smith or Hock they are both gone - No disrespect to Hock but I doubt he will have the smarts to lead a players revolt but I might be wrong.

This I find a little confusing

"The worry is that players, who we expect to be hard and aggressive on the field, cave in to a diminutive figure who happens to hold the purse strings."

Are you referring to the Doc? If so I don't see the issue with this, he is the boss so he makes the rules, every single one of us will go through a similar experience at work where someone we don't particularly like calls the shots.

As for a spineless coach I have spoken too one person I know with access to the players and they say that Harris while not being overly liked knows his stuff, personally I doubt he will be in charge at the start of next season, a personal hunch but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

Smith not lived up to expectations and Hock has missed half the season. Don't see what the big deal is.

Come on,then.What was the response when you raised your concerns about the problems in the dressing room,at your meeting last night?

Some of us boring people on the ST don't do Tw@tter or Faceberk.

Maybe some players don't like being told what was expected behaviour wise.

If players can't behave then I don't have a problem them moving on.

Do we know anyone's not behaved?

I see that a new revamped World Club Challenge has just been announced and if Hock has the chance to join a team involved in it then I'd guess that is maybe a reason.

As has been said elsewhere we now have a bit of a lovable crackpot owner so anyone signing on must take his unbridled passion for the club and game as whole must be fully understanding of this.