I'm no fan of Allardyce but anyone taking over from Billic was going to have an issue, he had a very limited budget in the summer but Billic's insistence to spend the majority of it on Grant and Diangana when we really needed a defensive midfielder a right back and a centre half has gone a long way to causing the issues we currently have, that said we need to start planning for the championship now we have a lot of players out of contract and i can't see Allardyce sticking around so we should already be looking for our next manager.