In the past it has been the strong possibility of relegation and not the actual deed with us

I f we lose today, we will move into a very dodgy place but I very much doubt it will affect Roy or any older crocked players having their contracts renewed. Top of the list being Sakho and wickham and of corse Roy.

I am not in the know but I would have thought that if we were going to replace Roy mid season we would have done so around the same time as WBA appointed Sam (Give or take a week) so as to give the new guy a couple weeks to see the team / work with them & then make the best use of the Jan transfer window (with some form of war chest- however limited) given that we didn't do that I would suggest that he will be in situ for at least the rest of the season unless we find ourselves in serious trouble among the bottom 3 & not looking as though we can play our way out - the only caveat(s) I would add to that is of course if a seriously stand out candidate that we cannot overlook suddenly becomes available or Roy himself decides he has had enough.

Being comfortable or in a dodgy place is decided by more then one game, so far this season we have accumulated nineteen points playing this way or that and our manager will obviously look at every game due to our position ..he tried the Eze experiment I feel when we had the required position to do so, it had to change and has done so so I tend to believe and hope today will be the same and also hope to see Eze come on if the result suits, more hopefully of course I'd rather see Eze play from the beginning but I fear our passing will let everyone down, who knows.

Indeed they are not, but I said "The bulls*** stats continually posted, selectively".

All stats are just that. Stats. The only ones that matter are the points we have. All other chosen stats about how many clean sheets, goals scored, games won/lost, offsides by strikers, points per game, etc., are pure fluff. None of them matter if we have more points accrued than games played. Which we have.

You don't sack a manager because he achieves the target asked. Which Roy has done, and is on course to do again. Just because you, and many others, think we should be top 10 on a regular basis is neither here nor there. Post any stats you like, but unless it looks like we will be relegated, Roy will be here until he wishes to retire.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

I feel it was an observation of your post.