Time to sit back and wait after Sheffield United bosses have their say... sort of
Sheffield United chief executive Stephen Bettis did a round of interviews with local media last week
Amid his commendably candid media round last week, Sheffield United CEO Stephen Bettis suggested that most club owners don't open up to interviews.
This came in defence of his own at Bramall Lane who have yet to grant a single request from regional journalists.
I'm thinking Bettis is correct on that general point - but does it make it right?
Or, for me at least, entirely excuse the fact that he stepped forward to answer multiple relevant questions rather than the owners themselves breaking cover.
It's surely regrettable that this is typical across the game when fans would be entitled to think it is a matter of common courtesy to hear from the custodians of their fully paid-up dreams.
Presuming that the answers Bettis gave were the answers the Blades owners would have given, maybe they can take courage and confidence from the response.
Supporters in the main can handle the truth. They may not always like what they hear but it's far preferable to the confusion of silence.
And it's not as if there haven't been genuine and serious questions hovering overhead.
Now that these have been addressed, if not emphatically answered, and albeit by proxy, it's time to put issues to one side with bated breath for the outcome.
There is clarity of a sort. The threat of a points deduction remains a live possibility by United's own admission amid protracted efforts to resolve an entrenched dispute between owners past and present.
But there is no imperative for player sales in January, with last summer's predictable departures actioned over spending and budget limits. Also, an undertaking that incoming revenue came to the club and not, as some suspected, to the owners towards a settlement with Prince Abdullah.
Underlying all this, an apparent gauntlet thrown down to manager Chris Wilder and his squad to move into a challenging position by the turn of the year to encourage investment beyond fees and loans.
As ever, it's a self-help proposition for the dressing room, although it helps to know where they stand. Which is all anyone has reasonably asked.