The Benitez factor is a bit of a wildcard. If Ashley gives Benitez what he needs then that would put Ashley in the territory of making a good decision, which is something he hasn't done with us before. But I'd still have absolutely no confidence in Ashley and would be waiting for the other shoe to drop. He's fucked stuff up time and time again and that won't change (by my reckoning, anyway). I'd get no enjoyment out of rewarding his incompetence by going to games. Of course I live half a world away, so it's pretty easy for me to have that opinion.