Can't help but think that the four players who've left so far - Walsh, Miralles, Gethin Jones and the guy who went to Chelsea, all told Allardyce that they wanted to go - he was interviewing them all wasn't he?
Certainly Miralles wanted to go back to Greece, Jones had no 1st team future here, and Walsh had fallen behind some of his peers in the pecking order, through no fault of his own (injuries, loan at the wrong time).
In his interview on the BCFC website he says he wanted to join them as soon as he heard they were interested because there were so many players ahead of him.
Sad to see him go - along with JJK he was my favourite from the 'golden generation'.