Maybe I'm just being optimistic but maybe we are sticking with Slade to save the club a bit of face, showing we aren't trigger happy with managers etc, we weren't really relegation threatened and sit comfortably in midtable/lower half of Championship?
Then come end of the season we part company with Slade, replacing him with Bruno Ribeiro or Paul Trollope(Not saying they're my choice but could there be anything in the rumours etc) and I don't think Trollope IS a Slade appointment at all.
Since Slade is on a small contract and he only has one season left on his contract after this, the pay-off won't be much, heck Slade might even waiver it. Slade gets a 15th placed or above finish in the Championship on his CV and we have a bit of stability for a season.
Just being optimistic, maybe we are stuck with him for even longer