Mark Douglas specifically has had more access than pretty much any journo over the last few months.
Having said that, I suspect that the access comes from Thelwell himself and you're right, his future is in doubt. It's difficult to know how TFG would view the job he's done and his suitability for the job ahead.
Having said that, we will be working on deals well ahead of the summer and appointing a new DoF in the summer would probably be very disruptive to our transfer dealings so if they're going to make a change you'd hope they put contingencies in place to allow for that.
