It's been a difficult season for Birmingham City, but supporters will be hoping that chairman Tom Wagner has learned from his mistakes after admitting he sacked John Eustace too early.

Blues were sixth in the Championship and competing for the play-off places early on in the season when they sacked Eustace, and it was done so they could replace him with Wayne Rooney, as had previously been touted a month prior.

It appeared a strange move at the time, and it proved even worse than expected.

As it stands, Birmingham City are one of the favourites to be relegated into League One in the late stages of the campaign, and are now on their fourth manager of the season.

Had Eustace remained at the helm at St. Andrew's, you'd struggle to envisage a situation where the club found themselves battling relegation, and could have been comfortably mid-table instead.

Having only took over at the club in July, you'd hope that Wagner will learn his lessons in the future, and won't be so quick to pull the trigger.

Tom Wagner must learn some tough lessons from this season

The fact that Tom Wagner has come out and admitted it was a mistake to sack John Eustace so early should earn him some respect amongst Birmingham City supporters as he could have quite easily shied away and refused to take any responsibility.

This shows that he's willing to put his neck on the line and shows that he's still learning on the job, so hopefully won't make the same mistakes again.

At a news conference, Wagner said "We made one decision that, if we were to go back in time, we wouldn't have made.

"In the context of having made thousands of decisions for the club this season, we made one decision [in sacking Eustace] that wasn't perfect.

"We have to keep things in context a little bit but our future is not written. We remain very optimistic over the balance of the season.

"There have been substantial learnings about how we think about making important decisions on the sporting side. You have to have the ability to get the right players."

You have to remember that this is Wagner's first season at the club, and perhaps he may have been easily influenced to sack Eustace, so the club could bring in Rooney, who's obviously a huge name thanks to what he achieved as a player.

And it is likely that the CEO that Wagner hired - Garry Cook - was influential in the decision to bring Rooney in, given he is close with agent Paul Stretford and their previous links when he was set to go in at Derby County in the same role when the ex-England international was in charge there.

In hindsight, perhaps Wagner should have made his own mind up and not listened to other voices as we can assume that happened, and Birmingham's fortunes could've been a lot different if that was the case.

Despite performances on the pitch, it's clear that Wagner and Birmingham's owners - Knighthead Capital - have huge ambitions for the club, and supporters are understandably excited about what the future holds.

The more time Wagner spends at the club, the more he'll get to grips with how English football works, and the less likely he'll be to make poor decisions, like sacking Eustace was.

It's brave of Birmingham's chairman to admit he did the wrong thing here, and hopefully, this shows that he's learned his lesson.

Birmingham City supporters have reason to be positive

There's no denying that it's been a really poor season on the pitch for Birmingham City, but things are looking up off it.

It was recently announced the club have purchased land to build a new 60,000 seater stadium, and new training facilities in what is planned to be a "world-class" sports quarter.

This clearly shows that Birmingham's ownership group have lofty ambitions, and are adamant that the project will still go ahead even if the club are relegated to League One.

The club's owners hope to have left St. Andrew's by 2029, and clearly see a big future for the club.

Whilst Tom Wagner's first season at Birmingham City probably hasn't gone how he had liked, the club's supporters will be cautiously optimistic about the future, and will be hoping that he's learned from his mistakes after the John Eustace debacle.

Whisper it quietly, Birmingham City's future looks exciting, and Championship survival this season could provide the perfect platform to build from in years to come.