Whitey Grandad

2 points lost in my opinion. We lack quality in too many areas. Euell, Skacel, Surman, Cork were all good but Thomson was ineffective, especially first half. Too many balls just hoofed out of defence and it is so boring playing with just one up front. And it was freezing especially with so many empty seats - there's no-one to act as a windbreak. Can we please have a manager with at least a bit of ambition, especially at home.

Was it a 2-game ban then? Or was he dropped for last Saturday?

Have you seen any games? So losing 3-0 or 4-1 isn't being 'outplayed' ????

Well done, Cambsaint, you have summed up my feelings and those of many others most succintly.

Look Sundance, like many others I have put my money into backing this club by buying a couple of season tickets and yet my reward for my support is to witness the most crass, incompetent, egocentric management that it has been my misfortune to experience. Can you blame any of us if we are all getting more disillusioned by the week?

I'll be there of course, although I'm not looking forward to it. I have two season tickets and one will probably be empty, as usual.

I have just watched the goals again and James is sertainly not a full back. He is sideways on to his man all the time and has absolutely no pace. Do we have to stick with him all season?

I vote for 'a' because most of the others had some grain of sense in them, apart from perhaps 'b'.

Immediatley on relegation, it went something like: The club will survive - all the players have clauses in their contracts that halve their pay (or words to that effect)

With one or two exceptions it has been like this for some time now. It makes me so mad, and that's not what I go to games for.

Pekhart got bags of goals for Spurs' reserves last season. You're right, though, this formation stinks.

Are you the ref?

Derry, I totally agree with you. He is not hungry enough. Maybe it's because he now has a 4-year contract.

Being realistic the best that I can see is a draw against Coventry, so 1 point if we're lucky, and that will be from a 0-0 draw.

I can't see us scoring either so the best that we can hope for in any game now is to keep a clean sheet and hope that by some fluke we can nick something at the other end. I am expecting 0-2, 1-3 at best.

You're right - it isn't - but what I don't think has been factored in is the loss of revenue from the falling attendances, and if anybody thinks that this season's crowds are poor then just wait until next season!

There's no stability in the playing squad, is there?

I have a feeling that we have been cutting the wrong costs. At the rate we are going we will get rid of any first team player who has any ounce of ability just so that we can maintain spending on everything except the first team. I think that it may be time for the academy to go. If it costs more than £2.5m a year then it is not worth the trouble. It might be another 2 or 3 years before we get another Bale or Walcott judging by what I have seen so far this season.

His body language would be unacceptable in any profession. He slouches his way through games and only puts in occasional effort when it suits him. He is never on his toes, his shoulders are drooped and he hardly moves. There is nothing unfortunate about the reults he gets, he just need to put in some real effort for a change. If we are relying on him then we really are in deep doggy-doos.

Let's see if it applies to him...

There are sometimes revenue/capital considerations where one of the clubs involved may not want a profit/loss on players' values appearing in the current financial year. I doubt that this would apply in our case though...

If it was two yellows then it's only a one-game ban (I think) unless the FA get annoyed with him for having a bad disciplinary record.

Well done lads. You can never argue against a clean sheet, it's something to build on. Now all we need to do is nick a couple at the other end. It'll be interesting to hear from those who were there.