Whitey Grandad

I hate them too. We never had them when we won the World Cup. The England team has never played well since we started having them. In fact, we've never been any good since Joe Mercer was in charge.

I've been saying that about most games this season, tbh.

Most matches go to the team that wants it the most and I don't expect this one to be any different. A draw's not going to be enough so I suppose you could call it a 'must win' game. We are rapidly running out of games if we are to climb out of the bottom three. One ray of hope is the game-in-hand. Once that has gone then there won't be much light left, IMO.

I think it's called: 'getting old'

Perhaps we're not paying because he's 'not fit for purpose'?

I was watching the game in which Crouch was playing at the weekend and I noticed that in the last few minutes he ran the ball into the corner to waste time. The commentator made some remark about 'Crouch using his experience to run down play'. It makes you want to spit, dunnit?

They're certainly not playing like they were. maybe complacency set in when they thought we were going to be safe. I don't know whether singing "the Saints are staying up" was tempting fate a bit too much.

It's not just you. Maybe it's the pattern of results. When we won 3 in a row I momentarily felt a brief surge of optimism but we're not winning one, losing one, we seem to be stuck in a run of draws and I don't get the feeling that the players have the belief or determination to get us out of this. In the home games against Preston and Cardiff there was a desire and confidence that seems to have evaporated of late.

Or 'getting the Lowe down'? I'll get me coat...

So what are you trying to say?

It looks to me like it's the reduction in VAT. £27.40 = £28.00 *1.15/1.175

No, I agree that WGS might well have stayed if he felt that the club was going somewhere. He's not the only manager who has left us because of, let's call it, a 'lack of ambition'. I'm also not that impressed by Wotte. When I heard that Poortvliet had gone I was quite excited for a few moments, until I heard who his replacement was.

I must admit that I have been concerned in a couple of home games lately where we have been drawing a game and Wotte tries to bring a sub on in injury time. To me, this indicates a complete misunderstanding of our predicament.

I think we have 4 'must-wins' out of 7 games, and we don't want them to be the last 4 games, do we?

I thought it was a hip operation? I read at the time that his settlement from Coventry had finally been sorted so he could afford to take some time off, but this would be a private matter between the two parties. As for Wotte, we can't really form an opinion until we see how the next few weeks pan out. Bright start but a bit of a slip back lately. Worrying times indeed.

If I remember correctly, Coppell was paid around £1.2m a year in the premiership and this fell to about £720k p.a. after relegation. I doubt that we have been paying anything close to those figures.

Some people were saying the same about Derby...... and QPR...... and Blackpool......

We shall know the answer to this question in six weeks' time, if not before.

No worries, then.

Please refrain from the same old refrain. What about those two penalties that we missed?:smt083

Whatever happens at the end of the season, would everybody please refrain from saying 'if only that shot had gone in'

So, 10 minutes to save our season.

I don't know why I bother. Why should I care if the players don't?

If it walks like a Beast and quacks like a Beast, then it's a Beast.

Until Saturday night, that is.