Whitey Grandad

I agree. It's just that we seem to keep on buying expensive talents and then treat them like workhorses. All the while that these players are on the books they are depreciating assets. Just imagine what sort of a team we could have had with Skacel, Rrasiak, John, Saganowski regularly available. We need the 'big' names to bring in the home crowds and win games. Who's going to pay to watch Molyneux? We have budgeted for failure and that is what we shall achieve. 'He who thinks he can and he who thinks he can't are both right'

In any other business it would be called 'consructive dismissal'. Yet another example of poor management skills resulting in an underused talent.

'Short Message Service' ('text' from a mobile 'phone to you and me) HTH

This is no laughing matter. There is no place for 'death threats' or even any threat of 'death threats'. It's only a game of football.

Very good! Almost too subtle for me..

Well he bought himself out of his Helmond contract, what price do you think he paid this time?

Isn't that a restriction only on playing for a team from another country?

Then he's half-right.

So we need to win 7 or 8 games out of 17. The teams just above us are winning regularly. We need two quick wins just to get back in touch with the others. Something has got to change and very quickly. We absolutely must play all our best players at every opportunity. This is no time to play around with formations or fringe players. That means Skacel, Euell, Saganowski, BWP in for every game and go for everything full-tilt.

Of course it's a failure. Goal difference of -18, only one win at home, 3 points behind the drop line, pathetic crowds, boring football - it's about as clear a definition of failure as I have ever seen.

There's one inviolable rule in football... Always play your best team!

It's a IF I never answer hypothetical questions.

Perhaps it's because he feels that he has a point to prove and is trying that little bit harder.

What we need is someone who can not only inspire the players but more importantly fire the enthusiasm of all those supporters who have found better things to do on a Saturday afternoon. Wotte is not that man.

See... even a Skate can be right sometimes.

What we need above all else is more bums on seats at St. Marys. Does anybody think that Wotte is going to achieve that?

So when we play away the home fans cheer our team do they? Surely the players must get more abuse at away grounds than they do at St. Mary's?

I predicted 4th from bottom give or take a place. That's looking too optimistic now

I just said that they had swapped them, not that they were new. It's the same with our two dutch dunces. They can swap jobs but the result's the same. Happy DIY!

I logged on and saw that Poortvliet had gone and my heart leapt. Then I saw that Wotte had taken his place and my depression got even deeper. Wotte on earth is the point? My local B&Q has just swapped its entrance and exit doors.That'll have more effect on their sales than this will on our results.

Well, that'll bring the crowds flooding back.

It's the trend, you see. We've been getting steadily worse game by game and the manager hasn't got a clue.

MLT against Arsenal, last game at the Dell for the emotion of the occasion. Barry Horne's against Bolton. I was standing behind the goal and it swerved all over the place. MLT's first against Newcastle. I told my daughter at the time that she would never see anything like those two goals ever again. At St. Mary's, Camara's against Norwich or John's winner against Sheffield United for the eruption of noise.

I thought the first half was fairly equal, certainly Kelvin had some important saves to make whereas their keeper didn't have to do anything until after we were two goals down. I wouldn't call them 'shots', more like back-passes.