Whitey Grandad

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.

By not coming back and causing a 5000 in the attendances?

All-seater stadiums? When was the Dell converted?

Aren't HMRC preferential creditors?

I've been rubbing my 'lucky keyring' all season but somehow nothing happens. I sometimes think that it's the players' fault for not looking up at us to see if we're wearing our lucky scarf / lucky underpants / lucky chairman / lucky you-name-it.

This is probably wher the 'third week of March' comes into it. We would have to check the regulations but I'm sure that the club are looking at it even as we type.