Whitey Grandad

Like taking candy from a baby. Did we have a shot on target?

Not that likely, apparently....

Almost as good as yours...

Pace! I was questioning my spelling of the onomatopaeic word 'kerching'. I was trying to say that you have hit the nail on the head (although that would make a different sort of sound).

Kerching! (spelling?)

So that means neither the ball nor our players in the opposition box (half the time) . In my opinion a large factor in our failure to score goals is the ponderous speed of the build-up play. This pretty football is all very attractive but if we can't pass the ball through the opposition there's no alternative option.

Why pick the Palace game? Why not Hull? I have to admit, though, that was bad. The Watford game this season was very depressing.

I think we can all agree that last season's squad 'underachieved', and I would suggest that this season's squad are, if anything, overachieving particularly regarding some good away wins, but for the first time ever I have found myself unexcited by the thought of going to a home game and from the attendance figures it would seem that several thousand others feel the same.

Their football was no better than our football. They just scored a deflected goal, that's all.

I was at the Bristol match and on that pitch it was impossible for anybody to play football. I was at every home game apart from West Bromwich and Bristol City, both of which I believe we won. I also saw many other games where, in my opinion, we were unlucky not to have won, unlike this season where we never look like scoring. Pretty patterns in the middle of the park are never going to get us anywhere.

.....as opposed to this season's underpaid, useless good for nothings?

I'm not joking at all. At least we won a few home games and scored some goals. And as far as 'endless change, wasted money, underperformance, lack of commitment and questionable effort from some, a worsening financial position' are concerned, not much has changed, has it? There is no power or penetration in this team, a whole dimension is missing.

And somebody in the middle with a killer instinct! And what was Paterson thinking when he was sent clear on the left? Three players busted a gut to get into the box and all he did was wait for their full-back to get back and block. As a result, they were so knackered that they weren't able to be effective in midfield and indirectly it led to Wednesday's equaliser.

Give me last season over this, any day.

This is my view too. There was a moment late in the second half when we had about 4 players bundling upfield and Llalana got the ball on the right wing at the half-way line. It was crying out for a ball upfield but a couple of passes and shimmies later the ball was passed back to James and then Davis. Sometimes it seems as if we are concentrating on making pretty, short passes instead of getting the ball forward quickly.

I can't disagree with any of that. And our players are nowhere near fit enough. James was knackered at 70 minutes.

According to this they (and the FA) will be compensated to the same amount that they would have received from the gate. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1091065/Birmingham-splash-100k-thank-season-ticket-holders.html

It still makes me smile. What happened to it in the end?

Surely, if we pay lots of money to run an academy in order to produce players that we can then sell at a profit, then there will inevitably be a revolving door of young players being brought into the squad and then sold on once they have gained enough experience. That means no stability in the team, mistakes through inexperience and no players that the young supporters can identify with.

I agree. What really sticks in my throat is the thought that just as much of my ticket money will go to that load of overpaid cheating northern bullies as will go to our honest, heroic youngsters.

Good point! I forgot that I would have to dip into my own pocket.

I think 'The Barmaid's Knockers' is a much better name for a pub than 'The Antigallican'

There's only one answer - a draw and then a win at Old Trafford.

There's nothing pedantic about that - in fact it's a good point that I, for one, had not thought about. We season-ticket holders paid VAT at the going rate when we renewed, but future tickets will be at the new rate for the rest of this season and part of next, so presumably this means that the club will get slightly bigger income from ticket sales than they were expecting!

I didn't know he was joining them?