Whitey Grandad

Did we get an elucidation? All I can say is that Blackstock must be sh!t-hot in training!

I think that we can see the results of that. Of course, the understudies may one day be stars in their own rights but in the meantime the punters have taken their hard-earned dosh elsewhere.

I see where you're coming from, but to extend your analogy it's like paying top price for a West-End show and finding that all the stars have been replaced by understudies. If the management continues with the same policy then the crowds will dwindle.

We don't have the players for Route 1 to be effective, but pretty football doesn't seem to be working either.

There appears to be two completely different opinions about the style of play. One group thinks that we are playing fantastic football and just need a killer touch up front, the other that it is lightweight and ineffective and getting worse. From my point of view, what I saw last Saturday was one of the feeblest, boring, depressing performances that I have ever paid to watch. Yet some others thought it was a good game. We can't both be right - or wrong. I think that there is a dimension missing in our game, call it physical presence, athleticism, power, I just think that we look a little 'thin'.

Me too, I'm sure it would have counted. Did you see Wotton jabbing his finger at someone for giving the ball away? Was it McGoldrick (again)?

Whilst we're on the subject, I've just noticed this smiley: :smt046 I can guess that the 'R' and 'L' stand for Rupert Lowe but what does the 'F' stand for?

Those are two words that you don't normally see next to each other.

One more couple get voted off 'Strictly Come Dancing'

Well said! We could carry on debating all day when surely it's not too difficult for the club to contact those who have not renewed their season tickets and find out why they haven't.

It is a sporting convention among football teams that the away team play towards their own fans in the second half.

It's the one theory that explains everything.

Not you too! This is getting to be like 'the Body Snatchers'

Er, it's not even half-full

I wasn't referring to you or me because I shall be there regardless, and I expect that you shall too. I was referring to the thousands who don't want to pay to watch second-rate reserves. All the famous names that you mention were first-rate reserves and were introduced to the first team gradually. Lallana apart, I don't see anything in the current bunch to suggest that they will make the grade.

Could that be because he is the one in whom they see the most profit when they sell him?

boys against men

I think we must have gone to different games. Our passing, long and short, was some of the worst that I have ever seen.

The quality of the players who may be on show affects the decisions made by those who are considering buying tickets for the matches. Evidently there are several thousand who don't want to pay to watch a reserve team.

Not yet, but give it time.

LOL, that's the first laugh I've had all day

I think you'll find that we managed it all by ourselves with no outside help.

When the stadium announcer says: 'for the benefit of the players, here are the names of the crowd'. (Well we ought to have the complete set)

He's just got a new contract, he can do what he likes for the next 3 years.

I sit in the mid-Kingsland and I could see clear daylight between both defenders and Pekhart, no trips or pushes, and if it had been one of their fellows we would all have been p!ssed off if a penalty had been given.