Whitey Grandad

This exhibition football is the fundamental problem. The build-up is ponderously slow and there's nobody to support the lone striker. Incidentally, we're not the only ones playing 'tippy-tappy' apparently... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/arsenal/article5321718.ece

It is absolutely the coach's fault. It is fundamental that you don't let the ball bounce! If you can't remember that then you shouldn't be playing.

But the really big contracts were handed out by Lowe?

'Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?'

Sign him up! He's got to be better than this useless shower.

It's going to take someone special to turn this shower around. I'm not sure that Davies is that person but any manager who knows what he's doing would be very welcome.

I agree with you but it's not a fair analogy - Bligh was a very good seaman who knew his stuff.

This is just what I and many others expected. I cannot see this getting any better and who knows where the next goal is coming from? It's very sad but there's no pleasure in saying 'we told you so'.

It was absolutely freezing, I have never been so cold. I can still picture Kevin Moore scoring, he was rather pleased.

Born in Cork, he's played a couple of times for the Republic of Ireland.

I'm sure it would. We seem to have used an awful lot of players this season. Does anybody have the figures?

If he could play for Bournemouth then he could play for us. I'll never forget his reaction when Stern John scored the third against Sheffiel United. He was jumping up and down like a three-year old.

probably a modelling contract

On a point of order! Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the team for the first game picked by Dodd & Gorman and wasn't Pearson only appointed a few hours before kick-off?

We would only have won if points had been awarded for artistic impression.

I call it 'crabby' football.

Well said! (or written, anyway) This should be engraved in stone at the top of every internet forum.

I said at the time that it wouldn't last...

But they were all highly successful in other countries, whereas Jan....

I'd settle for mid-table security - in the Premier League of course.

That was never a foul, it was a sliding block to cover a possible shot to the keeper's left and the referee quite rightly saw it that way too. Rudi was one of the few players who did very little wrong, it's a shame we shall be losing him in January (allegedly).

How about: 'make sure that we don't have to pay any win bonuses'?

When I bought my season tickets (before Lowe) I expected Pearson to be in charge and a team with passion, skill and commitment to carry on from the end of last season. At the start of this one I thought that our most probable finishing position would be 4th from bottom, give or take a couple of places, provided that we kept at least 2 of our proven goalscorers. I've been pleasantly surprised by a couple of the away wins but this ineffective, ponderous style of football will get us absolutely nowhere. Let's be clear about this: these are not our youngsters that we are blooding, these are cheap loans from other clubs that don't want them. There's no consistency and next season is going to be a lot worse than this!

He has the potential to be a good player but at 21 his development is 3 or 4 years behind where it should be. His workrate and speed of thought get slower as each game goes by.

d.o.b. 27th November 1987? In my day that would have made you a man.