Whitey Grandad

To be honest I wouldn't even toss them a glance. It's not just goals that have been missing, it's any sign of attacking intent or ambition.

You obviously have not had to sit through a season of home games. Then you would know what nonsense was. Football is not a game of statistics.

The football world haven't had to sit through this season at home.

Puel is Branfoot without the aerial dimension.

I get all that but there's only a handful of points between us all.

I really can't get excited over whether we finish 8th or 12th to be honest.

Hmmm I don't think any investor would let her keep 100%

Yes I did! I wanted us to play expansive football with effort and movement. Anyone who didn't actually go to home games might base their opinion on league position alone but a points total in the mid 40s is pretty feeble. And we lost the cup final.

Spot on. Far too much first time passes and shots in there. They should take a couple of touches and play the ball back every time.

If our players are not up for every game then we have a serious problem. Hull's journey down was a lot was a lot more stressful that ours.

Conserve energy/ How long does it take to replace between games? Why haven't we had this problem in previous years?

Chelsea away is hardly a long drag. There's a big difference between the disruption of an away game and a couple of home game a few days apart. If our players can't cope with two games in a week then our fitness regime is not up to the job.

Hull? West Brom? I won't go on... 'actually scoring goals and preventing them' ...apart from that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

More like night and night if you ask me

I give you the Brazil team from 1970: They learnt their skills on rough wasteground, as did Stankley Matthews, Bobby Charlton and George Best.

I think that calling it 'exciting' is going a bit far

Paul Tisdale at Exeter? Not that I'm proposing him as our manager.

Only if you're standing on your head and whistling out of you ar5e (I'm too old for that sort of thing these days)

I put the paucity of home goals down to a reluctance to assault the opposition in numbers of more than one. Liverpool at home was a good result but I have seen many better over the years.

'Lowest form of wit'

Inter Milan was a great night but even then we relied on an own goal from them.

Ah, the cup final? Yes, whilst we put up a good show I never really felt that we were going to beat them, possibly down to our poor defensive centre.

Thanks for the details. It's always better to hear from someone who was actually there.

Well I think our European campaign this season was very underwhelming, no away goals in three games, but even then we'd only have progressed to the next round and based on our earlier performances I wouldn't have expected much from us. I was, of course, thinking about next season and we are miles away from qualifying for that.

Interest that you thought Rodriguez was poor. The report in The Times this morning rated him as '8', more than any other of our players.