CanadaSaint

Why is he a cock? Because he has a different opinion to you? Why don't you respond to the (fair, IMO) points he's making rather than just insult him? If you care about this team as much as I suspect you do, you should be able to do that quite easily.

I agree with all of this and I'm now really concerned because a bad run of form that started at the end of November is becoming more than "a wobble". People keep talking about new signings as though they're some kind of panacea but they won't make much difference unless we start getting performance again from the current squad. That would be exactly the same players who delivered with such style up until late November. Yes, we really miss what Chaplow brings and we haven't been the same since his injury, but it worries me greatly that there might be something wrong back there. It all went pear-shaped so quickly and we now seem to have lost our way tactically. As far as I could see, we started to day without any real width when we should have been stretching an inexperienced side. I'm one of the most positive on here but I don't feel that way tonight.

No, it wasn't an attempt at humour. We're not talking about one poor result here but a succession of them. We're talking about great form and scintillating football that disappeared quite suddenly. We're talking about dumb mistakes and tactical uncertainty. We're talking about key players going completely off the boil. I don't think he's lost the room but he needs to turn things around very quickly or else that will become a valid question.

This is a scandalously bad performance following a number of below-par efforts, and Cortese needs to ask some very serious questions. If this were anyone else but the affable Nigel Adkins after a wonderful year-long run, we might be asking whether he's lost the dressing room.

If Harding was taken off for second card-protection rather than injury, he needs a swift and heavy kick in the nuts. God, we could do with that sub now.

With clear video evidence that it was accidental and a good disciplinary record there's a very slim chance that they'll trade the red for a yellow, but it's extremely unlikely.

Plus Forest away and Leicester home. Bad but could be worse.

What a f*cking nightmare.

I'm not sure that Harding's the brightest bulb on the tree.

Here we go.

Just a booking. Another two of those and he'll be off.

What with the ciggies, the whiskey and the nuns - all before 10:30 am local time, you know you're going to hell, don't you?

Good ref, that D'Urso.

I'd love to see Forte come on and really do something because that would be as good as a new signing. However, IIRC the "intelligence" on him when we signed him was that he can be a heck of a player IF he thinks people believe in him; if not, he's dead weight. Given that neither management nor the fans seem to rate him, he's going to have to find that confidence within, which isn't his "Forté". Jeez, I can't believe I did that.

I don't see any "impact" options on there so the starting line up really has to do it.

I quite like the look of it, too, but I'm a little concerned that we won't have the width to exploit an injury-hit and inexperienced side. Time will tell.

Does that line up suggest that we're targeting the centre of their defence rather than the flanks? Are we going to have enough width?

That I agree with.

I did. That's why I made the observation, but it's there to be made on virtually every thread you enter, which is most of them on here. You seem to be losing your cool so I guess that one hit home, even if you won't admit it.

No he isn't. That's exactly the point. But, given your own habit of wildly overstating things, I'm not surprised that you can't see it.

There, just to prove my point, you did it again.

It's January 2, FFS.

Alpine, serious question: Why do you continually misrepresent what others are saying in your attempts to make your own point? You do it all the time. If your point can't stand on its own merits without that kind of nonsense, perhaps you don't really have one.

He was okay but he's always one questionable ref's decision or one bad tackle away from a red card. Not the sort of 'leadership' they'll need in what will be a very inexperienced team. I'd be happy to see him playing and, especially, to see us running the ball at him.

No New Year's resolution for you then, Alps.