BotleySaint

Sounds like all Barnsley so far.

i am optimistic about tomorrow to actually. which is unusual for me. must be the crazy weather.

Certainly worth a go i'd say.

There is no decision to make. He MUST play.

Hurrah! He isn't young, he isn't old. He's tall and strong. Lets hope he's good enough to keep Lancashire out the team for a bit. Olly needs more development time.

I think he's right. we didn't play that badly. But people are only seeing negative in everything. People on the outside can see we actually did ok.. we didn't disgrace ourselves. We did have some nice passages of play and looked well in the game until United scored. Even then if we hadn't had Patterson sent off just as we were doing ok closing them down, forcing a few mistakes at the back, it'd have been a lot less comfortable for United. BUT 10 against 11 top players is always going to be hard to create anything decent. Yet we had chances from Smith, Surman and I even recall at one stage we had the ball played across their box. Most Premiership teams would struggle with 10 against 11 against United. I agree we've played ****e this season and Portfleet has made some bad decisions. Some of our signings have been wierd. A new manager MIGHT even help. But didn't we play 4-4-2 against United? Maybe he is beginning to see the light.

Depends if we sign anyone.

Personally i'm happy to pay £30 to see my team against one of the best in the land. Even if we did lose 3-0 I don't think we discgraced ourselves given the ****e officiating. I hope that the money squeezed from those "missing" "fans" who only came because it was United helps our financial situation a little.

He wasn't that bad. He was playing against Berbatov and Rooney at one stage. He doesn't have a lot of pace and does give the ball away at the wrong moment. But he could have done a lot worse!

10 against 11 of the best players in England and we only lost 3-0? I expect by 75-80 mins of chasing shadows most of the lads were shattered. Too tired to be chasing every ball. They had to economise. I think toward the end we looked ok.

Don't think we did that badly. 10 men against United was always going to be a difficult task. Davis and Perry were outstanding; especially important since we've only for 2 centre backs left. McKlaggon looked great too- fast, good control... if only the rest of the team could keep up with him/moved for him! So 3 positives at least.

Well, today could be the day? Patterson to score!

Patterson isn't that bad for crying out loud. He has potential to be a good player for us and can score goals. It'll be hard work up front but either way it'll be a learning experience for him I am sure.

Just another game, isn't it?

Sounds good. He may be 35 but as long as he is fit not injury prone.

The prospect of a Perry Lancashire partnership at the back petrifies me.

Michael Wilde just scored for The New Saints FC. Just for novelty value

Good luck to the lad. Hope he gets a regular game there.

Next let down will be either Lalanna, Surman or Davis heading offski right at the last minute before the window closes giving us no time to purchase a replacement. The money in the region of £2-3m will be "earmarked" for the summer, we'll be building a team to try and stay in League 1. But by the summer, it'll have mysteriously evaporated... So basically, the same as we've been putting up with the last few years

At least Smith can run with the ball. When i've seen him his dribbling has been much better than anyone else at the club.

Indeed. Looks like were trying to find him another club. I hope that we fail though and we get him back.. we bloody need him.

I don't think there is anything wrong with that article. Clearly we are looking for a decent replacement for Cork, it was out of our hands. Plus he is looking for a goalscorer. The problem will be, we don't have the money to get them most likely. At least he knows what we need (though no mention of a right back:P) But if we get a decent defender who is as good as Cork in- we'll have a stronger squad than we had a week ago with the addition of Saganowski up front replacing the ****e Pekhart and Robertson. I am certain Saga is better than those two put together!

So against United it'll be Lancashire and Perry? Or perhaps another one of the youth team centre backs? Who knows.

heh, sorry lungs. Not like me to be so pessimstic... guess i've just hit a low

Our already fragile defence is slowly being picked off. At least we can be sure of relegation rather than spent till May hoping we might stay up.