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Away team can't refuse, only home team.

We'll win 6-0.

Delighted as have a clashing event on Easter Saturday I no longer have to think of an excuse not to go to!

Have you seen Danica Patrick from IndyCar? Wouldn't mind that in F1!

Who said I thought we were a 'top of the league team'? You are making stuff up. I have merely said the fact we have played well against some top teams shows we have talent. Much as in 2002 and 2003 because we had a good talent level we could give the top teams a game - it doesn't necessarily mean you think you will be top the league.

Well, I'm glad that you are also among people who think that your opinion is fact. Well done. The talent level can be judged on a smaller number of games. As I have said more than once on this thread (had you bothered to read it), is that we have struggled to consistantly show our talent. I point black will not accept that the young players have no ability, but I will accept that ability alone isn't enough, and that they needed to consistantly apply themselves. I certainly felt more positive about the team with JP in charge than I do with Wotte.

That £500 could really help make the difference between Fisher remaining a football club or going totally out of business in March. Again, I find it sickening that people who call themselves football fans are prepared to joke about a club that may not exist in 4 weeks time.

It certainly would be easier to stick to your principles at a 'settled' club. Certainly at SFC it would be easier to bring in some journeyman manager and play hoofball. Sadly, the easy decision is not always the right one. Having the guts to go out and keep playing football in the belief it is the right way to play, and the right thing to do would be brave. In the same way that the Observer have called Donny brave for deciding to stick to playing the way they do. Let's face it, Forest have gone for the panic measure now as well (and that was a club who had just come up with a very popular manager), and they are still widely considered to be in the relegation mix, whereas Donny have pulled away. Your points re: number of marchs only goes to enhance my point of negativity at home games.

Actually it is very relevant but I know that you will struggle to understand that. Also, again you go to prove how silly you are by overly exaggerating points, as if I have ever said we had a team of 'world beaters' - still if you want to be an idiot go ahead. My point was that the Reading game(s in fact) showed me that this team has talent. In fact, there were plenty of games that make me believe that the team has talent. Again, as I have mentioned (but you have chosen not to read, because you would rather make a rash comment) the problem was consistantly displaying that talent. The point was then brought up that our home form showed we did not have talent. I have pointed out that I believe our home form has suffered for some other reasons, and that those who see the team play on a regular basis will have seen the team play better away from home. Also, it was you (yes YOU) who brought up the whole issue of home form, so if it isn't relevant to the discussion that you are only having ago at yourself. Still, you will claim that in answering the points YOU have raised I am going off on a tangent.

I think you should just admit your error.

There is a comment on another thread about Sunderland, in the season they went down from the Prem, hating playing at home because if they tried something and it didn't come off the crowd was immediately on their back. I think it is obvious to those who go home and away that the better football has been away from home and I have no doubt that part (please note the use of this word before you come back with some crappy response about just blaming the fans) of the problem was similar.

I think you mean his right shoulder, although it is of course left as we look.

I think it's a shame when football fans joke about clubs being wound up.

Actually again I believe the youngsters have a lot of talent, but consistency has been their main issue. Also a shame that we lost perhaps to two best (Holmes and Scheiderlin) for a large proportion of the season. How we develop that consistency I don't know, but clearly Doncaster have gone from being poor to being on a brilliant run by remaining confident in what they were doing and having the guts to stick with it.

It's Fisher Athletic isn't it? Also, they have a massive court date in March (I think), where they could well be wound up. So I wouldn't take the mick out of them if I were you.

Ah. Excellent. Might be able to get to the Bristol Slow Food market on 1st March.

I am considering an egg purchase.

We are still the only team to have beaten Reading at the Madejski. To me that shows they are good enough, but they have not been able to develop the consistancy. Also, the one thing I didn't like about JP was his constant tinkering with the line up.

Saw a little comment in the Observer on Sunday, praising Doncaster for sticking with their manager and their 'footballing principles' when they were doing badly, and they are now being forward for playing football the right way. As I now watch a Saints team which before could play some quality football struggle to play a 5 yards square pass, I have to wonder what reverting back to "a proper championship style" (as many on here would call it) has got us?

I need to know more about this product!

Correct. Young 'un who wouldn't have got a sniff of first team while we were PL. He moved on for the good of his career.

Perhaps some of you need to support some teams in other sports - all sports teams websites are exactly the same, putting a positive spin on everything. Why shouldn't they - after all they are a tool to try and encourage people to come and see the product? The only sport where I have seen a fair level of editorial independence on an OS is in Major League Baseball.

Hope this brings a swift end to the Twenty20 ******.

People might not want to spend, but we must come up with measures that encourage people to keep spending what they can afford. It is vital that the economy continues to tick over, or the situation will get worse. I appreciate people now want to save and avoid spending, but ultimately government (nationally and locally) does have to try and find away to keep people spending some money.

I think you should find an appropriate thread on which to explore those feelings.