Wes Tender

You know me so well that you can predict what I would say under certain circumstances, eh? I go by what it said on the OS at the time. Is that fair comment? You take a new job and are being shown around your new place of work, to start the following Monday. Are you therefore responsible for something that goes wrong whilst you're being shown around?

I only mentioned it in response to Scabby's mistaken statistic, Nick. Are we not allowed a come back against mistaken assertions? I didn't see you taking Scabby to task when he made the comparison between JP and Pearson's record. Could you perhaps be a bit more even handed in your criticism?

The Plymouth game doesn't count as Pearson's first game any more than Newcastle's loss yesterday counts as Kinnear's first game. Anyway, it is only the stupid system that awards only 1 point for a draw that makes JPs tenure so far look as good as Pearson's whose team was far harder to beat than JP's. As for Wotte, I agree. What exactly is he here for? Mustn't complain though; at least he's cheap as part of the buy one get one free deal and we mustn't forget that both of them cost less than Pearson. Won't be long now before we see Lowe buying his suits at Primark instead of Saville Row. After all, he has an eye for a bargain and the principle is the same, that you get what you pay for.

I'll be there with my son. He phoned to ask me to get a ticket for him. He was really hacked off when he went with me to the Barnsley match, so I'm a bit surprised that he wants to go, but he inherits a masochistic streak from me which must explain it.

Yes, you're right. I am slightly disappointed. I thought I made it clear when I said that we hadn't scored from open play again. I was happy that for once we had two strikers up front, but disappointed that John had to go off quite early and I hope that he isn't out for long. When we scored, it was massive relief, even though it was via an own goal and I was happy that we got two penalties. But I would have been far happier if the goals had been from open play, something that we have not been seeing a lot of in the last few games.

I've told you a thousand times...don't exagerate.

Just out of idle curiosity, I wondered what would come up if I were to put "boot boy" into Google. Have a look a couple of sites down....perhaps you might have something there

Er.......bizarre.

What? Pouched? Anything to do with this? http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=pouched&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

Love it. Brilliant response

Is today one of your care in the community days, Scabby? And free access to the computers in the local lending library too. Bless.

Thank God for that. A failure for the strikers to get any clean goals again, but I'll take the three points. If we couldn't beat teams like Doncaster then we would have been in very deep trouble. It was a bit worrying how Doncaster were hitting the balls over the midfield and running on to them; shades of Hull last season when they thrashed 5 past us. Thankfully their finishing was poor and Kelvin was back for us. I hope that this gives the lads a confidence boost for the Tuesday game against Norwich, who will probably be much more of a test.

I can see it now in all the concourses; the tables and chairs laid out with their gingham table cloths, the subdued candlight flickering romantic atmosphere, the bare concrete walls covered with posters of Napoli and Venezia, the fishing nets and straw covered old Chianti bottles, the sound system belting out Pavarotti singing O Sole Mio.....

You're quite right, Chez; the situation is getting more and more bizarre by the day. Poortvliet says that he has been watching the lad for some time and was thinking of signing him when he was in Holland. Was that practical that a young British striker would seriously consider going to play at such a low level in Holland? Or did he mean that he knew some time ago that Lowe would invite him to take charge here and Robertson was on his wish list? Is the young striker from Shefield United better than the young striker on loan from Spurs? Are they going to play up front together in a 4-4-2, or with John in a 4-3-3? If we continue with this one up front policy, then it is hard to justify having another loan striker at all. I don't see anybody hailing this as a good thing. Everybody is unamimously agreed that we desperately need defensive cover, not more strikers. What's Scabby's take on it? Let's hear his justification for it.

I wouldn't bother, Snowballs. You're wasting your breath on him; he's not worth it. It certainly doesn't bother me that when he proves himself incapable of reasoned or intelligent debate, he has to resort to childish name calling or attempted character assasination. A gentleman has a strong ethical and moral code that guides his life and I can only assume that the fact that whenever I am critical of the behaviour of those associated with our club on those grounds, Somedunce has to sneer at me and call me names is indicative of his own lack of those attributes.

It is very convenient to be extremely selective about the reasons why Coventry were relegated under Strachan, totally ignoring what were the more pertinent ones. The Chairman, Richardson, was from a similar mould to our current bete noir Lowe and Strachan had to sell anybody half decent to balance the books. Sounds familiar? If a list of all of those players were made, most would recognise the names and it is fair to suggest that a pretty decent team could be formed of those players who could probably maintain a mid table position in the Premiership at the time without too much bother. Anybody who reckons that it is possible to jetison a bunch of players of that stature and survive in the Premiership, needs to realise that we are undergoing much the same sort of exercise a division below; but the final result looks like it will be the same for us. We have sold, or will sell all of the quality in our team and we will also be lucky if the end result of relegation is avoided.

You're on the ignore list until such times as something you said will be trawled up two years later which was stored on Notepad and used against you, Steve, taken totally out of context, naturally.

I think that without doubt we would have been higher placed under WGS than we are now under JP. I'm not so sure how Burley would have fared with these players. I don't believe that Redcrapp could excel with the youngsters. I just have a gut feeling that we would have been mid table with Pearson. Why? I think that he and WGS have some traits that they share. I think that they are both managers that command respect. They are both firm but fair and do not suffer fools gladly. They are both leaders and they seem to have a knack for choosing players who may not look great as individuals, but meld together with others to form a decent team. And they are the two managers amongst the past five or six who gave the impression that their teams were fighting fit and fully committed. JP's youngsters show commitment, but are starting to look jaded already this season and I don't get the impression that they have the stamina levels of a WGS team.

Thanks, Weston SS, but I don't worry about the flack that I'll receive from Scabby and Somedunce, as mostly they fire blanks. Anyway, they can't have a go at me for not attending, as I do go to home matches.

I'll be going back to holding a ST next year, as Lowe, Wilde and all their associated dross will have left when we get taken over. The takeover will happen later this season when after ever decreasing attendances the financial situation becomes perilous and Lowe and Co realise that it is a case of accepting almost any offer that gives a return on their shares rather than getting nothing at all following administration. I have promised that I will buy a ST as soon as they are gone and I'm a man of my word. If however, in the extremely unlikely scenario that Lowe and his cronies are still in charge, then hell would freeze over before I bought a ST.

Don't flatter yourself that you were ever even on my Xmas card list. I don't include such snide or bigotted halfwits in my circle of friends or acquaintances. As for this thread, you've already demonstrated that you have run out of intelligent posts to add to the debate, which didn't take you long, did it? And the advice from Rabby Burns obviously fell on deaf ears too. Keep digging a hole for yourself.

I am completely satisfied from reading all the brickbats that you have received after this post. You have your opinions and as far as I can see, it is you who are the one that people are chiding as the supercilious and arrogantly superior being (only in your own mind of course) Read and learn from the wisdom of Rabbie Burn's poem to a Louse (appropriately enough) Oh wad some power the Giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An’ foolish notion I have a much younger and beautiful wife, who smiles often; not that my personal life is any business of yours.

In the immortal words of Basil Fawlty, don't mention the war. It is over and we are now friends with the Germans. Or are you suffering from concussion having been hit over the head by a falling Moose?

A totally bizarre analogy to compare what local people did during the war to protect themselves and what they choose to do about attending or staying away from football matches. The comparison is so extreme as to border on lunacy and doubts have to be held as to the sanity of someone who could even think that such an analogy was reasonable. But I'm sure that Gordon Mockles has reached the correct conclusion; it was never meant to be serious. It was purely to provoke a reaction, nothing more. It is impossible to debate it seriously, so no point in even trying.