InvictaSaint

Blackpool now down to 10 men - Charlie Adam sent off. Doncaster currently 3-2 up in this game.

Forest 2 QPR 2

Blackpool 2 Doncaster 3 :-( (Saints currently 4 points and 7 goals off safety)

Is my update method too old school NickG?..... :-)

Blackpool 2 Doncaster 2 Forest 1 QPR 2

Blackpool 1 Doncaster 2

Plymouth 0 Derby 3

Plymouth 0 Derby 2

Forest 1 QPR 1

Forest 1 QPR 0

Norwich 1 Bristol City 2 (Orr pen 45) Gary Doherty sent off (professional foul)

Plymouth 0 Derby 1 (Teale 43)

Currently: Blackpool 1 Doncaster 1 Norwich 1 Bristol City 1 Forest 0 QPR 0 Plymouth 0 Derby 0

I think most people are willing to give him a chance. Equally, however, most are fed up having to read inaccuracies, search for omissions and deal with the BS on the OS. Minsk is correct - Pravda isn't a patch on the OS.

The irony being that those self-same societal problems....have been displayed by Lowe in spadefuls since he returned.

TDD,unless you are playing devil's advocate I can only assume you have lost the plot! Pearson came in cold having had no experience of the players for the first two thirds of the season. Wotte has been here since LAST AUGUST!! He KNOWS the players, has worked with them, yet still serves up the same end result. You cannot compare the two men. Furthermore, Pearson came from without and ultimately galvanised the club, its players and supporters; do you honestly think Mark Wotte can do the same? Lastly, the records show that Pearson's SFC stayed up at the end of the season. Do you think we will be able to say the same of Wotte?

Quite so - I agree with you (see my reply to CB above). The point I was trying to make was that it is as ludicrous to use the lack of departures to hail Lowe as our saviour as it is nonsensical to blame the entirity of our sad decline on him.

Bears? Hedgehogs? Rupert Lowe?

Hi CB. This is the problem with the internet; subtleties and nuances are hard to convey! The questions I posed are more rhetorical in nature, as I too know the answers which you kindly provided. I agree - the truth is somewhere in between; my point is more that this [the lack of departures] is too convenient a rationale for Lowe apologists or indeed anybody else to lean on. There is no more validity in saying that a lack of departures = Lowe is the saviour of Saints than there is in blaming Lowe for everything that has gone on at SFC since 2004. As ever, the truth is somewhere in the middle....

I find it incredible that the apologists have been waiting for the cease-fire to poke their heads above the parapet and start spouting the usual nonsense. Why were you not demonstrating your confidence that we would not sell anybody whilst the window was actually open? Hmmm.... Let's test your confidence shall we? If things are not as bad as we were all allegedly stating, why did we get rid of Pearson? He was, we were told, "too expensive". Why did we send out our best players on loan? Why did we get in a poor excuse of a head coach? If things were all so rosy, why did we make these drastic cutbacks? You cannot have your cake and eat it; if we are financially fine, there can be no excuse or reason for such poor, potentially disastrous decisions.

At last a voice of reason amongst the tunnel-visioned....

In which case, why the hell did we employ a cheapskate Dutch coach rather than keep on the perfectly able one who was already employed by us?

Hyperbole abounds....it's hardly a myth; it is still a very real possibility. The other question which you ignore is that if our financial predicament is, like Mark Twain's demise, 'greatly exaggerated', why the hell did Lowe employ Poortvliet et al in the first place rather than keep the 'expensive' Pearson? Cake and eat it, and all that....

Dude, what does mine say? Sweet! What does mine say?