Whitey Grandad

A win would be fantastic. A draw would be a good result. A thrashing would be disastrous and I don't think that we would recover it. None of these is as important as a good win over Blackpool, seeing as there is a two week gap to QPR away followed by Ipswich home. Let's hope that Birmingham play their reserve team in the cup, like we shall.

It's not just you. What I find strange is that anyone found the need to say anything at all. It indicates to me that JP knew nothing about what was going on.

Don't we have videos of the matches?

Then is he the right man for the job?

I saw it. Iam not slagging off the players and I never shall. I was not impressed by Poortvliet's handling of the second half or his choice of players to sit on the bench. I say it as I saw it. The first half was good but I felt that the team was playing above itself and that it would find it hard to continue at that pace through the second half. There was some promising football in the middle of the field and we created some very good chances that with a bit more quality up front or with two forwards on the pitch we might have converted into goals. In a lower division it would have been a creditable performance but I fear that it is not going to be enough in this division. I would dearly love to be proved wrong.

Ooh you tease! Is there one called LOWE GONE?

Skacel / Holmes? Rasiak / McGoldrick? Saganowski / Thomson? There was a proviso about motivation at the beginning of my post. I think that disorganzed and unfit apply to most of the second half yesterday. The marking for their two goals was non-existent.

Let's not get carried away. With a motivating manager last year's squad would beat this one 7 times out of 10

We are talking about independent adults who have a choice what they do with their own money, not sheep to be herded into another enclosure. We need every paying customer that we can find.

I agree with every word, a very accurate summary of the game.

From what I've heard, it's more to do with the break-up of groups of friends.

That's the long and the short of it. I once saw a cartoon that said 'I feel so much better now that I've given up hope'

Do you want to go through the season playing with one striker?

Apart from John & DMG & BWP who else do we have? Do we really want to go through a season with these three?

Ah, the beauty of anonymity. I was speaking figuratively, of course. And if Birmingham do the same as us and play their reserve team we may stand a chance.

There's too much spin about to know who to believe. The truth is out there somewhere. See you at the next match.

There are, of course, a lot of factors. We are still in the holiday season believe it or not. We can only guess at the reasons that they weren't here, but perhaps they didn't didn't fancy the new-look team? As a thought, how do you think that today's team would have fared against Sheffield Utd.?

For some people (not me) it was the final straw. They were separated from their friends of many seasons. You insult your customer base at your peril.

Providing that the dept is serviceable then it is not a problem in itself.

This is all part of the problem. We hear all sorts of figures from all sorts of people, but with most of the big earners gone we are a lot closer to being solvent.

There speaks the voice of reason. Why is it that other clubs get relegated from the PL and everybody tips them for instant promotion beause of the 'parachute payments' whereas we fritter away ours on Woodward and dithering?

I heard a rumour, no more, that Euell was up at Sunderland training all week with a view to a move. Has anybody else heard anything?

This club is not losing £15,000,000 a year.

It's why some people didn't go. I know of season ticketers from those areas that haven't renewed.

Let's not kid ourselves that we were unlucky not to get a draw, or that Birmingham only beat us because of two scrappy goals. We ought to have scored another goal in the first half. There two good cutbacks from McGoldrick that Holmes should have connected with, Gillett(?) had a shot cleared off the line and John had an offside goal, but after 20 minutes Birmingham began to carve us open and also had a fluffed cutback and an offside goal. In the second half all that we had was the Stern John chance whereas Kelvin had a good one-on-one save and Birmingham had an offside goal and two real ones. At times we were being steamrollered. Bent & Jerome were pulling us all over the place. It was a classic case of men against boys and it was very depressing. Worst of all was that neither the management nor the players seemed to know what to do next and there are no real alternatives on the bench or in the treatment room.