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Unfortunately its looking like it will be over before the last ball is kicked.

Even Shearer missed them every now and again!

Believe me, I wasn't advocating that! Just thinking about the way a Venky mind works---Cheap! Cheap!

Could appoint from within?

Yeah, tragic eh?

The difference between you and me is that I don't pretend to know, I just give my opinions on the basis of war I see and hear. I certainly have never posted of a secret plan for recruitment that is beyond our understanding. I'll certainly wait with interest though!

NO! Usually these things are matters of opinion but this is fact. The criticisms on this MB of **** were way more hostile than they have been against Mowbray. Way more and deservedly so. You're falling for your own hyperbole.

ie let's miss our best chance of promotion in over a decade and start all over again in August.

How does that even make sense? If you can't understand it how can you tell its better organised than you can understand?!! Absolutely cringing that. Its so fantastic its beyond our understanding.!!! Pull the other one!

Entertainment is good, but you can't beat a win, scrappy or undeserved----doesn't matter.

No it isn't. Ludicrous claim.

The Club finally working out that it needs to protect its assets!

As in 1 goal in 8 games? I'd say he isn't playing them very well!

I goal in 8 games might have something to do with it Gav. The effects of that pre-Christmas run are fast wearing out.

Agree. What's the point of running through a brick wall? I just want someone to put that spherical thing between those 2 sticks. Its not that hard is it?

Agree--sack him!

Sometimes players surprise you and grow with the size of the task but I'm not confident about any of ours currently and, apart from Kaminski, we will lose the most likely ones anyway. I suspect the centre-back trio would be as good as a few teams near the bottom but 2 will leave presumably. Bit of a chance with Buckley in the right position. Not one central striker, Brereton might succeed but he'll be off. I'd be interested to see how Travis coped but not confident. Dack in peak form could make it but he's been out so long no-one knows how long he will take to get there, if ever. That's it. Basically we would need a huge overhaul, overseen by a very capable manager, which we don't have and never will have with Venkys. The most likely outcome of promotion would be complete embarrassment and down by Christmas. I suppose the silver lining would be parachute payments but they would probably end up where they did before. No hope really till Venkys are a bad memory. So different from the last 2 times we went up. EDIT--Sorry, I've read it as who could play EPL if we went up, but I'll leave it anyway. More interesting thread imo!

The reason we don't play with main strikers is that we haven't got any! Because of Mowbray. Its a circular argument and we seem to be running around in circles with no-one who can put the ball in the net!

You're ignoring context though, as if we don't have a serious on-going problem. We didn't just have a goalscoring problem today, we have one every game. 1 Goal in 8 games---that's catastrophic for a team that has promotion aspirations. You could make those comments after every game for the rest of the season but we wouldn't be going up would we?

I'm just hoping the season will end with us somehow, somewhere in the 6. Unthinkable just a few weeks ago. Our team is so lop-sided and I've said this so many times. We can defend but, unless Kaminski stuffs up, every game is odds on 0-0 draw.

Not to mention Hedges!

No-one will ever touch Duggie for me and I saw him through his entire career. But Dolan is very good with that final ball and I like him a lot! He is a star of the future imo.

Very good player is Dolan, the sky's the limit for him. Got plenty of time to work on his weaknesses. Not been as excited about a new young talent for years. Love the way he threads that ball through, Duggiesque! If only he had decent strikers ahead of him.

Agree!

With one goal in our last 6 games how is it possible to have such expectations?