Pears must have shagged yours, they're both terrible. Along with Wahlsted and Walton, I don't know how we find them.

Pretty much.

Toth was abysmal. Missed the ball every time he went for it.

Dreadful game, three moments of quality throughout. Ours went in, their two hit the bar. Maybe we can kick on from this but I'm not convinced.

Travis was lucky not to pick up a second yellow there for that dreadful piece of acting. Dolan got himself booked completely unnecessarily as well.

I'm sure Exiled will be pleased with that decision. Incredibly harsh.

Credit where it's due, good play from Hedges for the goal and a super finish with the outside of his foot from Ohashi. Kaminski pretty poor from their point of view.

Toth's like someone who-s won a competition out of the crowd to go in nets for the afternoon.

The fact the opposition haven't mustered an effort on target might have something to do with it too. Lol.

Watching at a mate's house - this is dire beyond belief. Both sides. Complaining about the referee is just clutching at straws. What was Toth doing there? Lol. Makes Pears look like Gordon Banks.

Nixon being unnecessarily prickly there. Perfectly reasonable question to ask. If he's right we're completely buggered.

Post of the year so far!

I agree. I was mulling over the same question myself today. I'd have to defer to eminent historians of the Club like Parson but I can't remember any manager in my 54 years of supporting us having such a dire period. Especially as you say, a manager in the so called " honeymoon period" when you would normally expect a bit of a (positive) reaction, even if not a full fledged "bounce"!

Going into reverse gear already after an 85th minute equaliser Chadster. You've already said you "hope he proves me wrong" after previously saying he had to go following the Boro game. If memory serves me correctly, prior to that, a few days before the Boro game, you were attacking martonrover for, in your view, judging Ismael too quickly. Just for the sake of clarity, so we know where we stand, what is your position now? In or out?

Have to confess.....I wouldn't have minded if we'd come back to win but if VI gets any credit in the Bank from the ownership for that point then I'd rather we'd lost 2-0. Lest we forget in the last 6 games we-ve conceded goals in the 3rd and 7th minute 19th minute 4th minute 20th minute 2nd and 8th minute 16th minute and.......... in seven games we haven't been ahead for a single minute of his stewardship! He's obviously only got the job, not because he-s any good these days but because he's cheap and has agreed to try and work with any old rubbish they sling in his direction. Needs to be gone yesterday along with the owners and the 3 stooges. Otherwise there'll be tears.

Opening goal conceded inside 20 mins in the last six games. We-re not even competitive under this bloke.

Maybe you could watch it until we go behind and as such the game is likely to be over? Surely you can spare 5 mins?

I don't want this to be an over-riding objective that has to be implemented at the expense of the team no matter what, but I've seen little evidence that VI has any particular appetite to get these 2-3000 Academy minutes in so far.

Great post, you nailed it there with the catastrophic consequences of refusing to listen to Eustace's concerns. Maybe if he had sidelined Lowe and didn't get on with Gestede as alleged by one of the so called insiders, those were key reasons for not wanting to extend his deal.

Wonder why JDT also left. Was he just "greedy" as well? Or did they both just want to try and achieve some measure of success.

On the contrary, the way they keep talking about changing the style of play, and describing the prospect of losing at least 10-12 players in summer as being "exciting", and insinuating we'll be OK when we bring players in who can actually play to VI'S methods. All that suggests they actually deliberately sabotaged the play off attempt in favour of going backwards to embark from scratch on yet another Uncle Tone type never ending "journeys" with no end goal or destination in mind.

"I have (been )totally respectful to yourself and others but (if you think) I didn't know the situation before the last 2 weeks then you are deluded." Lol.

So you think the 3 stooges and the way they run the Club are/we're completely irrelevant? I'm astounded if so.

The situation with VI gets more and more bizarre. If he can only be sacked compo free WITHIN the first few months, that would look as if they knew full well he was likely to bomb and that he was only brought in short term to deliberately sabotage any play off attempt. It would be more normal I'd presume for there to be a window AFTER 3 months in which either party can walk away if they choose. If that's the case it's still bizarre as you'd imagine VI would be busting a gut to impress during his probationary period. It will do his long term prospects no good at all if he bombs and gets sacked after 3 months. Instead he looks completely disinterested and as though he doesn't want to be here any more than any of the supporters want him here. His demeanour is that of someone who couldn't care less because he knows he can't be shifted without a full pay out for the entire length of his contract. I suppose either way we have to pray there is some sort of break clause in existence. Without it I dread to think where we'd end up. Non League after 3 successive relegations hypothetically.

We agreed on the need for a short term. motivator but your disdain and disregard for Eustace leaving looks more and more misjudged with every passing week. Not really in favour of Lowe being re-appointed for any length of time tbh.