Biggish Dave

Just looked at my record at Derby. Missed all 3 draws we've had in the time I've been doing loads of aways. Been 11 times, lost them all

Easy win today. Good to get Santos back up to speed by having little to do, hopefully settles Coleman down a bit too. Had chuff all to do but did the bits he had to with no fuss. Most delighted though for Collins to score. He knows we made a huge investment in him. Monkey off his back, should have had an assist if Dacres-Cogley does what he should and a goal line clearance from a 2nd. Shit my arse. Not saying that banishes the last week but a solid performance and easy win settles nerves a bit. Like Ogbeta too. He's got something about him

If Iredale had made the same basic errors Cogley and Jones have made recently, he'd be getting slated. My concern with Sheehan is we need him on Tuesday so must not get booked today

I'd make a few changes today to freshen it up - not as a knee jerk reaction. Ramsey for Cogley, Forester for Toal, Dempsey for Maghoma and Collins to start. I'd even be tempted to start Morley for Sheehan

And Trafford before that. We've had keepers better than L1 standard for 2 years now - which apparently was Evatts blind spot

If the wife didn't set off for work at 6.15 and we didn't have a dog, I wouldn't. Need to retire.

Hardly like big away followings have done us much good in this last week. Getting up at 5.30 every morning makes midweek aways a pain for me unless I'm stopping over

Would you like a rub off sir?

Def get duty free and put it in a hip flask for putting in a brew while out and about. Restaurant Markadurin or something like that in the centre is fabulous. Set meals the way to go to keep costs only expensive rather than stupid. Viator.com is your friend for booking trips. Just looked - grillmarkadurinn

Any footballer really needs to keep off twitter more than anything - the balloons on there seem to compete to out dickhead each other. Go on a blocking spree and even more dickheads appear

It's a big end and they'll stick us towards the top of it. It won't sell out anyway

With Barnsley and Derby on the horizon, this is very much a need to win game. Won't be pretty. Don't want to contemplate anything other than a win

Usual 4 goal pumping. In

For me, while we are good enough to beat plenty just by having better players, we have a weakness of being far too predictable especially against smash & grab teams. We've no striker with a physical presence like them 2 at Charlton, Colby Bishop, Lee Gregory last season etc. No midfielder who will drive at a packed defence like Frandsen used to. They must still exist. We also need defenders who value the art of defending more than the art of fannying around. Forester and a fit Johnson can do this, not sure about the rest. Not calling for Evatts head, not by a long way but there are 23 styles to play against, we have to be able to mix it up better

Ww just aren't good enough to beat shit teams in a poor quality league. A promotion side doesn't lose that tonight

Wigan don't have a fit RB so probably will to have a go at them down that side

I don't reckon we have the balls to win any of this, Barnsley and Derby which loads pressure on the rest of our games

Serves him right for being a jaffa

Not read back through this thread but yesterday was abysmal - the manager and players deserve every pelter coming their way. Yes the ref was crap but we can't keep blaming them. Time to take our own responsibility. Missed 2 gilt edged chances in the 1st half. The defending was worse than schoolboy. If this team plays in the championship next season, expect relegation. We'd get thrashed by mid table teams playing like that. To say I feel deflated is an understatement. We'll likely have a chance to avoid 47 years or whatever it is next season if we keep playing like that. These players have some making up to do on Tuesday

Football is sterile enough these days. Great to see passion amongst the support. 1 thing leaping the hoardings and celebrating on the track, another doing what the Vale fan did v pompey

Leeds

Oldham

I know times have changed for all clubs but just looked back at season 88/89, we only got over 5000 on at home 9 times in the season. Some really poor crowds

The Stretford cesspit

Otsomebor playing for the scousers - he was abysmal