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My only hope this season was to get rid of DC. Job done. Anything else is a bonus.

He did say it and it is actually true. He's good at pressing in our defensive 523 pressing formation. I've not watched the game today but after he made the comment I watched the game back and it was true. It might work for him because it doesn't involve running anywhere fast, it's just picking his man up and closing down passing channels. He does it far better than Cads who is always half looking to be in position to run the channels if we get the ball, rather than keeping the pressing formation. Not having to run around a lot suits Ugbo.

First post I've read making that point. Thank you. Loads of posts slagging all the players but you are the first one to lay the blame where it belongs. I know we are all upset by the result and performance but what did you truly expect in the circumstances. This was very predictable.

We don't have a top quality keeper available. Our best keeper had a long term injury and Horvath agreed to come here to help us out. He isn't the best but he is what we've got . We should be grateful he came, not saying a top class keeper is better. It's so obvious it really doesn't need saying. If we had a world class striker we might have scored a goal or two this season, sadly DC left us in the poo so we have to manage with what we have got. They aren't good enough so we don't score. It's not the players fault it's DC. Scilly, sorry to put this as a reply to your post but I've been out all morning and I opened Owlstalk to catch up on the game. I've read loads of posts slagging off every player on the pitch not one has mentioned DC and it all being down to him. Don't blame the players for being poor, that's because DC either released the better players, they walked or he sold them for pennies.

Valery is one of our better players normally. If he's having a rare bad one he gets a pass from me. Everyone is allowed a couple a season.

Ugbo is better defensively than Cadamarteri. That was from Pedersen not me. I can understand him wanting to defend early to shut them down. Once we went behind that couldn't be the case anymore so he should have been subbed.

Read some of the post on Owlstalk they indicate plenty of our fans are just as bad. I really don't care about them. It's nice to beat them but other than that I never even think about their results, I never look at their league position. When I was in Sheffield my best mate was a United fan. We both liked football so we had an arrangement. He'd come to our games with me and I'd go to their games with him. I enjoyed their games sometimes and he enjoyed some of ours. It was just football.

If our new owners can persuade Amass and Shay Charles to sign for us I think i might have an orgasm of earth shattering proportions. It will never happen of course.

Windass was without doubt a quality player for us. I never quite took to him, I don't mind the arrogance, players need a bit of that sometimes. He just wasn't an appealing personality. I respected his qualities though and was sorry to see him go. Like others it wasn't his fault. DC was to blame and we should never forget that. Good luck to him for the rest of his career.

A lot of our fans have obsessive tendencies about them. That is just as weird.

I think Fox was a far better player than he was given credit for. He wasn't great to start with but he was always trying. He always did his best. He grew as a player but never got credit for it. He turned into a very decent player before he left. He still got abuse . Once some of our fans take against a player he could turn into Messi and he would still be hated.

Yes he was but I have some sympathy after the way DC treated him. It doesn't make what he did right. It does make DC wrong though and I think we will find that more and more as time goes on.

We've all got friends and workmates who are United fans. They are misguided but they aren't bad people. Some of my best mates are United fans.

OK.

They have some good players but they are at 6's and 7's. Beats me why. The truth is though that if you have quality players, at some stage their quality will click and they will play really well. If they can't do it for a big game like tomorrow they are really going to be in deep poo . We have been playing out of our skins but if the truth be told we can still only get draws. The lack of experience in our squad shows through now and again and it costs us. It's not the fault of the players, they are doing their best, it's not the fault of the manager or the fans, it's down to our ex owner. We can't expect anything from the game tomorrow but we can hope we get something. We need a fresh start with a great new owner, then we can start to build a squad that can get us out of L1 and move us to a different level.