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Kastaneer is a strange player to me. From what I've seen so far I don't see him being a starter, barring a catalogue of injuries. He does however look like he can produce the unexpected, be it a shot hitting the corner flag or a screamer into the top corner with his weaker foot. I get the...

Perhaps in his efforts to learn English, he has been reading this forum and he was cupping his ear to his critics on here :)

I thought until Dabo's first own goal that for all Oxford's pressure, that Rose and Hyam were soaking it all up fairly comfortably, clearing all their corners etc, and were our best players. You can't countenance for own goals like Dabo's. I don't think McFadzean coming on would have changed...

If you also look at those highlights you will see Kelly visibly slow up when he realises the Oxford player will get to the ball first, which makes his decision to then dive in a particularly bad one. It would have also helped though if someone had gone to back him up, but all our players stayed...

Agree with your positives. In terms of negatives though, I would say the draw at Bolton is an effective 2 point loss to all our rivals, which could prove costly at the end of the season, and secondly that we have had a fairly easy group of fixtures so far, which probably provides a poor guide to...

Much unfair marking & comments on McCallum here without any recognition that he was hung out to dry by a lack of support from Hiwula, and was having to cover both Henry and Cadden on his own as a result. Mason wold have also struggled under those same circumstances.

Also spotted that Mick Coop was coach to the 1986/87 youth cup winning side.

Cedric Roussel did ok. Clement should have been a top player for us. Got injured then Strachan never gave him another look in. Ended up playing over 100 times for Belgium.

Gallacher joined us as a winger but mostly played as a forward. In terms of effectiveness Bennett provided more for us than Hadji did, as he was far more consistent. However, Ndlovu was ahead of them all in my book.

How much do we get for a televised game? If say the crowd is 3,000 would the TV money definitely cover our drop in attendance? I suspect there will not be much in it.

Looks like the 1969/70 team had the biggest success rate including Alan Dugdale, Jimmy Holmes, Denis Mortimer, Mick McGuire, Bobby Parker and Les Cartwright. Colin Randell also had a decent league career at Plymouth. David Icke of course took a different path!! Ironically the once we won it in...

That's pretty harsh. Yes McSheffrey was highly rated, and perhaps could have achieved more but he had a pretty good career. There are plenty others named here that were as highly rated as youngsters, but then barely played a dozen games. I

It was under SISU. Got a feeling Hoffman gave it as his reason for resigning from the board, or was it Ranson, or both?

Think we had a left back called David Barnes in the early 80's who was a youth international. Played a few games but that was it. Another one who had a great reputation was Richard Spong, who came from Sweden as the new Roland Nilsson. He played in one of our youth cup finals but seemed to...

McCallum was excellent last night, but Saturday will be a completely different game, with different requirements. Gillingham are likely to sit back and our full backs are likely to play a more attacking game than a defensive one, and as such I think we need a more right footed player, so maybe...

I hate these threads. Whenever we get ahead of ourselves we inevitably go on a losing run. One game at a time please :)

He has been excellent, but I get the impression Robins really rates McCallum. Nice problem to have two such fantastic prospects though.

I always thought The West Ender was the best of our 80's/ 90's fanzines

Why were the Portsmouth mascots doing a nazi salute as their players came out??

I agree that Cattlin is very entertaining. Also thought Andy Blair was ok, and more surprisingly Noel Whelan & Gary McSheffrey too.