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I remember that first season Telfer signed & he started well in the first couple of games, and I seem to remember after we beat Man City when Isaias played a blinder, Blackburn made an offer of something daft like £3.5m, which would have given us an immediate big profit. We rejected it though &...

Going back a bit David Smith was destroyed by our fans. He started out fantastically taking full backs to the cleaners but once he went through an inevitable bad spell the boo boys got onto him and he lost all his confidence. Although he still occasionally performed well he was never the same...

If there is one thing I've learned from this season it is pointless judging our upcoming performance on our last game. No 2 games are alike - I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if we keep a clean sheet against Notts having just let in 6. Equally Yeovil are as likely to go scoreless, where it...

Willis is one of our players that can definitely step up a level & I've never bought into this idea that he is disposable & easily replaceable. On a more general point leading from that, I've also never quite worked out why, but there is a definitely a Cov thing where a large amount of our...

I don't disagree with you about today's performance, but I do disagree if you think Doyle has been poor for months.

Seriously?

Now I normally have a glass half empty view of CCFC through bitter years of following them, but in any season there are always freak games that don't stack up & I think (and hope) that this is one of them. Although we still had some hope of automatic promotion.before today we have not been...

Doyle for me - I know a lot of people blame the cup run for the downturn in league form we suffered at that time, but for me his absence at that time showed how crucial his presence & influence on the team has been. He is the ultimate pro who gives everything & has been a great leader for what...

No, the season we were labelled 'entertainers' was the Keane/ Roussel/ Hadji/ Chippo year, which was 1999/2000.

Never got the argument about needing a Winter Break helping the national team. Every recent world cup/ euro winning team will have had a good smattering of players from our leagues, but for some unknown reason that doesn't seem to adversely affect them come tournament time. The reality is that...

The opposite. They are an old team & hopefully this game will come too quickly for them. I am more worried about us dealing with their direct route one approach to Akinfenwa. Their forwards are quite cute about playing the percentages by getting an early nudge on the opposing centre half...

Not sure I agree. I think (hope) this might be a good time to play them. Willis was unlikely to win much against Akinfenwa anyway, so Hyam replacing him for this particular match might not be such an issue as for the games that follow. It is also the case that Wycombe are quite an old team, and...

[QUOTE="Esoterica, post: 1488188, member: 6511". Willis 3 - Completely unnecessary challenge that should have cost us the game. . . Need to see it again, but I don't think Willis could do much once Rose got in front of him. Rose deliberately cut across Willis to make sure he was caught by him...

Agreed, of course teams will swap positions & there are no definites, Some teams will rise and some will drop like Blackpool & Carlisle did last season, but the average points calculation is a better guide than most. It certainly was last season - the table Otis put up showed Stevenage in 7th on...

Comparing previous seasons provides a guide that might be useful at the start of the season but this far into the season a better guide is to see the average points per game the current 3rd & 7th placed teams have & transpose it to a 46 game season. Doing this indicates that this season the...

Not quite sure how anyone could represent the different views expressed on here. Grendel & Italia, Nick & Tony, Jekyll & Hyde. Best send Otis!!

Completely agree with this - Trollope & Carbonari were terrible signings. I honestly believe we would have finished in the play offs that season if Nilsson had Richard Money alongside him, rather than having the disruption of having Jim Smith forced on him. The following 16 years could then have...

I've seen this £125k figure on a few threads now' Has this figure been released officially, or is it just something someone has made up that people have decided to buy into? If there is anything to this I suspect it is more likely that this is his wages that we have taken over, rather than a fee...

That's because as fans we all want new players to be better than what we have, and are always optimistic that they will be until they prove otherwise. Of course there's always youtube clips and the FIFA geeks to help the process too, and no doubt this Summer we will get the same excitement...

The atmosphere was largely flat because of the awful game on show. That match in front of 7,000 would have been awful with every cat call heard by the players on the pitch. Not surprised at the half time walk out either given the free tickets were aimed at very young kids with short attention...