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Ask Stockport fans if he has a heart and they'll say it's one of the biggest in football. Playing the day after your brother dies takes courage.

Just please don't say you're in favour of the Coalition NHS reforms, Paxxo..

I've seen less passion from most CCFC sides in the past 10 years than the present one. It's the ability that's the problem, not the heart. They just aren't very good footballers.

What will you do? You aren't a Coventry City fan, you are a Andy Thorn hater. Sad. How has he been lucky-by having the squad ripped out from under him and the worst wage budget since relegation? By having to blood half-a-dozen kids because there's no-one else? Maybe think things through a bit...

A game too far-they gave it all they had against Leeds and their was nothing in the tank. Other sides have squads. We usualy have a fit XI at any one time, and never the option of rotation.

The examples of it working are all ancient history. The likes of Swansea and Norwich have worked that the opposite way is the way to level the playing field rather than hoofing it: quality players can't hurt you if they haven't got the ball. The only team doing well with long ball is Stoke, and...

If SISU don't sack him if we go down, then he'll at the very least be concerned about it happening early next season. I'd call that pressure. The likes of Ferguson say that pressure is what managers at the bottom of the league have to deal with. That sound of pressure has been clearly audible...

The problem is that long ball does not equal good results. If it did, all football managers apart from diehard purists would be doing it! If there is one thing that the fans of a club who suffered the worst long ball dross played in this division in years last season should know, it's that long...

It is. I mean what takeover!?!

Agreed: to those who say Tisdale's a nobody, so were Hill and Howe a few years ago. All have got small clubs promoted against the odds. If we are looking for a new manager, Tisdale would be my overwhelming choice. He might even be tempted too, as he's surely taken Exeter as far as it is possible...

I didn't say you did say it, just sarcastically said "I wouldn't be surprised" if you had. At worst you can maybe accuse me of defamation, but not lies. Interestingly I considered douchebag for you, but thought plonker was suitably apposite. It'll all make sense when President Douchebag wins...

The big problem with that Willo is that you've counted players that aren't here at the same time! EG Nimely/Herman/Norwood AND ROD/McPake.

George Graham's too long in the tooth, and when we get "proven" managers it's people who had 1 good year and a lot of failure: Adams, Dowie, Boothroyd, and plenty of others. Reid was arguably more proven, and look how he worked out. Other clubs have hired "winners" like Jewell and Keane, and it...

Agreed entirely. Simply by having another player of almost or the same quality of the player he's replacing, other teams have an option we don't. Even someone like Simpson now would be a massive strengthening of our options as someone like that can make an impact. I really don't think we can put...

SISU, asset value, balance sheets. Sod all to do with football!

But there's no doubt that the failings of one impinge on the success of the other. They are not entirely separate issues.

Don't be a plonker. You claimed Baker got a load of praise after Leeds. You were wrong, so I pointed it out. Meh, twas probably you saying he was crap then too !

I'd interpret it as: a) Having more easier games b) The youngsters gaining experience and being slightly more savvy c) The re-jig with Lukas, ROD and McPake going out for Norwood, Nimely and Herman has slightly strengthened us. Sure Herman is crocked, but Mcpake would have been too! All...

OSB it's a kind of "thinking out loud" that I can relate to. It's not something I'm even directly thinking about any more, as there doesn't appear anything to think about just now. The best I can hope is that positive talks have taken place well out of the public eye, which is where they should...

Baker got a bit of praise for me after Leeds, but that was jumped on by someone saying "are you blind? He was terrible!"