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I agree that’s a danger. I was always 100% certain that one day CCFC and the Ricoh would be united, and that we would be one of the country’s top clubs. God I wish that had happened, but I find it really hard to blame anyone but our owners for failing to bring that about. I still think the...

Astute – since you think I might have been “aiming” at you, I guess I need to reply, even on a day like today. I hope I don’t ever aim anything at anyone, and I respect everybody’s views on here. What I wrote was simply in response to ChiefDave, who said people were playing dumb. It’s hard...

Everybody gets the “sports teams shouldn’t move” argument, and nobody is playing dumb. But if you think this case is simple, I beg to disagree. Going back to London (assuming it was possible) wasn’t a popular idea for lots of Wasps followers, because after 13 years the London contingent were...

I think Pressley did have clear plans for the season. But he made disastrous mistakes in assembling his squad, and he let people go who would have been ideally suited to the way he wanted the team to play. I’m thinking particularly of the loss of Adams and Baker, but the squad in general was...

* and designed to gain leverage in a commercial property dispute. I really do get both sides of this - I'm just making the point that those who were against Sixfields but can understand the Wasps move aren't necessarily being inconsistent. It's simply not black and white, and people are...

Interesting. It doesn't seem to stop people acting as anti-franchise warriors on their behalf though does it? The circular arguments on here all assume that the CCFC Sixfields move and the Wasps Ricoh move are equivalent. I don’t believe they are (see post #64).

I get all the moralising about Wasps on here, I really do - but I think it’s misplaced. Opposing the CCFC move to Northampton whilst accepting (maybe even welcoming) the Wasps move to Coventry is not as laughable as some seem to think. In fact it’s a perfectly defensible position. My name...

Letting go of the excellent Blair Adams, thus ensuring that we would spend the whole season with rookies at left back.

Otis, I love most of your contributions but I noticed a couple of weeks ago that you said we were “all but mathematically safe”, which was hopelessly off the mark. I had no idea what you meant, because we were only a few points above the drop zone, with Bristol to play away plus two...

I can’t imagine anyone would “have a go” about that. I’m sorry to say that through a combination of circumstances, I can no longer claim to be the diehard follower I once was, and I’m picking and choosing my matches*. If and when we ever get any joy, totally loyal fans like you will deserve...

The stats say we had 20 shots, but many of them were from way outside the box because we couldn’t penetrate their totally committed defence. And although they didn’t have too many opportunities, they took three of them. They aren’t a classy team and it wasn’t pretty - but it was good enough to...

I’m sorry to say that if we lose at Crawley I believe we will go down. Notts County and Crewe have matches against sides with nothing to play for. If it happens, we will deserve it because we will have lost the last two games of the season in straight fights against our closest relegation...

Presumably embracing a team that has moved 85 miles is wrong because it’s a kick in the teeth for the people who … embraced a team that had moved 30 miles? And even though those people weren’t even bothered enough to stage a protest, and many of them love what’s happened, we have to endlessly...

A lovely set of results, phew! I didn’t share most people’s confidence before today, but I’m far happier about our survival prospects now. I confess that, bad as it sounds, I had almost stopped caring when Pressley was here feeding us the weekly diet of utter tripe. But with TM in charge, at...

Not sure who “we” are? I genuinely always thought Dimi was a very good goalkeeper. The deliberate misspellings (Konstantdropalot, Kantstopalotofshots etc.) may have been amusing, but they didn’t reflect his ability.

Ernie Hunt curling it into the top corner over the Burnley keeper from almost the halfway line - about 1971 I think. Sheer brilliance, watched it with my Dad up in the Crow's Nest.

We agree about the second goal. But for the free kick, are you saying he should position himself on the side of the goal that is behind the wall? Really not the keeper’s fault - the wall failed to jump and it only just cleared their heads. Also, it wasn’t Burge who gave away a barmy free...

I don’t see how you can blame the keeper if a guy bends one just inside the post, over the wall and at pace. I was more worried by Burge stepping back and actually widening the angle for the second goal. As with Stokes, we can’t afford to have lads learning their trade in this relegation scrap.

I thought Stokes generally had a decent game, but marred it with a huge and very costly blunder. He’ll be good at this level when he acclimatises, but we can’t afford to be nurturing people in this situation. And as Stupot said on another thread, the tactics (both before and after the change...

I’ll bet Tim nearly choked on his roly poly pudding when he read the original article. I’d love to have heard the ensuing phone call.