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John Sillet would back any City manager, as have the Sky Blues faithful. The City fans have been really, really tolerant with Thorn. No-one could argue that. And I think you will find that it is not the fans that need to find the great escape spirit it is the team and the manager.

I might be David Bell. I've done fook all these past 6 months.

Thing is John, the whole 10 outfield players harried against West Ham. It's why we played so well. Ability to harry as a rule? Bigi, Juke, Baker, Thomas, Keogh, Christie, McShuffty (when he puts his mind to it), Clarke, Deegan. Ones who cannot harry? Clingan, Platt, Bell. Then with the likes...

Agree on that point for sure. You can teach the team to close down space though and chase and harry. Doesn't matter how good or poor they are. You can deny the opposition space. Who was the better footballer out of Glen Hoddle and Lloyd McGrath? You can close down space and stop teams from...

Was going to say exactly the same thing. We may go down anyway, but I don't see how anyone can say we will go down anyway. Said yesterday, when Gary Mac was in charge exactly the same thing happened. The players were crap, the team was poor, we were going nowhere and the team had no hope. Look...

Hate to keep banging on about this, but knowing we have an inferior squad means the only way we can compete on an equal footing is by fighting and battling and chasing for every ball, chasing down space, showing grit, determination and spirit. We know we don't have a good squad, we know we are...

True. Have said on other threads, if anything I would like to see help brought in for him as much as anything. Or promote Carsley to Assistant Manager to give him some help. Basically anything is worth a try.

This! This! This is the one thing that pisses me off more than anything. This should be a minimum prerequisite. Fight, battle, chase, harry, close down. Surely the manager can get that simple notion drummed into his troops.

Yes it does. Agree. Wasn't my point though. I was indeed expecting a relegation fight this season. What I wasn't expecting though was just 2 wins after 19 games and 7 points adrift. Thought we would be bottom 6 but would have believed we would put up a bit more fight than I have witnessed this...

We are a bottom 6 side. No doubt about it and no-one is arguing that point. Are we a bottom 2 side though? That is where the question lies. Portsmouth are a bottom 6 side at the moment. They have 7 points more than us. Are we are a bottom 6 side? I would settle for 6th from bottom and 7...

Partially in support. Know cuts have to be made, but to have people working longer for less money while bosses pay increases have risen by 4000% over the past few years just seems wrong.

Totally agree. We needed a Doncaster win or a draw. We need to keep as many teams as possible as close to the bottom as possible and within reaching distance. Even though we would have been bottom it would have kept Millwall that bit closer.

There are non-league players who break through late though.

It's lower league that we're heading though isn't it. Any player that gets 40+ goals in 70 odd matches needs to be given consideration.

Trouble is, I see vey little 'fight' out there on the pitch at the moment. We are more playful kittens than roaring lions i'm afraid.

Just looked him up on Soccerbase and cannot find him. Who's got Drew Peacock at the moment?

See you've moved from the bed of nails to the comfy chair, Shmmeee! :D

Nailed on certainty.

Justin Timberlake?

Don't see this bad luck thing. Against West Ham is the one time I've truly felt we were actually unlucky.