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By all accounts, the strikers didn't have the puff to do any chasing down. Confidence or not, a couple of fresh bodies would surely have been an upgrade in a defensive situation such as that.

Forget about SISU and forget about the quality of players AT has for a moment. Gallacher called it - AT didn't make substitutions and tactical adjustments when necessary. He could see it a mile away...why does AT keep getting a completely free pass from some?

Fan representation wouldn't work. Look how that London Supporters Club thread turned out - a bitter division because the fans could not divulge all that they had heard. A regular fan forum with plenty of Q&As ought to be enough.

Quite right. Cody could turn out to be a star; everybody ought to be rooting for that. The issue in this thread really isn't with AT or CM, but with the immediate responses abdicating AT of any potential liability ("Le Fondre was his first choice", "it's naive to believe he really wanted...

Ranson, Dulieu, Clouting and Fisher have been spokespeople for SISU.

But you cannot just accumulate players forever. Every player will need to be sold, lost, or got rid of at some point. I'd argue any day of the week that the problem was that SISU often held onto players for too long; cashing in earlier on some of the players would have kept the books ticking...

No, what's laughable (in a 'if you don't laugh you'll cry' manner) is the knee-jerk, unquestioning, aggressive support of AT at every opportunity. There's big talk of McDonald being sold after only five months of him being here. Some fans, justifiably, raise questions about that in...

AT said "I have been looking at him for a considerable time and he was my number one choice as a recruit so I am delighted we have secured his services." It's not naive to believe it if AT said so. He had absolutely no need to use that language otherwise. He could just as easily have said...

We've always put the cart before the horse - did so in the Premiership, doing so under SISU. As long as we remain so bloody choosy with our circumstances (e.g. a quarter-final v Chelsea with Cov fan owners), we'll always be a small club.

Cringeworthy statement. Self-deluded, self-important, self-appointed.

The problem there is that it wasn't integrated as part of a bigger plan; all the board was doing was driving the club deeper into debt (whilst profiting) with no strategy for long-term progress. I think fans can actually be quite understanding if ownership are transparent and open about the...

Trolling of the most transparent nature! Good chuckle though.

Hopefully the FFP rules will create greater parity, but you have to wonder how many teams actually optimise their budgets and resources to gain a creative edge. For example... 1. Earmarking £100k per year to hire multiple scouts in cheap leagues (L2, non-league, Scandinavian leagues etc)...

Exactly right. The final three months of Dowie's tenure: 11 points from 15 games; goal difference of -12; average points-per-game was 0.73 (the team that finished last in the table, Colchester, had an average of 0.82 across the season). CCFC tanked from fifth in the table to 19th over that...

I think Roussel was initially on trial, then his club tried to extort us after he did better than expected.

He's the same age as Keane was when he led our strikeforce in the Premiership.

SISU won't ruin AT's reputation - only he can do that. There are plenty of managers who get due kudos for what they achieve with limited resources. I'm sure he must be frustrated with the lack of money and continual losses, but he must surely also be canny enough to know he has it made here...

It is probably worth clarifying that Eakin is no longer the presenter on matchdays - that would be Stuart Linnell. As such, I think a stronger case can be made against Stuart's interference as he ought to be more of a moderator/interviewer. Eakin's post-match role is now effectively that of a...

Because... a) He could get injured and scupper the entire deal b) We are relegated anyhow

Indeed. As I said in the original post, we couldn't sell out Highfield Road (23k seats) when we were in the Premiership. Richardson spent a ton, we didn't win, and effectively left us where we are now. That's where 'spending to win' got us. We need to stop thinking of a sugar daddy as the...