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No, it's not an opinion. What you quoted were facts. Be as optimistic as you like, that's generally a good quality; but there is a fine line between optimism and denial. I prefer history and stats to give me an idea of what's going to happen. Most thought we were going to do over Forest, but...

That's not a variable. That is pipe-dreaming. If you want to include Juke and the loanees and HH, then you may as well say Juke + signing one + signing two + signings three and four. The team is cash-strapped, nobody comes in before somebody goes out; that's the way it's been for a couple of...

We couldn't fill Highfield Road during our recent peak in the late 90s. That was Premiership football. You can make fair arguments about how SISU have ballsed-up on many fronts, but you cannot blame them for the apathy of the Coventry population. The Cov Telegraph ought to be running a campaign...

CCFC couldn't extract a decent price for him in the summer, not a chance, and it would be an even more dismal fee if we were of L1 status (inevitable then, inevitable now). You can't keep letting people walk for nothing. Wrong. CCFC averaged 0.67 points-per-game while Juke was here. Since...

16 points? 18 points? I'll have a pint of that stuff. The reality is that we average 1.375 points-per-game when we play at home. All things being equal (and they usually are), that would give us 9 - 10 points from the remaining home fixtures. And that's to say nothing of the disastrous away...

You see those 18,000 empty seats at the Ricoh? That is sitting back.

No, but I never said or implied that they didn't. It's irrelevant. The point I made is that you cannot expect a club with so few fans and so little revenue and so little collateral to magically stump up money, especially when faced with imminent financial regulation. The good news for many is...

Balancing the books is not only the responsible thing to do, but it will also be a necessity for most clubs when the FFP rules kick in soon. Plus I find it difficult to criticise any ownership for not spending when we're talking about a 14k attendance with no stadium revenue of which to speak...

Any excuse to diss SISU, any excuse to support Thorn. Some need to do a little reflecting.

You won't find anybody who thinks a replacement will automatically ensure survival - it's merely a forlorn hope. Change gives the club an outside chance at staying up; there is no real basis for believing that the team will survive under AT's watch. There is never a shortage of applicants for...

Wrong. The question has been asked and answered many times before. For me, Carsley or Rioch. Failing that, do a lottery with all the applicants and pick a name out of the hat. There are no guarantees with any manager - it's just about changing the status quo in the hope of a spike in...

I struggle to see the gain in those statistics. "Youth guarantees relegation" - Burnley, the youngest average age, is 11th in the table. "Experience is needed" - Doncaster and Porstmouth, two of the three teams with the highest average age, are in the relegation zone. "You can't win with...

George Graham is 68 this year and hasn't managed a club for a decade. Sometimes people are just past their sell-by dates, even the greats.

A manager needn't be judged on trophies won, playoffs reached, championships secured, or even relegations suffered. He just needs to be judged on what he does with what he's got. That's what creates the separation from ownership. To that extent, AT rightly gets cut a lot of slack because he...

They have borrowed against their stadium though, no? Something CCFC is unable to do.

That's a pretty serious charge. How about some examples? 'Decimated' is a strong word, but yes, AT unquestionably had less to work with. No argument there. That doesn't mean that a historically low number of points is acceptable to all of us.

Ownership and management need to be judged separately. Simple as that. Neither should be used as a bodyguard for the other.

Learn what? What evidence is there that sticking with a manager for an arbitrary period of time leads to greater success?

I fancy we'd say that we're more 'pro-survival' than 'anti-Thorn'.

That's a given, but you shouldn't be trying to walk the ball into the net either. Taking a lot of shots at goal has more benefits than just hoping to score - you increase the tempo of the game, develop a sense of dominance that can demoralise the other team, get the fans going, have strikers...