....who seem to be awaiting orders from central command, for the majority of fans, this looks like a re-run of 'Scotty2'..... A season where the plot's been well and truly lost.
We have an apparently detatched manager juggling about an apparently sullen team and ploughing on through a choppy sea, quietly determined to doggedly pursue his theory on tactics and team selection regardless.
As fans, the prospects are not promising. We seem to be treated like rather dim supermarket customers expected to supply blind faith and support on cue, to question is to be regarded as disruptive and solely responsible for the teams downturn in performance.
We can endlessly debate which formation and which player will or won't do a job, but until we get the foundations of this thing sorted we're just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
REMEMBER, it was the optomists who said the war would be over by Xmas...... positive action wins things not wishful optomism.

I'LL DO THAT LATER........ .... works calling..............

the sun comes up and the sun goes down
and lil ole artlepool keeps turning around
life gets tedious don't it

the dogs run off
and the hens won't lay
we signed just one
and he cant't play
life gets tedious don't it

the teams all around are flying high
they all seem to be able to buy
we are stuck in some old time lag
wondering if he will get the bag [ ok it rhymes with bag right bag sack get it]
life gets tedious don't it

it is sad to think we have come this far
and there is nothing left in the old jam jar
the call goes out from near and far
just one more push please I O R
life gets tedious don't it