On the pitch, this clubs like a ship in a rough sea, one minute we're up on top of the waves and next we're in a trough, there's nothing of any interest to see and the Captain just stares into the distant horizon, unperturbed, confident in his own ability... pity the crew and passengers aren't and why did you bring us this way in the first place Cap'n....?
That's just the way I feel.

Two very good posts IMO

land ahoy - and Captain Holloway is ready to take command, I hope

I wouldn't be too pessimistic - of the five games coming up in December I reckon we will get at least 10 points, which will put us back in touch with the play-off spots.

if Ben Clark stays at the back I'll be a lot more confident - but if it means giving Nelson and Collins a game, then Wilson would drop him to the bench, being the stubborn man that we know him to be. Conversations last night also turned round to last season's splitting up of Nelson and Clark, and keeping Clark on the bench for half a season to keep Antwi in the side.
Clark and Porter should be the first names on the team sheet.
I have a feeling that Wilson never liked any of Neale Cooper's players from that team which gave his Bristol City team a lesson in football during that 2nd leg of the play offs. They were unbelievably spawny that night and nothing else.
He couldn't wait to ditch them all one by one (Darrell Clarke, Eifion, Barron) and if they were still here he kept them out of the team if he could (Sweeney, Clark, Porter). Nobody can tell me that Darrell and Eifion would be worse than Foley, or what Robson has been over the years.
Only Nelson and Humphreys have been regulars under Wilson in his time here from that old team.

We will see, Mr Ripper

that's the way I'm looking at it MJ - we need a decent buffer zone to the bottom four. One point from the last 12 sees us just 6 points above the drop zone now.

I always immediately look how far we are clear of the bottom four before looking upwards as a natural reaction!

Mick tait was in the stand last night so maybe he fancies another go???

he was in for the Carlisle job recently, not that he'll get it like.

"Alone, alone, all all alone / Alone on the wide, wide sea / But Christ would take no Pity / On my soul in agony."

When I see attendances of barely 3000 I'm seriously beginning to worry about the future.
I hope I'm wrong but I can't help feeling the good days might be gone, and IOR soon to join them.

I don't know who's to blame old wizened one but whoever it is it doesn't change my impression.

The ship lacks leadership, there seems to be no enthusiam from the bridge or from the owners boardroom .. it's as though things are kept humming along, but the ship is going nowhere, it's like the captain of the ship and its owners are content to let it go nowhere very fast .. is the captain looking for a new ship and sick of this one and is the owner thinking of buying a bigger ship or getting out of the business altogether...? You can get by with an inspirational skipper or an ambitious owner, both preferably, but when they both give the impression they'd rather be somewhere else, check the provisions in the lifeboats....now for the shipping forecast, there are warnings of gales in Portland, Wight and Dover...... etc.

Snowy, can you PM me your dealers number?
Obviously good stuff.

Love Hearts...I'll drop you a couple of packets in next time I pass the day centre..... wrap that travel rug round your knees now, you don't wanna catch cold.

five winnable games in December just enough for boom and bust captain Dann to get his feet back under the gunnels
win three lose two puts his average up
but it has been said already there is more to this situation than meets the eye
why would IOR want the ground if they were ready to set sail
i suppose you could sell the ship easier once the dock dues are paid
are the ship owners just sitting back waiting for the captain to walk the plank
or just sitting back but ready to pump out the bilges when the time comes and the tide is right
they could be waiting to start the next 100 years with a bang
as a friend of mine said to me today after reading the stats on the last hurrah that the cabin boy had more shots yesterday than the two encubants, the bo sun and his mate who should have done better,
he reckons that the cabin boy should be pushed up to the bow with a n other and drop the convict as he looks tired
and keel haul the rest of them

The captain is 'happy' on the good ship Victoria, until a better one comes along ... trouble is if you don't handle the ship you've got well, no one will want you to run theirs....oh dear ..... warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne and Dogger.

Dogging?

Away speak english next time, the stupid boat rubbish is just confusing to someone like me, who has never well, been on a boat.

Tough... .. if you think I'm gonna do pictograms for you, you can %&$£+&*^%

I sence an ice berg coming in view,

..... steered towards by the man who put the 'Tit' in Titanic....