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Remember the days when half the people on this board thought Orr, McAllister and McCombe weren't good enough? Since then we have had 5 managers who wouldn't know a good defender if they fell over one and the longest unbroken chain of crap central defenders on record. Players taking the piss while taking the fans' and Steve's money and getting away with it is now the established culture.

Well, SOD got carted out because of this. It's been the same story all season. We generally put in a decent performance, but either miss sitters or concede idiotic goals. One Manager has been blamed and sacked because of it, whilst the other Manager is having the blame passed on to the players.

Yeah, I'm in no way defending the previous Manager and his poor record - it is quite indefensible. But, had Fielding not had that mad moment v Bradford, Fonts not effed up a simple ball over the top v Cov, Baldock slotted into an empty net away at MK, Balders again put his chance away at Gills, Flint not passed it to Lee Hughes at Vale, Waggy not unnecessarily bundled over his man in injury time at Crewe then SOD might easily have had an extra 10 points on the board and things looking healthier. I've mentioned many times during Sod's reign how the player errors were telling - and that it was the more experienced players making these errors, but it was a futile argument according to most on here. All's I'm now suggesting is that the anti-Sodites bleated on and on about Sod being responsible and yet now all we're hearing from the Cotterettes is how the players individual errors are to blame, when in actual fact, the situation is exactly the same - ergo, was a change at the top necessary? Folks on here can't have it both ways - either the players are at fault or the manager is at fault, not one or the other depending on who you like.

JET being on the bench to be replaced by someone who runs around a bit more seems to be helping

And this is where the anti-Sodites and Cotterettes will be seen to be hypocritical. SOD came in half way through a transfer window with no funds provided to him, with a team in 24th place and 20 games remaining. Cotts came in 4 weeks before a transfer window, with funds being promised, with a team in 23rd place and 28 games remaining. The anti-Sodites blamed SOD for our relegation last season. If we get relegated this season, the Cotterettes will still blame SOD, even though he has taken over a team better placed, with 8 more games and more funds available.

It's not games like this which will determine whether we stay in the division, it's when we play teams around us. Saturday, is a must win.

Did I read somewhere on here that Lansdown said in one of his Q+A's that Warnock applied for the job but wasn't interviewed because they'd already approached SC. Could be I'm doing false memory syndrome here , because if so how ****ing inept/arrogant is that? I have a flawless record when it comes to managerial appointments, and I want that one over there. Because, just because. Trust me I know what I'm doing.

Get our strikers to do it - they'll miss...

It's an improvement on most of our loan signings who get serious injuries after about 5 minutes usually..

He wasn't flourishing! Struggles with the physicality of L1 and the confidence to beat his man.

Well, "hindsight" includes the word 'Hind', as in rear, which is where those who said dropping JET would make a difference to our defensive crisis were talking out of. So, yeah; hindsight.

That shit wing back scored then!

Agreed. Honestly in disbelief at people being happy at our top scorer, top assist maker and all round best player left out

I think SO'D spoke a good game tiz, but not too much evidence on the pitch. In the final analysis he was damned by the team's appalling record under his management. Imo he didn't have alot going for him from what we saw, however tactically astute he may have appeared from his programme notes etc, he was clearly incapable of putting it into practice at AG - similar to the brick wall he hit at Doncaster.

I'll stick my neck out and say that Cotterill doesn't have personality. He has bluff and bluster and very little substance. And I will stand by that.

But, more crucially, no points. Never expected us to get anything here, but it is more the fact SC is starting to show the sort of pointless caution that hobbled and then ruined McInnes' reign. We lined up to try and frustrate a team who are flying, and they predictably tore into us, quickly putting the game out of our reach, and removing almost any point of us bothering to turn up. One shot on target about says it all; even at the darkest times earlier on this season we carried a goal threat, and it is probably the one aspect of our game that needed the least tinkering. But tinker we have, and tonight we chose to start a side with only 3 players who'd scored for us this season; Baldock, Elliott, Flint, and the last of those who's scored more own goals than those for us, including ANOTHER tonight. That isn't to mention us leaving out top scorer and single positive from a dire, dire season on the bench; insane decision. Utterly insane. Only decent thing about tonight it that Rotherham did us a favour and stopped Tranmere taking a step away from the relegation scrap... but that said, our next opponents won with aplomb against a team we couldn't defeat to do exactly that. As I said; expected no points from these two games, but at least expected Cotterill to play a settled team and allow us to try and play our own, primarily attacking game. We have to go for broke now, especially in the next three games, where less than two wins will see us well and truly favourites to go down. If we don't start throwing caution to the wind, playing our best players in the actual positions, and realising that winning every second game is more profitable than drawing them all, we are gubbed. Oh, and El Abd may end up being a decent signing, but considering we've gone from conceding 2 in 3 in the league prior to his arrival, to shipping 8 in 3, I think he perhaps isn't quit the answer to our problems. Just saying.

Wearing a Rovers shirt?

Fixed that for you...

You know, can't help myself but I feel sorry for the bloke. You have to be pretty unlucky to make so many disasterous decisions over such a short period of time. Appears to have slightly more money than me , so that probably compensates a little but when it comes to football he's a talentless embarrassment. Nothing he does makes sense, no continuity in his approach. Damage limitation, rarely the cheap option but always looking for value. Ambition up to a point.

That really has made my night, the sags losing to a team like Accrington Stanley at home, conceding in the last minute Shame I can't enjoy it more

YES, ACCRINGTON SCORED!!!!!!!

And said it then and will say it again.. as many of us have.. he would have been the solution. Not saying Cotts will not keep us up mind just saying as much as Colin divides opinion he would have been a far safer pair of hands for the immediate task of keeping this club in Div 3. But this board like to talk the 'long term plan' game but in reality they act out a short term one... We should be known as Oxymoron City.

I wonder what its like to support a football club with a decent team?

I'm not sure I can be bothered to hang around for SC bulls*** Bingo in the after-match interview.

But I thought he was a defensive liability, and playing with him was like having 10 men?

Steven Davies just scored a great goal for Blackpool.

fair play for trying to remain positive but it's not the necessarily the fact we lose, it's the manner in which we do it!

To be fair he was recovering from injury

Players fighting.. Shame they can't fight when it matters

not sure what you're trying to prove with that...

If we are it will be longer than for a week or two...

just funny how Cunningham is flourishing under SC and seemed shot of confidence under SOD

Steve Torpey. The best centre half we never had.

I'm off to hammer some nails into my testicles as it less painful.

We simply can't keep on going to places, no matter where that may be and say at the end of a loss or even a scrappy draw "they'll be up there come the end of the season, no need to worry." UP THERE is exactly where we should be. I've been the last to criticize this season but we can't keep going on like this, or we're simply doomed and our club is heading for oblivion. Over reaction? Maybe it is, but I've been holding back criticism for a long time and I think I've just woken up. Presuming this is a loss, our next two home games are absolutely ******* crucial. No more excuses City.

Barnett what an opportunity.

Altitude sickness?

94.9fm or 104.6fm,

I'm going to give the opposite opinion to the majority of the posters. I think this is a good team selection! Although I rate JET, this doesn't mean I feel he has to be selected for each game. Even top teams in the Premiership rotate players and operate on the. " horses for courses" principle. IMO, in this game, City need to be able to break at speed from defence. A lot of posters seem to have forgotten Barnet's performance earlier in the season and have dismissed him as a good player. To me he is the ideal player for this sort of game on a heavy pitch.

May be, just may be a player who joined us at midday today might not be a logical starter? He'd hardly know his team mates' names, let alone their pluses and minuses.

I cannot believe the attitude of some people here who believe that ability and commitment are mutually exclusive

I just hope there isn't anything else to it? Due to Reid also being left out I don't think there is as it's clearly a more direct approach. Staggered that some are happy at JET being left out. Nothing amazes me with BCFC though.

Had a bad last two games, and we missed Pack Saturday. I think Pack is one of the best players we have, but people don't give him enough credit. He is very much like Cole Skuse, a player who does all the dirty, unnoticed work, until he doesn't get played. The two games we have lost under SC, he hasn't played in both. Also, he is the only player, who comes and collects the ball from defense, and will turn a defense into attack.

Yeah and with the state of this pitch it won't be pretty. We have clearly come for a point. Disappointing team selection to say the least.

I'm not one prone to pessimism, but looking at that team I hope Barnett likes have balls smashed at his head from 40 yards away...

It's the bloody Freeman again

Have they laddered yet?!!