Northern Red

Must not get giddy, must not get giddy....

Little bit surprised that he's only made 1 change, given that we supposedly looked a bit tired on Saturday. I guess he's having to plan it game by game with the amount we've got to play at the moment.

Showing his usual graciousness in defeat I see...

The question would be why it took going 3-0 down and a probable half time bollocking to get them playing.

Balls

Swindon 2-1 down

If we get another then Colchester's collective arse will go.

WUM

Jesus wept

Little bit surprised that Saville isn't in the squad. Though with Wilbs back on the bench someone needed to make way.

Fielding, Little, Bryan, Ayling, Flint, Williams, K.Smith, Pack, Freeman, M.Smith, Agard. subs: Richards, Cunningham, Tavernier, Elliott, Wagstaff, Emmanuel-Thomas, Wilbraham.

Man up you bunch of girls. Same position as we were in 2 hours ago, 1 less game to go.

Get In!

I thought Cotts called it pretty spot on, we weren't particularly good tonight and perhaps Sunday took more out of them than people might think. Had Gillingham scored a 2nd when they were on top from 30-60 mins then it could have got very nervy, as our intensity and rhythm had totally gone at that point. The Smith injury stoppage was actually a blessing in disguise, as it gave us a few minutes to regroup and we looked a lot more comfortable after that and saw the game out with few alarms, if anything looking the far more likely side to score.

That's exactly it, and it's why people get so frustrated when he looks like he can't be arsed.

I might have missed it, but when did Reid come back? I thought his loan had been extended.

Agreed, and me and the rest of our group said as much during the game. The ref was inept, but we didn't deal with it very well. Far too much time spent arguing with him when it was obvious to everyone that he wasn't going to give us anything. We're going to get refs like that occasionally, as every team does, and we've got to cope better with it.

Come on son, I know it's the weekend so you get to stay up late and all, but you really should be in bed by now. P.S. Try not to shag your sister this time.

Can't agree sorry, Rich has been on here for 10 years if not longer, and has always come across as very fair, honest and non-confrontational. He has to, as he's married to a City fan

Some on here need to give their heads a serious wobble.

Given the shambolic way this club is run from the top downwards, it really wouldn't surprise me at all if they'd only just twigged a couple of days ago that everyone else was playing on the Friday except us.

Actually wouldn't surprise me.

Isn't it amazing how the club continually manage to shoot themselves in the foot? Having last week received much praise from fans for what appears to be a well-thought out, effective plan for organising ST renewals whilst the AG redevelopment is going on, they then revert to type with this. I'd like to say I'm surprised but I'm really not. I was planning to be there on the Saturday as I'm down visiting family for the weekend, can't go now as I can't get down on Friday. Luckily I haven't bought a ticket yet. I particularly feel sorry for the Notts County fans, though I suspect they're just as angry at their own club.

Obviously going for a repeat of the "if the fans can't work out the formation then hopefully the opposition won't either" approach. To be fair it worked against Orient.