GrahamC

Mark Cooper is the tip..

Seeing as we just played the second half with a keeper with no first team experience I'd say a draw away to a Premiership side was none too shoddy. I doubt the players will be anywhere near as damaged as they would have been by the Charlton score, either. Let's hope we have one or two new faces by Tuesday and get the win we need.

What a bunch of ******* losers.

Fair play to you for reasoned debate. For what it is worth from (as my post history will show) from about two weeks before the season started I've believed we were in a relegation battle and still do. Talk of a mid table finish (or 10th) is fanciful. I don't think we'll finish any higher than 18th and it could well be very tight. However just because (for reasons none of us know) our summer transfer strategy was a shambles that doesn't mean that January's will be, does it? Last summer went pretty well. Some of the stuff posted on this thread is ridiculous and to also reply to the thread above I'm actually pleased Cotterill is going ballistic at the players after the game..

Zero from Bolton?

But not that long ago you were posting about us having enough quality with last season's players (plus Kodjia) to finish half way.. This league is tough, we are usually competing (though admittedly not today) with teams who have better players on far more money and with much greater budgets. I also don't believe for a minute Cotterill expected us to make just two permanent signings this summer. Face the facts we are a small fish and are in a real fight to stay up and that nonsense from Freeman midweek (perhaps he should concentrate on making a greater contribution to games once in a while?) is best ignored. That having said we aren't rock bottom, either and so need to stay in the game until the window opens and we can evaluate what we can get and afford.

Agreed but I also expected a defeat last week. Two defeats in eight or (nine?) before today suggests to me he isn't in immediate danger but in a league where pretty much everyone can beat everyone, we need to stay in contention until January, which despite the pessimists on here, will be when our fate is decided on the basis on what business we do, I feel.

Eh? One made at HT, one after 58 minutes and the last with 22 minutes to go..

So you'd play one of our first choice defenders out of position? Interesting.

I have bad news for you, we don't have a like for like replacement on our books so in all probability we'll be weaker next week.

He couldn't even make QPR's subs bench today, hardly seeing him as essential, are they?

Yep, even though their goal was, according to one of their fans "miles" offside.. Clarke in.

He played under Alex Ferguson, so he thinks every decision should go for his team..

As tinpot and utterly shit as you'd expect..

Sturrock has Parkinson's disease, not MS.

In truth didn't really see today as a game we'd get anything from. Next week is when we need to start winning.

I'd guess Little and Williams as wing backs, Ayling back to RCB and Bryan in midfield myself.

Looks like the Phil Mustard rumour was wrong, just been announced that he'll have a benefit at Durham in 2016.

Rumours are Chris Rogers in as the overseas player, Tom Abell to bat at three next year, Phil Mustard of Durham to be the new wicket keeper, Roelof Van Der Merwe already announced as a new signing.

Will we still be saying this when we play Derby, Wolves, the other 2 sides who came down, Reading, etc? Our defeat there is Sheffield Wed's only win so far by the way, they'll be nearer the bottom than the top in my opinion.

Really? In what way? Second smallest ground in the division, a budget that struggles to attract players, look at it realistically, we aren't playing Fleetwood or Crewe any more..

I'm very happy and will be happier still if we score two or three more. I just wish some would realise: 1) this is a tough league 2) we are a bottom six side.

I see that play off challenge that so many on here were telling me about in July isn't materialising so far..

Big call to bring Frankie back, rest of the team as expected.

ELO were great, completely uncool but made some brilliant music..