The View From Churchmans

I've just read a staggering Daily Torygraph report which says, and I quote, "Such was the quality of this promotion contest, past heroes such as Terry Butcher and Alan Brazil may not have felt out of place as George Burley's team stretched their unbeaten league run to 10 games." Come again? OK, we weren't bad for parts of the first half, but the reporter wasn't watching the same game as the rest of us. ... More...

I'm not sure we can learn much from this. We were on fire in the first half an hour or so, but as West Brom began to get more and more physical, one by one our players started to get very intimidated, and by the end only the very hardest (Scowie, Matt and Jim) were prepared to mix it. We lost our shape and quite frankly, we looked like the side with ... More...

(FA Cup Tie) Well, overall it was a fine performance and one we didn't deserve to lose. I think Southampton were better than they looked, having come to contain us without any particularly positive ambitions, but most of our team rose to the occasion and we had most of the better individual performances on view. What says it all though is that despite all our possession and effort, Richard had as many saves to ... More...