Dr Gloom

we're the draw specialists like. if we keep this ratio up we'll finish with 38 points, probably not enough to stay up his year

that's what i thought about our recent run of games. that's why i'm worried. we should have picked up a least a couple more wins than we have done over the recent run of games. to be fair, if we can't dispatch the likes of stoke and wigan at home, i'm not sure we are good enough to stay up

that's always been the case in recent years. this year, i'm not so sure

i live in london. all my mates down here, who don't have the misfortune of having to watch us every week, keep telling me stuff like: "you'll be alright. you're too good to go down." "any team with owen, martins and viduka will be alright" "there are worse sides in the division than you" i used to agree. on paper, it's hard to fathom why we quite so crap. i never expected us to have a good season but i always thought we had a bit too much class to be quite so in the shit. but in reality we can't beat stoke, wigan or hull at home and the home ties are not going to get any easier. i thought we were too good to go down but it's starting to look like we're not good enough to stay up.

i'd forgive him if he started doing his job seriously. ie get rid if wise and don't appoint another director of football. give kinnear enough money to spend in january and stop flogging decent players like milner and replacing them with donkeys like xisco. i think the majority of us would forgive him too. no one expects us to be world beaters, but the only way we're going to improve is by keeping our better players and only selling players we can replace with them with better quality.

yup. when i signed up to them i said i only wanted it for a month (which i thought was the minimum subscription), so i could watch the calzaghe fight. they basically said fine. then when i came to cancel, they said they needed 30 days notice so i ended up paying for two months. there was no mention of this by the salesman when i paid up - if there was i would have had to cancel on the same day as subscribing. be warned

young, pacey and left footed...those sorts of players grow on trees so it'll ne no big loss

for a stag, it's probably got to the classic cheesy pub crawl taking in the quayside and the bigg market ending up in idols, or whatever it's called these days, for some jack the rippers

i wouldn't be at all surprised if we do go down. we're a rudderless ship and our performances so far don't suggest we're too good to go down the main worry is the thing that in other seasons, there's always been at least one or two clubs that looked certainties to go down by this stage of the season - it's wide open this year and there are three places up for grabns instead of one or two. the fact that wen't winning the home bankers like wigan and hull is a concern too

er, but the rest of us lose too, which isn't nice

it's hard to believe just how consistently crap we've become since then

no one wants us, we don't care

i still think we're short of a top class left back and i'm happy with beye and collocini. basong looks decent and probably deserves a chance ahead of taylor. taylor's a funny one, on his day looks top class but a little too eratic for me.

poor bloke

fuck me, steve bruce? has it really come to that? assuming we get a new owner in with a bit of cash, i'd give the job to a foreign coach with a bit of nous who might attract a decent player. someone like sven, deschamps, hiddink, rijkard etc. i can't see any english coaches out there that are good enough

a lot of over-priced english players in there. still can't believe we got £12m for milner like

not sure about that, but smith should definitely go before shola

Tom you are embarrassing yourself. yeah right, it's tom who's embarrassing himself. not the loser spuds fan that trolls opposing fans' forums

you have to feel sorry for anyone that comes from borough. what a truly horrible part of the world, a nothing town renowned for chemical plants, pollution and not much else. not only that but a football team so insignificant that not one of the nearby clubs consider them major local rival. it's no surprise really that boro fans resort to spending time on ourmessage board trying to wind us up given that they consider us their big rivls. it's more difficult to explain danny b's actions mind. what's his excuse?

what's going on in this thread?

the fact that we can go from bottom to 8th in two games shows how quickly things could go tits up again, it's that tight. this season is all about survival first and foremost

can't be that easy if you live in west sussex though can it?

good piece that

i don't see how we have much choice but to stick with him until the new owners come in. it's not like there's a queue of managers beatind down our door - hence why he got the job in the first place. and fair play, he's doing a canny job