[Devongone]

Like Dancing I think Danny would have kept us up. He was in a terrible run, but seven or eight games hardly registers in a career of around a thousand games. Career stats suggested he was a good bet to turn things round, specially with a transfer window looming. But Danny was a fans' choice, Mr Allen doesn't like the fans because they don't like him, so he was more than happy to terminate Danny and point to his failure. It was a spiteful, dirty decision. And you might even argue Danny didn't get the resources because DA wanted him to fail. BUT we do also have to recognise that Danny made some poor decisions - Morgan and ending Tommy's career pointlessly at Bradford to name but two. His team urgently needed new blood and he probably needed to head our play in a more exciting direction. He was losing because he was faced with problems (and had created some of 'em too) to which he wasn't finding the solutions. But even coming off that bad run surely no-one thinks he wouldn't have done better than 12 more points that season?

But now we do look second-best from the moment we hand in the team sheets. Individually we don't have a single player now from whom we know we can expect a solid performance. We don't even have an inconsistent player who we know if everything clicks into place could pull the opposition apart. So we lack consistency and we lack flair. Our defence lets in goals, our forwards struggle to score and our midfield can't impose itself as either an attacking or defensive force. Pooch is right, the wins we are getting are the best we can do. 36 games is considerable evidence on which to base our potential performance. Whatever the fixture list we'd struggle to win more than 3 games in 10.