[madsteve]

Our squad is the best bunch of players since our PL days. The problem we have is that other clubs are doing far more with similar or worse squads of players.

Look at the Ipswich, Bournemouth & Brentford squads & they are no better than ours but they have achieved far more.

Also, we are on the slide. We got some points early on but now we play boring football, rarely score and are going backwards.

First Eight Matches:

P8 W4 D3 L1 F8 A4 Pts15

Second Eight Matches:

P8 W0 D5 L3 F4 A10 Pts5

Next Seven Matches

P7 W3 D2 L2 F5 A7 Pts11

We shouldn't get complacent and think that we are back to our early season form. Two of our three recent wins were against the bottom two sides & the other was due to an injury time strike by Dielna. We don't score enough goals and we have started to concede more at the other end.

However, the margins are small. I do feel that if we got a new manager in today (the right one) then we could be at least Playoff contenders. However, MM is not going to spend money to lift us from 13th to 9th. He will save his money & invest it when it makes a difference to our division for next season.