I've said before & I'll say it again & I don't care how unpopular it makes me, Steve Evans is not good enough to be a Championship manager. I concede he's half decent in the lower leagues when he's got a good playing budget. He got lucky last season mainly because the three teams below us were truly awful, but he'll be found out this season. Today should have shown fans how tactically naïve he is (long balls up to a 5 foot 7 centre forward), whereas Robinsons tactics were spot on.
Rumours abound that Messrs Evans & Robinson had a set to after the game (again).
The scattergun was out again in the summer & it was like last year repeating itself
Swift..............Thorpe
Ward.............Brandy
etc.etc

Totally agree Brad. I have to say, I have never been comfortable with SE at the helm, I've always been in the Zilzal and Kempo camp, but his record speaks for itself so I have to give the benefit of the doubt, but it has been my view that the success of the last three years has been more through accident rather than design.

This year the catchphrase has been 'Quality over quantity' and on paper at least, the quality does seem to be there, but so is the quantity, 11 so far is it? The wholesale stripping out of players and the loss of quality loanees leaves a threadbare core, a squad of limited substance.

I'm old enough to remember the 80/81 season, Porterfield brought in, Mullen, Moore, Towner and Seasman, he also resurrected Fern who had been wallowing in the reserves. Four new faces that supplemented the existing core of players, we all remember where that took us. Then when Hughes took over he needed to tweek the winning format a bit, in comes, Mimms, McBride, (a bit of a disappointment) and Gow and for the first season at least we were a worthy 2nd Division (Championship) outfit that norrowly missed out on promotion to the 1st Div. Players brought in to add to the format, not the format changed for the players as we saw on a weekly basis last season.

I appreciate its a different game these days but I fail to see the benefit of an annual cull. We can't do much about players who want to leave, nor loanees who return after their loan spell is over, but the reliance on loan players may succeed for a while but what is left when they return to their respective clubs, (re Tavernier and Martinez.) ? Not much.

I'm also baffled with the appointment of the coach, a great idea, but when you look at the pedigree of the current in***bent it dosent instill much confidence.

We will have to wait and see. Yesterday was 'After the Lord Mayors show' as they say, but a bitter disappointment after all the pre season hype

SE can talk the talk, so far he's been lucky and landed on his feet.....much to our delight, but will we rue the day?

I don't believe you can stay up in this league by being lucky. That's nonsense. We stayed up because we won enough points to stay up.

I don't disagree that there is a really good chance of us being relegated this year but there is a chance that we could overtake Mk Dons by the end of August too.