Bumpa

This is becoming very predictable isn't it?

Not at all, sometimes we have a crucial 24 hours, sometimes it's a crucial 48 hours and now they've sprung a surprise crucial 72 hours on us - I wonder what could be next...

ANd if the club was marketed properly

A bit of marketing could have been a big, easy and relatively cheap win for us over the last 10 years, but for some bizarre reason Ellis maintained a strategy of talking us down.

It was probably some flawed logic around the benefits of lowering our expectations and reputation, such as:

1 - Spend less on players

2 - Lower quality players = lower wages

3 - We'd be grateful for any small victory

4 - He could tell us which players he was after to sell a few extra season tickets, safe in the knowledge that they would turn us down

Now I don't want Doug to flog us to the first person that comes along with enough cash, but why must everything he does be painfully protracted?

The Chelsea and Pompey take-overs went through in a couple of weeks at the most.

He's done OK under DOL...if his scoring run had continued he would have been a starter, but I see him as a decent squad player.

BFR's brand of cavalier football was great to watch, so he gets my vote

I think that the manager should give them a few handy hints and confidence boosting reassurances, then work with them in training to help them improve.

It's a bit radical, but it must just work