Saints and sinners
Well, there goes the dream of Champions League football. Gone in the blink of an eye, or the crash of the woodwork (twice) and a string of fine saves. In truth one of our best away performances of the season was only frustrating in so far as it failed to yield the three points we desperately wanted.

In all honesty, whilst last night's performance couldn't be faulted for effort, it's our away form throughout the season which has left us where we are, and collectively the team need to take a cold hard look at themselves and realise that half arsed performnces like those delivered away to Wolves, Bolton, Birmingham, Charlton, Leicester, Leeds, Portsmouth (7 points from a possible 21!) weren't good enough.

As Steve Claridge pointed out on Radio 5Live last night, if you take away four or five of our team the rest are pretty average. A damning description perhaps, but sadly an accurate one.

We can only hope that man utd find some form and do the decent thing by beating Villa, and Liverpool play like they are already on their summer holidays/don't want to get injured before Euro 2004.
- posted by Paul @ 12:36 pm