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OK maybe Cooper is a case of my hope overriding my experience! But Ginnelly was so impressive before his injury. It’s odd he’s not being given opportunities.

My view is that this squad has quite a lot of potential. Eom, Ronald, Franco, Cooper and Ginnelly in particular. Yes there are gaps. We need at least one 20-goal striker. Tymon and Key are weak defensively. We need to retain or replace O'Brien and we need at least one more CB. But Sheehan is...

Hence my suggestion on another thread that we give him a one-year rolling contract with a guaranteed option to return to his old job by mutual consent if it doesn't work out and some hefty penalty clauses for any clubs that decide to poach him. We've spent far too much on compensation for...

Well as I understood it, your post said that our players are not very good, Sheehan understands this and that's why he set them up to play "ugly" football against Derby. The Plymouth game showed that Sheehan is perfectly capable of setting his players up to play 'champagne football'. First...

Bold post. Let’s see how it ages.

I’d give him a one-year rolling contract, a guarantee that he can have his old job back any time he decides he’d rather do that and Alan Curtis’s kettle. Least he deserves. And plenty of exit routes for both parties if it doesn’t work out.

So Sheehan has spoken: the tactics against Derby were deliberate. "I'd rather win ugly... than lose pretty". Those of us who said that was the case are not idiots after all! Personally I think it is refreshing to have a manager who tailors our play according to the opposition. It's arguable...

I actually like Jay. He’s like a lazy street sweeper who’s been allowed to slack off for years by a poor boss and a complicit colleague. Still got something in the tank.

My point was not to defend Sheehan’s tactics against Derby, but simply to argue that maybe there was method behind the boring madness.

Fair enough, and I respect that. But I think the consensus after the Derby game was that he set us up badly and only stumbled on a solution at the death. Looked to me like he deliberately parked the bus and then went for the jugular. You might not like that (not sure I do) but it worked and if...

Maybe he’ll set us up more adventurously against Plymouth? Sounds like many posters have decided based on the Derby game that he is either a tactical idiot or Cooper Mk2. Maybe he’s just a pragmatist who cares more about winning than entertaining?

Thanks Lisa. You don’t have to post on a site to read what people say there. But to help you here’s what Keith Haynes posted: “The way Stearman and Sheehan celebrated the goal with wagging fingers tells me that was another well planned strategy. It nearly worked a few minutes before.” Thanks...

I see that Keith Haynes says the dugout did a finger-waving celebration when we took our goal, which he took as proof that they deliberately parked the bus before going for the win.

Thanks for replying, even though you seem to have doubled down on the insult in the process… I’ve been reading your football reviews since the days of dial-up internet and I have the greatest respect for your footballing knowledge. It’s way above mine. I wasn’t at the game. I didn’t see what...

That does include cup games against underdog sides, and pre-season friendlies, obviously. In case you thought I was exaggerating.

Fair points, but if I had a pound for every time we have played a team in the bottom quarter of our division and I’ve worked out where we could end the night in table terms after a 4-0 victory, only to see us lose stupidly after under-estimating the will of the opposition to win and leaving gaps...

Respect. Well I went to Norwich and I didn’t even enjoy the journey. And you got to see a win today.

Derby’s last four games (all wins) were against Preston (above us), Blackburn (also above us), Coventry (play-off contenders) and Plymouth (bottom of the table). On paper, that’s a very good result today against an in-form team. Sounds like it was poor entertainment. Sorry to hear that. Having...

Harsh. I didn’t see the game or manage to listen to it so was dependent on this forum and BBC for updates. He put out a packed defence and negative looking midfield, switched to a much more attacking 4-2-3-1 in the final quarter and won the game. From that perspective the idea that it was a...

Seems like it was a stratagem after all. Fair play.