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FMS...you've seen CT beat a man? When? I refuse to believe it.

You don't need further punishment...

It seems to me that the club have dropped a ball on the seat reservation system...apparently if tickets are bought in advance then the seats will be reserved, but if bought on the day then fans must find unreserved seating. Previously, it's just been a free-for-all on cup games, which although annoying for ST holders who found themselves displaced, still meant everyone knew where they could and couldn't sit. I can imagine a scenario unfolding now in which some seats saying 'reserved' are reserved and some aren't (as ST holders haven't bought their ticket)...leading to non-ST holders looking for unreserved seats being repeatedly displaced. Obviously not a major issue, but if the club want to satisfy disgruntled ST holders who want their own seat for the game, just make all the reserved seats actually reserved and anyone paying on the day has to find a seat without a sticker on it, just like they normally would.

Yes I admit it's not entirely original...Sunderland used it for Nyron Nosworthy as well. Still, I like it and it could be worth a sing song on Saturday.

Song for Saturday... To the tune of Rehab by Amy Winehouse... THEY TRIED TO GET THE BALL PAST TROTMAN, HE SAID NO NO NO

Prizes for anyone who thinks of one for Pogliacomi....

Always good to put faces to names...

Diego were you the bloke in the long sleeved blue shirt with his wife sat in the centre block on the row from the back then, who went out to defend the guy behind (is he on here as well?)? If so, good on you, and also I was sitting (or standing), right next to you!

OUTSUNG BY 200 FANS, OUTSUNG BY 200 FANS!

Fans were superb...if we weren't 'different class' tonight I don't know when we will be. Same again at Orient hopefully, just with real goals instead of pretend ones!

I'll be there with an O who will be an honorary Latic for the night, before switching allegiances again in time for Saturday...

A few points to answer to... He's not scoring because he's the guy who gets the flick ons...if the defence continue to hoof it up there's very little Ricketts can do with his back to goal 30 yards away. When we play on the floor he looks more like scoring (a la Walsall). You can't expect him to take the ball down with four defenders between him and the goal (one of which is normally holding him as he's collected an aerial ball), skin them all and rifle it in. He's doing all he can with the hoofball that the defence seem intent on playing. Wolfy - well we tried the Wolfy/Davies combination last week and struggled. The high balls were still being pumped forward but there was noone to take them down and redistribute the ball to the midfield/other striker. If we're going to play long ball then Wolfy is way too small to be the target man. 'Ricketts might have scored the chances Davies missed today but the fact is Ricketts wasn't there to miss the chance' - well the glaring opportunity today came when Davies rounded the keeper and managed to miss the target...he only got the ball because of Rico's superb pass through. The reason he wasn't there to miss the chance was because he's the one who set up the chance in the first place. He was far and away our best player today.

If Eardley/Hazell/Gregan/Trotman continue to thump the long ball up in the air towards him, the best he can do is flick it on/hold it up (which he does very well). Who creates chances for him? Nobody. If Liddell or Taylor could get a cross to beat the defender on the edge of the box then he may stand a chance. Davies isn't going to set him up - he's too greedy and on the rare occasions on which he tries to pass he loses the ball.

For those who recognise that he is a quality player, and that if Davies had the same nous and an iota of positional sense we'd be scoring a helluva lot more goals at the moment. I'm fed up of the idiots who hurl abuse at him every time he 'loses' the ball, i.e. holds it up or flicks it on, waiting for someone, anyone, to for one time take a gamble and make a run. I was flabbergasted to hear the jeers today when he was announced 'Star Man' - he was excellent today.

Have you learnt nothing from the last few years? We need continuity. Chopping and changing does not work. If Craig Davies had successfully tapped in the empty net he had in the first half and we'd gone on to win today you would not be calling for his head. It's a petty, fickle, knee-jerk reaction to demand him to be sacked. It's a good job TTA have more sense than you do.

Best player on the pitch today by a country mile. Won everything and put some good balls through to Davies, who wasted them. He held it up brilliantly, but noone could be arsed to make a run.

Don't be so ridiculous. Things need sorting but sacking the manager is the last thing we need. When will people start to realise that a knee-jerk reaction and continuing chopping and changing the manager doesn't work? Anyway, it's not the manager, it's the players. The people who want Shez out are the same idiots who think Ricketts is lazy, useless and does nothing for the team.

Name? Josh Stolberg Location? Manchester/Nottingham (term time) How Long Supporting the Tics? 13 years Best away match you've been to? Stockport 1-2 'Tics, Eyresy's last minute winner. All Time Greatest Player? Warney Biggest Rivals (in your eyes)? City, though I get the feeling the rivalry sentiments are not reciprocated...

Right I'm moving over to the so called 'dark side'...sadly JKL seems to have died its death. It's no longer a football forum - all that gets posted is off topic debates that too often cross over into downright racism. Please make me welcome.