tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33693089.post-32725937115978280672008-03-16T17:37:00.007Z2008-03-16T21:21:40.868ZWell, we've played the top two and come out with two points. We'd have obviously have liked more, but most importantly we did not lose. To lose ground on either <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bristol City</span> and/or <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stoke</span> would have been suicide and as a result we can look upon the last week as a professional job well done.<br /><br />Certainly Bristol City was, putting it mildly, <a href="http://watfordyellowfever.blogspot.com/2008/03/bristol-city-0-watford-0.html">ugly</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Big Doris</span> missed a penalty and the two teams dug trenches at Ashton Gate and waited for full-time. Yesterday had many parallels with that game, given the result and the missed penalty, but in footballing terms this looked like a different team.<br /><br />We can wave our arms around and conjecture until the bars run dry on the subject of whether <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr Styles</span> reduced our chances of winning the game, but he was equally bad for both teams, and it is not often that both sets of fans sing "You're not fit to referee" while a sent off player shakes the hand of a number of opposition players on his way off the field.<br /><br />What we can say though it that yet again, just as against Leicester, the sending off galvanised the team and the crowd, and hopefully we can carry this through the last eight games.<br /><br />Thankfully, after the Robins lost <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7285108.stm">1-2</a> at home to Plymouth, we have our destiny in our own hands. However, Plymouth, like Hull, who beat Southampton <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7285121.stm">5-0</a> have been on the charge recently, which is a bit of a bugger because we have a long trip to Devon on Saturday and another to Humberside the week after. Lets hope for more of the Stoke performance than the Bristol.<br /><br />P.S. Who's your choice to step up to replace <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eustace</span>, I think my vote might go to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ali Bang Bang</span>.<br /><br />P.P.S. In other news, our game in hand against FA Cup semi-finalists <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barnsley</span> has been moved back to Wednesday 9th April, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jordan Parkes</span> is back out on loan again, this time at Barnet.Billyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02156807131425886620noreply@blogger.com