Fair comment Wilf. I'm not convinced by Radford at this time but the problem can't just be pinned on him as the players are letting him down. We've just got to hope he can turn things round.

What happened to Wilf's Whiffs this week?

Who was that? What happened?

It was mentioned by Radders that some bloke stuck a finger up at Pearson during the match and hurled some abuse at him like "I'm not coming to watch this BLEEP again!"

Ban him! We can't have that sort of thing in the quiet side of the library.

Reasonable conclusion to draw. I also have said for a while that I think Pearson will give Radford time and I hope he does. Radford needs to learn from his naïve comments to the media after this game - it's not his role to criticise the paying supporters of the club and he needs to stay well clear of that. Also it's best not to imply that he doesn't have a solution to the issues although I think that was just sheer frustration. I like his honesty in many of the things he says - he actually says what many have said on here about the players' performances for years.

It's recruitment that has messed up this club for a long time and McRae seems to me to have set Pearson's plans back at least two years. I hope Motu Tony can do better. We need higher quality players than we have to challenge. Radford's coaching will improve but I don't think we have enough quality on the field as things stand now, particularly in key play making and the 'game-management' area but also other areas. Losing that game on Sunday was a classic example of lacking a general. It's that long since we've had a player of that type I think some fans have forgotten the importance of it. Westy has masked the absence of such a player this year with his outstanding effort and consistency in his play making role but even he can't dictate play in the way that is required and in any case he's out now.

Recently read a quote from the author David Foster Wallace about athletes, couldn't remember it exactly but after digging around found a quote.

"Professional athletes are in many ways our cultures holy men: they give themselves over to a pursuit, endure great privation and pain to actualize themselves at it, and enjoy a relationship to perfection that we admire, reward, and love to watch, even though we have no desire to walk that road oursleves. In other words, they do it for "us", sacrifice themselves for our (we imagine) redemption."

It must be more than five years since I have felt like that about an FC team.

Is what true?