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Not true. If you refer to the league tables over the past 15-20 years, you'll find that 74 points (or fewer) is sufficient for a playoff place around a quarter of the time. This might be one of those years, but we certainly shouldn't feel comfortable with that number of points. The team results...

You cited those teams not because of league position, but because they were 'scoring goals and tight at the back'. Yet CCFC's goal ratio is right up there among them. That's the broader point I'm trying to make - we're doing CCFC a disservice by picking away at the defence. The team is...

That's a straw man argument. I didn't suggest they were mutually exclusive. A rather erratic selection. CCFC's goal ratio (1.69 in the Robins era) is better than or equal to Swindon (1.48), Doncaster (1.59), Leicester (1.70) and Tranmere (1.70 - and top of our table). It doesn't really...

It can be in any number of ways: Robins spends more time on offence than defence on the training ground; Robins chooses to distribute his transfer funds to the favour of the attack, etc. Football is not a game of perfection, though. You don't have teams who score bags of goals and concede...

Defence can be overrated. Since Robins came in, CCFC have scored 44 goals to 26 conceded. That is a 1.69 ratio. To give some comparison, the team in first place, Tranmere, have a ratio of 1.70. So a leaky defence really doesn't matter if the team is scoring plenty of goals. Sometimes a...

Trends can be useful, but I'd hesitate to read too much into them with a full third of the season to go. They just seem too small. CCFC, under Robins, are currently on course for around 74 points. I took a look at the points of the sixth-placed team over the last 15 years or so, but only...

The playoffs remain a tall order. To give some idea: CCFC have averaged a whopping 1.83 points per game since Robins took the hotseat. The sixth place team, Sheffield United, have averaged 1.65 points per game all season. Despite this, Sheffield United would still pip CCFC to sixth spot...

To be fair, there is a long history in football of would-be signings showing up to view their prospective team's games. When you also consider that Earnshaw is looking for a new club, it would seem a rather safe bet that there's some mutual interest there. It wouldn't be surprising in the least...

The key reason why age doesn't matter is because CCFC are in the rare and luxurious position of just needing an impact player. The team is flying, the squad's quality and depth is good at this level, the manager is sound. This isn't like an off-season rebuilding job where tons of clunkers are...

That is really a very decent pedigree for L1. His age is irrelevant.

MK Dons are in a much more preferable situation to ours. But CCFC need not worry - if they give it their best in training, give it their best on the pitch, and implement Robins's (presumably sound) tactics, then good things will fall their way by the end of the season. That is the kind of...

A quick hat tip to Video World on Daventry Road. The only independent video/DVD rental store I can think of that was there before and after Blockbuster. Long may it continue.

I suggest you get a primer on economics. Try this one. Confusing. You seem to be both lambasting strong unionisation, yet also lamenting poor deals for workers. Which is it? Because politicians are exceptional at getting us to despite our own best interests and knife our neighbour, be they...

It's an interesting turn of events. The likes of HMV, Waterstones and Blockbusters put a lot of local music, book and video stores out of business. Now they are collapsing in the digital age. The irony here could be the return of some independent stores, fulfilling a market need for vintage...

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The club was bottom of the table and eight points from safety at the time of the sale. It is (continuing) madness to think that his sale was in any way significant to the club's fate. If anything, selling a player before their value/contract started to plummet was one of the few smart decisions...

Harsh - junior school pupils are expected to turn up on time.

There is no gain in trying to compare the squads. One was led incompetently, the other competently.

Sid Meier's SimGolf was a little gem, too!

I think you will find this is exactly the plan that many had for getting rid of SISU - staying away, 'starving the fookers out', 'start all over again if needs be'. Think there's a bit of coffee sniffing going on.