Fatfan, firstly thank you for pointing that out, - and yes I did say that suggesting "the team was not good enough" was not the way to encourage people to come to Palmerston. I would still say that I was correct to say that, - and most certainly at that point in time.

Teams do and will go through bad patches, and we the supporters just have to accept that. The difference though comes at the business end of the season, - when we could find ourselves being catapulted into the abyss without warning and thus a line has to be drawn which cannot be crossed.

It is the easiest thing in the world to criticise a football manager from the side-lines, and I'm pretty certain that Naysmith is doggedly trying his best. If we were safe from relegation, - we would simply be bemoaning the fact that we've missed the play-offs (for promotion) for another year and probably be debating the pro and cons of Queens' chances next season, - but this is an entirely different matter altogether.

Dobmeister, - in essence I am addressing your point about the manager and "going through the motions" in the aforementioned paragraph, but the time for talking has stopped and the club needs someone to convert the talk into action.

If we were sitting on 40 points after 7 straight defeats, - we'd all be (quite rightly) up in arms that we were potentially throwing away an automatic promotion spot and possibly a play -off place too, - and that would be bad enough, - but the spectre of automatic relegation has now raised its ugly head, - and it would be remiss of any of us to sit idly by and watch it happen.