SE: "I think it's a commendable performance when you consider we were without the likes of Sean Raggett, Dan Gore, who's heartbroken because he's going to miss a few weeks, we're missing (Johnson) Clarke-Harris, we're missing (Shaun McWilliams), we're missing (Alex) MacDonald. Do they start tonight? probably most of them do."

Translation: Well done on drawing against a team who haven't lost at home in the league since October (and who have only lost one in the league in almost three months). We were missing a player who got injured whilst watching from the bench on Saturday, another who I mouthed off about being a lightweight, but it's seemingly more serious than I'd very publicly suggested, and a few others. To be clear, despite my praise for tonight's effort, most of these lads who are injured would get a game ahead of those who played. I'm off now to speak to God.

Slowly he's getting a bit out of this incomplete squad as he gets to know them, and yet his man-management skills are still utterly useless. Gets a decent result then implies the injury yo-yo (Raggett), the completely immobile JCH, and/or a couple of players who were always assumed to be second string, would have started ahead of those putting the graft in.

11 points from either position of concern in the league, a season where there have been no standout performances we'll remember past May, a squad ready to be broken up again in the summer, a fan base at odds with each other and some of the players (honourable mention to whichever pillock(s) gave Powell a hard time), and the same resounding lack of noise from the Caesar seats about anything they want to do to create a bit of impetus - unless the hotel was meant to do that?!?! Or maybe things will change with the fictional centenary...?

Mediocrity and slipping down the league is fine, but absent leadership and archaic management grates all the more when that's happening.