Do Jamaican's make good footballers?

Behold 13,000 boisterous City fans eagerly anticipating the kick off at 2.55pm on Saturday. I wondered how many of them left the ground satisfied at 5pm that afternoon?

I thought the performance was largely disappointing; even though it is a new team, with the experience on show we still should’ve managed more than a 1-1 draw with Macclesfield. In all honesty I thought we were lucky to scrape the draw; the penalty which lead to the goal was dubious at best.

The positives from Saturday; Barry Conlon – will be an essential cog in the wheel this season. He showed amazing touches and link up play, it is a pity he missed a couple of headers and the initial penalty.

Alex Rhodes – not the chairman’s wife, although she has done a good job in the last few months … the young winger formerly of Brentford showed pace and skill during the first half; although he tired towards the end, I am sure he will be a good acquisition.

The bar – we had been informed that there would be no draft beer this season, only bottles. To our surprise this was not the case and the taps did flow with finest ales (Well, dodgy Carlsberg anyway). Still there was no increase in prices either which was nice and to round things off, the bar maid who I may’ve uncharitably commented upon last year seemed delighted to see us and was indeed chatty and friendly. Will it last?

The negatives – Donovan and Daley; have we not learnt our lessons with these two? Goalkeepers are meant to show confidence through their handling and kicking abilities; Donovan does not and although a good shot stopper he is simply not good enough in other areas. Daley is an enigma – we will probably have to invent some kind of decoding machine to understand what goes on inside his head – wingers use their pace to get down the line and pass the ball accurately to centre-forwards; alas Daley in incapable of this, he should spend some time with Beagrie, Ellis, Waddle, Hendrie et al to find out why they were so good at what they did – it wasn’t always about pace but good passing ability is a minimum requirement. Come back Nicky Sumerbee, the idiot in the CIBA stand is probably long gone now.

Finally, I’ve seen comments already about the Muppets sat behind us in the stand. If I had wanted full commentary on the game, I would’ve got season tickets with Andy Gray and Martin Tyler; these two idiots are like Waldorf and Stadler from the Muppets with their tales of the bleeding obvious, racist analogies and mindless drivel. I can’t cope with these two and the Witches of Eastwick alongside us – I politely asked them if I could get past before the game and they didn’t move so I had to boot their lunchbox on to the row below.

At least we didn’t lose. Onwards to Shrewsbury.