[Devongone]

I must say Warnock's selections surprised me. I was hoping you might hang on in there and lose by just one or two. Now it's a bigger job to build some belief in the team after it has been demonstrated how much they are inferior to the best in the division. But there are teams you can beat and the experience younger players gain by simply playing is invaluable. There is nothing to beat proper competitive games to develop players and many of your team have many seasons ahead of them in their careers. Look at Amad Diallo at Sunderland who was looking like a bit of a waste of a kit at Man Utd. Tony Mowbray just puts him on the pitch in proper games and he shines. Man Utd could find they have more wingers than touchlines for them to hug.

Of course you might also turn out like me, a lifelong socialist. I marched on from defeat to defeat with our eventual victory the light at the end of my dark tunnel. I'm 70 now and that rumbling sound might just be the on-coming sudden-death express rattling down the skeletal line. Did I sleep through the eventual victory? What happened to that red flag I was flying?

Things, as they sing, can only get b ..............