My views so far....

After all the excitement of playing in the premiership and visiting most of the away grounds I feel I am suffering from withdrawal symptoms. This season has got off to a reasonable but not a dynamic start. I'm not sure Ollie has got the balance of the team right yet. Ok, most of the squad is still intact, but we're missing that vital spark that allowed us to play free-flowing attacking football, which made us everyone's second team last season. I'm not totally happy with our midfield, the Ferguson/Southern combination is a very poor replacement for the Vaughan/Adam one. The signing of Kevin Phillips has been a master stroke, the guy is a total professional, with a great work ethic. But he needs better support from others around him. It appears Jonjo Shelvey is joining us on loan from Liverpool for the season so we'll have to see what he brings. What I saw of him at Liverpool didn't really impress me, although competition there is a lot harder than at Blackpool. The last two games against Portsmouth and Coventry were both disappointing as far as I am concerned. This seems to typify how this season we are unable to hold onto a lead or finish opponents off, which in turn makes us susceptible to letting in late goals as we did at Pompey. Bristol City are here tomorrow and gives us an opportunity to get back to winning ways. Although Brett Pitman might try to get one over us, but if we get back to playing attacking football we might just start to get our campaign off the ground.