Analysis by Bill Kenwright

I?ll be honest in the reason that has prompted this little outburst; it was the unexpected arrival of our Chairman in the Radio City commentary position last night. Now I know he splits opinions like Tyson used to split lips but he is still here and still our chairman. If I think about it, love him or hate him, he would probably still be here if he wasn?t chairman and if you?ve ever met the man or spoken to him you?d get that.

As he took Barry Horne?s headphones off him and embarrassed him by singing the ?Who Needs Cantona? song, Alan Irwin (I think is the commentators name) said his hellos and before he could ask a question Bill piped up with ?Was poor wasn?t it? But we?re through, that?s all that matters!?

Now here is the question, a simple yes or no answer will do. If you went, watched or listened did you have the same thought?

Bill went on to have an interesting, albeit short, chat with Alan about the game, season and Moyes's tenure. I?ll give you a run down of all three, let you have a little think then you can spit your opinions on the wonderful comments section:-

The Game: He was stressing that a win and passage to quarters was the most important thing as we haven?t been past the 4th round in 20 seasons, which Bill himself prompted ?Just isn?t good enough? he then went on to say midweek away at a spirited Luton side was always gonna be tough but we always looked like the side most likely to go on and win it, singling out Joleon Lescott and the returning James Vaughan for special mention.

The Season: As Bill did I will keep it brief here as the next section will explain why. If we put a few wins together in the league and climb the table as we should then the season is set up for us to push on, couple of good cup runs, get back into Europe by any means necessary and hopefully bring a bit of silverware home, because, let's face it, that?s what its all about isn?t it?

Moyes's tenure: We reminisce with Bill as he tells us about David Moyes being on his couch 6 years ago stating his aims were to have a young developing squad which is continually in the upper reaches of the league, challenging for cups and back in Europe, all this backed up by a ?willing board?, new state of the art training facility and potential stadium in development (sic!)

How many of us can argue that these aims have not been delivered? Not many other clubs have had people come in, stated their plans and then executed them in such difficult circumstances and then go on to state that they intend to keep improving, the squad, the facilities and most importantly the level of success we achieve.

We can (and should) be critical of anything that does not come up to our levels such as players performances, team performances, ticket fiasco?s and the like but just before we start going over the top in that criticism just remember where we were under previous regimes of boardroom and team management and where we are and then think on to hopefully where we are going. Because this isn?t job done, thank you very much from Bill, Davey and the club. This seems to be an ongoing process with the universally agreed aim of putting us back where we belong at the pinnacle of the English game, so we start future seasons with true genuine optimism about what we can achieve & what we can win more importantly.

All comments welcome lids, kiddas and widders.

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