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There's been a lot of criticism this past two weeks of Chris Coleman's tactics. Many have suggested his deployment of a 4-5-1 formation is too negative, especially for a home match. Some sententious folk have even accused Coleman of playing for a draw in the last few games.

Let's just get one thing straight: there is no such thing as playing for a draw.

CRITICS of the current regime myself included are often accused of a lack of patience. We were always told it would take time.Why dont we just trust the men in charge?

Speaking as someone who's grown old supporting Coventry City I'm used to long journey's to get to where we want to go. Im just concerned whether we are heading in the right direction

The last two windows seem to show SISU are prepared to fund a squad that's adequate for the manager's needs. But they seem reluctant to provide the sort of funds needed to make the squad properly competitive

GREGOR CHATS about the problems big investment can have in the development of a healthy academy, the promise of Jordan Clarke and what the scouts look for in talented young footballers.

Check out the first and second part of this interview to hear the whole story.

COLEMAN'S tactics at home to Blackpool at the weekend followed by the sale of Leon Best to Newcastle has me wondering if we have just given up entirely on trying to score more than once in any game.

Leon Best will score a lot of goals at Newcastle, I reckon, and although his final destination was not quite what was expected his departure had the same element of surprise as finding out John Terry deals in chaos.

What beggars belief is that the Club knowing it would trade this asset at worst at the end of the season has done nothing to replace Leon Best.

SO THE WILL HE/WONT HE SAGA that's been at the forefront of every City fan's mind throughout January has finally ended, albeit with the unfortunate departure of a very talented player. Although nobody wanted to see anyone leave during this month's window, being the pessimist I am, I was resigned to losing at least one of our "big name" players.

With his contract up in the summer, Best's departure was always on the cards. His body language over the past few months suggested that he was getting cold feet at the Ricoh.

LEON Best joins Newcastle for yet another undisclosed fee, from a business point of view, I agree with Monsieur Ranson that it is a good bit of business, since one assumes that he will have attained and negotiated in earnest for a fee that is greater than that we would have received had the tribunal route been followed in the summer.

Best had made it clear he would not be staying around much longer, given his apathy over signing a new contract, so to leave is perhaps the right choice all round. I never condone the small fraction of City fans that choose to boo our players, but I do feel that Leon Best's body language was one, prior to the booing, of a man who wanted away, so for that reason, amongst many others, this is the right move.

At 2-15 pm Saturday, Chris Coleman set himself up for a backlash from the fans by naming the same starting 11 as used against Swansea.

With only one striker on the pitch and a formation designed to negate the opposition rather than attack them, he must have expected a backlash if City didn't perform...which they didn't

His comments that Blackpool had totally out played us earlier in the season was given as the reason at the end of the game why we started with only one striker and five midfield players.

This is a reason that I and many other fans would find hard to accept.

CITY managed a draw with Blackpool today despite the latest example of Chris Coleman's negative safety first managment tactics

To devise a system to stop Blackpool playing surprised me. In fact we were saying to the players we have to stop Blackpool playing because THEY ARE BETTER THAN US

This isn't the right signal to give to the players,and in some ways its not surprising they so often play with a lack of self belief

After a first half as tedious as the Swansea game sounded we managed to bore both the fans and Blackpool into a scoreless forty five minutes.

THE BITTER pill that was the Portsmouth defeat was still proving hard to swallow two days later as I flew out to India to work and at least grateful for warmer climes.

By Saturday Sky Blue blood was boiling over as I tried to establish an internet connection that came and went. Two hot cities later I had that "not bothered about football because we lost at the weekend" atitude and on Monday I still thought we had lost 2-1 so matters just got worse as my emotions got a double dip on hearing about 97th minute "lapses."

I WENT to the Blackpool away game earlier on in the season, and the City were very poor that day, we lost three nil, and it could have been more, they were that bad.

Blackpool though are a very good side at home, we aren't the only side to get turned over there, the ground to put it mildly is a bit of a dump, it holds only about nine thousand, but Blackpool use this to their advantage, so fair play to them for that.