Liverpool 0 Charlton 0

At least the scorelines are easy to write these days with a simple cut and paste and the points keep accumulating even if my wife fails to understand the positive mathematics of constant goalless draws being a good thing. But with Curbs' game plan for the year being blown out of the water by Miserable Murp's untimely mid-season torpedo and with our 'Ruski' being deemed to be a luxury we can't afford ( in more ways than one) maybe a point a game is the best that we can expect.

Survival is, after all, the most important thing for the club. At least that is obviously the view of the management after our 3rd successive goalless draw. Our happy five across the park, albeit with a striker out wide on the right, adequately broadcast to the world, especially via murdochview, that we are determined to keep what we have. And for the third successive week we are most definitely proving that we are at least good at what we are. A small club trying to survive in a big mans league.

Can't help wondering, however, when will our cautious formation be ditched, when 40 Pts is reached perhaps? Can't wait to see what happens against Middlesbro'. Five man mid-field meets five man defence. Should be a cracker!

And whilst we congratulate ourselves on taking 4 pts from the best team in Europe, I'm sure that I wasn't the only one to be ashamed at our complete lack of passing ability. Apart from a couple of triangles on the right wing ( 60's technical term), we couldn't string 3 passes together. Of all the seemingly hundreds of headers that we had ( the ball always seemed to be in the air) I can't remember a single one being directed to a teammate. They were all headers away, anywhere would do. According to the stats in the Mondays' Guardian we were the worst passing team at the weekend with a figure of 57% ( whatever that might mean). However, it was the worst of everyone.

And there was more bad news. One Shot in 90 minutes, even Fulham, lucky not to lose 10-0, managed more shots on goal. Of course, there's excuses - when a team is clearly winning it relaxes, and gives the other team an opportunity to create something. Liverpool never relaxed and kept pressing fro the whole game.

But there's some good news. While everyone is comparing the teams and giving players points, I've been watching the guys in charge. We've been shown a vivid illustration of just how important these guys really are with Roeder's recent success story at the magpies. Just a matter of confidence apparently. Well at least our leader seems relatively calm on the touchline and the height of composure when compared with his peers.

Stevie B looks like a little boy that's lost his sheep, Bryan is going to have a heart attack if anyone mentions Jose again and Harry's head will obviously fall off with one more twitch. Poor old basement Mick meanwhile is simply fed up with everything, especially now he's been sacked.
Curbs, meanwhile, is content playing for a draw and dreaming about England. Hopefully Plan B will involve planning which megastars to buy in the summer. As usual we'll probably be targeting teams that have failed to achieve and need to off-load. Dunn from Birmingham, Rivera from Betis Seville (he can pass, tackle, is always involved and makes Snotty P look like a tired little ballboy) and of course anyone who can pass the ball really.