Quote Originally Posted by IBK View Post
Durham on talk sport is doing down our result/performance last night on the basis that its only the last 16 and we should have beaten Olympiacos and Zagreb at home - not to mention that Olympiacos are a bit shit. But this misses the point. We are often criticised for our mental frailty. last night atmosphere in Greece and do something difficult in terms of the scoreline. The fact that we did just that and stepped up when it counted, without so many first team players is a cause for a lot of satisfaction.
Absolutely. That's the key thing which Durham would be way, way too thick to get. We had a hurdle to overcome and this time we jumped it instead of trying to run through it, or bury it, or sell it for a profit. This was what I would call a "crunch" match and we usually lose these and lose them well. Last night was a nice change, possibly and even probably another false dawn but you have to start somewhere. Maybe it will be different this time

Having Ozil and Cech in the team makes a huge, huge difference. These are grade #1, world class pros, the type of player we have been missing for so long. It has to be great for a player like Campbell to be on a pitch with Ozil and, when he's fit, Alexis. Ramsey has shown he can step up into that bracket (hopefully he'll do it sometime soon), Kos is getting there too. Such a shame we didn't add at least one more player of that calibre in the transfer window.