An excellent summary.

To balance out the massive amount of negativity, it's worth pointing out that there are a few real positives which will come out of all this, not least the fact that we've blooded some really good youngsters, with more to come (the last time we did this was when names like Calderwood, Sinfield, McGuire, Burrow and Jones Buchannan were all relatively unknown).

Personally I'm confident that we'll finish well within the top 8, but I don't care about not winning everything/anything this year. With the loss of Sinfield and Peacock, it was always going to be a year of rebuilding. Unfortunately it's been made all the tougher by the floods, lack of confidence and injuries to pivotal players.

The longer you hold on to the postal service the less its value - they sold it too cheap but there didn't seem a host of people wanting to take it off the government's hands.

Do you remember Eddie Rombo? He was one.

I remember Eddie, thought he was an existentialist?

Possibly he was both.

I recall signs of authentic promise and he was clearly a true free thinker in terms of tackling technique but ultimately a disappointingly limited right winger.

The case for or against academies is as yet unproven either way because so many have only been academies for a short period of time. What studies have show though is that successful schools are not likely to improve much for obvious reasons but failing schools have shown good improvements.

What is clear though is that we have to do something to improve our education system as last years OECD international comparison report showed. In the UK, the study shows about one in five youngsters leave school without reaching a basic level of education - and the OECD says that reducing this number and improving skills could add trillions of dollars to the UK economy. Out of 76 countries tested the UK came 20th behind countries such as Ireland, Poland and Estonia and way behind Asian countries like Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

We have to make improvements - So giddiup Neddy