"The team is under-achieving and, at the end of the day, a
chairman can only do so much.
"The manager is responsible and so are the players."
Alan Smith has today been quoted as saying:
"We probably had the best two centre-halves in the country
at the start of the season and they've both been sold.
"If any team in the country had lost six or seven of their
best players, they would have struggled,
“One of the most disappointing things for a club that has
been built up for three or four years is to see it wiped out
from under your feet.
"From a fan's point of view, that's the worst thing.
"I thought it was our year in the Cup but in the biggest
game of the season we put in probably our worst
performance."