Marcus - Still 96 points to play for!
Marcus Hahnemann admits he's been very frustrated by our results in recent weeks, but is keeping things in perspective.
We have lost our last three games, but the keeper is keen to stress that there is an awful long way to go.
Read below for a full transcript of an in-depth interview, with questions by local press.
It was a disappointing result at the weekend?
We've had three bad games, and for me personally, I've let in eight goals in three games which has been really frustrating. You don't watch anything on TV, no football, I haven't even looked at a paper, I don't want to look at anything.
I just want to think back and look to the positives, otherwise you start believing everything they are saying in the papers and although I believe no one has really killed us in the press, I wouldn't know because I haven't read them.
What do you put it down to?
It's difficult, sometimes it's just luck. If a guy smashes it in the corner then I don't save it! It seems like they have been hitting pretty good shots and I haven't been able to keep them out.
It's been a bit of a bummer, but as a team we haven't scored enough goals and we haven't defended well enough. The guys up front aren't getting the service they need, otherwise they would score goals.
But we've just got to get together and figure it out. You look back at Man U and Chelsea, even though it was a loss we played really well and played as a team. Then Everton, we had a great clean sheet against them and played really well.
They are going to be top six at least, and you get a win against them so we know we are a good team. We have not turned into a bad team, we have just had a couple of bad results. It's not the end of the world and there are still 96 points to play for.
What the atmosphere be like on Saturday?
I think maybe the fans don't realise how important they are to the team! The atmosphere is great, but when we have gone down we need them.
That is always the case. It's just a natural reaction when the team isn't winning, to be a little bit more quiet. But they don't realise how important they are, and when they can get up and be noisy when we are losing, how much that really helps you.
It's hard to describe but you feed off that, and that's why you have the advantage at home, because of that. You get the entire crowd behind you and when 21,000 are all your fans, it's a huge advantage. The more they get behind you, the better.
It's the first bad patch in a couple of years...
We can definitely get out of it, there's no doubt about that.
Hopefully we can get a couple of good results and turn it around. We still got a couple of points from the first three games, which was great and we kind of lost our way, it's not always our fault, sometimes you play against good players.
Look at Bolton, Gary Speed scored a really good header, then we pushed forward to get an equaliser, and then you get Anelka and Diouf who are really good players.
People were saying as the transfer window was about to close the next week that somebody was playing for a move, but no-one knows. They were really at it and hit us on two breaks.
And OK the scoreline didn't look great, but a 3-0 and then another 3-0 hurts. Then it was 2-1 at Sunderland, so it's frustrating.
All the teams that have come up you think you can maybe get something, but we weren't good enough to do that again, so we're just going to have to be a little bit better, play as a team, defend as an eleven and attack as an eleven. That's been kind of the problem, we have been all over the place, so we have just got to get together and get to where we know we can be at.
Do you think being a family guy helps put things in perspective?
Yes. You tend to go home and hear 'oh you lost, oh it's OK dad,' and you get the same even if you scored a goal from the half way line!
But it's not always about football, it's about everything, you know you wake up Sunday and you feel rubbish about the game and then you hear Colin McRae died in a helicopter crash with his son and one of his friends, and it puts things in perspective.
You feel pretty bad about everything, not sleeping until three or four in the morning, but you know in life there are a lot worse things.














