COLCHESTER UNITED SUPPORTERS' ASSOCIATION CHAIRMAN JON BURNS DELIVERS HIS EXCLUSIVE WEEKLY COLUMN IN THE STANDARD WITH HIS VIEWS OF THE U's: It's one of those hard weeks when you sit at the keyboard trying to think of good stuff to write.

Everyone from the club honestly seems to acknowledge the football hasn’t been the greatest and we can only hope that they will have been taking steps to correct the problems.

It’s not all doom and gloom, though.

I appreciate that it’s hard to take when you sit in the stands looking to be entertained, but that’s the nature of football – you win some and you lose some.

Where our problem has been this season to a degree, is that we haven’t done well enough away from home where we have in the past, to turn some of those draws or defeats into victories.

At home perhaps you could say that we needed to do more than just being hard to beat.

Fortress Colchester could have done with a few more cannons atop the castle walls.

Don’t forget there are still 17 games left to play.

And if every one of those runs as the Swindon game did, where we struggled a bit and snatched the points, then I would say ‘thank you very much’.

One of these days the U’s are going to take one of these lowly clubs to task.

Another highlight from last Saturday, was that the queue out of the car park was gone by 5.10pm. That’s pretty good going – thank you A12 junction!

Notts County would have finished differently in my opinion if the very good chances that fell to Mooney and Kayode in the opening quarter had been taken. To see them go begging knocked our confidence.

It was better second half, but then the Magpies didn’t need to press and we were still making mistakes.

Disappointing because I really thought that we’d get something and the fans didn’t get much in return for their efforts.

One piece of good news from the evening was that I saw my first glimpse of Mr Vilhjalmsson.

Competitive is the word I would use to describe my first 20 minutes of Icelandic action.

Hopefully he’ll get more of a chance tomorrow against Walsall.

The U's quite simply just have to get back on track.

One or two players need to ‘man up’ and get back on their game.

It’s not all about confidence, a lot comes down to attitude and ambition.

No-one said that life is easy, because we have the short trip to Peterborough on Tuesday night. They are quite a force on their home turf but not unbeatable.

Follow that with Plymouth and Bristol Rovers and the U’s have a perfect opportunity to shake down their away form and start snatching three points on their travels for a change.

One final point. The 90 minute whingers and moaners are back.

Quite what they hope to achieve by hurling abuse and criticism at the management and players is beyond me.

If they find it that painful to watch then I’m not quite sure why they come.

I have to laugh about it because I just find this handful of people so funny.

It’s very easy to continually put people down and see them fail, but the real skill in life is to support when times are tough and build a player to do great things.

Up the U’s!