[Getty Images]Next season is looking likely to be more about a trip to Coventry rather than one to Croatia after Saturday's disappointing draw with local rivals Fulham put another dent in our European hopes.

That is five league draws in a row for the first time since 1957 and these lost points at the Gtech could ultimately end our hopes of a senior European debut next campaign, even though, amazingly, we're still seventh. (We did play in the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1992-93!).

Keith Andrews said afterwards he felt we hadn't deserved to lose any of the matches.

I disagree on the first one at Bournemouth, where we were lucky to get away with a point, but we did deserve our hard-earned draw at Leeds.

However, having been 2-0 up against bottom side Wolves and twice taken the lead against Everton, both are matches we really should have closed out.

I mentioned last week that Andrews had only made one substitution in each of the Leeds and Everton matches because half of his bench was filled with teenagers.

And on Saturday for the first time I can remember, he made no changes at all.

When asked about it afterwards, Andrews said the only senior players on the bench were defenders and that the only attacking player he could have taken off was Dango Ouattara, but that he was glad he left him on as he nearly won the game in stoppage time - which is true.

We definitely had the better chances against a Fulham side who looked like they had come for a draw, but an on-target shot return of only four from 13 attempts is unlike us.

At least Harry Wilson didn't score against for us a change and we ended our run of three derby defeats, but ultimately my 10K race in the morning was my sporting highlight of the day!