TF is the equivalent of Teresa May, totally inept, every decision he makes is the wrong one and the supporters are treated with contempt. I'll guarantee he's still pulling the strings behind Amit...
We don’t know what happened in the boardroom leading to the sacking of Mclaren. It may not have been a predetermined decision. Perhaps it was a heated discussion which lead to a “you can 5uck off then” comment. It might explain the apparent lack of direction in that no one seems to have been lined up to replace.
Birmingham are in a false position because of their points deduction so by the time they do play Rotherham they may not exactly be busting a gut. Rotherham have been given hope and will scrap for every point. Can't say the same about us I'd just prefer it if the owners sold out to someone who knows what they are doing. Going on another financial splurge when we are very much in the Football League's focus with no guarantee other than morons will be splashing it about is a recipe for disaster. It's time to rebuild slowly and patiently - it can be done as shown in recent years by Burnley, Swansea, Portsmouth and Luton who all plummeted down the Leagues to the very bottom. Add to that Southampton whose desent into administration and freefall was arrested by their being bought by the Leibherr family. I cannot understand how our wage bill can still be one of the highest in the Championship League other than the fact that the whole Board and club management team is completely incompetent. The club needs its identity back and the prawn sandwich brigade, the likes of Fernandes and Tango and Cash before him need to go. I have no idea what the Mittals are playing at. If they genuinely cared as fans they would not have sat on their hands all this time while we lurch from one disaster to another.
Yet we were 8th in the table this season and did well for about the 3 months to the start of January. Apparently the players aren't good enough to maintain that level, yet they have shown they are capable of better than the performances they are giving now.
You can still get 50/1 on us to be relegated. Thats a very decent price. As we saw yesterday, the teams around us are all capable of putting in performances and picking up points in this situation. A tenner at 50/1 would cover next years season ticket....just saying.....
I've just had £20 at 50-1 with Bet 365 on us being relegated. I can't believe such generous odds; I can't see where our next point might come from (after losing to both Rotherham and Bolton at home, even Blackburn look formidable opponents). Reading's tough run-in might just save us but, in the worst case, I'll have a grand in my pocket as cold comfort.
You can't guarantee that at all, we simply don't and probably won't ever know what really goes on behind closed doors. Who really knows what TF is up to, he certainly doesn't tweet anything about us these days and I don't think he'd be able to help himself if he was still directly involved in the decision making. One thing we can state as fact is that we are in trouble.
Did our players have the audacity to come over and applaud the travelling supporters yesterday at the end of the game?
I too don't buy this explanation that the players simply aren't good enough. They are good enough to keep us well above the trap door and turn it on occasionally in sustained bursts. The failure lies in repeated changes at the helm and managers whose tactics and motivational skills are not up to the task of tweaking maximum performance out of the players he has got. Like all sport, confidence is critical as well as simple straightforward tactics. Lose one or both and you are going to undo any progress you make. Maclaren has a history of getting it wrong and then looking like a lost chicken or rabbit in the headlights when it doesn't work. That is why he has failed everywhere since his first job with Middlesbrough where I believe he would have failed too once he hit a rocky patch if England had not come a-calling before then. It was nice while it lasted but the owners (and the fans as well it has to be said) are guilty of yo-yoing and kidding themselves that everything was fine because we had a good two months. We have no money, a transfer embargo and a wage bill which is frankly ludicrous for this League. That is why, for the next two years or so, we needed to stick with what progress we had made last season and work on that slowly
I would have said that spending more would be madness, but if Derby's ruse of selling their ground to a company owned by the club's owner has worked, maybe that's a path that we could follow.
Regardless of how **** they are the players should always show appreciation of the efforts of travelling fans. The surprise yesterday would be if any away fans stayed to the end!
Not all the players came over but TBH not that many fans were applauding them either We move on to the Wall
Our recruitment has been absymal since Flav & Bernie left, why would we think spunking another £100 million on assorted turkeys would be successful even if they could cook the books to avoid FFP, they are serial half-wits...
It never fails to amaze no matter how **** we are there will be people applauding the players off when most of the time they deserve to have bottles of piss/Carlsberg hurled at them.
