I’m waiting to see what happens in January before I go all in on it, but it’s starting to look like there’s a massive storm brewing.
On the park, I feel as if the material appointment was as uninspiring to the players as it was to us, and they haven’t responded, they’ve regressed.
We are now an average League One team, there’s no buoyancy whatsoever, the only hope is that the Americans can see a ship without a rudder and the investment that they made is bait to a vulture.
The owners won’t be able to repay it, and their leverage is the club, and not for £50 million either.
We aren’t going up this season. The squad is shocking and overloaded with similar players of a shocking standard. There isn’t going to be a fairytale run as we simply do not have the ability in the squad to have one.
They’ve loaned money to run the club. The EFL have many a question to answer about this ownership now. I just about accepted the manner in which the club was bought, but I can’t accept them taking a loan to fund the grass roots of the club.
If their isn’t investment in the playing staff early in January, funded by the owners, the **** is going to get incredibly dangerous. The toxicity is already creeping in, and we can all sense that there’s a big mushroom of it about to blow.
We don’t look like winning games against average sides now, and the manager appears to be an unmitigated disaster. We’ve have 3 far worse performances than under Ross recently.
I don’t fear for the clubs future, I’ll credit the owners with that, but I can see the Americans effectively taking the club from them to save their arses, with them making **** all out of it.
The only way they can avoid this is major investment in the squad and a post Christmas miracle, but even with that the folk they have in charge of the team and recruitment, well they wouldn’t be trusted to bring in the right players.
It's a dire state of affairs and I can only see it ending with the owners, manager and 2 thirds of the playing staff removed.
We are going to have a 3rd year at this level realistically, and the owners have to take full and complete responsibility.
People can say ‘not far off’ points wise, indeed, I said that myself on here 3 weeks ago.
The facts are, though, that the level of the team has dropped dramatically again in that period, and the most positive man on earth can’t fail to see that we are spinning towards a cliff face.
I’m staggered, concerned, and really ****ing saddened by what I’m seeing. Top to bottom the club is in a horrific state.
The scale of the turnaround to even save this season is daunting.
Playing close to a full strength team in a piss pot trophy, and coming out at the end of a hiding was a shambolic and desperate bit of management. I stand by what I said before he was appointed, I’ve given a bit grace to try and back him, but the appointment was an absolute disgrace, stinking of a lack of ambition and fear of character.
I don’t know where the **** we go from here, as we haven’t anything in situ to halt the slide.
It’s grim.
Oh, and we’ve no sponsor or kit deal for next season, just to add to the bed of roses.
