Notice in the "What fans of this club think about their owners" Leeds- good 0%, neutral 12.5% and bad 87.5%
Self-selecting, biased surveys with leading questions are really annoying, especially if they resonate with the disaffected Think about it dispassionately Portsmouth have beenroyally screwed and can understand their issues Blackburn supporters brought the trouble on themselves with their antagonism all theway through the season when they were in the Prem - no wonder they did badly! Birmingham's owner is arrested under severe criminal charges What's Bates done in reality? He's not matched the fans' expectations either in promising delivery or in treating the customer as king. That is it. But we are a stable club in the Championship and he has sold at the right time. There may be some nasty surprises, there are concerns that funds have gone missing - these are rumours and conjecture that may come out as true in time, but at the moment they are unsubstantiated in fact. There are real concerns over the pricing structure and the players bought and the expectation management and the spend on non-football elements, but the main concern is that the team seems to be going nowhere. Is that really a basis for such bad results? Dispassionately I would not have thought so - but we are not dispassionate, so I fully understand the results from a fans' point of view if not from the clubs' But it does give further evidence to the new owners of what they have to do - they have to bring the fans back on board and everything they do should be aimed at that, understanding that a) the fans want to support the team, and b) the fans want a team they can be proud of
