.....can someone be optimistic, and throw some light on our beloved City, and tell me it gonna get better!!!
I believe that SOD is the new Alan Dicks. In that previously life we endured several years of ****e before it all fell into place. Those of you who are old enough, know how true that statement is - are we prepared to give someone the time to do it properly? Modern day thinking is a resounding no. Arsene Wenger was on the rack after one game this season - now his team are top of the Prem and he is a Messiah. I think that in itself speaks volumes. We are now in a situation where we cannot keep chopping and changing the manager/head coach. My belief is that we should stick with our present manager and enjoy the ride. It will be a bumpy one but we will get there in the end!
SOD being compared to Arsene Wenger hahahaha Heard it all now! The reason why Arsene kept his job was he was getting that shoddy team top 4 year in year out in THE MOST competitive and biggest spending league in the world on hardly any money compared to the top teams around him. SOD is doing nothing with the second highest wages in the division. Your forgetting, just because he doesn't get sacked, doesn't mean he won't stand down, then what happens to his master plan everyone seems to want 3 years to start working. SAGS have never recovered after going down to that league, in almost 13 years! What makes you think we will be any different, its survival of the fittest, and our club is far from the fittest in any sense of the word!
No good comparing what happened 40 years ago to the state of our club right now At least Alan Dicks won enough games to keep people's patience intact whilst he modelled the team into what it became eventually, something that SOD is failing to do
It MAY get better...... It MAY get worse before it gets better..... I MAY get off this fence in the next 4 or 5 games!
Who's comparing SOD to Wenger? I'm certainly not, just raising a point to show how fickle football is nowadays. Why not Angelic? In those 'yo-yo' days we were often at the wrong end of the division (whether it be 2nd or 3rd) but Dicks was given time to do his job. No doubt in his early days there were dissenters in the camp but the ethos of 'I want it and I want it now' didn't pervade football at that time! In recent league games there has been signs of light at the end of the tunnel and I believe that keeping with SOD is the right thing to do. At least he seems to have some sort of plan going on - chucking him out now would simply set us back to square one with no guaranteed means of things being any different. Just as a matter of interest, had the Port Vale game finished a minute earlier with that elusive first win under the belt would your thoughts have been any different? Will he succeed? None of us know the answer to that question, but - at the moment - I am content with what I see as the potential for a side that can do reasonably well in this division.
My worry is, our best performance of the season by a long shot was Saturday, and the result was a 1-1 draw against Port Vale with a very lucky goal against a team without a manager that week!
I remember the early Dicks era and a win away at Watford (2-0) on the last day of a season to survive in Division 2 but we did win the occasional game even though we were struggling but this is something very different and unwanted. Had the game at Port Vale finished when we were 1-0 up then I, and a lot of others would have breathed a collective sigh of relief and the heat would have been off of SOD a little bit, but it didn't and here we are. Chuck in the dismal capitulation at Wycombe and its hardly surprising that people aren't happy. The only question that none of us have an answer to is how much longer this will be allowed to continue. The perception the club seems to be portaying of itself and the whole outlook, is now that we are this little team with limited fans, resources and all the rest....where did this culture come from and who started it ? We should be the envy of some Championship clubs and the envy of virtually all L1 and L2 clubs. We are starting to act and sound like we are a tiny club like Rochdale (no offence Daleites)
It will get better. Behind the scenes the club seems to have a plan to address the fact that we were losing £14m a year. Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards.
Well it has to get better, we are a club saving money and sod appears to be keeping the board happy. My view in recent years is that the evidence would suggest that our beloved club don't give a toss for the fans. Whilst it took Alan Dicks a few years to sort, he at least cared about the fans or seemed to, as indeed the board did, THATS the major difference IMO
Thats funny I believed Johnson was the new Alan Dicks, and I hate to say it but I still do. The words baby and bathwater come to mind...
