This is crazy and is becoming a farce. The Club discusses “sustainability” and “moving forward”, whilst we become totally destabilised and regress.
I just hope that we already have almost enough points to avoid dropping to L1 as that would be a financial disaster,
In my opinion, something is seriously wrong with our DOF structure and needs to change.
I have no idea what now will happen but we are in a self created mess. I personally would like a new DOF such as Mark Warburton.
I fear all the the good “progress” we have made over the last few years has unraveled.
Things are wrong and at some point you have to take a look at the day-to-day running of the club by the leaders.
Amit: has been very quiet in his role at the helm for the owners. Hard to know what his vision and impact is on the club, be nice to hear from him.
Hoos: is a bit marmite for many. However he has done a reasonable job over difficult years. Seems to bring grounding from a financial side. Failed on the new ground. Eventually came good on the training ground facilities. What’s his next key project for the club?
Sir Les: hmmmm. He has a lot of underlying fan love. But, there’s a but. What has he brought to the playing side of the football club through his tenure? I’m afraid I have to say not a lot. Carousel of managers. A poor academy/youth set-up with very little success (old boys coaching team). Under-performing recruitment set-up. Regressing team performance. In any other industry he would most likely have been replaced for his lack of end-product. Not saying it’s an easy job, but you would definitely expect much more given the time he has had.
Something is wrong with the football side of the club. I don’t think footballers care about the financial side of the club, only the financial side of their contracts.
Maybe it’s more to do with the skeleton of the club - the coaches and staff that haven’t changed or delivered over time. With a state-of-the-Art training ground we need coaches, medical staff, fitness teams and recruitment teams that can match the expectations of the owners, the set-up (and the fans if we mattered). Not sure we have that right now. Maybe it’s a bit stale and underwhelming. ‘The snake’ talked about changing things and it felt like he was looking at the academy set-up as well as the first-team. Who knows maybe there was resistance that had him doubting (its felt as though SLF and Ramsey are locked in for some time and don’t like intervention on their ‘patch’). All wild speculation with no evidence, just gut feeling.
Maybe the toxicity comes from the underlying ethos of longer-term back room staff. I’m not sure I can honestly see where else it comes from.
One thing is for sure something needs to change - and I don’t mean constantly changing the manager.
Let’s hope we can stay up. Let’s hope we can get a decent manager. Let’s hope something changes for the better. Please!