73, this isn't a dig at you but why is it when we lose one match it has so many fans of this club wetting themselves and doubting the manager and the team. We have no God given right to win all our games, we went to Peterborough to play a team bang in form, as we're we and it took a 30 yard free kick too separate us a HT. We got caught on the break then it was virtually game over and suddenly our five game winning run counts for nothing. I constantly give my head a shake when I read some of the comments on here, were six games into the season with a takeover on the immediate horizon and were plagued with negativity, I just don't understand it. I'm not a happy clapper and am fully aware of our limitations but ffs it's not the end of the world.
Ha ha even I don't like him but I still think he would do a cracking job but at the moment lets just see what Jack can do and lets pray he is the next Alex Ferguson.
I think it is the culture that has evolved at the Club since Martin O'Neil got sacked. We have been going through managers like there is no tomorrow. Under Elis Short there was no such thing as getting through a bad run of results by sticking together - it was deliver or the job club. The fans get accustomed to this culture
unless Mate the negativity comes from 50 years of ****e,all we ever wanted was a club who put a shift in and won a few matches, the last 5 years have been diabolical , they need to thank the heavens they still have as much support as they do,having said that i always support the lads, but if we all kept quiet then the club wouldn't know what we all want and need as a club supporters, and to take criticism where its due.
I see it a different way - a lot of the negativity is coming from the younger fans who never went to see us play at Roker in front of 6500 people (like most of us older ones did) Back then, as ****e as we were, there was no negativity - and we'd still been awful for 20 years + - a lot comes from those who joined the SAFC bandwagon in the Quinn & Phillips era. They exspect so much as they see a great big fantastic stadium and have no idea of our history! Just an opinion mind!
Back in those days Marcus there was no social media and no easy way of letting off steam about your frustrations other than moaning with your mates over a pint or booing at the end of the match.(which I never did as I don't see the point). It's just too easy these days to be a computer warrior and slag off whoever you want at the click of a switch. We all like a moan and our lass is sick to the back teeth of me going on about how bad we've been for what like seems forever but in public and on here I try and be supportive to my club. I'm not blinkered as to think everything is rosy, I've been at it for sixty years and am still waiting for the good times to roll I just hope I'm alive to see the potential that is happening in the boardroom being transferred to the pitch and we end up doing something on a regular basis and not one FA cup win and a few promotions which I've witnessed in all that time. Were all frustrated I just think it doesn't help anyone moaning about it all the time but everyone is entitled to an opinion I just posted the above as being part of that frustration, fingers crossed we get this deal over the line and we can all look forward to better times ahead. PS. I dread to think beyond 5pm Saturday if Stanley turn us over.omg.( Which they wont)
I think the frustration (for me anyway) is the fact that we get nearly 30,000 for home games when in league one, which is sometimes double all of the other league one attendances put together At times it beats all the championship clubs, over half of the premiership clubs and only Celtic in all of Scotland have bigger crowds. The passion for this Club is tremendous, yet....for years and years they have been let down by dreadful mismanagement at all levels and utterly disrespectful ‘Professional, boozed up, footballers’. I really hope that things are going to change, I’m hoping that Jack is successful and that he can take us into the championship. I desperately hope and occasionally, yes, negativity creeps in; 62 years and counting, I KTF and yes....the hope Is probably killing me
I hear what your saying 73 and I often say it's the hope that kills you (eventually). Having big gates and massive support ultimately counts for nothing if it's not happening out on the grass. If blind faith and hugh attendances counted for anything us and the NE1 neighbours would have been sharing trophies for the past fifty years, but sadly that hasn't happened. We all live in hope and that's where this all started, we just need the takeover sorted and Jack to fulfil his part of the deal and get us out of this league come May.
Bold.....and that bit was factually incorrect. Must do better at adding up still, but our support is still brilliant
