26-01-2021, 03:33 PM
(26-01-2021, 03:27 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote:(26-01-2021, 02:24 PM)Tricky Wrote: I have just sat and watched the EM interview again and re-read the Nick Randall letter.
Nowhere in either of those two addresses are the Miracle Gates, the stand rebuild, the Academy or any other singular item mentioned!
The only areas that were discussed, which the club has since gone back on is a) Keeping Warburton at the club for 'many years', stability with the playing staff and more open communications to the fans [how much of the communication is going to the Trust and not being reported back to the fans?] Randall also claimed it was the clubs intentions to play 'the Forest Way', if possible and play attractive attacking, entertaining, passing football. This hasn't happened with the dross we are expected to watch.
EM states on more than one occasion that they will work hard to get us the success we deserve. He says over a 'number of years' and the board will 'work hard' to achieve that in their 'long term plan'. There is no mention of a two, three, five or one hundred year plan in either the interview or the open letter. EM goes on to say that if we improve our position this year (2017) and then improve it again the following year, then they will start looking at gearing it up for the PL. He does not once say that this is the absolute minimum he would expect! If we look at how we have done (up to this season), we have improved season upon season. Let us not forget that our benchmark at that time was scrapping survival by one solitary goal and finishing just outside the bottom three!
I do not know where the comments have emerged from regarding the 'Miracle Gates', Cat 1 status for the Academy or anything else that is in the public domain, with exception to the stand rebuild. But they must have come from somewhere!
Maybe we, as supporters, have over reacted to comments made by our owner and Chairman and have looked too deeply at what the club is hoping to achieve?
Maybe Covid is having a bad effect on our playing staff, who may feel the need to have the fans roaring them on, thus increasing their adrenaline levels (although the same has to apply to every other club as well)?
Maybe Covid is having a bad effect on our fans too, who miss the Saturday and midweek night rituals of going to the match, having a beer or two, a burger or hotdog?
This season, we have seen the club slip from a potentially promotion winning side to one of being in a relegation battle. Is this down to poor recruitment? Is it down to players not turning up? Is it a result of the Manager, be it his playing style or has he lost the dressing room? Is there too much 'interference' from Vrentzos and Modesto, or is that just Dan Taylor bullshit?
Are we just over-reacting to a poor couple of results over the past week or so? Or do we have the right to wonder what is going on?
I don't know what the answers are, I really don't. I don't know if Dan Taylor is telling the truth or S**t stirring.
Add to the above the absolute rubbish about Olympiakos cherry picking our best players, plus the rubbish about we are not applying for a Cat 1 Academy, plus the rubbish about the new stand being just a smoke screen and plus the rubbish about Ribeiro and it's damn obvious that a lot of what Taylor has said is absolute codswallop. Utter tripe.
Still some will hang on his every word though just because he's a Forest fan and a journalist.
Err no.
It’s because he is a genuine fan, with justifiable concerns, who is using his position to attempt to get things moving.
He is not burying his head in the sand.
You may not like the way he is going about it - I get that - but his motives are wholly praiseworthy.