15-04-2019, 12:38 PM
Some really sensible comments here about MON, AK and the players. Its very refreshing to hear - the social media negativity and over reaction was starting to make me think I'd been watching a different team all season.
I think us fans did get carried away a little bit. The club promoted itself really well and created a buzz, we signed a player we'd never heard of for a lot of money and he did some tricks and we thought he was Messi, and we started thinking of promotion instead of relegation. As other have said, we never really got into the promotion race though. We have always been looking up just a win or run of good results away from taking that step forward. And that run never came - not under AK and not under MON. Personally the squad is not as talented as some believe. On a good day, we can complete but only when Lolley is on fire, Grabban is interested, Carvalho doesn't let the game pass him by and everyone else is on top form. Those good days haven't been often enough.
I'm as disappointed as everyone else but I'm not going to be mardy about it. I didn't want to change the manager but it happened (with plenty of blame on all sides). I'll give MON and others some time to improve the squad over the summer for a push next year.
In the last 20 years there have been some really awful seasons. This wasn't one. I'm going to be positive that next year will be the one we've been waiting for.
I think us fans did get carried away a little bit. The club promoted itself really well and created a buzz, we signed a player we'd never heard of for a lot of money and he did some tricks and we thought he was Messi, and we started thinking of promotion instead of relegation. As other have said, we never really got into the promotion race though. We have always been looking up just a win or run of good results away from taking that step forward. And that run never came - not under AK and not under MON. Personally the squad is not as talented as some believe. On a good day, we can complete but only when Lolley is on fire, Grabban is interested, Carvalho doesn't let the game pass him by and everyone else is on top form. Those good days haven't been often enough.
I'm as disappointed as everyone else but I'm not going to be mardy about it. I didn't want to change the manager but it happened (with plenty of blame on all sides). I'll give MON and others some time to improve the squad over the summer for a push next year.
In the last 20 years there have been some really awful seasons. This wasn't one. I'm going to be positive that next year will be the one we've been waiting for.