10-08-2019, 11:25 AM
(10-08-2019, 11:11 AM)Alf Wrote:(10-08-2019, 09:57 AM)Jasper Scarrott Wrote:(10-08-2019, 09:40 AM)Alf Wrote:(10-08-2019, 09:06 AM)Duncan Mckenzie Wrote:(10-08-2019, 09:01 AM)Alf Wrote: And the answer IMO would be "no"
And you know what? I can live with that if we just stop the bullshine PR spin that we're top contenders, and act accordingly.
Give a (good) manager for a few years to build a proper side, stop flogging academy players, and give us a team we can be proud of & develop a connection to.
It's not all about the Prem. The Championship is fun. What is annoying though is starting every campaign knowing that in a few months time it'll be all change again, and the 2nd half of the season will be a pointless reshuffle & game of catchup for the Nth year running.
It's 2019 Alf. The game has changed.
The two points highlighted above...
1. Never going to happen in this day and age.
2. For owners of football clubs especially the ones in the PL and top half of the Championship it IS all about the PL.
Wilder & Farke would suggest otherwise.
THe latter was just a personal preference, but I still think for a club with our budget building is a better approach than changing things each yaer until something works.
I think what Duncan is trying to get across is that it might be your personal preference but it's not going to happen. 2 years like Farke might happen at a stretch but a few years like Alf mentioned, never going to happen.
Then we're never going up unless the club invests significantly for a string of windows.
That's my whole point. It probably isn't going to happen. And that's why we probably aren't ever gonna go up.
How many years on the spin do we have to do the same thing over & over until we realize that it doesn't work?
7 years out of 7 we've sacked managers mid-season. 7 out of 7 years we've finished lower than where the manager who started the season had us.......
SOD 7th - Mcliesh 13th - Davies 8th
Davies 7th - Brazil 11th
Pearce 12th - Dougie 16th
Dougie 14th - Williams 16th
Monty 20th - Warbs - 21st
Warbs 13th - AK 17th
AK 7th - MON 9th
It's quite frankly unreal that those running the club still think constant change is the answer.
Nothing has worked Alf over the last 20 years, with various owners, various managers, various strategies. Nothing. Not sure why you keep signalling out the present owners for criticism. They have only been here a few months.
Panic on the streets of Croydon, Derby, Sheffield, Leicestershire.