All experiments must have limits. By their nature, they don't go on indefinitely. At some point, the hypothesis is either proven or disproven.
Without a stated end in sight, I wonder:
At what point does this experiment get brought to a close on humanitarian grounds?
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Focus on the league because it is so important? Ok sure - we can do that, if we actually had a squad that didn't look like it was a youth side after a couple of injuries within 8 games of the season.
We don't have the squad to be a promotion chasing side. So just take games like tonight head on and finish mid-table if thats what is meant to be. What else can we realistically do?! How did the management mess this one up so bad?!
All we know is what we can piece together. The Staprix Experiment seems to involve a network of clubs (now diminished) and the belief that value can be made by surfacing undervalued players from the continent (where "costs of productions" are lower). In and of itself, not a bad idea, but combined with an eccentric autocrat who seems to have not an emotional bone in his body, nor a care for anything that can't be represented on a spreadsheet, it seems merely designed to eradicate any pride we have in our own club, its history and traditions.
I sometimes think she's more in the dark than the rest of us!
Under his ownership, some quality has been brought into the club, so you think maybe the set up does have a plan. To me, clearly there are some good people within it – which may include the manager – but the way it is run makes no sense – a bit like the owner’s political policies!
It's far from ideal but it's what we'll have to put up with. We're going to be a mid-table championship team for as long as RD is at the helm unless we stumble across a few absolute gems in the process.
Not going down, not going up. Flirt with the play-offs for about half an hour during the first couple of weeks of the season. Flirt with mid-table mediocrity for a month or two, flirt with relegation for a couple of months. Then rise, gloriously, magnificently, like the Titanic being brought back to the surface from the ocean bed, out of the relegation zone, climbing majestically, all the way up to 15th. Flirt with mid-table mediocrity for the remainder of the season.
As i can take us being rubbish & failing to get promoted but fear any owner who has no interest in on pitch results.
If he cannot make any money out of the club and he does not want to invest enough to get in the PL it is hard to see now why he hangs on to it.
In my business experience sometimes owners hang on to loss-making businesses for too long hoping that something will happen to allow them to get their money back. That seldom happens and in the end they go bust or sell at a big loss.
These two options look favourite for us sadly.
He probably overpaid for the club in the first place, but there is only one way he can add sufficient value to have any chance of getting his money back.