A Coca Cola cup crowd for a league game
Failure to beat the team bottom of the league with a 2-0 head start who haven't been paid
Players either playing within themselves (eg JBG) or showing an alarming loss of form (eg Cousins)
A striker being ridiculed by his own fans
A manager booed to the tunnel staring at the hand signals being given by the Covered End
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Mind you he's no fudging head coach either....
I am now convinced we will be relegated unless something dramatic happens and the board have a complete rethink on how to tackle the Championship.
When RD arrived we had a manager whom the crowd, on the whole, loved and would get behind and back through thick and thin. One with a knowledge of UK football and whom had been player rep to the PFA, what a black book of contacts he must have. We had a passionate, young, gifted coaching staff who believed in each other and created comrade and team spirit. We had the nucleus of a competitive Championship squad that had been under invested in (Yann, Stephens, Poyet, Solly, Wiggins, Morrison, Dervite) and we had some serious youth players coming through the ranks.
The Valley/pitch needed money spent but could be factored into any purchase price and the training ground needed work but plans /funding were all broadly in place.
We had a reasonable crowd (previous owners trying to pretend the 18,000 was in fact 20,000) and fans that had huge knowledge to be learned from and carefully bought back into the fold, even in voluntary advisory roles.
We were bought by a man of real money and what seemed a reasonable background...oh the hope!
£9M of backing to the existing manager, retaining the players he advised, no fiddling with network rubbish and I genuinely believe we could be sat here today with a genuinely competitive team/squad (say top 10), with 15-20,000 fans and with one eye on the PL.
Instead we have our 5th manager, a naive CEO, a poor recruitment policy, two of the jewels (Gomez and Poyet) have gone for little return, a disgruntled and dwindling fan base and stare relegation back to League One in the face.
A total destruction of all equity invested and a disaster for everyone.
Miere is being worked like a glove puppet by some lunatic, the managers are all glove puppets of a regime they should hang their heads in shame to represent. As soon as we saw what the pant-sniffers did when they took over in selling Stephens and Kermorgant, telling the manager to play some truly abominable footballers.
It's sad in its predictability
What's the next protest ? Balloons at 17 minutes.
Charlton 'what might have been' Athletic.
It bloody hurts
So bloody obvious that's the annoying thing
They didn't include the duplicates in their final total then, for the season tickets lost in the post?
Rotherham and Bolton look good for the drop with us hoping to avoid the third spot.
There is a gap opening up and it seems any three from six.