Looks good, very good well done to whoever did this, shame none of the current staff will feature on any tunnel wall in the future with regards to glorious history (Jacko aside)
Looks great and a million times better than before, but i couldn't help but laugh at Slade's comment:
"It immediately tells the opposition that they are away from home,” said Slade. “That is what is says to me – we have arrived and we are away from home today.”
Yes Russ, pretty sure they would have already worked that one out on the team coach to the ground.
Who gives a shit what the tunnel looks like, we don't pay our money to look at that, we watch the shit on the pitch, sort that out first before decorating the poxy tunnel.
The Club at the moment reminds me of a building that looks good but is falling down because it has got no foundations. Let us make sure we bake the cake before we put the icing on.
It is a decent touch and is to be welcomed. A lick of paint and some very nice wall paper always smartens the place up. Without trying to question a very worthwhile message regrettably wallpaper is however only skin deep. If it is to be more than lip service we all need to see the substance behind the message.
Fine words from KP but look around the stadium. Fortress Valley with a crowds of 6/7000 in a 27000 seat stadium rings a little hollow ......in every sense.
The best analogy I can draw is to reference the Agile thread. For years I had run my own business projects involving any range of IT solutions. Under a reorganisation projects were outsourced to the IT function. They were good, apart from controlling budgets. IT chose to draft in several new project managers. It was truly painful. The new guys had little IT/ business specific understanding. All they knew was process. Every document had the same 6 pages on project management and 2 pages on the business deliverable/ IT requirements.
No doubting their intent but the process is a means to an end not an end in itself.
I recommend the SMT hold their meetings in that tunnel, study a section of the wall to try to understand what is depicted, what success looks like, aspire to that success, learn how it was achieved, learn what it means to be part of an inclusive competitive organisation, learn what it means to the thousands who want to do nothing more to come and sit in the stadium into which the tunnel leads .....and see the same successes and achievements today.
Then the new wall paper will mean a great deal more to everyone.
How much did that cost? Usual crap tinkering around the edges, saying customers, look at what we have done for you, er lets forget about the last three or four years, relegation and the crap that is served up purporting to be a football team.
We need some Killer Clown wallpaper and some real Killer Clowns at the end of the tunnel and also in the opposition dressing room, to scare the @&%$ out of them.
Is this the only mildly positive initiative anyone's seen since the regime moved in.
Waiting for the blown up mural of Daisy accepting an award from the Leuven Rotary Club for being the most successful unqualified Belgian lawyer ever to manage an English third division football club.
Looks great and a million times better than before, but i couldn't help but laugh at Slade's comment:
"It immediately tells the opposition that they are away from home,” said Slade. “That is what is says to me – we have arrived and we are away from home today.”
Ironic then, that Russ keeps setting us up like we're playing away from home.
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"It immediately tells the opposition that they are away from home,” said Slade. “That is what is says to me – we have arrived and we are away from home today.”
Yes Russ, pretty sure they would have already worked that one out on the team coach to the ground.
"Lets be careful out there today boys, their midfield is absolute shit but careful you don't get psyched out by their tunnel."
Well done Russell Slade.
So, may I suggest more 3 points on the Valley pitch please and for fuck sake stop the twat from measuring up for curtains and throw cushions?
AND also, shall we just leave it to the visitors to work out they are playing AWAY from home?
should have done what st pauli did with theirs
I ain't walking down there!!
Just stop telling the oppo where the spare keys are hidden and that there's plenty of tea, coffee, and sugar in the cupboard!
Fine words from KP but look around the stadium. Fortress Valley with a crowds of 6/7000 in a 27000 seat stadium rings a little hollow ......in every sense.
The best analogy I can draw is to reference the Agile thread. For years I had run my own business projects involving any range of IT solutions. Under a reorganisation projects were outsourced to the IT function. They were good, apart from controlling budgets. IT chose to draft in several new project managers. It was truly painful. The new guys had little IT/ business specific understanding. All they knew was process. Every document had the same 6 pages on project management and 2 pages on the business deliverable/ IT requirements.
No doubting their intent but the process is a means to an end not an end in itself.
I recommend the SMT hold their meetings in that tunnel, study a section of the wall to try to understand what is depicted, what success looks like, aspire to that success, learn how it was achieved, learn what it means to be part of an inclusive competitive organisation, learn what it means to the thousands who want to do nothing more to come and sit in the stadium into which the tunnel leads .....and see the same successes and achievements today.
Then the new wall paper will mean a great deal more to everyone.
Solution? get out of our club.
Waiting for the blown up mural of Daisy accepting an award from the Leuven Rotary Club for being the most successful unqualified Belgian lawyer ever to manage an English third division football club.
It was a shame it stopped (although understandable), hopefully Olly and Finchy can kick-start it again once new owners come in ...