Sheffsteel
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The owner and the board are to blame for this situation and them only. You don't get promoted to the best league in the world with a team worse than won promotion. We didn't recruit Premier league players because we haven't the money instead we sign lower division foreign players that have never played in this country let alone the Premier league and are expecting them to be world beaters. Championship players at least know the intensity of this league but the team we have built is a Championship side not a Premier league one. Everyone can say what about Luton, they are on a roll like we did last time unfortunately we have been set up to fail and it's embarrassing but this is not Heckys fault
Can never understand the line of thought that if someone has valid excuses and a difficult job then there’s no accountability.
It’s like when during covid when people were told they must now leave the office and work from home. It’s a difficult job being isolated with minimal support but if you discover that employee has sat at home watching Netflix every day for several weeks, do you hold them accountable for their actions or say “ah it was Covid times so its reasonable to expect staff not to work”?
Agree that Hecky has has a terrible pre-season (not his fault), spent 60 million and brought in 30 million, so had a 30 mil net spend, which seems OK but we needed more and lost his best player but it’s like he’s packed up and this attitude has transferred over to the players.
Instead of thinking about the problems, think about things that Hecky can control as a manager and he’s currently poor in almost everything he can control and the signs were their last season too.
You say we’ve bought Championship players so why are we not playing like a Championship standard team? We looked 2 or 3 divisions below Bournemouth on Saturday. Why do the players look like they’ve just met each other and don’t seem sure what to do? We don’t even look like a team, no cohesion, no set pieces from the training ground, no one running into to space or making runs expecting the ball.