Playing in the Premier League should be the pinnacle for a club like ours but its fucking dogger watching this shite every week.
It’s obviously not a one off given this is the second time in a few years we’ve stunk the league out with our uncompetitiveness. I honestly don’t know what the solution is…well I do, it involves millions and millions and millions of pounds and risking the financial future of the club and/or FA sanctions.
Be interesting to see the reaction of the fans if we are promoted again next year. Obviously, momentum and feeling may have shifted but if the murmurings start about having no money to spend again then its going to be pretty underwhelming.
It was pretty underwhelming last season tbh . Many predicted all this .
There really does seem to be a lot of apathy and indifferent acceptance to what’s happening on one hand , and an angry , frustrated angst on the other - between our supporters.
Whilst we should be grateful that we are in the top league ,and in comparison to the past , we are in a healthy financial situation (many peoples mindset ) we were not prepared for the challenges and did nothing to prepare us for the challenges we faced , to even give ourselves a chance of surviving and therefore we are passively giving up our opportunity to stay in this division (many other peoples mindset).
It really is a problem
Many offer the example of Luton , a seemingly well run club with an identity and purpose - as a blueprint- yet we are light years away from even them , let alone Brighton / Brentford (other examples of blueprints) .
We have no purpose - and even if we have we are carrying it out woefully. This is down to the leader - who two and a half years ago wanted absolutely nothing to do with us , said so publicly, and offered a 5 year contract to Hecky and said that even the manager wouldn’t be judged on results .
In the time since the owner has almost completely taken his eyes off the ball - has tried to offload us to any old rouge , presided over a transfer embargo , not paid suppliers , and only got survived thanks to the money from one of these rouges . This all following 2 years in the Prem plus 2 para payments .
The owner couldn’t believe his luck when Hecky got us up to save his and our skins and started to come out of the shadows when promotion sealing games and Wembley semi finals were on offer .
But …. The damage had already been done whilst he had his downtime . No leadership , no strategy, players out of contract , no infrastructure to recruit sensibly , very little improvement in infrastructure. He blindly started the process of self harming .
Therefore we have what we have today . Many are grateful because anything is better than some of the dark days we have had , and they diff their cap , and often insult others who challenge what’s happening . Many are angry and frustrated that we are in course to break so many unwanted prem records and ignore an opportunity to change the profile of our club .
So , who’s to blame ?
The owner - he bailed out at a crucial time and didn’t create critical conditions ti give us any chance - a mismanaged opportunity irrelevant of how much money he had or hasn’t .
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