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11 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:
Carol Shanahan has got a really important decision here.
I imagine she was sat in the directors box, or at least watching at home, staring out across a 3/4 empty Vale Park. Sub 4,000 fans, sat mute in a funeral atmosphere. An absolutely spineless, insipid, soulless performance, led by a poor bloke who woke up this morning expecting a day of coaching teenagers before being chucked into League 1 football. Fans going to the toilet in portaloos. Hospitality full of uneaten canapes (probably).
That was void of anything. Soul-destroying to watch. Not a crumb of anything positive. A club cascading rapidly towards relegation, an improving Fleetwood and Cheltenham below, Reading only around us by virtue of a points deduction. We are, categorically, the worst team in League 1. 11 wins in 50. No forwards. No leaders. Nowt.
Carol can continue to delegate all decision-making to the architect of this mess. A bloke without any prior experience in the job he's currently in. A bloke who spends more time talking about campuses and zones than he does assembling a competent 3rd tier team. A bloke who pinned everything on the anointment of Andy Crosby despite a lot of fans pointing out is was probably a bad idea.
She can let this bloke persist with this insane, damaging concept that we can play top-tier football on a poor 3rd tier budget, and appoint someone else to play insipid possession football. Let him continue to prioritise shiny new things to cover up the crumbling edifice behind. A lovely scoreboard in front of a condemned stand.
Or, she can take control of the situation. She is abrogating responsibility at the minute, and it's killing everything she's built. If we go down, her tenure is around as successful as Bratt's, with better morals and intentions. A promotion and relegation from the 4th tier in 5 years isn't even close to successful. If she doesn't have the funds to put this right, then she has to sell up.
I trust Carol, and I know some have lost that. She genuinely means well. She's, again, been far too trusting of someone not up to the job. She's got about a week to save her legacy, here. A good appointment, and a lot of this goes away. A poor appointment, and we're back to square one, just £5m in debt to the Shanahan family.
Carol, I know Hancock reads this forum on your behalf. Get a grip, for your own sake, or this has all been for naught. Swindon, Wembley. A complete and utter waste of energy. Put it right. Make some clear decisions. Invest the money. We can't let the past 5 years be thrown away like this.
Feel a bit sick.
Summed up perfectly
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Reap what you sow
Not prepared to invest, so don't deserve to stay in the league
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Occasional Poster Here. Absolutely staggered how anyone thinks that's a penalty.
I must be watching a different game
Chislett at Stevenage also comes to mind
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Cheltenham (A) match thread - 17th Feb
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I don't blame the players.
Lg1 is to much for most of them , but that's not particularly their fault.
The club is unable or unwilling to finance a team that can be competitive at this level. The clubs around us have invested whereas we haven't. We don't deserve to stay in the league.
You could put Lewis Hamilton in my old Mk2 Escort, but it would still finish last when competing against cars with a modern engine.
Let's see some accountability at the end of this season please
I hope the marketing team are on their game. it's going to take a big effort to convince people to part with their hard earned cash to invest in a Lg2 campaign if we're not prepared to push on .
Football fans live off hope, and at the moment there isn't any.