Really not sure why people are digging out Stan.
Our recruitment for years has been rushed and absolute ****, hence we are where we are. We’ve burned literally every bridge in football relationships and we are known as a club you probably wouldn’t want to send your young players out to as they’ll experience embargo’s, losing and just all round crap.
Now we are trying to repair and build relationships and actually do some DD people are moaning because it’s too slow.
Honestly I wonder sometimes if some of our fans are in the real world or not. This isn’t fifa or football manager, this is real life.
It will get better in time, but get a ****ing grip.
Oh and the next person to mention “New Manager Bounce” is getting blocked. There’s no scientific evidence that bringing in a new manager brings about a change in results instantly. This might happen if the players are good enough, but as most have alluded to our team last night was half made up of players not good enough. Therefore why should they now be good enough to win games just because we changed management…
We thought we could repair this summer but instead Brown came back and cocked it up beyond our wildest dreams. It’s going to take I’d say a year minimum to correct. Maybe even two when you remember Dunne signed a two year deal.
Great post. I get the lack of patience given the last 3-4 years, and I understand scepticism, but the toxicity on here and on social media is alarming. There's "giving an opinion".......and then there is deliberately trying to rile people up. I feel like a lot of the latter is going on.
Whilst I hate seeing us lose, I would be delighted with simply avoiding relegation this season right now. As has been said numerous times, the rot is deep and it is not going to be a quick fix to turn around. Anybody who thought otherwise has got a screw loose.
Can I also add that what SC said he would do is to bring brilliant contacts to the table and to present Kev with a basket of names. He is currently formulating that basket of names, along with 9 other people working on recruitment......the biggest recruitment operation this club has ever had. The right players won't appear overnight. Scouting is being done and discussions held with other clubs. It needs to be given time to bear fruit. Then there is January, which will always be more active despite the fact that we do not operate under transfer window restrictions.....a fully open transfer market has a huge knock-on effect across the game and just because we don't operate under one, doesn't mean we can freely sign our top targets whenever we want.
Alternatively, we could go back to the previous recruitment "model" (if you could call it that) and remain in a vicious cycle where we keep signing duffers, and then rotate back to all the weapons on here moaning again within a year.
Fundamental, root-and-branch change and restructuring is needed and it is just starting. The quick fixes need to stop.
Those who raise expectations sky high by exagerrated claims in the first place can hardly complain when inevitably a reaction follows when those expectations are not met. This is a forum after all and people should not be shouted down or their motives questioned just because they prefer to believe the evidence of their own eyes rather than meekly accepting what they are told.
How can you say expectations haven't been met this early on, and when the club is in such a state? What exactly were your expectations that haven't been met? If you expected immediate change then you've: a) read the wrong thing into SC's words, and b) grossly underestimated the rotten state of the club. I'm all for informed opinions, but every time you post something like this you come across as increasingly ridiculous.
I wasn't saying I had been shouted down, but certainly others have been for not sticking to the script which appears to be: have faith and everything will work out fine and in the meantime don't rock the boat for fear toys get thrown out of the pram again. The club suffered enough last year by giving MM the benefit of the doubt with his 'process' for too long. History repeats itself all too often and a third successive relegation would be terminal, so closing your eyes and hoping for the best is not a good idea.
Lovely twisting of words to suit your agenda. What I think most people are
actually suggesting is to give it some time, try to suppress the toxicity a little bit and support the people who are working hard to turn things around rather than jumping to uninformed conclusions so early on in what is an absolutely mammoth, unenviable and unforgiving task. Nobody is "closing eyes and hoping for the best". They are supporting well-connected and qualified people in their attempts to turn things around. "Closing eyes and hoping for the best" is more akin to what you're essentially suggesting, which would be to panic sign players as quickly as possible without DD and proper scouting.
It. Will. Not. Happen. Overnight.
