True CD, I was a regular for a long time before that too.
I decided enough was enough when his ineptitude got us to the 3rd division.
I said I would not cross the threshhold while ever he was still in charge and I have kept to that. I still back the team, want them to succeed, am a very proud Blade and there aren't many who know me that don't soon get to know that I'm a Blade. I know I don't fit into Rod's definition of a TRUE BLADE and there are plenty who decry me for what I chose to do.
It's become a matter of principle for me and I am continually astounded by how bad he is at anything to do with football matters.
He is obviously a very successful business man but I can only surmise that he surrounded himself with some very good people to help him succceed because, in his dealings for SUFC, on the footnall front, he's an unmitigated disaster.
I have grown away from my love of football and miss it less and less, whilst I follow closely on match days and through this forum and like a little bit of discussion and debate with the odd criticism of the man I hold responsible for allowing me to have more holidays, more time with friends without consulting the fixture list and arranging holidays around international weeks ( when they used to affect us
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He's the root cause of my initial disillusion and, as everyone on here knows,I do give him the stick he deserves for that. I'd hate not to fulfil the expectations of fellow posters.
BTW he attended through the decline, when his tax planning allowed him, because he couldn't sell the club probably because he was pricing it too high, probably because he insisted on a job for his boy and , probably, because he was getting afew bob out of us from loans etc etc.