Great post Shaded. There must be a reason why the BOD think they are doing OK and the fans think that things are deteriorating. I wonder how much information is actually going to John Nelms. So often when things are going badly the messenger gets shot and I wonder if there is an unwillingness to give JN a few words about the genuine concerns that are being raised by the fans for the state of the the first team and the way there seems to be little or no response to them.
There isn't an agenda, like you have seen across the road and we aren't agitating for a change of ownership. IMO all we really want is some way to revamp the SE, and hopefully get a change in the way NM wants to play the game. I think we would all admit that playing possession football, holding the ball and trying to draw out your opponents so that you have a chance to get in behind them is the current style being adopted by the top teams who have TOP PLAYERS. Even Celtic can do it effectively when they play in Scotland but they aren't good enough when it comes to playing against the stronger European teams. It's such a simple thing to understand. You can play like that if you have better players and it will win games a la Celtic. If you don't have better players then it is complete folly to try to play to that system.
Someone needs to have a chat with NM and help him to face facts, see sense, and find a system that makes the best use of the players that we actually have. At other clubs that would be the chairman's job. At our club it seems that there just isn't anybody who can even ask the question.
I would hope that part of the job in running a football club included keeping an eye on what social media is saying. It's important for every other type of business so why does football think it isn't necessary. Nobody wants to run the club, they just want to see some changes made which seem to be fairly obvious to the fans. If the changes being proposed are flawed then why not say so and explain why the current set of actions is correct?