Reply With QuoteI stopped beating myself up about Notts years ago but I do admit to a feeling of disappointment with the results so far this season. W4. D3. L2 isn't quite what I expected.Originally Posted by Observerpie
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Having reflected upon yesterday's gutless capitulation, it's made me think that I couldn't bear another season at this level of football but that seems the likeliest outcome. A team that is so mentally weak when the pressure is on will never achieve success, being easy on the eye is all well and good but how many saves are opposition keepers having to make? To bang on about how good we were for 70 minutes but couldn't capitalise upon it is not something to be particularly pleased about, quite the opposite, the opposition will be happy for that to happen knowing that we will crumble once we concede.
The worst thing about this is that we can all see where the problems are and have been for the last two seasons but they're still not addressed, leaving us with a team who don't know how to fight to win and I certainly wouldn't buy another season ticket next season to watch this failing experiment with "pure football", no reason not to have both sides of the game open to us.
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I stopped beating myself up about Notts years ago but I do admit to a feeling of disappointment with the results so far this season. W4. D3. L2 isn't quite what I expected.
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My thoughts exactly Smiffy.
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I could have gone yesterday, but frankly i didn't fancy it. Opted to stay in and do some work instead and listen on the radio. I have to say I just don't enjoy this brand of football and I find it very frustrating to watch. I don't think we have the players to get out of this division and it's painful to see us lose to teams full of none league journeymen.
One man that seems to escape criticism is Jason Turner. He has overseen the worst period in our history. Just how much does he have to do with the recruitment? Which, let's face it has been abysmal, despite the fanfare of Football Radar.
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Yeah, I know I've been saying it for years, but I'll give it this season and if it's yet another abject P/O failure, it's time to pick and choose or alternatively not bother at all. It was pretty boring at the ar5e end of Div 2, this is well beyond that. I was ready to call it a day pre the ''Munto'' season, but the barstewards always seem to find a way to drag you back in.
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I spoke to a number of regular fans pre KO & we were all saying that it is becoming difficult to remain enthusiastic on a wet Saturday & most of us are attending through habit rather than anticipation, I even spoke to a couple who have already booked the coach to Halifax who admitted the came very close to giving it a miss yesterday, very worrying. Obviously the level we are playing at doesn't help but if we once start losing our long term fanbase how long before the club becomes the "financial black hole" that previous owners have described & how long can / will our current owners continue to chuck their seemingly limited fund at it?
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Wait until next weekend when after 2 tricky away games the L column reads 4. I stopped beating myself up a while ago but I becoming a little concerned that the footballing philosophy of our current owners, as noble as it may be, is not the right fit for this division.
The 4 teams who have gone up from this division in the last 2 seasons are all in the top half of league 2. Look at those stats before anything else.
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An awkward and very uncomfortable question popped into my head last night. Would Scardino/Storrie, The Trust, Trew or Hardy have done better at this level (in their first two seasons) than the Reedtz bros?
Bearing in mind they wouldn't have had to spend as much money (some of them operated two levels higher), in all honesty, I'd have to surmise that at least a few of them of would have achieved higher league positions - possibly to the point of getting us promoted.
Usually, owners seem to have their best seasons early on before banging their heads on a ceiling in the mid-term and then crashing back down again, forcing them into selling up. If the Reedtz bros turn out to have a typical trajectory, it's extremely depressing to imagine that the Harrogate debacle in front of an empty Wembley Stadium would be their apex and that there is far far worse to come.
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That's an interesting question and obviously one that can never be answered with any certainty at all.
I'm interested UTM out of that list who do you think would have the best chance to get us up? It's got to be Hardy cos as you say he wouldn't spend as much as the incoming inevitable financial disaster (Hardy, Trew, Scardino) would have been delayed a couple of seasons. Before Pop!!!
Here's another question what if Hardy (however unlikely) hadn't sold the club and we went into NL with him in charge and he was still the owner now. How much worse do you think it would be?
I would predict certificate 18 stuff, an absolute horror show#shudder.
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I’ve tried giving up before, it doesn’t work. It’s a part of every one of us now, an extension of who we are. Until the day that we out of business or, even more outrageous, climb the leagues I will never give up, not necessarily because I don’t want to, but because I can’t!
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