Originally Posted by
Timmy58
As a matter of interest, what ambition do you want them to have. Realistically. You mention Fleetwood as having similar resources to us. Really? Didn't they have someone investing significant money into the club? How many managers have they had in the last 5 seasons? And where has this got them? Is that ambition?
For me, the boards ambition should be to do whatever it needs for us to have a club to support. Bury had ambition and they are now gone. Crewe Alexandra are a League 1/League 2 club and will ever be thus. Partly because the fan base doesn't stack up to anything much higher. I seem to remember rarely filling the ground when we were in the 2nd tier so that says much about the club and its supporters.
I am not for one minute suggesting that we should be content with the current situation surround the success (or lack of) of the team. However, I have a lot of sympathy with the management team over the summer recruitment. Thew were dealt a bad hand by a few of our players leaving at the last minute on top of the two signing and then deciding they didn't want to play football any more. The nett outcome of that scenario is one Terril Thomas. We were desperate with limited options and he hadn't got a club. Fortunately he s on a one year deal so not too much damage there. Artell's recruitment in previous seasons has been decent at least and many were heralding the signings before this season started so I think we must show some patience and understanding of the situation and recognise we are not Bury or Fleetwood or any other similar club with "ambition"
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