Why are fans still buying home tickets ?

[mellowmiller]

Stupid thread this. Sheff U fans did they stop going last season when they were going nowhere.

You don't only go when your winning. TS as put plenty into this club, deserves support. Managers have let him down this season, TS has never let us down.

Of course TS has let us down. He appointed a manager from Scotland with no experience of the English Championship and then sacked him after 13 games.
Kenny Jackett walked and nobody knows the real reason.
Then he appointed the Fitness Coach with 28 games to go and that guaranteed relegation.
Apart from that he's been a great leader this season.

[KerrAvon]

Of course TS has let us down. He appointed a manager from Scotland with no experience of the English Championship and then sacked him after 13 games.
Kenny Jackett walked and nobody knows the real reason.
Then he appointed the Fitness Coach with 28 games to go and that guaranteed relegation.
Apart from that he's been a great leader this season.

Do you know who else applied for the job when Stubbs did? I don't, which makes it harder to criticise the decision to appoint him. What I do know is that we were appointing someone in something of a hurry following the delay in Warnock's decision and were also recruiting for a club that had just escaped relegation by the skin of its teeth. I suspect the number of quality candidates was probably quite low, but, like you unless you're going to tell me otherwise, I don't actually know whether that was the case.

Kenny Jackett walked and, of course, we don't know why for certain, but, just as others speculate about conversations at the club, I'll have a go with this:

KJ: I'm jacking it in Tony;
TS: Why?
KJ: Because you gave me an objective of keeping the club in the Championship, but that's impossible;
TS: Why?
KJ: Because the players signed in the summer aren't good enough and whilst I can train with them, scout the opposition and set them up for games, they still won't be good enough to keep this club up;
TS: But what about the January transfer window? I can make funds available, just as I did to Stubbs;
KJ: Tony, you need to understand the scale of the problem; this squad doesn't need tinkering with, it needs a rebuild. To get the number and calibre of the players required and bring them into a club that looks like it is to be relegated would cost many millions of pounds. Even then, the task of getting what would essentially be a new team and getting them to perform together with so little time left would mean that there would be limited prospects of success.
TS: What can I do then, Jacketts? You are a bloke who knows football.
KJ: There is nothing that you can do, this season. I doubt you’ll get an experienced manage in for what looks like certain relegation. You need to try to add some decent prospects in January and hang on to the decent players that you have. It’s then a rebuild in the summer.

Now of course that is pure speculation (and doesn’t mention peanuts once and so is patently unrealistic), but the thing is that you kind of agree with KJ. You said:

Why do you keep banging on about which team to play?
It doesn't matter who plays where. We will lose because the squad is simply not good enough regardless of which team our unqualified manager picks.
We've scraped together 17 points and probably won't get any more.
Get used to it ��

I agree with you and the imaginary KJ - the squad is simply not good enough and so I struggle to understand how you can also believe that appointing Warne guaranteed relegation. Would appointing a more qualified manager have made the players jump in quality? Did that happened under Jackett? How much do you think an adequate rebuild would have cost in January and what do you think the impact would have been upon the clubs books, which, despite being rather healthy for a Championship outfit, caused such distress on here the other day?

The biggest problem with Stubbs is that he was not the kind of manager that Rotherham needs for the Championship. We can’t compete financially and so need a manger who can create a siege mentality. Ronnie Moore managed it the last time we were in the Championship. He signed blood and guts grafters who loved getting into their opponent's face on and off the pitch and used every trick in the book, such as having the width of the Millmoor pitch reduced to be as narrow as it could within the regulations. Evans could do it to a point. It was clear that Stubbs couldn’t the moment that he started to alienate the supporters.