Quote Originally Posted by jacobncfc View Post
They’ve been completely at sea for ages. It’s like a month since we got outplayed at home by a King’s Lynn team with three subs, one of them a goalkeeper in his 50s, that had been forced to furlough half their players.

I do agree that the change was always likely to be detrimental to this season, though. Even the owners’ answers to the timing question in the press conference unveiling Burchnall hinted that they were effectively willing to write this season off. It’s bold decision making, but all of it is in keeping with the way they’ve said they were going to run the club and make decisions.

One thing I would say, if you are going to pull the trigger and make a huge change to the club’s management culture that is likely to take some time to work itself out, doing so when grounds are closed probably isn’t a terrible idea.
Whilst performances might have been poor, results - which is all that matters in the end - this year overall didn't suggest a group of players all at sea. They definitely are now though. We can't just pick the KL game as the bellwether of our season, we'd games in hand and, despite playing poorly, were still churning out results.

We'll never know of course, but I don't think we'd have capitulated on Saturday without all the unnecessary drama of last week. The timing was desperate and doesn't seem to fit with the careful considered approach the brothers have portrayed previously. Who knows what impact getting to Wembley might have had on our season? Or indeed what impact being shamed by Hornchurch will have?

Hopefully things will improve soon, let's face it, it's been a terrible start, so as Peter Cunnah once sang......