In my opinion I never thought Patrick's model was ever about achieving massive success .

The model came to be so that Patrick didn't have to keep loaning the club money so it could pay its way .

It was never anything more than that which isn't a criticism of Patrick but just my view on how he saw the model .

The ownership again in my opinion saw some extraordinary sales under Patrick for very little outlay and thought by using analytics they could make the club more valuable in order to profit from at a point of sale without spending any of their own funds on the project .

In other words they thought they could do even better and make a good profit on a pretty low investment .

That's not happened for a variety of reasons and in all reality the cracks in the model were covered up by an instant return to the championship under Stendel , an extraordinary chain of events under Struber to keep us in the championship and a one off season during a global pandemic and one hell of an extraordinary HC who had the ability and playing conditions to turn water in to wine .

The truth is the model was already fecked during the summer of 2019 when Pinnock , Lindsay , Moore and Adam Davies left and Stendel was tasked with getting a championship tune out of 8 or 9 new and inexperienced recruits .

That summer is where the good financial work left by Patrick Cryne was thrown down the plug hole .

I give you , Bambo , Radlinger , Thomas , Wilks , Schmidt , Halme and Oduor and to a certain degree Chaplin .

Now we've no room for feck ups and in all reality not one of those players could be considered a success and more valuable today than they were three years ago .

Collins and Andersen are probably the only two and even then they aren't going to bring in much more than we paid for them .

This has been coming it really has .

We've all been sucked in to a certain degree by that extraordinary night at Griffin Park and the last season's covid season .

However when foundations are built on straw don't be surprised when the building eventually collapses .

That's what's happened .