What goes under the radar and I guess is the cause of massive frustration is that with fans in attendance this club has lost one hell of a lot of football games .

Before covid under Stendel in the championship and then Struber we were in the bottom 3 for 45 weeks before escaping with three minutes of the season remaining and even then it took Wigan's points deduction to save us .

The covid season under Val whilst a moral boosting pick up at a terrible time in history wasn't watched by anybody other than on a computer and sky sports red button .

Last season was simply a catastrophe and so we go in to a new season a level lower with not a penny spent on recruitment and some of our better players sold to breach the financial holes .

The first game back in league one has us looking all at sorts and massively undercooked .

The frustration felt by many isn't the events of yesterday afternoon per se but a combination of the last three seasons .

The business plan remains , the business plan that says we buy Player A for a £800k and two years later we sell for £3m without the necessity to be funded from the boardroom .

Which is fine in principle but what happens when Player A is bought for by our standards decent brass and doesn't cut the mustard and what happens when you recruit more failures than business plan successes ?

Well you end up in League One with huge losses and no money to spend in the market on recruitment and that's without even mentioning the shady characters who have contributed along the way .

We stand today as a consequence with minus three shady characters , that's all , nothing more and nothing less .

The actual business plan that's failed us still remains and what's more it's likely to fail us even more given the fact we can no longer even recruit players for £800k and yet the business plan still remains .

Michael Duff may well get a tune out of free agents and academy products in Cheltenham terms , half way up league one is considered a successful season .

Halfway up league one at this club isn't and as Roma and SB have said Duff needs backing if he is to kick not only this club on but his own managerial career .

The business plan is broken , the evidence overwhelming .

And yet ..........