Ash Phillips

[robinrover]

Hey I realise there is alot worse than us and are performing well under the circumstances but my point is how long is venkys going to be prepared finishing mid table?

[champs95]

Hey I realise there is alot worse than us and are performing well under the circumstances but my point is how long is venkys going to be prepared finishing mid table?

The day after they leave, is the day we fold as a club.

Mowbray has just done an interview where he shows alot of class, but basically explains what is happening at the club.
People from the outside look and see Alan Shearer, Jack Walker, a Prem trophy and a lovely 30k stadium.
The actual truth is the stadium is killing them. It is only ever a 3rd full. The places has only been full 3 times since 1995.
That is shocking. But people keep ignoring it. Like they ignore our 11 thousand home crowds, but wish for better times. Clubs with only 11 thousand fans will not go far. Only money talks.
And the club is a skeleton of what people think.

The is only one thing that has never changed in those 25 years since we got to spend Jack Walkers money. Fans expectancy. That's stayed like we still have more money than 95% of clubs in football, because we have a rich owner, and FFP didn't exist. There are people out there that truly believe one day we will return. We won't.
Not a chance, it would be embarrassing.
So instead of just understanding where we are and why, people are constantly disappointed. Abd will demand we sack managers to chase success.
We are a mid table second division club. Who is actually punching above its weight. Your all very lucky to still have a club. My hometowns club were not so lucky. One that still manages to play at the second best level in the best country world wide of a football obsessed world.

It boils down to this, what TM said. You cant keep selling all your best players and saying to the manager 'well we wont give you anymore, go play an 18 year old from the academy'. You wont find success that way. You also need to invest.
We didnt. We never bothered to re-invest.
So anyone truly believing anything will change with this manager will be very disappointed. As they will sell players under him aswell, and ask him to make do with Jack Vale. Until fans decide they will blame all of that on the current manger, and the cycle continues.