Interesting article, the interview with Neerav

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The self harm at this club is off the charts Pass , I got to thinking this morning about how events outside your control can conspire against you if you haven't got the ownership nous to overcome setbacks .

When Windass scored in the last 30 seconds of the Play Off Final we most certainly didn't deserve to lose it ultimately unearthed and exposed the ownership for what they were , they enjoyed their piece of luck that season hiring Duff and were also thanking their lucky stars that Andersen , Kitching and then Thomas proved to be exceptional defenders to boot .

We've never really replaced anybody from the Duff season to any great effect , not even close .

Play Off Final events have conspired against this club before , Barnard's penalty miss , Hristov's header that somehow was kept out by the Ipswich keeper whose name escapes me .

Within 18 months we were relegated to league one and in administration but the difference was that the club had no control over the collapse of ITV Digital and unfortunately had a bank who pulled the plug on them when they should have worked with them instead .

John Dennis made mistakes certainly but he was done for by events rather than incompetence .

The situation today is purely down to incompetence because there's a huge difference between losing a Championship Play Off Final and a League One Play Off Final , to say the least .

There was absolutely no reason why we couldn't have emerged from the Windass kick in the teeth with a better squad of players the next season and won promotion last season , none what so ever .

We are here today because of incompetence and judging by Neerav's interview absolutely nothing is getting learned by the countless mistakes that have contributed to this sorry state of affairs .

I just can't get my head round it. As I alluded to in my last post, and other posts since Sormaz confirmed that the club was losing 7/8 million per year in running costs. Is it all a dream and will I wake up in a minute?

As I say, the solution to our financial affairs isn't even promotion to the championship although it would help. That's the catch 22. Having watched a lot of championship football and the level that the championship is at is way, way above where we're at and our current squad would struggle to get 25 points in that division which is no exaggeration. We're miles away, absolutely miles away in terms of even competing at that level. Should a minor miracle happen and we get promoted, we'd be cast iron certainties to go straight back to league 1 which would still leave us in the same financial predicament.

The club has been administered absolutely terribly. Shockingly in fact, especially for running costs to be that high.

Patrick Cryne kept the club on an even keel eventually by coming up with the statistics plan. He acknowledged that keeping our heads above water in the Championship was not financially viable because it was costing him over a million pounds a season out of his own pocket to keep the club going. A change of plan was needed and the statistic method was the best he and his son could come up with.

This situation however is not losing 1 million a season in the championship, but losing 8 million a season in league 1. It's totally unsustainable and the future of the club is in serious jeopardy. The worry is that the Chairman and board persist with a system that is totally unsustainable and failing badly.

It's time for the owners to acknowledge that things need to change because if they believe in only statistics, then they are seriously deluded. A big concern is to hear Parekh say that statistically, the squad are a top 4 league 1 club. Who gives a feck what player statistics say? Its purely a smokescreen to cover up their incompetence when fact is that the real statistics say that we currently lie 11th in league 1 having lost 15 games out of 38 with 53 points.

The league table never lies. Never ever. Especially at this stage of the season.

[Shadrack the Red]

I just can't get my head round it. As I alluded to in my last post, and other posts since Sormaz confirmed that the club was losing 7/8 million per year in running costs. Is it all a dream and will I wake up in a minute?

As I say, the solution to our financial affairs isn't even promotion to the championship although it would help. That's the catch 22. Having watched a lot of championship football and the level that the championship is at is way, way above where we're at and our current squad would struggle to get 25 points in that division which is no exaggeration. We're miles away, absolutely miles away in terms of even competing at that level. Should a minor miracle happen and we get promoted, we'd be cast iron certainties to go straight back to league 1 which would still leave us in the same financial predicament.

The club has been administered absolutely terribly. Shockingly in fact, especially for running costs to be that high.

Patrick Cryne kept the club on an even keel eventually by coming up with the statistics plan. He acknowledged that keeping our heads above water in the Championship was not financially viable because it was costing him over a million pounds a season out of his own pocket to keep the club going. A change of plan was needed and the statistic method was the best he and his son could come up with.

This situation however is not losing 1 million a season in the championship, but losing 8 million a season in league 1. It's totally unsustainable and the future of the club is in serious jeopardy. The worry is that the Chairman and board persist with a system that is totally unsustainable and failing badly.

It's time for the owners to acknowledge that things need to change because if they believe in only statistics, then they are seriously deluded. A big concern is to hear Parekh say that statistically, the squad are a top 4 league 1 club. Who gives a feck what player statistics say? Its purely a smokescreen to cover up their incompetence when fact is that the real statistics say that we currently lie 11th in league 1 having lost 15 games out of 38 with 53 points.

The league table never lies. Never ever. Especially at this stage of the season.

Great post and great analysis , I have been banging the drum for long enough about the incompetence within the stewardship of our club and finally Neerav has got the message out to the fan base in one interview , they have to try and sell , Cryne sold to them and surely with their business contacts they should be able to find a buyer otherwise the consequences for owners and fans look bleak .