This has been coming for a few years, and IMHO the blame doesn't sit with individual players, managers, coaches, etc. We bounced up and down a few times and some kind of arrogance/entitlement set in. It was evident in many fans, and certainly the club's senior management assumed that we'd just keep competitive at the higher end of L1 and frequently dip our toes into Championship waters. I've voiced my views on this before, but I think the ultimate issue is the arrogance of the owner, epitomised by his "giving the town its Eiffel Tower" comment regarding the stadium.

I've worked in businesses before where there's a misplaced belief that the brand name automatically opens doors ahead of some/many competitors, and those businesses tend to struggle until they accept the realities of where they operate. We're there now. A former second tier club with a modern ground, and I firmly believe the entitlement mentality at the top trickles down to the majority of the management and players.

I understand the frustrations this season, and I'm as guilty as anyone of being critical of players and management. Very few of us know the score behind the scenes though, what sort of role was described to the players and how that impacts what they're doing. It's easy to say they should try harder, run themselves into the ground, talk about their salary level... but many of us have taken jobs which have turned out to be very different to the opportunities and workloads being sold as we interviewed. We don't know if they're being sold a dream of a different way of playing, a position they ended up nowhere near, an atmosphere which isn't the one they got. As much as it's easy to pass these things off because they 'earn well', their frustrations may well be very real too.

It's time for our reality check. It doesn't actually matter if it's TS or A.N. Other at the helm, it just matters that they get it, and are prepared to roll their sleeves up, get humble, and treat the club like its success is the most important thing in their day. If the boss doesn't show up every day, ready to graft, you won't get that from those working under him. Similarly, if the boss can't adapt and show some dynamism, we'll go the same way as Kodak, Nokia, Blockbuster, etc, all legacies of a stubborn resistance to change.

If TS doesn't want that - and I fully appreciate there are many reasons he wouldn't - then he has to hand over the job (or the club) to someone who does. Right now, many remember buckets and Don Valley so appreciate what he's done. If this arrogance-driven freefall continues though, over time he'll be remembered (by younger fans of today) as the guy who turned up, flashed some cash, gave us a brief spell of success, and oversaw a return to fourth tier obscurity.

We have a more meaningful anniversary coming up in 2027 - 150 years of the club's existence - it would be nice to think by the start of that season we've made some meaningful changes upstairs, and after a steady season in L2, we're ready to start climbing back to L1 and beyond. UTM. RTID.