03-07-2019, 02:36 PM
(03-07-2019, 12:18 AM)PsychoStanleyStone Wrote: A few thoughts, first of all, if your enthusiasm, excitement, passion for the new season has intensified in the last few days, honestly and genuinely i am pleased for you, i can remember a few seasons where i was desperately waiting for the season to start, the first season under Frank Clark .. i think it the 5.3 win over Grimsby, then the next season the 1.1 v Man U, I went to the Dell 1 season and saw us win but maybe not the 1st game, I remember the 0.3 away at Coventry, obviously Psycho's win over Blackpool, Warbs's 3.4 win at Brentford, all really memorable days early or possibly first games.
I envy you, because for me it has totally gone, i agree M o N and R K weren't to focused on champagne football but for some probably meaningless reasons, i loved them being here. I won't bother with talking experience and all that. Even the most bitter critic would have to concede that they did ok for the 19 games.
I would say the squad spirit, togetherness, band of brothers ... problem, ie there was discontent, i'd say was inherited. Even then i am not going to blame AK, because that is what he does, he signs players, the ones that get injured or don't work for him .. i think he casts aside but for someone else to move on, AK probably wanted to work with the gold and silver and let someone else deal with the slag and slurry, why not?
To be honest with you, i can't make any sense of it anymore. All i can conclude is that it is a very strange club, a bit sinister, actually sinister is quite good, it's more cowardly, desperate, pathetic but veiled. The decency has gone, maybe it went years ago. That might be why i liked Billy Davies, he sort of sparred, was a bit sinister himself, there was a sort of honesty with him but an honesty that he was devious, acknowledging that the truth and transparency doesn't win you games, he was the pantomime baddy.
Anyway i am damaged now, maybe we all are.
I've got to say, at this moment in time there isn't really anything genuinely silver lining to look forward to.
We are officially in blind hope alley, i'm not saying there aren't good things but that there isn't anything to feel proud about, everyone running the show at the moment seem like complete strangers to me, it's not that, it is a feeling of nothingness, it's gone. Nothing to feel strongly about nothing to condemn, no identity, definately no decency, maybe a glut of money?
Good post :)
Give me Davies' passionate, brutal honesty over the useless line-towing toss we've had since.
His curse was he was lumbered with a useless CEO & then a useless owner. He did right to kick back against both.