I’m only 25, but I certainly can’t recall our supporter base being as angry and disenchanted as they are now. I certainly feel this.
I want to ask the older supporters about the times during the Watson/blight years as I was too young to really remember. Is this period worse than then? Do you guys feel more angry and lost at what the club is doing?
We largely knew in the back end we were a proper basket case. You don't pay 20c in a dollar then follow up with a pres on crack cocaine because you have brilliant business sense, you do it because you have to and so it's less of a "I expected so much" and more of "thank god we didn't die in the arse" type commitment.
These days it's less of the above and more of the "here is where we should be, since we spent 30 odd years in the mire and hopefully learned something, and if we didn't, I'm going to be really bloody disappointed..."
Supporter wise sure, more disenchantment, but as a club we're in a much better place even if half of them are deer in headlights when it comes to acting like it to instill confidence.
I’ll put my hand up & say that in 2014 when the Road to 2018 campaign began, I never believed we’d be top 4, but I believed we’d be a contender for the top 8 - around position 6-9.
Never in my mind did I envisage that 4-5 seasons later that we’d be bottom 4 with only half a win more than our spoon year that was that 2014 season.
So disappointed
I saw it as hope, but no confidence that we'd do anything about it because it's what we do, it's what we've always done, there's no basis whatsoever to have believed that this time would be any different. So you take the good with the bad and focus on the good because focusing on the bad is just depressing. Ergo, we won games, the time to ask questions is with AGM rights to then place boots firmly up someone elses arse if so required.
Otherwise, lots of overreaction. Sack these mobs and replace them with 3 people and a dog, things aren't happening immediately they must be sniffing arses instead.
Decision was made; keep Richo for 1 year, give him support. Great established that, move on.
How does he get supported? Who goes? Who comes in? What changes? How does it change? Can it actually change? Is change better? Does change require more? Less? So many goddamn variables with that one decision and people want immediate restitution because panties are bunched.
Great, he's not liked, he's not what we need or want or no postal address for a christmas card, but it's also 1 more season at this stage and who knows what tomorrow brings...
Not saying like it, question it. Think on better ways, think of different ways, be proactive instead of reactive and rejoice that we have people who can fill the positions at the club instead of 1 person holding several titles as if its royalty.