Rob from Erith wrote:
The opinion that we haven't been dicked about this season!
I know I'm probably going to regret this but it's a miserable day here, I've got soaked cycling into work (waterproof jacket my ar5e!) and I've got a few minutes before getting stuck into work - I think maybe I've just got an aversion to that headbanger icon!
Regret away
Rob from Erith wrote:
Although it wasn't mentioned in my post just for a bit of background I know you were one of the many who bought into it lock, stock and multi - pastel duvet cover, but I never thought the Harlequins partnership / merger/ takeover / feel free to put in the term of your choosing would work, I never liked the idea and I make no apologies for feeling that way and never have done. If I'm wrong or insane to think that way then I'm OK with that. However I continued to support the club during this time, probably attending more matches than during the years at Brentford or Charlton and wondered if I'd be proved wrong - but I wasn't was I ? By the time the main movers behind the idea ( Evans, Lenagan, Cartwright ,? any one I've left out) had all gone it was surely just a matter of the project being on borrowed time? And before you start I take no twisted pleasure whatsoever from this!
Lock stock and 2 smoking is a tad OTT, I believed in Ian Lenegan.....his judgement and his vision for where he wanted us to be. Evans was then an unknown to me, and cartwright was exiting......I hung my hat on Ian Lenagan!
As for Quins......I played for the exiles in 198 something....I didn't buy a quartered shirt until 2009 IIRC.....I am not a fan of Union but I admire the way they have embraced "open" professionalism!
Rob from Erith wrote:
Apart from an initial spike in attendances the club as Harlequins went the same way as it has always done, largely because of the Kevin Costner approach - whcih we've agreed upon in the past. The relaunch offered one final chance to start again, I know how many chances does one club need eh? But after the usual initial stuff at Wembley for the double header etc... well you know how the rest of it goes..... and who should shoulder the blame!
Actually...after the 2006 then 2007 spike and settle...we did actually grow attendances...if ever so slightly.
Rob from Erith wrote:
But getting back to the point about being dicked about, we did it to them first so it's OK for them to do it back to us? That's a bit infant playground isn't it? We might only be the tenants now, although that's what we'd been effectively for the last few seasons pre the rebrand but we pay our rent don't we - shouldn't we get something for that ?
I have repeatedly said that if we had a proper management system in place, then the dicking about would not have happened......but gus showed his hand last August.....we've been FI_ICKED ever since (sorry mods, but loved was never going to cut the Mustard.)
Rob from Erith wrote:
I'm having trouble recalling a situation, where a pro sports team has had to rearrange games at such short notice as we have this year? And I don't just mean different KO times or days which we've had to do because of fixture clashes, gigs at the big stadium etc..or because the football club landlords are relaying / reseeding the pitch, I mean having to find a new venue at virtually no notice whatsoever due to the pitch being unplayable? Sure we could have postponed the games but with no clear idea of how long it was going to take to sort the pitch out, a decision was made to try and fulfil the fixtures on the scheduled dates. Credit to Esher and Wycombe for accomodating us under these circumstances but I can't think of a time in professional sport when this has happened ! If what's happened to us is not the defintion of being dicked about then I think I need a new dictionary!
see above
Rob from Erith wrote:
As for my sanity, well the thought of not having a club to support does bring on bouts of acute depression, especially with the alternative being to go back to watching West Ham under Sam Allardyce's management- but that said the aftermath of watching them lately does much the same. Thanks for your concern anyway, I'm just taking the medication as prescribed and dealing with things one day at a time!
I have often debated with the wife about what I would do with $250,000,000 should I ever be so lucky to have such resources at my disposal. Given my age now, I would happily take my half (
) and plough 100 mil into the broncos.......but alas, I believe that even that amount would be too little too late.
