So here we are. : Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:00 am
Still fighting relegation but with a hugely improved set of circumstances (for now).Yet in all honesty even if we survive it’s been a catastrophic season in every way.
The over riding one has been injuries, nobody can deny that and that’s all down to bad luck. Despite silly attempts to do so on here I attach no blame on anybody.
Then it gets bad I’m afraid because let’s be straight we started this season with the outside hope of some silver wear, a long shot but not unreasonable. Top 5 was a definite hope, not a certainty but very attainable. Battling relegation if people are honest rather than using hindsight, relegation was as far from anyone’s mind as it’s ever been since our entry to SL.
Why? Because we had a core of top class players and supposedly some strength in depth.
Well the former remains the case and that’s where tha bad luck struck and I can accept that.
The latter however proved less the case. In fact we looked far better when we were down to the bare bones than when the players who were supposed to be offering the depth were playing.
If we stay up we can’t be content, we can be happy but not content. Things went badly wrong after the Easter period and never recovered.
Not just the players fault imo.
MC, for me he became too defensive and too involved on social media, I get it, it’s his choice but personally I don’t think it’s a good idea.
CC and the coaching team. Yes I’m not privy to what they see but I know what I see and I have seen players and tactics and selections failing week after week. Chester’s reactions have been slow and generally wrong. Not easy with most of your best players crocked but that’s what we pay him for. If he can’t improve on the above it’s time to go. Ditto Clawson and other backroom staff who imo have had their time, it’s not them personally but everything has it’s moment and I think a freshen up is needed.
The players, I hate to use the term but there is far to much dead wood and if we are to progress it needs removing.
There will be varying opinions on who but I think most will agree with me that another season being led by Brough will destroy the club. One of my all time favourite players but it over now. CC drop the ego and let it go, there are far better out there now, they don’t have the skills of a Brough but neither does he anymore, he’s gone.
Add other players to suit your taste.
Hopefully next season if there is one can’t be as unlucky, but even so if we don’t fundementally change as a club we won’t improve, we won’t compete and we will eventually drop.
Sorry for the downer but I think we all need to remind ourselves that this season bad though our luck has been still should have been better and more dignified than this end of season scramble.
That said the team has three games left to redeem themselves. We could finish on 26 points! If that happened I’d be the first to back down and admit that we are a better unit than we appear and there is far less wrong than I thought. Yesterday was a great start but it needs to carry on to win the fans back for next season, vital I’d have thought.
Just my viewpoint, based on what I’ve seen not what I claim to know.
