31-08-2018, 18:48
Define `fun`, please.
I told you before, Dancing, I don`t watch CFC for `fun`, or `pleasure` or`enjoyment`; never have. I do it to cleanse the soul and as a penance for sins committed in a previous life. I`ve no idea what they were, but they must have been humdingers. I just hope I enjoyed them at the time.
I don`t really look at Bob`s Board, which I assume is the one you`re both referring to. I did look at it a couple of times some while ago and have to say I didn`t know whether to laugh or cry at some of the things I read there. We all look at our team very simplistically at times - and by `we` I mean football followers generally - and I`m no different. A win is usually a `good game`, regardless of the quality of the football and, of course, the opposite applies equally. Although I might not particularly enjoy our current style of play under MA or DA`s responsibility for the maladministration that`s gone on at the club in recent years (and it`s happened on his watch, so he IS ultimately responsible) I believe in both of their abilities as a football manager and a businessman respectively.
MA has a proven track-record at this level and higher, so we have to go with him and trust his judgement even if we don`t like or understand some of his decisions. At least he takes the time and trouble to COMMUNICATE with the supporters, which is a vast improvement on some of his recent predecessors and he takes responsibility for those decisions publicly and openly. I respect that enormously. Anyway, who are we going to get who would a) be interested and b) do a better job given the financial constraints we have? My biggest fear is that, if he starts getting aggro from our resident loudmouths he may decide to walk away. We really are back in the doo-doo then.
DA is no idiot. A self-centred megalomaniac he may possibly be, but no idiot. He`s a fairly shrewd businessman who knows that if he is going to get any sort of return on the money he`s put into us, and is still putting in by all accounts, he has to see us back in the EFL. I don`t think he`s the anti-Christ that he`s been made out to be at times but he has made some horrendous errors of judgement. Unlike MA, however, he doesn`t seem willing to accept responsibility for them. I saw the interview he did a few weeks ago (or was it months? Time flies at my age.) and he seemed to want to take credit for anything good that`s happened under his ownership and to blame everybody else - the managers, the players, the directors - for everything that`s gone wrong. He really should go into politics.
He also told the supporters, within a few months of dropping out of the FL for the first time in nearly a century, that `we`ve never had it so good` because we`d had 2 trips to Wembley. You have to admire the brass neck, if nothing else. However, we have got a beautiful stadium ( and a colossal debt to go with it, admittedly) and we wouldn`t have but for him. I actually think that if we can accept that the next few years are going to be hard grind, then the long-term future for the club is reasonably positive. DA will sell out eventually and there will be new buyers who will see the club`s potential and inject capital. I hope so, anyway.
God, I have rambled on, haven`t I. Sorry about that.
I told you before, Dancing, I don`t watch CFC for `fun`, or `pleasure` or`enjoyment`; never have. I do it to cleanse the soul and as a penance for sins committed in a previous life. I`ve no idea what they were, but they must have been humdingers. I just hope I enjoyed them at the time.
I don`t really look at Bob`s Board, which I assume is the one you`re both referring to. I did look at it a couple of times some while ago and have to say I didn`t know whether to laugh or cry at some of the things I read there. We all look at our team very simplistically at times - and by `we` I mean football followers generally - and I`m no different. A win is usually a `good game`, regardless of the quality of the football and, of course, the opposite applies equally. Although I might not particularly enjoy our current style of play under MA or DA`s responsibility for the maladministration that`s gone on at the club in recent years (and it`s happened on his watch, so he IS ultimately responsible) I believe in both of their abilities as a football manager and a businessman respectively.
MA has a proven track-record at this level and higher, so we have to go with him and trust his judgement even if we don`t like or understand some of his decisions. At least he takes the time and trouble to COMMUNICATE with the supporters, which is a vast improvement on some of his recent predecessors and he takes responsibility for those decisions publicly and openly. I respect that enormously. Anyway, who are we going to get who would a) be interested and b) do a better job given the financial constraints we have? My biggest fear is that, if he starts getting aggro from our resident loudmouths he may decide to walk away. We really are back in the doo-doo then.
DA is no idiot. A self-centred megalomaniac he may possibly be, but no idiot. He`s a fairly shrewd businessman who knows that if he is going to get any sort of return on the money he`s put into us, and is still putting in by all accounts, he has to see us back in the EFL. I don`t think he`s the anti-Christ that he`s been made out to be at times but he has made some horrendous errors of judgement. Unlike MA, however, he doesn`t seem willing to accept responsibility for them. I saw the interview he did a few weeks ago (or was it months? Time flies at my age.) and he seemed to want to take credit for anything good that`s happened under his ownership and to blame everybody else - the managers, the players, the directors - for everything that`s gone wrong. He really should go into politics.
He also told the supporters, within a few months of dropping out of the FL for the first time in nearly a century, that `we`ve never had it so good` because we`d had 2 trips to Wembley. You have to admire the brass neck, if nothing else. However, we have got a beautiful stadium ( and a colossal debt to go with it, admittedly) and we wouldn`t have but for him. I actually think that if we can accept that the next few years are going to be hard grind, then the long-term future for the club is reasonably positive. DA will sell out eventually and there will be new buyers who will see the club`s potential and inject capital. I hope so, anyway.
God, I have rambled on, haven`t I. Sorry about that.