Are we as supporters being unreasonable in expecting

our team to be better than the average championship team more likely to be facing a relegation rather than a promotion battle? Should we be happy with a playing record since the start of this season of having won only 6 of 20 games and since the start of the last season winning only 13 of 58 games ? To quote Gina Yasheree " I dont think so".
Based upon the support , financial turnover of the club and the cost and wages of the players we as a club are vastly underachieving and have been since August 2004. This has to be down to the manager. They are his players and his tactics. The Board have been generous in their support of him and where necessary have pushed the boat out when he has publically demanded it to secure the acquisition of Hucks and Ashton. His whole approach to our year in the top flight was defeatist and flawed in his failure to strengthen by getting pace and power in central defence. His transfer dealings since we were relegated has been little more than disastrous ( and is continuing to be so - why bring in Etuhu when we have been crying out all season for a decent right sided midfielder [ not Marney played out of position ] .
Frankly we are now an embarrassment and have become the softest of touches to teams who even with his poor player transfers should be more than capable of pushing for a play off place. We have periodic dim but false dawns which do not hide the abject failure of Worthington both in the premiereship and, more abjectly this season.
You know how desparate it is when you have potentially our most creative player howling about a penalty we should have got when the reality is that against the bottom side with no home win all season we did not have a single shot on target the whole game. This has been the tale of our season. Wins that have not really been deserved ( Hull and Brighton being the only exceptions) and have been based on slices of luck and many embarrassing no show defeats.

Worthington and his coaching staff are fiddling whilst the team burns and have no idea as to how to turn it around and there is no evidence of their ability to do so. The Board are clearly between a rock and a hard place and are desparately clinging to the hope that somehow the team will lift itself from what has generally since August 2004 been a "slough of despond". The quicksands are closing in. No more money; Davenport returning to Spurs in December; Ashton and Green probably leaving in the transfer window in cut price deals; Saffri off to the African Nations Cup in January. Our strongest team ( McKenzie apart ) is failing miserably. The only prospect is a weaker team facing the reaminder of the season from December. Would anyone like to raise a glimmer of optimism. I certainly cant forsee one without a clean sweep of the first team management and someone coming in capable of turning it around. Frankly I would bite the bullett and exercise that clean sweep now funded if necessary by player departures in the transfer window.

Posted By: Westfields1, Nov 23, 13:52:28