Comparison

It’s all about money.

We don’t have any.

Rupp doesn’t care.

 

Imagine this set of players getting into league 1? We’d be absolutely battered every week. The squad would need some serious investment which wouldn’t be forthcoming. Promotion is pointless until we get new ownership and someone capable of doing the day to day.

 

Since the McCall nearly season we've been consistent with poor recruitment, ill-judged contracts and seemingly very little plan.

We could do with further investment, but we'd probably just give Oliver another 3 year contract and decide that we only need one genuine central midfielder and then bring in more injury-prone number 10 type players that can't all fit in the same team.

 

Until the recruitment team is booted out then expect the same shit for years to come
We aint talking millions here we are talking about recruiting the right players at the right price.

With us its either over the hill crocks
Injury prone players
Players fromthe NE
Or giving daft contracts to average players

Honestly it seems that they are either fooking lazy or cannot be arsed

I mean what is there strike rate of getting it right?
10% ?????

I actually thought this lot would have been binned of the way Sharpe coming in .............thought itwould be a different outlook but nothing changed same old shit yet again

 

It's partly/largely about money, but more than that it's about competence, leadership, vision.

I won't repeat my often cited comments about how this club won't move forward under Rupp and Sparks, but I'd wager that our budget this season is comparable to most of the top 7. It's a very, very poor League 2. Our recruitment has again been shambolic - the squad is too big and diluted in terms of quality, the manager is a dinosaur and the style is awful.

Without Andy Cook, we'd likely be in the National League. I mean, 90% of the time a League's top scorer would be in the auto spots. We have the leagues consistent top scorer, and we'll end up with one failed playoff finish in what, 7 years of being in League 2? It's abject, and in any properly run club, those at the top would be held accountable. Not here though, Rupp just wants to keep the club alive and in the League.

 

No matter how much money we chuck at the club through season tickets, sponsorship, match day sales etc nothing will change under the present leadership they are simply not capable of turning things around
Mr Sharpe has been a big disappointment in my eyes another wage to find with no impact
More than half the teams in L1 don't have our level of support/financial opportunities Burton Stevenage Cambridge (all who have maintained their L1 status)to name but three so agree money helps greatly but is not the bee all and end all
Sick of saying we need a clear out from the top downwards impossible until Mr Rupp wakes up and smells the coffee
We are a mid table L2 club at best (surviving and not going bust) for the foreseeable
My hopes of promotion at the start of a new season have gradually changed to a fear of relegation either option is likely
Predictable on and off the pitch but with a modicum of interest from any owner things would be so different

 

Depressingly your spot on Rod !

 

That's the problem you make for yourself with poor recruitment. It means you're stuck with mediocre/injury-prone/over the hill players for at least two years, or, in our case, sometimes three. Even if by some miracle we get promoted it would need pretty huge investment in good players to keep us in league 1, and all the evidence suggests that wouldn't be forthcoming. Every single promise made to supporters has been broken, and when that is compounded by yet another manager who seems to have completely lost his way there's nothing to provide any optimism at all.

 

And therein lies the problem, if by miracle we did get promoted has Rupp the will to put a msjor investment into the team, i think all of us the know answer, no the fella seems just to be happy just plod on in this swamp of a division.

 

As the thread is titled “comparison” I thought it the best place to post this - we are a mere 3 points better off now than we were after the same amount of games (16) last season

To everyone else, that is not improvement or successful. To Sparks, it’s a raging achievement

 

Did you really have to point that out?
You do know that Sparks will "liberate" that information and use it in his next newsletter to us as living proof that we are indeed on an upward curve....

 

Can see it now. Something like, 'if we'd had those extra 3 points last season, we'd have finished in the playoffs'.