Curing the Patient

If and it's a very big if that Rahic sacks the backroom staff and lets DH fetch his own team in than i see a little hope . Rahic is surrounded by his yes men who boost his already inflated ego . I honestly fear though that the rot has set in too far this year to stave off relegation , then god knows what will happen next year .

 

Get rid of the backrrom boys now. Get Hopkin some help with people he knows. Centre half, target man and maybe a reet hard midfielder. Winger possibly unless Scanell wakes up?

 

I agree that Abbott & Drury et.al, the 'yes men' as you put it are definitely not helping the situation and what Edin needs are people around him who will say 'yes, that's a good idea', when it is, and 'no, that's not going to work and here's why' when it's a disastrous idea. Only problem with that is I think we had such people (Mason being one of them), but Edin wouldn't listen to them then and there is nothing to suggest if we had people around him like that again, that he would listen to them now.

 

There's only one thing that's going to save us, 3 or 4 good players (at league 1 level) brought in. Central defence is woeful, up top no hold up player, we need a good midfield general. It will cost money. If they aren't prepared to fund that, say goodbye to league 1.

 

Abbott and Drury need to go.
Hopkin brings in his own team.

magic a couple of capable OOC players somehow, and bring about 7 new players in in January.


oh and Edin putting the club up for sale and moving back to Germany full time might help. not having him around the club and the training ground pissing everyone off.

 

I'm resigned to the fact we're going down this season, whatever happens now ownership & management wise it's pretty much inevitable. If that's what it takes to drive Rahic out of the club I'm prepared to accept it. How the F did it ever get to this?

 

I for 1 am not going to stand idly by whilst the club is destroyed , 53 years i've been going through thick and thin , never ever have i felt the toxic atmosphere than of late . The get Rahic out protest must hit the ground running , support the manager / players yes , but drive the board Abbott and drury away .

 

Winner

 

In the battleground of League 1, if military triage rules were applied, the medic would take a look at us and say...

'Dose of morphine and move on. He's f*cked'.

There is no quick fix. We're going down, no doubt whatsoever., Nothing is going to stop it. Even the sale of the club before January and the manifestation of a bland cheque wouldn't be enough. No quick fix.

We're back to where we were in ~2010. A broken club, all ends up. It needs a re-build from the top down, the rein-statement of proper standards and behaviours, the right people in the right roles. A complete overhaul of the playing staff. Even done well, it'll be a minimum of 2-3 years before anything like good times are back. And I think relegation out of the football league could be more likely than a recovery and return to League 1.

 

I honestly don’t think we will survive in the National League, we would lose the ground and that is just the start, unable to train at our current ground, we would literally be a shadow of our former self.

 

Carlisle haven't finished as high, since he left.
Carlisle haven't been to Wembley since he got them there twice.

Let's not rewrite history.

 

Hmmm....or is there something going on in the background? Rupp can't be happy with the way his investment is going. Rahic is 'in Germany' - who knows when or if he is coming back, and Rupp is making statements to the press and the fans supporting Hopkin. Is Rahic being sidelined or (hopefully) removed? Just speculation but my gut tells me there's more going on.

 

It’s half term and his kids’ school. My guess he will be in Germany until next weekend for when their school restarts on the 5th. If he’s not back then then we can start to read something into it. I don’t expect him to have a visible profile at too many games though. He’ll stay away or stay hidden inside or behind security.

 

Every Manager get's sacked! You are correct he was sacked. Let's not rewrite history though.

'He nearly desroyed' them. Did he f$ck.

They had a great time under him. They've not had it as good since. He's there version of Parky.

 

I wonder if Plymouth fans were saying the same this time last year..? Or Barnsley Supporters a couple of seasons earlier? We are absolutely wank and Rahic/Abbott got us into this mess. Both need to go.

But I refuse to accept that, with 2/3rds if the season still to go, we are already down. We do have some capable players and others that are currently injured. If Hopkin can bring in a no-nonsense centre half and an accomplished targetman, we can limp through to Christmas. If Rupp is serious that funds will be made available and Hopkin will be in charge of that budget, then I still believe he can get us out of this shit