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Lack of football knowledge outside of the manager
Poor coaches at first team level
Scatter gun recruitment
Huge overheads that mean we can’t compete
Disgrace of a pitch
Trainning ground that contributes to our injuries
Poor medical team
Lack of communication to fans - manager always on hook?
Lack of football strategy
Not enough non football bodies to run the organisation given its size.

All of the above is just a general lack of investment and care.

 

Other issues = a systematically broken football club, absent owner, narcissistic and unqualified CEO, and incompetence and lack of integrity at all senior levels of the club.

 

Andy doesn't always articulate the best on the radio but is quite knowledgeable, was a decent player for us and is a really nice bloke.

 

Its the lack of structure and footballing people in the club, in my opinion. Just as Derek said.

 

The same issues that have been present for the last 4 years or more. They've all been very well documented for anyone actually willing to listen.

 

Unfortunately since the Germans took over, there have been no appointments with anyone with any knowledge of running a football club.. The only knowledgeable appointments have been the managers and unfortunately they quickly realised what a poison chalice our club has become and end up struggling.

To use Rupps favourite sport as an example.. We have a F1 car and need a driver.. we appoint Lewis Hamilton as our driver (arguably one of the greats of F1) in his first few races Lewis Hamilton quickly realises how bad his car is.. he's thinking why the hell do i have pedals for an engine.. Why is my helmet made of paper, why am i practising on this road full of potholes.

This is what lack of investment looks like....

 

I'll be honest, I've picked and chosen my matches this season and probably only been to 15, where as normally nothing would have stopped me attending a home match.

It's affected my mental health attending, and I feel much better out walking or socialising than going to a match. That's likely to continue, even though I have already renewed.

Up to this season, I've taken the view that it's the managers to blame, but there is enough evidence to see that view is wrong when a string of (relatively) successful managers like Bowyer, Hopkin, Grayson, Adams & Alexander, all of whom have multiple promotions on their CV's are all failing.

The issues simply have to be with the management of the club from higher up, be that Rupp or Sparks or both and I fear that if they remain, next year could be the one that sees us fall into non league.

Not owning the ground isn't ideal, but it's a smokescreen. Commercial income increases alone this year have covered that cost, so the issue has to be a level of toxicity coming from above.

 

I think GA was silly for accepting the job.

He didn't seem to do his due diligence on the club (just like he didn't do his due diligence on MK Dons, either).

That is his fault, and if he gets sacked, it's still his fault.

But in that case, any manager is silly for taking the job with all the massive red flags, and so we'll just keep cycling through them pointlessly until a mega manager comes along who can last for a full season - at which point they, too, must go.

This is how dysfunctional we are - so blaming the manager is kind of shameful.

 

A lot of guff gets printed when you are playing badly. Pretty much all of it bullshit. In reality there is no conspiracy theory, the last four games just placing us where a badly run club belongs.
That reality also meaning a manager needs time to get his own group of players together to play to his way of thinking, but it also needs a way of thinking from the top of the club and a manager appointed to undertake that thinking process.
Our problem is we still haven't got past the thinking stage, merely asking managers to fight fires without a clear mandate for the future.
Gotta get the plan right first.

 

Tends to suggest there is some kind of interference with the first team. Reading the Mills thread and what he's said there it would suggest that he's been told to keep it quiet which is never a good thing.

 

Anyone else think this could the precurser to him walking soon ?

 

Or put some effort in yourself and at least read the whole thread you've posted in, particularly the post from Dennis.

All the the information has been posted time and again on the forum, it's not down to others to trawl through and summarise it just to save you time.

 

I don’t think the players are in any position to disrepect the manager, given the results and performances over the last two seasons. They may not like his decisions but there duty it to the fans and to make sure they give it 100% on the field of play. We can’t have players deciding who will play!

 

Reading further in the article and it really does suggest problems beyond....

“There are other issues but I’m not going to talk about them now.

“I’m not going to sit here and try and highlight other things that need doing just to protect my back.

“I’m big enough to take the responsibility but I know there are a lot of things that we have to do to improve to get this club winning

 

Something is clearly wrong, All the managers appointed during Sparks reign , were decent for our level and you would have thought more than capable of getting us out of this league.
It must be above them that is holding us back.
Unfortunately there is no accountability for Rupp, will not even accept letters. Sparks is his sock puppet , he would have been sacked at any other business sustainability or not, a more clueless guy you could not find to run a football club, apart from Fordy .
Only kidding mate.

 

I think we can go back as far as Grayson who left as quickly as he arrived quoting problems with the set up