Is the home form decline this season the fault of the boo boys ?

People blaming the fans , like we should be all grateful to be in league 2 , too many wage stealers ,on long deals at city . The recruitment and management for years has been ridiculous . Did the apologists think people should clap like seals after three bad defeats in 7 days , how wonder full to be 4 -0 down by half time .

 

We play Harrogate at the weekend see if that crowd scares them

 

It was different to Saturday. That was a scene of apathy where the fans showed little emotion. Last night was toxic at the end with the fans that remained. When Cook was remonstrating with fans in the kop i'm sure he was gesticulating in the direction of Graham Alexander, pointing the finger at his tactics and set up. Make no mistake the last three games, all at VP, are all on Alexander. Beaten by 2nd from bottom, obliterated by the best team in the division and torn apart by the worst form team in league 2. Bewildering team selection and illogical use of the subs bench. A style of football that makes Bowyer and Adams football seem entertaining. I'm actually embarrassed right now for this football club, its even been discussed on other forums and social media outlets about how poor we are and fans of other clubs questioning how its got to this stage.
Change is now a must. You could change owner, CEO, manager, players, the whole lot for me. But it has to happen, probably around 5,000 home fans last night witness to club literally begging for someone to come along and save it.
I'm not gonna bag the players right now, although they are playing appallingly its a result of being failed by everyone from management to ownership. An owner who should not be in football, a CEO who wouldn't get a CEO gig anywhere else in business, a manager who hangs players out to dry with baffling tactics.
As it stands this club is dying. I suspect there will be few here next season to witness its eventual demise.

 

A fan online claimed to be the one who had a pop at Cook and others have claimed to have heard the convo all online say a similar thing, in that he called him a lazy sh*t and had a go because he'd only scored 4 at home all season.

I thought Cook ran his arse off last night, just nothing worked out for anyone on the pitch. You can tell when he's frustrated, because he gets it to feet, turns and tries taking a few on before blasting it when hope has failed. Of all the people to have a pop at after last night, Cook would have been way down my list.

 

Good point. The team that wins the toss choose one or the other, I didn't notice who kicked off but if it was Mansfield then we must have won the toss and that's unforgivable.

 

There were a lot of emotions at the end. Some of which spilled over into a lot of shouting and swearing. I guess Cook was showing he cared although he was bloody awful last night. That said, bar the keeper they all were.
This seasons end can't come quickly enough.

 

Something has to give. We've turned over players like a pancake gets turned on pancake day, we've sacked managers who on paper looked right, we've tried rookies, and we've turned to a legend.

Deadly Derek alluded to issues higher up, Hughes looked broken at the end and GA is heading the same way. We can't shift Rupp unless someone comes in with silly money, so the next thing has to be the man who is running the business into the ground. His mistakes are sometimes small, sometimes huge, but they are often. For instance:

• Heralded a great new fans zone and plonked a single shipping container behind the kop instead
• Booked an expensive hotel for a POTY awards ceremony at £65 a pop with a sit down meal, when no-one sane will attend, when he could have had a pie & peas event in the McCall Suite
• Gave two rookies a long term contract on the back of a seven match run then sacked them three months later
• Gave Stuart a new contract the sacked him a few weeks later
• Appointed a head of recruitment who can see past players who once played for Middlesbrough
• Gave a catering contract to a company who refuse cash and shut all the kiosks as soon as half time ends
• Presided over a total scam in the Getafe match, where they insisted you had to buy a package to get in and Getafe fans got in for free
• Appointed Mark Hughes based on name alone and an e-mail application that landed in his spam
• Didn't carry out due diligence on the cowleys to a point where they made us look tin pot
• Sacked Hughes with no idea of a replacement and eventually had to go with at best the second choice
• Gave three year contracts to players who are clearly not good enough and who we are no stuck with
• Sets up a new ticket system three days before season ticket renewal
• Put a ridiculously short deadline on existing season ticket holders renewing in their current seats
• Constantly lies about the actual attendance at VP (this wouldn't matter if it wasn't so obvious, but it's now making us a laughing stock)
• Puts an auto reply on e-mails directing enquiries to a bunch of supporters whose main concerns are hot water in the toilets
• Is clearly not telling the truth to our owner
• Constantly bombards us with e-mails about sales in the shop but doesn't actually front up the real issues
• Publicly states that we won't accept mediocrity and then does exactly that
• Employs doormen to scan the cards of people entering suites, with a scanner that doesn't read them and ultimately turns away people who have paid a fortune to use that suite, and in most cases have probably used it for years.
• Sells people a physical season ticket card that will have a five year life on it and then brings in a system that makes it redundant and says we have to buy another.
• Finally, despite having a plumbing company as regular sponsors, can't fix the water issues in the toilet (that one is tongue in cheek btw)

I'm sure I could go on with a bit more thought, but the bottom line is Sparks has no idea about running a football club, has been promoted way above his pay grade and is starting to do us very serious damage.

 

They have been tragic to watch for a few games now, and there doesn't seem to be a bright light in the distance. Watching the goals back, Kelly could have prevented all 3 to be honest, some woeful defending on show from him last night. I think he was leading the 3? Certainly played more central that his left slot, and he looked out of sorts. Needs a marshalling CB alongside. Cant exactly say its down to inexperience either, he's played more pro games than any of our other CBs from memory, or it's close between him and Platt.

I said last night but I think it's obvious that some of these lads are already on the beach. They cant wait for this to be done just as much as the fans.

 

"Is the home form decline this season the fault of the boo boys?"

Well seeing as there was basically no one in the ground tonight to boo them, what was their excuse last night?

 

Winner. Transfer that to the Sparks Out thread....

Yes many more that could be mentioned but when you start to list them you really do realise that he is completely out of his depth.

The biggest one for me though is him openly saying, and it being recorded for posterity, that a DOF or a 'football person' is not necessary despite us flip flopping between football styles, having no discernable recruitment strategy leading to us being a mid to lower league 2 team that it is no longer enjoyable to watch!!!

Taken the heart out of the club.