Think need to lower expectations

SR should come out and state that he is actively trying to sell the club . And if he isn’t why not ? He clearly doesn’t give a monkeys about the club . It’s been a disaster since he took over . He’s at the top of the problems

 

Has JR left yet?

 

Because city has a big stadium and sells lots of cheap tickets, people think we are a massive club. We are where we are, teams like Harrogate with a tiny ground, and support are out doing us.

 

To be honest, fans should have looked over in August at the squad we assembled this summer and figured out it would have been a big ask for them to challenge. Maybe it's because Adams recently achieved success with a poor squad and we thought lighting would strike twice, but the window just seemed off. Not surprised at all the head of recruitment was binned days after the window shut.

We signed Threlked to play full back, even though he hasn't played the position for over 2 years, other than filling in twice for Salford. Ridehalgh who has probably been one of the better signings, but he's 31 and has never had more than 28 starts in a season his career as he always picks up knocks. Kelleher, christ knows where that one came from.

Angol, looks good in spells but cant/wont move too quickly as his hamstrings don't look like they exist anymore. Lavery and Eisa, two injury prone players in recent years. Songo'o didn't come in fit, injured in pre season and took too long to get anything out of him. No club wanted Robinson, didn't sound like Adams wanted him either. And i dont think they know, or Gilly himself knows where exactly he plays? He's a right winger who drifts centrally and offers sod all to the right back in terms of protection.

But the club doesn't help itself. I mean in the summer you had Sparks in the press saying "this club wont accept mediocrity anymore".... that's gone well. Then he went on the Peterborough chairmans podcast saying "we don't sign injured players" knowing we had guys like Angol, Lavery and Ridehalgh who miss months every year with injured just signed weeks before.

We just dont seem to have signed smart players. The amount of individual errors leading to goals this season seems off the scale. Teams never seem to tear through us like they did under McCall last season, and in the later stages of the T&S management. Most the goals lately just seem from our own undoing.

 

Great Post.

 

The club and its Chief Executive set the expectations.
Not getting promoted is failure. Him and Stefan Rupp have failed to put in place the infrastructure and sign the right players to back up those words.

Failure this season sits on the shoulders of Sparks and Rupp.

 

Expectations are already lower than a snakes belly who's trying to keep a very low profile.
How much lower shall we set them?

 

My expectations were/are that we tread water in mid table, playing not very good football with a lack of quality in key areas whilst complaining that we can't compete with other clubs at this and National League level because we 'won't risk the future of the club'.

Christ, do I need to lower my expectations even further than that?!

 

Not sure why he would be actively trying to sell the club. As long as he is not having to actively support the club financially he will sit out the Covid years before even looking to sell.

 

My expectations are already low enough, thank you very much.

 

I think the difference in expectations are possibly due to 'recent' higher levels that the club have achieved eg Premier League and then the fall. Those that have followed the club for longer will remember spending more time at the lower levels. Now this isn't to say we should just accept Division 4 football for ever but over our history it is our more natural level

 

Jordan’s post is spot on.

I was a bit concerned at the end of last season but with Adams coming in, us having a good preseason and starting the season well I was very optimistic.

The hype from the club, after I was apathetic last year, reeled me in, but the disinterest from Rupp is annoying me, as is all this talk of Sparks moving on to better things?

on what basis are people saying that? He’s failing at the minute. Anything less than a top seven finish and genuine promotion attempt this year and we’ll lose thousands of fans in the summer. Only way he can rectify things is to get Rupp to sanction January reinforcements - 3/4 new faces. Like we did last year. Like Bolton did. Make a statement. Actions, not cheap words, which anyone can give on a podcast.

 

I wrote this season off weeks ago think we are nailed on to finish midtable ......... until Adams has at least 2 windows to sort these cowards out then we are gonna sadly finish around midtable

 

Scunthorpe is a six pointer. If we cant beat a struggling side like that its going to make December a very long month. The board have brought in new recruitment staff to work with Adams so its very unlikely they’d contemplate firing anyone before Jan. But if we don’t win at least two of the next three he will have lost the fans and that’s not a place we want to be.

 

Because he doesn’t like football ? Why is Covid a issue in selling a football club ?

 

It will have effected the value, so if he is in rush because it is no longer costing him extra why would he be in a rush

 

The talk of Sparks moving onto better things comes exclusively from people on this board and has no foundation in reality.

 

Admittedly it is on a much lower level, but I have little interest in the things I have investments in, doesn't mean I am in a rush to sell them on.