Every manager/coach has been stitched up

For years now.
It's the same revolving mess but still they manage to bring in new coaches who inevitably discover they are just going to be the next whipping boys.
There is a spiral of decline which one day must reach the bottom.
Clarke ought to be looking over his shoulder, it's not his fault I don't think, but he's just a piece in the BFC jigsaw which is lying in a messy pile on the floor.

 

It's obvious Clarke will be sacked to cover Somaz's ineptness.

 

Tbh i don't blame Duff for leaving now, or Ismael. They probably felt it inevitable their squad was going to be hijacked by the circus above. Look what happened to Stendel. This is why I hardly go to Oakwell myself. Rich morons don't deserve my money

 

It seemed to start with Heckinbottom after 2017 promotion.
We should have kicked on but instead the team was decimated and Hecky left.
And that was in Patrick's day, so nothing has changed at all since.

 

Tbh I think the tide shifted when Cryne quoted Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results".

That was when Robins went. Ironically we've been doing the same thing for 10 years and slowly declining.

 

All that is happening now could have been forecast when the Cryne family sold their shares. I remember feeling very uneasy at the time and it certainly looks like I was right to be. It's not the worst scenario that I imagined back then, if it were then we wouldn't even exist now except maybe as a new club starting at the lowest levels of the pyramid without a ground. But the gradual decline was one possibility I had in mind.

 

I don't think Ismael was stitched up. And contrary to popular opinion at the time, I didn't think Struber was stitched up either. What they had was a CEO who had a footballing background to complement the data available from the recruitment team.

No idea what we have now.

 

Ismael jumped before he was pushed (ie had his team sold from under him)

 

Well, we all know what happened that summer, but Ismael was never staying, regardless. But Dane Murphy brought in the players he wanted that January, having got the players Struber wanted the previous January.

 

In that run up to the Jan transfer Window we had a team firing on all cylinders and looking like real play off material. Then as you mentioned we broke that team up. Winnall to Wednesday and Hourihane to Villa and to some extent we missed James Bree.
Absolutely spannered the spirit and drive and ultimately our season.

 

That's just not true though. That summer we only lost Mowatt.

 

Misquoted Einstein. The actual quote comes from an AA (or Narcotics Anonymous) pamphlet in the USA.

 

This is why I think Hourihane would be mental to take the job next, and why I think he will know that. I'd be very surprised if he took it on.