A complete and utter disgrace

I’m a season ticket holder but had no intention of going last night.

This competition is (correctly) being used to bleed several young and fringe players into the squad and give match practice and minutes to those who haven’t been starting league games. It was always going to be like that.

The game itself of course went horribly, went one nil down, then the keeper makes a horrendous error and it’s 0-2 - then the older experienced head decides it fit to issue a forearm smash; after which the rest of the game was pretty non-consequential. Sitting back to keep the score down seems poor ok but it wasn’t a knockout cup game, it is a league.

And besides, he doesn’t care about the competition much (and whilst it was a catalyst towards our success a few years ago, it should hardly be seen to be a priority now).

I have no less faith in Michael Duff today than I did yesterday. I will attend each and every home league game in hope of continued improvement and I do expect that to happen.

I don’t expect it to happen in the first month of the bloody season.

We’ve brought another player in today. I sincerely hope we get at least one more through the door before the window shuts as well.

I have much more hope now than I did in April / May. I do not expect us to be promoted this season; at no point did I think or expect that.

I do however think we will grow, get stronger and be a decent league one team. Push on from there. New manager, new players, new philosophy. There was always going to be some inconsistency, I think the league results thus far have been roughly as to be expected.

I was horribly disappointed by the Wycombe game - but they’ve shown even in defeat at Leeds and in scraping a point at Ipswich that there’s some bottle in the team. There is some ability there too, Benson when fit and Connell look decent in midfield, Mads looks as good as most centre backs at this level. Jack Aitchison should gain confidence from his goal, even Devante Cole might grow as the team improves.

I’ve seen nothing to suggest we won’t be about mid-table. And from where we were in terms of playing squad, coaching, budget and balance sheet, that is a solid if unspectacular building block.

The fact is we are a very small fish at championship level and a not particularly large one at league one level. I fully expect a promotion push in the next year or two after this - and if we are nowhere near we may have to reassess - but for now I honestly think some folk need to chill their beans.

 

And some of us choose not to go and are now firmly in the "Spectemur agendo" camp.

Whilst I can see things slowly moving in the right direction, plenty hasn't even started.

Whilst finances and reset is firmly priority 1, fan experience (over promised and way under delivered) takes a back seat mostly.

Last night was a huge set back in terms of getting some back on side. But some of us are close to making the effort of returning.

I find the notion of not going and therefore not allowed an opinion is absolutely way off mark.