The scale of our demise

fredthefan

fredthefan

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is absolutely breathtaking. Forget the 7th in the Premier League stuff of Reid's days just look how far and fast we've dropped from the end of the Allardyce reign.

We've seen the demise over the years of some great old clubs at the hands of "dodgy" owners-the Oystons at Blackpool, the Russian fraudster at Portsmouth and the Venkys at Blackburn, the whole Rangers saga but Short is surpassing all of that lot in his inability to manage a football club.

No money, falling crowds, corporate sales gone to hell, binning the ladies team, relegation zone and we're trying to attract a manager from...Barnsley.

Take a bow Shorty lad. This is epic.
 


It has been coming for years...staying up by the skin of our teeth, allowing poor players to linger about, letting the rot get deeper and hoping for a quick hit through bumping managers at the last moment.

Then once the floodgates opened..bit like needing that shite after a curry but being ages away from the shitter...then when it finally arrives...look out below
 
jcrossan said:
It has been coming for years...staying up by the skin of our teeth, allowing poor players to linger about, letting the rot get deeper and hoping for a quick hit through bumping managers at the last moment.

Then once the floodgates opened..bit like needing that shite after a curry but being ages away from the shitter...then when it finally arrives...look out below
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The technical term is a brown bobsleigh.
 
Ageing Grey Mackem said:
I think Venkys is the benchmark mate. From competitive in premier league to nowhere in pretty rapid order.
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A few years ago if someone had said to you would you want Venkys in charge of your club then you would have laughed. Now you'd probably still say no but you'd think about it...same goes for Mike Ashley-the clowns up the road detest him but I'd have him here instead of our American mate.
 
jcrossan said:
It has been coming for years...staying up by the skin of our teeth, allowing poor players to linger about, letting the rot get deeper and hoping for a quick hit through bumping managers at the last moment.

Then once the floodgates opened..bit like needing that shite after a curry but being ages away from the shitter...then when it finally arrives...look out below
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:lol: Spot on!
 
fredthefan said:
is absolutely breathtaking. Forget the 7th in the Premier League stuff of Reid's days just look how far and fast we've dropped from the end of the Allardyce reign.

We've seen the demise over the years of some great old clubs at the hands of "dodgy" owners-the Oystons at Blackpool, the Russian fraudster at Portsmouth and the Venkys at Blackburn, the whole Rangers saga but Short is surpassing all of that lot in his inability to manage a football club.

No money, falling crowds, corporate sales gone to hell, binning the ladies team, relegation zone and we're trying to attract a manager from...Barnsley.

Take a bow Shorty lad. This is epic.
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Kept us in the top flight for 10 years.

Something not achieved for 60 years.

Made mistakes. Of course !!

But give the fucker some credit for that at least
 
jcrossan said:
It has been coming for years...staying up by the skin of our teeth, allowing poor players to linger about, letting the rot get deeper and hoping for a quick hit through bumping managers at the last moment.

Then once the floodgates opened..bit like needing that shite after a curry but being ages away from the shitter...then when it finally arrives...look out below
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Very succinct Johnny, you've got a way with words:)
 
kingmonkey said:
It's an impressive turn around from full time at the Everton game about 18 months ago to now.
We don't do turning to shit by halves here.
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This

I went to that Everton game knowing we would win before I got there- momentum
Last home I went to was QPR and walked out of the ground glad at a point gained
How the world has changed
 
SPUFF said:
Yep, relegated the mags twice and each time we`re in a worse state than them a year on.
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For some clubs relegation can be a blessing, clear the decks, wins some games, build some upwards momentum.
For us, keep the shite players, loan out the good ones, get beat every week and develop a spiral of downwards shite.

We all know our next managerial appointment wont bring about a keane style change around as well.
 
kingmonkey said:
It's an impressive turn around from full time at the Everton game about 18 months ago to now.
We don't do turning to shit by halves here.
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You lot really did lose all perspective that night. You still ended up finishing fourth bottom. Hardly a surprise then that you finished bottom the following season. Having failed to address the core problem it's hardly a surprise that you are struggling this season.
 

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