Agree Emcon is of the era where you say what you like and leave you to dispute it.Ross had a far better squad ,Johnson inherited a squad that knew that we had admin staff with writers cramp filling their P45s out.
100 per cent correct,people are sticking their heads in the sand.I will know in January whether we are in the mix or not.As you and others will aswell
I don't know where the obsession with money has come from with some fans, but likely as not the bean-counters floating around the site have done a decent job of convincing people that the root of all evil is spending money and the roadmap to success is paved by a balanced budget and is the pre-requisite to success.... Entirely ignoring the closest we've come to promotion was torpedoed by the bean-counters who chose to sell Maja.
Ross didn't have a better squad to pick from. He had a squad all trying to get out of the door as fast as possible and people have very short memories and don't seem to remember the summer after relegation. Almost none of our players were committed to the cause. Johnson inherited an above average league one ready squad that even when he took over was just outside the playoffs.
What as against the 15 that johnson inherited that knew they were auditioning for I DANIEL BLAKE
nowt wrong with a club spending money. if its the clubs money..but safc is potless. The owner isnt but relying on the owener is follish and rarely works long term. Secondly, spending money, while not the root of all evik is not the garauntee of success its often portrayed on here..SAFC has generally been a big spending club for most of the period since Murray left, and generally undercahieved for almost all of that period.
a huge number of the players johnson had already knew they wereleaving or were coming to the end of their contract. ross had oviedo cattermole and maja ffs all three better than anything in the divison. he had jon mclaughlin best keeper in the division, and certinly leagues ahead of any keeper johson has.
Says the man with a picture of a third rate coach as his avatar.
I'm not missing the point, he said last March he wants us to win it in 2022.
Why do you think he said it? Why don’t you ask him now what he thinks? Likely answer - “he won’t give a shit whether we win it in 2022, but he’d love for us to win it 2023”. It’s what all mag fans think. I wonder why???
I know that what I implied in my first post. They'd be happy if we win it for the next 5 years.
Agreed. It's not rocket science though. We have more resources (£ and academy and support) that any other club in this league.
but if a club isrun horribly that makes no difference. and as our wage bill is likely not the higest in the league, i doubt we have more £ thananyone else in it.
Sadly were not good enough to be mediocre!
Stadium size has everything to do with it. We have a big stadium because not so long ago we were beating the man cits, man uniteds and chelseas of this world, and filling the stadium.my problem with these clowns in charge is that they want us to forget all that and have a small time mentality. ive said it before, we are not some tin pot club trying to get to the promised land, we are a huge club trying to return there. The current managers bullshit would be better suited to the yoevils and cheltenhams of this world. The type of club our manager will undoubtedly end up at.
we never filled the stadium in the premier league on a regualr basis..we did when big name teams arrived but not all the time. the average gate in the premier league was 40k, an impressive number, but but than 10 per cent below capacity, and empty seats do not help. Ad a look at the matchday revenue generated by safc in that era shows we made less than most in the leaguefrom it..so had less money than them, so it didnt help us at all
