Leeds did three years here so we’re probably the worst - but not by a huge amount. I don’t think it’s true that ‘we should have the pull and resources’ tbh. Or more accurately we certainly ‘should’ but unfortunately the Donald regime fucked us. Think of what the club did last summer. A complete overhaul of the squad without the benefit of huge amounts of money to spend. We didn’t have the cash as we had to keep to scmp rules having continually bladdered wages and fees on shite throughout their time here.
The way the club is acting now will get us promoted eventually. I’m absolutely certain of it. Buying promising players and developing them will do it. Either we succeed this season or we don’t and rebuild. The critical difference, though, is that rebuilding this summer will be magnitudes easier as we’ll be doing it on the back of some big sales. So while it’ll be a setback it won’t be nearly as bad as it was under The Dopes. The tough bit is gonna be the emotion that comes with it. Totally understand that the fans have had enough of being here. But the KLD era is only a year old and it took over the club at literally it’s lowest ebb. They’ll get us there at some point - we just might have a little more pain to go.
Totally agree with you again, to question what we are trying to do is silly at this point. If you look at my posting history you’ll see Just how much I hated Donald and Charlie, and how much I didn’t want them pretty much from the start. I couldn’t be more with you on that, and what they did to this club still makes me shudder.
However I don’t think Johnson has been giving a bad hand at all. He had a good squad last season, but that winning formula seemed to fall into his lap. He only started playing Sanderson because he had to, and as soon as players started coming back, he fucked about, and it cost us dearly.
Same this season, he’s got an excellent squad, one that in my opinion should be promoted. Yet at nearly full strength he thought he was pep again, kept chopping and changing and trying silly things, which is a trend in his career, and again we went on an awful run.
Injuries again meant he didn’t really have much choice and he had to play a settled side, we again went on a good run. But the worrying thing is it looks like a bad one is on the way.
He also seems to be far too worried about what other teams are going to do. When he comes up against a good manager opposite, he focuses on there team, and nobody can honestly say he hasn’t been out thought a few times despite him thinking he’s the cleverest man in football.
My point is, as much as I don’t disagree we can be optimistic for the future, I’m massively pessimistic about Johnson, and I think fans who question this are correct to do so. Hope and pray he proves me wrong but so far he really hasn’t and everything we’ve been told about him has been bang on.
most useless sets of stats either, and since I’m a mathematician by trade it makes me chuckle
