babyimreadytoblow
Central Defender
Do we really need someone like Danny Graham to confirm what we already know?
The evidence of a bad attitude in the squad was always there. They raised their game against the mags and the last half dozen games of the season. Reeks of disrespect for the fan-base (The daft twats don't care as long we beat the mags), and pulling themselves together to avoid a relegation wage drop. Is it such a stretch to imagine they were out on the piss half the time?
We didn't help ourselves singing plodders mind, we had this obsession with signing British players from relegated or nearly relegated clubs and putting them on big (for them) wages.
These players know they're never going to achieve anything, there was no ambition. They did the bare minimum.
EDIT: To add to the above. I think we got it fairly right under Keane. Went up and stayed up with a group of hardworking ambitious players. But we didn't have the foundation there to go and sign them 'flair' players (Diouf, Chimbonda) so it went tits up. Luckily we managed to save it under Bruce and a lot of spending. Ultimately we didn't get the success Short thought we should have with that spend and he pulled the plug. From then on we couldn't/wouldn't pay the wages for the better players, so ended up signing plodder after plodder (despite actually spending decent sums in the transfer market). That led to the managerial merry go round, and the toxic culture in the squad.
The evidence of a bad attitude in the squad was always there. They raised their game against the mags and the last half dozen games of the season. Reeks of disrespect for the fan-base (The daft twats don't care as long we beat the mags), and pulling themselves together to avoid a relegation wage drop. Is it such a stretch to imagine they were out on the piss half the time?
We didn't help ourselves singing plodders mind, we had this obsession with signing British players from relegated or nearly relegated clubs and putting them on big (for them) wages.
These players know they're never going to achieve anything, there was no ambition. They did the bare minimum.
EDIT: To add to the above. I think we got it fairly right under Keane. Went up and stayed up with a group of hardworking ambitious players. But we didn't have the foundation there to go and sign them 'flair' players (Diouf, Chimbonda) so it went tits up. Luckily we managed to save it under Bruce and a lot of spending. Ultimately we didn't get the success Short thought we should have with that spend and he pulled the plug. From then on we couldn't/wouldn't pay the wages for the better players, so ended up signing plodder after plodder (despite actually spending decent sums in the transfer market). That led to the managerial merry go round, and the toxic culture in the squad.
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