Quite annoying having to read every word of all this to ensure nobody has caused offence more than the usual tit for tat verbals. It is starting to get a bit beyond belief though.
We have one person who has a clear agenda to defend the club against any criticism of poor investment, or purposely ignoring needs on the pitch. On the other hand we have others who are determined to call to question the clubs financial handling, although I admittedly am not entirely clear on what the exact criticisms/accusations are?
If I understand correctly, and I don't profess I do because this is punctuated largely by people aiming to disprove each other and not trying to make a point, then the idea is that we have suffered on pitch because we favoured off pitch initiatives financially.
If that is the case then it seems to me total rubbish. We've had money in the bank at the times when the club have needed to invest on the pitch.
What, in amongst all this lovely infighting, I can summarise is that its blatantly clear to me that the board clearly had a disconnect with the fans last season. When LS quit they thought it wasn't that big a deal to get relegated. That must have been the case because all this silly arguing shows in fact that they had the means to replace LS with a proven manager, and we also know several applied at the time, even the club have said that.
For whatever reason they decided to go with the guy who was assistant to the guy who was mostly responsible for our horrendous slide in form and lack of immediate investment in the playing staff.
I suspect they thought along these lines: A short term appointment would cost more money and go against our general principles and that we still had a shot at staying up but worst case we'd sink like a stone until summer appoint some top manager on a more rational deal who would then give the fans a few seasons of joy fighting at the top, winning loads of games and getting us back up. In the meantime we are healthier off the pitch and everyones happy, we'll stay up longer when we go back up.
The fans however, and seemingly correctly, had another viewpoint which is that if we go down now we'll never get back up anytime soon looking at the shark infested pit we'll have to swim in for a few seasons until all the bank rolled bull sharks have swam up stream. Low and behold we go down, appoint NY which brings short term joy as he makes noise and signs players before proving himself to be the second coming of Brian Kilkline and leaving us right down in the mire where even the sharks won't eat us.
On top of all this the club has conspired to remind us that its absolutely toss at PR on a regularly basis.
I would suggest that this is why we are all angry, this is why we are in the position we are in and this is why this forum is a complete toxic wasteland of online bewilderment.
The sooner we accept all that and work out how we move on from it the better. A couple of things to suggest:
1. We draw a line under club finances, they appear to be healthy and none of our concern.
2. The club make some form of statement just accepting there have been some failings in several areas (PR, manager appointments) and that they want to connect back with fans
That way we might have something to smile about, other than being in the FA cup 1st round again of course and our first league win, because those positives just wont do for half of us.