Not renewing despite having a sizeable discount at my disposal from 5 ticket exchanges.
I dodged every home win this season.
The table doesn’t lie and there were not more than 2 sides worse than us. There I have said it and finally I have come to terms with that. No need for a Post Mortem on it. Everyone has chucked their reasons on the funeral pyre and they are all valid.
But we are not pretty to watch. I don’t think I have seen us go for any team from the first whistle and we have been sleepwalking into relegation for a long time. I don’t see where these players , or rather the half we will be left with will convert 30% possession into the 55/60+% we will need to win enough games to be competitive at the top end of L1.
What I would like to see is some brutal honesty from the club. There is a reality check coming and that is that we have several players who are good enough to be playing for mid table Championship clubs. Not for a mid table L1 team. Let them go.
Some unfortunately have been injured at crucial times or for long periods. I am hoping the club will allow these players to leave if decent bids come in because we really don’t have enough quality without Championship level loan players and the quality that comes in to replace them won’t be as high.
We need to take the £15m to £20m or whatever the offer is for the likes of BdK, Currie, CamBran, Spencer, Mills, Cumming, Brown, Tyler and Harris if anyone will take him, reduce the wage bill so that no first team player is on over £10k a week and get a couple of youngsters playing or get them into the squad at the very least.
We can still fish in the same waters of almost any club in L1 or L2 and get that 20 goal a season striker for L1. But it is a rebuild that is needed and not a mish mash of the players who got us up to the Championship in the first place with a smattering of youngsters because if that side goes up it comes back again to L1 first time.
The quality of the football does not need to improve drastically to get me back and it won’t at L1. But just a 70% chance of seeing my team win or even look like it might win will do.