This is exactly it. What did people expect?
We've had a really good couple of years...... now we are stabilising, isnt this the norm? How many clubs continue in a never ending upward trajectory?!
id say none. at some stage everyone reaches a plateau, before setting themselves up for hopefully another chance to kick on.
now we are stabilising, isnt this the norm?
You cannot be serious, you call this stabilising??? God help what you call it when we are bottom, consolidation?
What did people expect?
Most fans didn't expect to watch abysmal football week on week, where we consistently play crab football then tippy tappy, before acting like rabbits with lights in their eyes around the box, or to have a manager who repeats the same nonsense every week, punctuated by the words "Focus" and "learn from our mistakes."
Most didn't expect to see a team unable to pass the ball to another player in yellow, or make a 560 round trip to Blackpool to be humiliated, or be embarrassed by a team who are bottom of the league by a country mile, having just sacked their manager, with their main striker out, not having scored for 8 games of so and not won a game for around 8 games.
What were you hoping for?
We're 10th, 8 points from danger, our form is better than all of the bottom 5, our form over the last 5, 10 and 15 games are all well above relegation form
I’m confident who’s list will be longer. (Clue: it’s not your list)
Secondly, the last paragraph of your post I’ve quoted states all the things that you believe Eales has done, whether I agree with that or not is another discussion, but let’s assume for the purposes of this point, they are all true.
What do you expect any new manager to be able to do if he’s working under the same constraints and false promises as Clotet is?
I’d argue, assuming what you say is true, that no one would be doing particularly well.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, part of the reason for our relegation from the league was a mid season managerial change when the current form would have likely seen us through.
The fact is, and I appreciate you don’t deal with facts but I will continue anyway, our current ppg is better than Appleton’s first season, it is also enough to keep us up comfortably.
It would require us to go on a run akin to the worst in the clubs history, this team, both players and management are not that bad.
To answer your point about changing manager and citing Bury as an example of this, you are aware the previous manager didn’t have a positive impact aren’t you?
You also want to blame the manager for defeats but not credit him for victories, so what is it? Is he responsible for performances or not?
You can’t only have him responsible for negatives and credit the players for positives.
I love your quote,
our current ppg is better than Appleton’s first season, it is also enough to keep us up comfortably.
Why do the "Give i'm Time" brigade always reach back to the Appleton era to seek some form of comfort. It's history, he's gone.
Right, lets start again, facts, as you seem to like facts, apart from the Appleton references.
clotet has assembled his own squad, bringing in the John Radcliffe quality player as he did. He has had since last summer to develop the team, and is producing a pitiful form of the game, where the team cant pass, create chances, and have been sussed out by every team in the league.
Yesterday we were beaten by a team bottom of said league by lots of points, not having won or scored for 7 or so games. Now this team, keeping it factual for you, not only won, but came from a goal down, and we were totally embarrassed.
We played abysmally, again, as we have done for most of the last 10 games or so. Even where we have won, we were so lucky, aka Blackpool.
I give you credit, as you left out one point normally included by your brigade; we are tenth! Well I'm afraid as the middle of the table is so tight, unless we get quite a few points from the next run of games, and by some miracle clotet changes things and we start playing well, we will find our selves in a relegation battle.