Post by marshbowles10 on May 13, 2013 14:04:06 GMT
I think it is impossible to find the single reason why we go into the last game of the season as the worst Club in the Premiership.
None of us at the beginning of the season with the 'easy' opening fixture against Swansea would have predicted that we'd start with a 0-5 loss and the Gods of Football that play games with us, it just might be worth having a bet on a similar result from Anfield.
I think the knee-jerk signings made on transfer deadline day by Tony and Co the season before had set the trend. Ferdinand/Barton/SWP on inflated wages that then became the benchmark for the next set of mercenaries that naturally wanted to be paid more than the failures before. Like mugs the Club management in its wisdom continued its upward wages spiral to buy results or in the case of Park to buy a 'brand figure'. To sell shirts? I don't think so. To sell Air Asia airline tickets, probably the key reason.
At times I have felt genuinely sorry for Uncle Tone at other times I have felt he deserved what he got for his arrogance in building a management team that knew nothing about running a football club.
The departure of Hughes and the appointment of Rednapp who has turned out to just be an older version of Hughes also looks to be a real bad piece of recruitment. Witness the Newcastle game yesterday. That looked no different to the way we 'played' under Hughes, or am I missing something?
We should have realised back in December when Ryan Nelson was our best player that something was very, very wrong. I mean Nelson is an OK squad player....but to be the rock on which the team performed? We then allowed him, under contract to leave to manage a team in North America. Think about it, the best performing player allowed to break his contract and we all wished him the best of luck in his new role!
The Nelson replacement, Samba comes in at a mighty £12.5 million and wages to match. He arrives unfit and in the end is not selected. If you wrote a book no one would believe it.
Relegation was confirmed weeks before the end of the season with some of the players and the manager having a good old laugh down the tunnel at Reading.
Here was the chance now to blood some new Loftus Road talent.
The team sheet for Newcastle was an indicator that we may have a lot to fear in the future, zero youngsters available for selection......or was it the manager and his lack of foresight to bring in players of the future?
Can we pin it down to one reason as Harry does..
'the players ain't good enough'
Harry needs to have a look in the mirror....'perhaps you and Jordan/Bond ain't no good'.
One reason?
No many reasons and I just hope some of the lessons are learned.
None of us at the beginning of the season with the 'easy' opening fixture against Swansea would have predicted that we'd start with a 0-5 loss and the Gods of Football that play games with us, it just might be worth having a bet on a similar result from Anfield.
I think the knee-jerk signings made on transfer deadline day by Tony and Co the season before had set the trend. Ferdinand/Barton/SWP on inflated wages that then became the benchmark for the next set of mercenaries that naturally wanted to be paid more than the failures before. Like mugs the Club management in its wisdom continued its upward wages spiral to buy results or in the case of Park to buy a 'brand figure'. To sell shirts? I don't think so. To sell Air Asia airline tickets, probably the key reason.
At times I have felt genuinely sorry for Uncle Tone at other times I have felt he deserved what he got for his arrogance in building a management team that knew nothing about running a football club.
The departure of Hughes and the appointment of Rednapp who has turned out to just be an older version of Hughes also looks to be a real bad piece of recruitment. Witness the Newcastle game yesterday. That looked no different to the way we 'played' under Hughes, or am I missing something?
We should have realised back in December when Ryan Nelson was our best player that something was very, very wrong. I mean Nelson is an OK squad player....but to be the rock on which the team performed? We then allowed him, under contract to leave to manage a team in North America. Think about it, the best performing player allowed to break his contract and we all wished him the best of luck in his new role!
The Nelson replacement, Samba comes in at a mighty £12.5 million and wages to match. He arrives unfit and in the end is not selected. If you wrote a book no one would believe it.
Relegation was confirmed weeks before the end of the season with some of the players and the manager having a good old laugh down the tunnel at Reading.
Here was the chance now to blood some new Loftus Road talent.
The team sheet for Newcastle was an indicator that we may have a lot to fear in the future, zero youngsters available for selection......or was it the manager and his lack of foresight to bring in players of the future?
Can we pin it down to one reason as Harry does..
'the players ain't good enough'
Harry needs to have a look in the mirror....'perhaps you and Jordan/Bond ain't no good'.
One reason?
No many reasons and I just hope some of the lessons are learned.