100 percent agree

I have prepared one of my own time capsules. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

The problem for me isn’t whether or not we stay up. The problem for me is us simply not learning that playing the style of football we did yesterday will never lead to any form of progression results wise in the long term. We’re so utterly obsessed with generating hysteria over a short period of results, good and bad and we never take a step back to look at the bigger picture or general long-term plan for the club. The fact of the matter is, Parish & the Yanks are directionless. The only reason we’re still here is because they’ve thrown money at it and hired managers to keep us up and give us an artificial sense of unsustainable success.

When we’ve played with the ball this season and shown a bit of nerve we’ve given everyone we’ve faced a problem, yet we still insist that we have to play such garbage and are then surprised when we’re up against a desperate scrape for survival again. We are not gonna come away from these types of seasons unless we actually embrace some sort of change & accept that taking 2 steps forward will almost certainly mean we have to a step back first. Parish needs to have some bottle to do this, but he just doesn’t. He’s obsessed with looking good on paper.

Without taking this process to drastically improve in possession of the ball and having the ability in order to have some form of control over our own destiny in matches, we are going to go down. It’s just a case of when, not if and with Parish at the helm & the attitude of some of our supporters, I’ve simply lost confidence in this ever taking place in the current PL reign. That’s why I don’t share the same hysteria during good and bad short spells anymore, because I can see beyond the smoke screens that nothing is changing and the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result.

I know the media shove down our throats how amazing and difficult the English league is and how it’s so different to everywhere in the world of football but look at the game all across the world. Teams who have a mindset of soaking up pressure and playing kickrush are never relatively successful for a sustained period of time. They’ll have their moments of course, but the chickens will always come home to roost in the end when you play a style that effectively leaves your results to chance.

Edited by Mstrobez (11 Feb 2018 9.39am)

We're the Arthur over ere!

Well as some have pointed out , which the OP has failed to recognise , we were in big trouble after 4 games and were always going to be in big trouble all season due to the start we made. Roy said as much as soon as he took over.
It's a shame that after all the effort to give us a chance of survival some people just want to use every defeat to moan and groan and slag off the players , the chairman and question Roy.
Roy should really have not bothered and left us adrift and useless at the bottom , there would be less moaning then as certain posters obviously want to be right about us getting relegated. Don't know what they would do all day though, they should think about that.

We have an entire team injured , we are in poor form but still have taken 5 points from 5 games , if we take a point a game from rest of season it could be enough to survive , we are 14th and 5 points off 10th place which is all quite remarkable in the circumstances.

This should be enough for us to show a bit of spirit and get behind the team , but no let's roll over moan about it, some of the players being questioned by some for not trying show loads more courage and fighting spirit than some of our 'fans'.

There is a case for letting off steam , but this has got to epidemic proportions for some .

Great post. Totally agree.

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When all around are panicking and you are keeping your head .have you misread the situation .
But in the time honoured eagle way will take 6 off the top sides have wilf back a new striker up top who can hit a barn doorand ease to safety .no problem.