So who is to blame?

A lot of fans blame players and managers, but theres more than that messing this club up isn’t there?

In the world of business, someone owns a factory or hotel and wants something, they can put people between a rock and a hard place and by and large get what they need. You can’t operate like that in football, it’s a different ball game. To start with an owner doesn’t own club like he would factory or hotel, it belongs to fans and communities. Its value set should be theirs. Nor does he own players, agents do.

Football fans are generally optimistic. Even last summer when we were signing full back upon fall back, when, even before Jonno went squad needed forwards, we still thought it might turn out alright. Well the squad was never good enough. If Hanlan and Ayunga played a conference season next year I don’t think they would light it up.  We have gone two windows without adding a forward.  Joey also benched Daley.  Why? 

So it didn’t matter who the manager is. That said, I think all three managers showed some pretty crap game management at times. If Dalys fit, whats he doing sat on the bench? A defence that changes personnel, shape, duties as often as this is not likely to get clean sheets. And defences also need help from midfields and all the team in fact. And not just off the ball, but hold the ball to allow defence to make a higher line and not have opponents in possession deep in our territory.

Where did it begin? Cocko was here, it was going well. Then he was gone just before a window saying taken them as far as I can, which is speculation but could be “ive had a chat with the board and they are not backing me.” To confirm such speculation it needs a response from the board like – we were planning to take it in a different direction anyway (noting here how many fans moaned and whined about type of football under cocko) so in comes young fancy dan future prospects in place of seasoned streetwise pro’s, and young coach on three year mission pretty football in place of seasoned streetwise manager. I’d like to know how much money we have paid agents last 18 months, if it’s a relegation how expensive was it to create, what with sacking managers after 80 days etc. tied in with agent influence I also like to know to what extent Garner was a nodding dog to boards and Tommys shopping list before criticising Garner. How his team set up and went about it against the lesser lights in this league was the best manager of the four this season by far imo.  With his bizarre starting line ups, awful game management, and all round whiff of chaos, Joey is the worst.   

1) Garner/Widdrington for thinking that going into the season with 3 young inexperienced strikers with a handful experienced strikers was in the slightest way a good idea. Even more bizarrely bringing in unnecessary left backs and midfielders that have barely made an impact whatsoever. Dreadful recruitment often results in dreadful teams as has sadly happened this year.

2) The board, that includes Wael for sacking 2 managers midway through a season. They should have got rid of Garner in the summer when it was clear that his was out of his depth managing at this level, sacking him midway through when he had a PPG greater than we have now was in retrospect a mistake and sacking Tisdale after just a few months when it was blatantly clear that any manager would struggle with side was aswell. When has having 3 managers in a season ever worked well?

3) Tisdale for not bringing in reinforcements in attack when it was clearly obvious we needed some in January. We couldn’t get Stockley or Gnaduillet supposedly but are you telling me that it was impossible to bring in a striker that could improve what we had currently and give us greater options? I don’t buy it at all.

4) The players for the dross performances they produce week in week out. Westbrooke’s deliveries have been dreadful, Harries and Baldwin have made many mistakes, Hanlan goal drought has severely cost us, Ehmer for being half the player we thought he would be. There’s some good individuals in this group but ultimately it is a poor crop of players as a whole.

5) B***** as his blame game interviews, questionable tactics and substitutions haven’t done anything to improve the situation. Admittedly I think B***** shoulders the least amount of blame out of who I’ve mentioned, but his awful PPG since taking over really has condemned us and yes I think there is more he could have done to get something out of this squad, it’s relegation worthy don’t get me wrong but not quite as bad as B*****’s record suggests.

Don’t believe this after the summer we had.  Agents and board were driving our purchasing last 16 months, not managers, hence not being able to say “no more left backs” when chance to sign Kioky 

Surely the buck stops with Wael Al-Qadi?
No further questions.

Edit. I wrote this before seeing swiss comment. 

There is no doubt about it epping. 

But I can’t help thinking that by humiliating Wael it follows that B***** is also humiliating what we still want to see as our football club.

So you are suggesting that the person who is ultimately responsible for this mess, is the person we should trust in to get us out of it.
Right. Got it.

You need to identify where it's gone wrong first and resolve it but you are right there's no point in just finger pointing.

Just watched the managers post match interview and he was clear that the players lack quality so it's obvious where he will focus his efforts in the summer and I don't think he will be using the current DOF for player recruitment. 

You don't need to convince me about our manager.

Merely observing how quickly the worm has turned...