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The ins and outs of the summer will keep football scribes and speculators busy with words and theories and guesses and frowns and exuberance and allsorts. Eventually all will settle and off we go again. We’ve reached a station where not making the playoffs next season will feel like failure. That’s a measure of how far we’ve come. I hope McKenna stays. We can all guess which players are likely to exit so it might fell like a mini rebuild. But we know now we can conquer that league - a different lens from when we emerged from League 1.
As for the premiership, I hope Millwall go up via the playofffs and get to the promised land. And wreck the place.
Our lack of fight is what’s unforgivable. We’ve been a soft touch too often.
A busy summer on the back of such a comprehensive relegation mightn’t be the route we’ll take, but bar Delap, and to a lesser extent Hutch, Philo and Palmer, I wouldn’t be too concerned if we cut our losses on our season’s recruits.
My guess is that any decent offer and McKenna will go. Which I’d hate to see. But I’m around long enough to understand modernity and that’s life, that’s football.
I remember Forest beating Malmo courtesy of Trevor Francis. Looks like they’ll be back in Europe soon. For one season maybe? That’s life now. That’s football now.
Obviously you’re welcome to disagree but from my perspective, today was a crunch game. At home. A do or die. And we fluffed it in a way which was, imho, a malaise fest.
We needed our best today and instead got probably our worst performance of the season. Imho, time is neither the culprit or the solution.
We haven’t won a game this season. Based on today, that trend will continue indefinitely this season.
I honestly think it is possible we won’t win a league game this season. We’re a shambles, a comic book of defensive disorganisation (starting from the front as you do correctly point out).it should be a source of concern that not only have we polluted our squad with some overhyped duds (Hutch and Delap the honourable exceptions), we’ve gone and given them long and lovely contracts.
If any other premiership club come knocking for him, McKenna has an easy decision to make.
Next game is pivotal. If we don’t beat Everton we’re in the departure lounge, early doors notwithstanding. Wins are what we need.
McKenna needs to get a hold of this because today was a shambles and we’re pissing against a gale if we don’t get our act together and start getting basic defending right.
I wasn’t exactly overjoyed to see O’Shea, Ogbenne, Smodzics coming in - I’ve never fancied them beyond a certain level - whether in green or in blue. If we had a prayer of getting Kelleher (who I would fancy at this level) and we opted for Muric, then, quite frankly, someone focked up.
We move on. Whatever KMc may say about Everton not being a 6 pointer, it is. It really, really is.
You may well be right and a succession of appeals is likely if they are found guilty.
I wonder if there will be a plea deal and an agreed recommended penalty consisting of a fine only?
Given the number of counts, the hearings/appeals will run for quite a while. Given the number of counts, it would be quite something if they are cleared of all 115.
If they are found guilty on a large number of those counts, then the penalty will have to be severe and the nature of any penalty will inform us what is top trump, money or integrity. The whole thing may lead to more uncomfortable and complex questions around ownership of the English game and supporters in these money machine obscenities.
IIRC, City didn’t cooperate with the investigation which is an aggravating factor.
I thought/hoped once we got promoted that we would go all out for Kelleher as our goalkeeper. In my strange old head, I saw him as our number one target. Muric it is though and today Muric was poor. We all know the drill at this level when bad mistakes are made.
When a club chasing 5 in a row is bereft of soul, then we are left with the strange ecstasy of reaching a soulless place. There will be a different spotlight on City soon with the upcoming investigation/hearing. It money that’s made them. Will that same money now break them? 115 counts. 115. It’s extraordinary.
I imagine Portman Road will be rocking for Fulham. Soul. Still, I’d bite your arm off for a 1-0. Hopefully Muric can make amends.
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