Re: If Not BB, Who?
Reply #231 –
Nicely summized, Principal LODS.
In the words of Bertrand Russell, “In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Not questioning the present administration, and just trusting them with blind faith year after year, has an air of lemmings off a cliff about it.
A lot of questioning and even second guessing starts when the club does not communicate clearly exactly what is going on when there are continued and consistent poor results. There was good communication early on and we knew what was coming and accepted that. And the first two years, although gutting the side (and still many non-hackers taking the field for us) there were sporadic wins and much to be encouraged about in terms of effort. There were few signs of surrender, in any game. Now, we look good when our opposition is not switched on, then fold when real heat is applied.
I, like most, was relieved and wrapped that the club chose a rebuild. And, I repeat, the first two years, although the W & L was ordinary it was not unexpected and there were, just about every week, encouraging signs. Reasonable to expect that would flow into year 3. Nuh.
Year three did not follow, as I believe the club expected, the first two. The club announced an offensive layer (acknowledgment that the biggest problem was being addressed)... which says pretty clearly, we intend to score more/higher. Flop. Bad flop.
Year 4 arrives and thus far seems an extension of year 3 even though we are now fielding a much, much better side. Better side, worse results... mmm...
Wouldn't it be ironic if the very time we 'stick the course' it turns out to be the wrong course, being administered by the wrong people.
My hope is that it all magically clicks into place, starting tomorrow and we win the next 5 games, by handsome margins and in 4 of those games kick more than 100 pts. What was that Supertramp hit from 1974/5? It was from the Crime of the Century album?