The blame game

[melonhead]

lol

[Ian Royal]

Who's to blame that we're going down? Everyone.

Who's to blame that we're capitulating so pathetically with no fight and no game plan? McDermott.

[Lovely hot donuts!]

none of them,


not players fault they just arent good enough.
not mcds fault, his players just arent good enough.
not antons fault, he just couldnt afford the huge investment required to make the squad prem worthy in the summer.

I agree. What I was trying to say only with more eloquence.

[melonhead]

if mine is more eloquent than yours, you are in trouble!

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Should never have sacked Brendan Rodgers in the first place.

+1

[floyd__streete]

not antons fault, he just couldnt afford the huge investment required to make the squad prem worthy in the summer.

Well, what's he f*cking doing here then? Playing at being a club owner as if its a computer simulation?

[melonhead]

not antons fault, he just couldnt afford the huge investment required to make the squad prem worthy in the summer.

Well, what's he f*cking doing here then? Playing at being a club owner as if its a computer simulation?

10 million is 16 million ore than JM could have given us.



obviously its a shame he is stopping the massive queue of other potential investors from throwing money at us though

[Uke]

not antons fault, he just couldnt afford the huge investment required to make the squad prem worthy in the summer.

Well, what's he f*cking doing here then? Playing at being a club owner as if its a computer simulation?

It's like he's just a naughty boy, not the Messiah people thought he was...

[Royal Bahamas]

Should never have sacked Brendan Rogers in the first place.

Now you are getting somewhere!

If we hadn't sacked BR, we would now be fighting to stay above the relegation zone of Div 2! The whole problem of not being of Prem standard just wouldn't be an issue.....

Good thinking. Problem solved.

Oh yes......and we wouldn't be owned by the Russians......

[ankeny]

SJM,too much influence over Anton,the sooner he pisses off the better and take that little pipsqueak Hammond with him.

[Uke]

Think it's the other way round Anton and Samuelson (TSI) have too much influence over SJM

51% as opposed to 49% in fact

[melonhead]

SJM,too much influence over Anton,the sooner he pisses off the better and take that little pipsqueak Hammond with him.

[soggy biscuit]

Why does someone have to be to blame?

[creative_username_1]

Can we not just have an option of "the circumstances". We don't have money or players or experience or proper fans. We are oxf*rd. No-one's fault. You can't just compete, the club just can't. It's not always someone's fault.

This

[Millsy]

I reckon the 25 day gap between games coupled with Federici's bizarre loss of form is what started the rot.

Never mind the goal against Stoke, if he'd kept out Gary Cahill's very saveable effort at Stamford Bridge then we may well have left with all three points and the season would've turned out differently.

We then had the huge gap which meant we had to go through the whole first "game of the season" thing again and turned in an abject performance against Tottenham. It's been downhill since there.

Clearly the biggest problem has been the failure of any of the summer signings bar Shorey to establish themselves as regular first team fixtures.

Then like a runaway snowball the problems have grown to the extent that the team look beaten before they even start matches these days.

Pretty much nailed it there; good post.

Why the knee jerk mentality that Someone is definitely at fault. Yes of course if Brian was alex ferguson things might be different. Yes sure if our board pumped millions into players things would be different ( we think). Yes sure if every player was on form things would be different. But just because those things didn't happen it doesn't mean they are to blame.

Its simply a mixture of certain decisions, Feds' loss of confidence, the gap, guthries stupidity, plummeting morale etc etc and we find ourselves in this situation. No one did anything wrong, no one needs to be blamed. It's just the way it is. We're not quite good enough and we've been unlucky.

As I say, going down is no catastrophe. Noone is to blame. It's what happens to THREE teams every year.

[Avon Royal]

To be fair, if there was any justice in the world they would let the other two teams stay up and relegate us three times instead.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

We overachieved last season to win the championship with the management team at Reading in the summer revelling in the seasons success with their blinkers on.

Two creative midfielders, two centre backs with at least 100 appearances each in the premiership or a top European League were must signings.

What did they do, sign Championship players who have done f*ck all with no experience of the top level.

The management team in the space of five months have gone from “hero’s” to “villains” as they have failed to act and bring in the quality needed to play at the top level.

[DOYLERSAROYALER]

It's good to see Hammonds name mentioned in the blame game ...he hides away in the background while BM takes the kicking but he's culpable as well ...can't always takes the glory with his prudency...

[melonhead]

We overachieved last season to win the championship with the management team at Reading in the summer revelling in the seasons success with their blinkers on.

Two creative midfielders, two centre backs with at least 100 appearances each in the premiership or a top European League were must signings.

What did they do, sign Championship players who have done f*ck all with no experience of the top level.

The management team in the space of five months have gone from “hero’s” to “villains” as they have failed to act and bring in the quality needed to play at the top level.

tbf to them, thats pretty much what the promoted teams all did last year too, and everyone was creaming themselves over how brave and sensible that was

[melonhead]

It's good to see Hammonds name mentioned in the blame game ...he hides away in the background while BM takes the kicking but he's culpable as well ...can't always takes the glory with his prudency...

never really seen him out infront of the media tbf
always been m,ore of a behind the scenes dude.
and one who been in charge of transfers and contracts throught th emost succesful period in our history