by RoyalBlue »
28 Jan 2010 19:27
West_Reading Royal Rother Very politely put Sun Tzu I thought.
For me, when some cretin calls the bloke who put everything in place to achieve what has been achieved over the last 2 decades a tightarse fcukwit because he won't gamble with his own money to the level said cretin thinks he should it actually makes me chuckle these days.
Whilst fans of clubs all around us are facing administration due to over-spending, plus suffering various humiliations heaped upon them by all manner of foreign owners, the fact that RFC supporters can be so incredibly and unutterably pigshit thick (not to mention ungrateful) is no longer a source of irritation to me, just a source of amusement.
Exactly. I don't think that anyone can argue against the fact that this has been an awful season so far, but to lay all the blame at Madejski's door is the wrong option and a very ungrateful one too. We lost our Premiership status because we lost EIGHT games on the trot and SSC (For all the immense good he done at the club) wasn't able to fix it and we went down on goal difference. Last season again we threw away our entire season, due to no fault on SJM's part.
OMG 'ungrateful'?? Who the hell do you people think that the, previously little heard of, Madejski really did it for?!! And would any of you care to quantify exactly how much of his money he has put into the club? I suspect it's nowhere near as much as many think and certainly not as much as was initially suggested. Taken as a percentage of his disposable income, I suspect it would appear somewhat less generous too. And perhaps it's a bit easier to give away money that, but for a perfectly legal tax holiday, might otherwise have gone to HMRC.
We are where we are today because Madejski was not prepared to play the game by the normal rules i.e. he wanted to play in a league that would allow him to rub shoulders and play with the big boys without paying the normal membership fees. The lack of proper investment in the playing squad over the past few years started off our problems and the cloth cutting of this season has been absolutely suicidal. Yet still the Madejski dispciples will not answer this simple question: If we were the fantastically well run club that Madejski, his employees and disciples kept telling us we were, how come we so suddenly found ourselves in a position where such savage cuts were required almost overnight?
If such a well run club can't make it to the very top level without crashing down through the leagues in flames just a couple of season's later, how come less well run clubs manage to? It's not even like our season ticket sales and attendances were that poor, although that may well change as we stare relegation in the face due the cloth cutting that Madejski ordered.
Whilst fans of clubs all around us are facing administration due to over-spending, plus suffering various humiliations heaped upon them by all manner of foreign owners
All around us?! Various humiliations heaped upon them?! Nothing like a bit of exaggeration for effect is there!
I long for the day when Madejski leaves and takes his despondent and disillusioned followers with him. It is they, not the supporters who are understandably calling for Madejski's departure, who are the real cretins.
Now be good boys, run along and get back to bowing at your hero's feet. Who knows, one day he might even look down and bother to acknowledge you!
Dirk Gently howser We lost, probably our most instinctive current striker, Noel Hunt as the season started, and should have replaced him as soon as possible rather than go with a group of strikers who, at the moment couldn't hit a horses ass with a barn door, it isnt like they have just stopped scoring, they havent been all season, there can be no argument with that.
See how easy it is to change the facts to support the argument you're trying to make. Noel Hunt was injured against West Brom on October 17th. Hardly "as the season started" and a good 8 weeks after the transfer window was closed!
But wasn't it actually another 'Little type' case? Weren't there doubts as to whether he had fully recovered from his injury which then became well founded. Indeed didn't Hunt himself mention that he had still been carrying a niggle? Either way, footballers get injured and the loss of Hunt proved that we had cut the cloth far too savagely and lacked proper cover for our striker(s).
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RoyalBlue on 28 Jan 2010 19:30, edited 1 time in total.
