CyprySPARTA Brian yesterday - "The fans are happy with what they're seeing"
Yeah, but that snippet is being used out of context to seemingly somehow show that Brian's "lost it"...
"We need to have some kind of sense of realism where we've come from, and I think the majority of our fans have got that, you know, they're really enjoying watching what they're watching at the moment"
I took that to mean, not a comment on the quality of our play, but that the majority of the fans would much rather be watching us playing in the Premier League, than in the second or third tier, our perennial home for much of our existence...
Indeed, he immediately goes on to say:
"and they want us to win, cos I'm not stupid, we need results, we want results, and you know, that's what makes our fans happy"...
To me, that sums up the situation pretty well....
'Enjoying watching what they're watching at the moment'? Well if he means enjoying watching the team I support beaten on a regular basis by PL teams who play decent passing football, well I'm not really. I can watch those teams on the telly, without having the misery of seeing them beat my team.
If he means watching the awful 'football' that appears to be his preferred style of play, then I very definitely aren't enjoying watching that. If we are going to go down, which seems highly likely, I would rather see it happening with us at least trying to play some decent passing football.
Quite frankly I can watch a more attractive style of football than RFC are currently playing by going to lower league and women's games!
ankeny I'm grateful for Ian Branfoot for winning the full members cup ,but he was shit afterwards and glad he went.We can't keep saying about the past,of course we are gratefull,but it's the future we are worried about now.
Ironically we won the Simod Cup after what was rumoured to be a players' rebellion, which saw them ditch Branfoot's preferred direct style in favour of playing Luton off the park with the passing football preferred by the likes of Taylor, Smillie and Beavon.
And you are quite right about looking to the future, rather than relishing in the past.
