by bigmick » Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:30 pm
The support part is unconditional. Thinking that mass rotation from game one is silly, not playing a bloke who you've just paid 20 million quid for when he's just scored two goals in the previous match etc etc doesn't have any effect on your support. You still will the team on, be it via a dodgy stream, a radio broadcast, on the telly or indeed via text. You support the team and the club because you always have.
You might even hope that your misgivings about the methodology are wrong. Perhaps those people who patrol the boards trying to smash any dissent with insults and ridicule know better, maybe they knew the real truth all along. As time goes on though, you kind of come to the conclusion that you were probably not wrong, probably not a gobsh!te, that you didn't need to be inside Melwood to know it wasn't the way to go after all, all these "new" methods. You still support the club, the team and the manager, but you lose hope that you are about to witness a second coming. People throw words around like "legend", and phrases like "tactical genius" around willy nilly, but you don't think you're in the presense of either. Much as you don't like to admit it, you suspect that what you are seeing is an incoherent mish-mash of policy, a muddle through with bluster.
Still they circle you and anyone else each time you voice a worry. When we draw game after game and somebody ventures an opinion that it may one day cost us, they are lambasted. When someone tries to explain that perhaps the league is not the strongest this term, they are laughed at. But still Aston Villa continue their assault on the top of the table, and you wonder how they've managed to improve quite so much. You look and you don't see mass rotation, you don't see record signings being dropped after scoring two goals then being left to rot on the bench, you don't see public contract negotiations, you don't see Carlos Kickaballs being signed from various corners of the World to provide "options" and "possibilities". It appears there are no revolving doors, and you don't hear rants other than trying to tell another club to feck off when they offer 10 million quid for their best player. You see that, and you wonder why things can't be different.
Things can be different, and when they are choose whoever is the manager, I'll believe. Until then, they'll just have to make do with my support from 12000 miles away. Unfortunately as far as belief goes, I stopped believing in the methodology four seasons ago. Perhaps if there had been a single person on here who could convince me that the mass rotation of personel, positions which people play in and the formation is a good idea it might have been different. Similarly, if somebody could have convinced me that this season signing a striker for 20 million quid and then dropping him each time he scores a goal was a good idea it might have been different. Many tried, but ultimately nobody could. The main reason they couldn't is quite simply because they aren't good ideas.
The worst part about it is, they don't even think they're good ideas themselves. One day they'll probably admit that, but thats for them I suppose.
For my part, I'll just keep hoping the team can turn it around I think.
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bigmick on Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".
me off far too many times now and I have never been a sheep who follows blindly like GYBS and Leon do Baaahhh!
