ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Fri May 22, 2015 1:53 pm wrote:Some fans need to wake up and smell the coffee, 5 years ago this club was 2 days away from going under and in the high court fighting for its life. We were selling our best players not to cash in on them but to service the debt on all the leveraged buyout loans which were hanging over the club like the proverbial sword of Damocles.
We are not going to go from that dark place to footballing superpower in 5 minutes, this is a long hard road that we are on and without owners with deep pockets that road is even longer.
One season we finish second, the next we finish 5th, one season we finish 3rd, the next we finish 6th - that is how it is going to be until we find some way of levelling the playing field.
Brendan has done a decent job, yes compared to last season this one is a let down but it was always going to be a let down, we all knew last year that we were watching something special and something that wouldn't come around very often.
As I said if we finish 5th it will be our second best league finish since 08/09, beaten only by last year's 2nd place.
If Brendan goes this summer people will look back in the history books and think wow, that was tough on him, 2nd then 5th (and 2 semi's) and he lost his job? Talk about knee-jerk ism.
First season 4th and League Cup (note the word following brackets )WINNERS ! Second season ,3rd .Third season 4th
By 1998 Evans had successfully assembled a talented nucleus of players, who were particularly impressive going forward and in their attacking football, where Evans
had been credited with creating arguably the nation's most exciting and aesthetically pleasing team of the 1990s.
Albeit from being five points clear in 96/97 Never come came close to winning the league ,but Evans was respected by every reds fan for his humble and understated approach
See the difference ,the subtle hints lay in the words 'respected ,humble and understated ' ...Sorry mate the man just has to go ! He certainly doesn't merit your bleeding
heart defence .