Dr Who?

Tonda will be here until the end of the season, or until we drop into the bottom 3, which could be by the end of February at this rate. Surely not the end January 😧, so in summary he might be gone soon 😂 We are in such shit storm I am not even sure what we are going to do next anyway. I cannot get angry anymore, I’m just defeated by the club, and can only shake my head. My boy asked me ‘why do I support these lot’ he was born in Cambridge and lives in Carlisle. It’s my fault!

Spot on, but do you think he notices that he is getting it all wrong, because he needs too, or we are screwed. Or does he have so much arrogance that he thinks all is good? Just typing this I cannot for the life of me think that he thinks this, so why is he not putting it right. Is it because it is his mates, has he let personal friendships get in the way and blur his vision. He is not stupid man, he is a success business man, but when it comes to football these kind of people seem to lose the plot and think they can do it on their own. It’s crazy 🤪

Also can Leo stop coming over and look sad and dejected and trying to explain to the fans. Yes come over and clap, but do not come over for a chat every week. I could not give a toss, just do it on the pitch!

Correct, it needs to be done as a top to bottom exercise, but this needs to come from the top. New advisers, new manager with experience, coaching staff the managers own, then the managers players, not those advising, apart from scouts that are in it for Saints and have experience. The key thing here is experience. You cannot keep striping out players and bringing more in, when you do not have the right set up above them. They lose motivation and you go through it all over again. Every part of the set up needs to be working and well oiled. We continually try and make a system work without the right set up and players. Round holes, square pegs! It all has to fit together to work. Look at Wrexham, they are a prime example of letting people in their own area of the club get on with it and they work as a team towards to number one objective. Lots do not like them, but watching it is a good watch and how business should be operated correctly. Yes they might miss out this season, but they have more hope than us!

Yes strip out ‘top to bottom’ as mentioned. Start again with proper management in place. Keep it simple and do not over complicate. Get rid of the old ideals as that kinda football has moved on. Blank bit of paper. Here in Carlisle they are still trying to get rid of the deadwood a year after the owners realising they were being taken as mugs by some football people. They now stay out of the footballing side of things. Might go up this season, but think they will be spot on next season. The thing is they realised their mistakes, but will SR?

FA Cup? Oh yeah… cricket 🏏 ☀️ 🍺

Time and time again. Not only has this a negative impact on the team, it also just wastes their money. They took over in our relegation season 2022/23 and have continued to invest heavily, but in the wrong areas, and sack a manager who was being worn down by the impact of them not buying a proven striker. This is still a problem over 3 years on. They are still recruiting the incorrect managers and players time and time again and trying to fit them into our idea of playing football, and continues to have a negative impact on the team and the club. You think they would realise they are just peeing their money up the wall. If it was you or I investing you would want advise and surround yourself with people that are experts and well respected in the area of work, so you money was protected as well as it could be. There is always a risk of course, but then there is complete incompetence, which the owners are showing. I just do not understand how you can be so blind and careless with your own money? They can still make this work if they put a better strategy in place, strip the set up top to bottom in the summer, or even now, so it is in place for the 26/27 season. Parachute payments, hopeful scrap enough to stay up, or start again in league one. If we get it right (they get it right) we should have it spot on next season. I cannot see the above happening, we will continue with the cycle, rinse and repeat until we keep falling and SR clear off. They have the money to make this a success, but they do not have the foresight to execute it!

I did this and it was dull out there as well. Now watching Fleetwood v Cambridge. Come on you U’s

I don’t think it matters where we go, or what we do, we continue to get it wrong on the pitch. Even I am looking downwards now. Lose today, skates win, lose in their backyard next week, oh dear!

Eye of a needle!

What a surprise, we never learn. We have not got the personal to play like this, we are are to fragile, and do not have the ability! Still long time left I suppose? 🤷🏽

Che scored twice in the last 16 away at Roma this evening!

Dull, but winnable. They only have one decent player in Fatawu, who seems to be the only one who is bothered to give any effort, that can turn it on at any time and win the game.

Looking for away of course Wigan, Grimsby, Burnley, Macclesfield, Burton, Hull, Leeds, Mansfield. Ideally Macclesfield, Burton, Hull or Mansfield, as I have been to the others, but my son has not been to any of these.

There have been many 2nd half’s this season, probably going back to the Hull away game when we first fell apart. Our players are not going to fancy FP that’s for sure.

Yeah unfortunately I do not go to home games, so it is off my radar. Just not sure of the angle, but at least something is happening. Massive divide in the away end yesterday over the chanting.

I really am having nightmares thinking about the 2nd half at Fratton Park if we are all square at half time. I really do not think we are strong enough, anywhere near strong enough to go to Fratton Park and get a result. Look at most of our second half performances lately. We looked a shambles at a too be relegated Donny yesterday. I have a huge fear for this game, it is not going to be good!

We would have made him crap don’t you worry!

There is a protest after the Hull game I believe, it is the start of something. There was quite a bit of chanting yesterday against the owners. I still believe if they can realise like the Carlisle owners that they are doing it all wrong on the playing side and rebuild they can do good for the club. As I have said they are not afraid of spending money, but they are spending it all wrong. I think a protest is required, but to make them see that they are getting it so wrong, rather than selling and leaving. But how the hell do you go about doing that?

They will not do that either and like other likeminded owners they will run the club into the ground, spit it out and clear off. It’s a shite situation but we are pretty stuck really.

I do love positivity, and of course you are right, we are still in it.

I’m glad I do not go to home games. The last one was Stoke…

I don’t think fans will turn on Tonda, why would they, we can see now that he is another puppet. We cannot keep going through this cycle, and it needs to be broken one way or another and if it is not, we will continue to spiral downwards. It’s up to the owner to strip out and start again or cut their loses and sell up. If you or I were investing heavily (especially in an arena where you are gonna lose money over a period of time away) you would take advice from others that have experience in that area. It just seems madness, to keep spending in the wrong areas and making the wrong choices. You have to ask is this normal behaviour, to waste your money over and over again in the playing area of the club. I do think that football has been over complicated to generate jobs and money for football people, as money has got more and more out of control. It really should not be this hard. You have money you want to invest, you get advice and you surround yourself with ‘experts’ that know the game, and you let them advise you! If they get it wrong over time you move them on, like in any business and get someone else in. But get it as right as you can from the off. Honestly I’m done at the moment after standing through another very poor second half. But I will go again as it is what me and my boy do. That part is fun, the football very frustrating. We should be in a great position as a club, but we are getting it so badly wrong!

I thought you were going to stop that at ‘doomed to fail’ just general statement with football in the whole. Because most do.

We kind of did, but they still could and perhaps should have taken it to extra time. That second half was a shambles, but not as much of some of the past shambles. We got it all wrong at half time again. But we won and we are in the hat.