The phrase that was so favoured by the press and so lambasted on here now seems perfectly apt.
Think about December last year, only 6 short months ago. NC was in charge, MP was delivering results, we were moving up the table despite a couple of bad patches. Our star striker had scored on his England debut. Our hometown hero Captain was the envy of many other teams fans. Our leftback was being hailed as the future of football. Our "route to first team" coaches lauded as running the best academy in the land.
Now we have lost our hardball chairman, replaced by someone who, on current trends, isn't doing so well.
We have sacked 2 of our youth coaches with no rationale being given.
We have lost the Adidas deal for kit next year and risk running out in a cobbled together job.
The much hoped for global brand sponsor befitting a top half Premier League side turned out to be one more suited to a Championship side.
The manager and his team have jumped, take with them a lot of the hopes we all had for building on last season. The names touted to replace them have been somewhat worrying.
All 3 of our England players are almost certainly off, or if not majorly unsettled. Plus a few of our other stars and youth are being talked about in the media as off.
We are 6/1 to be relegated.
Meltdown? I think now is the time to accept it and say yes we are in meltdown.