S-Clarke

He's not absorbed of blame anymore. I don't care if he's pumped money into the club, he's oversaw the absolute imbeciles who continue to piss it up the wall. He took control the last year, and we're now worse. We haven't been this low in the Championship since those 07-09 seasons.

They have absolutely ruined this club, and when you think they can't go a level worse, they actually manage to do it. No one who is part of SR is absorbed of any blame. They have destroyed my club in front of our very eyes to a point that's almost not recoverable. We don't hear much about the finances, but if they've mismanaged the club this badly I dread to think about the state of the finances. They're probably nowhere near as healthy as people proclaim.

This season no longer reminds me of 05-06, it's very, very similar to 07-08. We look doomed. No one wants to be out there. The squad isn't united, they're a load of individuals thrown together in a manner that simply isn't working. The vibe I get is that there are huge divisions in the squad. The squad planning in the summer has been a disgrace and it's left us with probably one of the worst squads we've ever had, certainly since that 07-09 period. I'm not talking about financially/reputation, but more so the mix, size and type of player we have available. It's an absolute bloated mess and this isn't fixed overnight, it will take years and years. We are not finishing top half this year, this season is a bottom half Champ battle. This is exactly the area you live in when the Championship 'isn't fun', as many proclaimed when we were getting relegated. I saw this sort of season coming a mile off. Clubs don't recover from 12 point seasons for a long time and sometimes they never do. This is beyond the manager at this point, but he'll go and we'll get another one in who will fall by the wayside too. L1 at this stage is absolutely inevitable, it's just a case of when. We won't have Markus coming over the hill to save us this time either. It's a long and probably impassable road back, and it's all on SR.

Who gives a shit? I've got some paint to watch dry.

We're using him terribly, absolutely.

So the weeks go on and I still have no idea if he can play football. I honestly couldn't tell you. Chances are, no he can't, but if anything sums up our current plight it's him.

If we hadn't have spent the entire summer flapping around an Armanian player we were never going to get, we may not have had to do a last-min panic buy on Azaz who is so at odds with the rest of the squad.

You've always come across as a bit of WUM Saint_Charlie, this is probably one of your worst efforts.

To be fair, they were ditched when we were an Established PL side under Ralph, they wanted to leave for game time and that was that. Should we have loaned them out? Maybe, yes - but it just goes to show how poor to non-existent our squad planning has been in the last 6-7 years.

I don't think any player has the right to pick apart fan reaction after the last 365 days we've had to endure. I tell you what, they're lucky they've got away with so much. Nathan Wood has been one of our better defenders this year, not saying much mind, but he is as thick as pig shit and it's really demoralising that he's the level of player we've slipped to. It's no surprise we are where we are. He was part of our PL recruitment too. Let that sink in.

Of course he's not ill now, but he's got a knock to the knee. Honestly can we just sack this guy off.

I thought we were changing that in the summer with Downs and Quarshie, some even Quarshie whilst tall is quite weak in one-on-one duals. But after adding some height with those first two, we didn't really continue in the same vein which was odd. I thought we were hitting the spine of the team with some physical presence.

I was of this view maybe 6 months - year ago, but he has to absorb some of the blame now. This has been 4 years of colossal mismanagement and no one is immune from criticism at this point, especially since Dragan has now put himself front and centre since last year. They've all played their part in the decline of this football club.

This is my view of him. He popped up with a great goal and looks really busy, but he's proper weak and will get dispossessed quite a lot. I can see why he hasn't been playing. He won't get the freedom he had in the lead up to his goal in many games. He looks a tidy player with energy, but he'd just add to the issue we already have - no steel, just lots of meek technical players who get knocked off the ball.

This has been my stance as well, but this guy is also in a position of authority now - he's appointed himself as Chairman of this club. Yet still it's chaos. This is now happening fully under his watch sad to say.

@trousers - you're usually all over the companies house stuff, do you know how it's split?

I think the most important position at any club is the overall ownership. If the top is bad/toxic, then it doesn't truly matter what you do lower down - it won't change long term. You might get a fleeting year here and there, but ultimately with bad ownership the club will just limp along and eventually implode.

We'd break him, IMO. No chance someone like him comes here and has success. The fans would be calling for blood after a couple of weeks. We need someone experienced who doesn't take any shit, shake the shit out of the squad, get us competitive and in a better place. The next appointment also won't be long term, it's going to have to be an ugly stop gap to make us competitive again - as that's the biggest issue, we have been an uncompetitive professional football club for over 18 months now. We need strong leadership at this point.

Our choice of managers would be solely limited to the currently unemployed former Champ managers and up and coming L1 manager bracket. No better than that. We're not shopping in the ballpark of the likes of Lampard, Cooper and dare I say it - Jones - anymore.

We probably won't go down this season, but the trajectory is without a doubt L1.

Rasmus is a significant shareholder of Sports Republic though, unless he's stripped of his shares his involvement isn't going anywhere.

In my eyes, this is why we go through DoF's every few months. They cannot work with Rasmus whose hands are seemingly all over this.

Just thought I'd bump this one. Lots of posts in the summer saying he's 'fine for the championship, and he's good around the club' - really? For a start he was the captain who oversaw the worst ever PL effort in recent times. He's still captain of the club unravelling in the Championship. He is a highlight for everything that is wrong with this club - mediocre, meek and rewarded for it. It's not all down to Jack, but that contract extension in the summer was the signal of intent for me. And it wasn't good intent.

I do see what you mean, but to counter that - we're in the same bat shit crazy world of ownership as the likes of Blackburn and Wednesday are in, so wishing we're not them isn't exactly a mile away from what we have today. We have hideous owners, there aren't any worse out there in my eyes. Yes, Dragan has put the money up, but he's put in place the biggest load of morons to use it. Supposedly he took more control over the last 12 months or so, and you can't say it's got any better. Intentions are all well and good, but if you're no good in the industry you're in then you're best just sodding off before you do even more damage. That's how I see Solak, he has no idea about elite sports management and never will.

Isn't he out with a long term serious injury? Should be right up our street.