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I agree with Wrighty. I can't see us picking up any more points this season, with the final run in we've got. All the top teams, and then the 'easier' teams like Swansea, who I've watched a couple of times this season, and they are class. So what went wrong, because something went fundamentally wrong. We cruised through the Championship last season, winning it easily, with a massive positive goal difference. There's no point in looking to bad luck, or referee decisions. They usually even themselves out over a season. No, we were the creation of our own downfall. Here's my assessment.
1 Our past owners were looking to sell us, just as we needed stability and future planning
2 We bought hastily and recklessly at the start of the season, bringing in a group of expensive and under performing rejects, plus Dyer, an injury waiting to happen (8 minutes in fact).
3 Too many of last season's squad were not able to raise their game to Premier levels
4 We appointed someone as captain, Barton, who has zero leadership skills. In fact his influence is corrosive and divisive.
5 We lost Faulin, our best player to injury.
6 We changed manager half way through, bringing further disruption to an already disrupted squad, when the problem was Barton, not Warnock
7 There was a second group purchase of unknown and untested players.
8 The team has been endlessly tinkered with, with the result that no one knows his pace, what he is doing, or whether he is in or out of the team.
9 This has all meant that we have diminished in confidence, rather than grown.
10 The players, barring a couple, have never bonded with the crowd, despite that win against Chelsea, and the crowd have, as a result never given their 100%.
11 The new manager, cold and impassive, has never bonded with the players or the supporters, and seems distant and unconnected.
12 The new owner, for all his money and enthusiasm, has no experience of running a football club, has made his decisions, and they have all been wrong. He's learning the hard way.
13 Our second best player after Faurlin, Taraabt, has been in and out of the team like a yo-yo, and doesn't know whether he's coming or going.
14 Our third best player, Helguson, part of the old guard, who helped get us here in the first place, is curiously out of favour, and has hardly featured since Hughes arrived. He's our only premier-proven scorer!
I could go on, can anyone else add to the list?
1 Our past owners were looking to sell us, just as we needed stability and future planning
2 We bought hastily and recklessly at the start of the season, bringing in a group of expensive and under performing rejects, plus Dyer, an injury waiting to happen (8 minutes in fact).
3 Too many of last season's squad were not able to raise their game to Premier levels
4 We appointed someone as captain, Barton, who has zero leadership skills. In fact his influence is corrosive and divisive.
5 We lost Faulin, our best player to injury.
6 We changed manager half way through, bringing further disruption to an already disrupted squad, when the problem was Barton, not Warnock
7 There was a second group purchase of unknown and untested players.
8 The team has been endlessly tinkered with, with the result that no one knows his pace, what he is doing, or whether he is in or out of the team.
9 This has all meant that we have diminished in confidence, rather than grown.
10 The players, barring a couple, have never bonded with the crowd, despite that win against Chelsea, and the crowd have, as a result never given their 100%.
11 The new manager, cold and impassive, has never bonded with the players or the supporters, and seems distant and unconnected.
12 The new owner, for all his money and enthusiasm, has no experience of running a football club, has made his decisions, and they have all been wrong. He's learning the hard way.
13 Our second best player after Faurlin, Taraabt, has been in and out of the team like a yo-yo, and doesn't know whether he's coming or going.
14 Our third best player, Helguson, part of the old guard, who helped get us here in the first place, is curiously out of favour, and has hardly featured since Hughes arrived. He's our only premier-proven scorer!
I could go on, can anyone else add to the list?
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