I think the ground is decent but I take your point but I know quite a few fan's who thought that when the stadium opened we would be ready to "go", but it has turned out that after the neglected squad that is not the case and a lot of work is required.
To be fair though, we are playing the worst football since the 90's. We are absolutely diabolical on the pitch, I would say it's worse than the 90's. It's hardly suprising the crowd's not electric. I don't think it has anything to do with tourists. There are some, but there's not 10's of thousands. No team on planet earth would have a great atmosphere playing like us. No one. People praise 'Pools atmos, wasn't that long ago it was awful.
Hardly Jose's fault, when you consider the shower he walked into halfway through the season. There's 6, possibly even 7 teams that can realistically get top 4. We are never going to do it every year. Impossible.
It comes down to ambition as well clubs like Chelsea and utd will probably squeeze top four or certainly one will because their owners demand success, we on the other hand do not have anyone like that instead the rattle of the turnstiles and the ringing of the tills is what their driver is.
Well Paulinho, Lamela, Capoue, Chadli, Bentaleb were all highly rated talents young in their career and Poch probably would have been brought in to get the best out of them, as he had done at Southampton. He had a season working with them all but couldn't get a tune out of some of them, so binned some of them off.
Well considering it will be him and Poch sharing the blame I dont see why.
Modern football mate I'm afraid
It's easy to demand success when you have the spending power of a small country. And you SHOULD be demanding it. We are no less ambitious, we simply can't compete financially with 5 other clubs. I am stunned that sections of fans still can't grasp this simple fact. They think money just materializes out of thin air. I guaranty, if we went with their model of spending, we end up going bust, they will be the first in line to critisize the board for listening to the fans.
Well give us something to cheer about then. Instead of this crap, turgid football. Losing to bottom of the table teams. Getting dominated by every single team we play.
I don’t think it’s that we can’t it’s that as a club we do not want to. Levy runs the club in a certain way and that will not change regardless of how much we want it to.
So you do agree?
