I think I've worked out why I find this and many of your predictive posts jarring. It feels like I'm being giving a presentation by a strategic manager, minus the slides, in a generic meeting room at some hotel near Coryton. I'm not having a go it's just that this would work if you were presenting to fan-owned club share-holders and we could vote a yay or nay on the proposals. All this would be communicated to Trust Members and to the media and everyone would be kept in the loop.
But you know what I'm going to say next, don't you? It's in your imagination and we're not in the loop as to whether any of your ideas of what the long-term plan's chances of success will be. We don't even know if what your saying is a plan at all. We're not fan-owners just customers...,ahem, I mean supporters of Tan and the board's plaything.
And, as a supporter who shells out a considerable amount of money to watch Cardiff City I want to enjoy the experience and be entertained. I'm not a teenager any longer so my expectations are higher. If your idea of a plan is the one going on, then the business...,ahem, club, should tell me so I can decide if I spend my money or nor or wait 3 years and go and do something else with my time and money until the team/experience...ahem product, is better quality.
I don't have the time or energy anymore to hope that things will improve and pay to travel to and watch awful football. I'd much rather go and watch non-league and really enjoy it as opposed to second-tier English League bollox that's so far away from the league the teams are aspiring to get to it's laughable. I've mentioned before I feel The Championship quality has morphed into L1 quality which has morphed into L2. F*ck, it doesn't cost anything to watch the U23s. Maybe that's the best option for the next few seasons then and I'll spend my money elsewhere. The club needs to realise that it's in the entertainment/match-day experience business.
I'll always support City but the current season and the lack of excitement on the horizon isn't going to make me do it with any sort of financial conviction for much longer.
I mentioned on the last day of the transfer window how disappointed I was that there was nothing, no buzz, no excitement. I'm sick of all the same old excuses of why we can't do this or that. I don't think there's any lateral, innovative thinking happening at the club and I've said before we it feels to me that we're in decline and the board and owner are stale and devoid of ideas of how to give us an edge.
I don't think there's a footballing plan happening. I think it's entirely financial decisions driving the club. 'Of course, it's financial decisions' I hear people cry. Well OK then, what's in it for the fans and paying punters?
And I am getting sick of not being able to have these discussions in an adult way without being treated like some dissenting cult member. That got old real quick.