Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
We ****ed up when we didn't shift Warnock on after relegation, there's even an argument in my opinion for getting rid after promotion under him. That was our second chance after Ole and the subsequent punishment that was slade. Money was spent under Warnock and it shouldn't have been him taking us down a new road in terms of development, that was the biggest mistake that Tan and the two ronnies made. That was a massive opportunity missed. We know what happened and in true fashion the board reacted poorly, no due diligence, no thought, no plan. What an opportunity wasted, especially as it was never really on the cards.

Ever since the belated sacking of Warnock, the club have lazily reacted, and it's been catastrophic in terms of player development, style, identity, almost everything. This is a club on the slide, no doubt about that. We are all looking for solutions and attempting to see the good in players, hoping that they will come good, putting our houses on a kid who hasn't played for half a year (Colwill) and we have no idea what type of player he is now. It's bad, there isn't anything to get excited about, there aren't any players who you really look forward to watching. The atmosphere is dead, and it's them at the top of the tree who have blindly walked into this mess.

Problem is that i can't really see a way out of this without us eventually getting relegated. It's shit, and i do think that supporters are being too pragmatic.
What I always remember about the summer of 2019 was that people on here and other City fans I talked to were voicing concerns about the signings we were making and they were soon proved correct. If a bunch of supporters could see the problems ahead, you have to ask why the big wigs at the club couldn’t. The answer to that seems clear - they don’t know enough about football and Warnock was able to put together a squad of giants and workhorses that were soon found out just like us lot on here said they would be.

I agree about Warnock leaving after promotion because that really would have given us an opportunity to rebuild with the sort of budget needed for that task. It was never going to happen though and I believe that the truth is that if Warnock had gone, we’d have been disappointed by the quality of applicant for the job - I reckon there’s still plenty of good quality managers who wouldn’t countenance working under Vincent Tan. That’s the problem we’ve got when we all hope for someone to be appointed as a manager from outside the club, I’d be willing to bet that we wouldn’t be impressed by who got the job because so many of the names we think would be realistic options would not come here.

Can the way a club is being run effect results on the pitch and, if they can, could they do so to the extent it could lead to three years of very poor home results? I can’t say for sure that it could, but City are stagnating and have been for a couple of years now - if money remains tight, I can’t see how Vincent Tan can fulfil his promise about leaving us in a stronger position than we were when he came here.