
Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Apart from perhaps that short period when Rick Wright was spending very big sums for the Fourth Division, comparing the 2010s and 2020s with the 1980s and 1990s is like comparing apples with pears. Speaking for myself, I never used to get too annoyed thirty and forty years ago because, simply put, we were skint and the realistic expectation had to be survival if we were in the third tier and a possible promotion, if we were lucky, when we were in the fourth.
Contrast that to the last fifteen years when we have had a billionaire/multi millionaire “benefactor “ who, to be fair to him, has sanctioned transfer spending which should have resulted in more than two promotions followed immediately by two relegations.
It’s been a huge, huge opportunity wasted and a complete failure which sees us now plumbing on field depths we never did under Peter Ridsdale. Tan’s time here has turned into an abject failure largely because of two things, he, and Dalman, have been dreadful at picking new managers and he has stuck stubbornly to a policy based on a distrust of “football men” founded on his Mackay/Moody experiences almost a dozen years ago. Such a policy may have worked when I was a kid, but, it would be laughable these days if it wasn’t my club involved.
I don’t blame anyone if they think marches and demonstrations against Tan are called for, but I can’t see them removing him while the Emiliano Sala situation remains unclear.