Mood

[Decent_Left]

The Red Alert pod from BBC Tees is a great peice of public service broadcasting from the BBC for those of who live away and dont get to too many matches.

Maddo is a bit marmite, love his passion, not keen on his mangling the english language, Dana Malt for me conveys greater technical analysis than Maddo does and again for me represents the fans point of view really well.

I really rely on it as a more level headed, perhaps thoughtful antidote to the massive mood swings on here win or lose.

So whats the point of this post?

The tone of last nights pod took me right back to last seasons broadcast after the Millwall away game. A performnce of little shape, little hope and no direction.

50 weeks. Just 50 weeks between rock bottom and reaching rock bottom again.

I'll never see 60 again so not too many "always next season" opportunities and it gets harder with every season of failure to see a possible turnround beyond what the club has done for the last 15 years - build a process, deliver a hint of possibility, let it crash and burn and rip it up and start again.

If Gibson really does believe in his principles, just let this season play out with what we have. Dont sack Carrick now, make him sweat or walk after trying. But if he does go then it has to be an absolute clear out from Bausor down including the recruitment team.

I hope I have to eat my words and Carrick finds a way, but right now the season is going to be very grim, and yes I know some folk will pipe up with how last season worked out and the season Wilder came in how it worked out, even Warnocks season, but thats a really unappealling pattern.

This time feels different. I can't recall such a disconnect between pre season hopes and how its panning out.

Still, theres always next year.

 

[atypical_boro]

Maddo is a bit marmite, love his passion, not keen on his mangling the english language, Dana Malt for me conveys greater technical analysis than Maddo does and again for me represents the fans point of view really well.

You really should give the Boro Breakdown a go. Dana is on there with 2 other fairly like minded fans. They are very honest, but not in an overly whingey way.

 

[coluka]

The Red Alert pod from BBC Tees is a great peice of public service broadcasting from the BBC for those of who live away and dont get to too many matches.

Maddo is a bit marmite, love his passion, not keen on his mangling the english language, Dana Malt for me conveys greater technical analysis than Maddo does and again for me represents the fans point of view really well.

I really rely on it as a more level headed, perhaps thoughtful antidote to the massive mood swings on here win or lose.

So whats the point of this post?

The tone of last nights pod took me right back to last seasons broadcast after the Millwall away game. A performnce of little shape, little hope and no direction.

50 weeks. Just 50 weeks between rock bottom and reaching rock bottom again.

I'll never see 60 again so not too many "always next season" opportunities and it gets harder with every season of failure to see a possible turnround beyond what the club has done for the last 15 years - build a process, deliver a hint of possibility, let it crash and burn and rip it up and start again.

If Gibson really does believe in his principles, just let this season play out with what we have. Dont sack Carrick now, make him sweat or walk after trying. But if he does go then it has to be an absolute clear out from Bausor down including the recruitment team.

I hope I have to eat my words and Carrick finds a way, but right now the season is going to be very grim, and yes I know some folk will pipe up with how last season worked out and the season Wilder came in how it worked out, even Warnocks season, but thats a really unappealling pattern.

This time feels different. I can't recall such a disconnect between pre season hopes and how its panning out.

Still, theres always next year.

The problem with wholesale clear outs is several fold.

1. Employment Law,
2. Who decides who goes and stays and can their judgement be trusted.
3. Who decides who is appointed in place of those let go and can their judgement be trusted, especially in light of point 2 actions
4. It can be an extremely costly process (As can inaction too mind)
5. There are no guarantees.

There are many pitfalls as well as potential positives and it is not always obvious where the real changes may be needed, poor performers can be hiding in plain sight and excellent performers can be scapegoated. I think we have to follow the process through, clench our buttocks (individually speaking that is, not in a predatory way) and hope the people in charge get the train back on the tracks.

 

[Decent_Left]

You really should give the Boro Breakdown a go. Dana is on there with 2 other fairly like minded fans. They are very honest, but not in an overly whingey way.

I do dip in and out of that one. Its really good

 

[Decent_Left]

The problem with wholesale clear outs is several fold.

1. Employment Law,
2. Who decides who goes and stays and can their judgement be trusted.
3. Who decides who is appointed in place of those let go and can their judgement be trusted, especially in light of point 2 actions
4. It can be an extremely costly process (As can inaction too mind)
5. There are no guarantees.

There are many pitfalls as well as potential positives and it is not always obvious where the real changes may be needed, poor performers can be hiding in plain sight and excellent performers can be scapegoated. I think we have to follow the process through, clench our buttocks (individually speaking that is, not in a predatory way) and hope the people in charge get the train back on the tracks.

Totally get all that, and its why I want Carrick to stay for the rest of the season as a final test and learn on this "process" Gibson has built up.

If he works out by moving on up as the season progresses great, if it fails then thats the time to bin it. and it becomes a blank sheet of paper moment. Brutal but this cant go on.

I realise this could be seen as another version of a rip it up comment I made in the initial post but this time for me it relly does men everything out, absolutely everything from the Chief Exec down (football side only dont mean the receptionsits etc although from comments regardring the shop and ticket pricing why not throw them in the mix)