For someone so erudite

he's surprisingly ignorant of some very basic facts, and misses the main point. Which is that regardless of whether we are a soft touch the club is transformed since we were last in this position. The debt is gone: and the biggest problem from 1995 onwards was that servicing the debt constrained our ability to be competitive on the field. The other big change is that the sole focus of the football club is er... football. From 1995 until Bowkett came in too many resources were directed towards property development. The ghost of this stupidity stares us in the face - a broke hotel that still has the potential to be a financial catastrophe still occupies one corner of a ground that's just not quite big enough.
Most managerial appointments fail and I'm still not entirely convinced by Adams, but regardless of that what we do have is the financial wherewithal and focus on football that may very well get us back up in the foreseeable future. We had neither in 1995 or 2005. The future is yellow (probably).

Posted By: Winged Eel Creosote, Nov 1, 12:25:01