I think the issue is not so much relegation (though this is bad enough) but the fact that it is entirely self-inflicted, we can all see it happening in slow motion but the powers that be are just ignoring it whilst trying to fob us off with bullshit. They are taking a lot of money out of the fanbase but not giving us much back in return. For several windows we have listened to bullshit excuses as to why signing players is so difficult even though other teams seem to do so with no problems, now we are being fed the same rubbish about finding a new manager that is better than the novice we employed, which let's face it, no other team at this level would have employed.
We were told last year that we had to behave as if we were a newly promoted side - what kind of nonsense is that? No other clubs seem to run in this way. All whilst rocketing our ticket prices as they 'benchmark' against other, far more ambitious clubs.
We have a Head Coach with a very limited/poor CV who has overseen a run of just 3 wins in 25 games, 2 of which were against a side now relegated and another side that will be relegated. We were told that it was because he had no strikers, he now has a very decent Norwegian no.9 not to mention a Brazilian no.10. Then we were told he needed a pre-season with the 'group' which he then wasted. Then we were told we had a tough start to the season, wait until the 'winnable' games - we get battered 4-0 by fucking Everton yet still they think he's the 'next big thing'??
We sit here below fucking Ipswich who were League One a couple of years back, we face them at home on Saturday not even confident that we will beat them. We have watched as sides have come up since us such as Forest, Bournemouth, Brentford and Fulham and they have left us behind even though their squads are not far superior to ours. For as much as O'Neil whines about how hard done by he is with players lost we still have a team out there of internationals from a range of different countries yet we sit 2nd from bottom getting battered by shit.
I came home from work last night in a foul mood, completely disheartened by the press releases that we were sticking with this bloke and giving him (more) time to turn this around (3 wins in 25 suggests he won't) and with each passing game that zero points are attained the target of safety becomes that bit more difficult. After the Everton humiliation where he turned his back on the fans as they chanted 'wanker, wanker, wanker' we all thought that was it, no coming back but there he was again doing his PC on Thursday and on the sidelines waving his arms manically on Monday night as he oversaw his 28th defeat in 53 games, we all assumed that was the end yet less than 24 hours later we are told that he is still the man.
People have had enough. When was the last time we had any good news from this club? For a few years now the news is downbeat, gloomy, depressing and whenever we think it won't get any worse it does. We are told that they have no interest in selling the club yet they clearly have no interest in growing it either. Its depressing, its upsetting. We all love our club and want to see us developing as a club after our longest stint yet in the Premier League, a period that began with the best side most of us had ever seen in old gold managed by the best manager we had witnessed, a man who was fully on board with the fans, the club, the city. We got to an FA Cup semi and qualified for Europe, those Europa nights were the best and proudest moments for us Wolves fans and we felt it was the beginning of something special. Since then we have seen it all dismantled before our very eyes and we all saw it coming.
I'm rambling now and going to get on with my work!
