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I've left this MB for several months and just what has happened ? Where is all the good quality serious debate in this our moment of crisis ?
The lowdown is this. From my own personal point of view when Irvine was quite correctly potted I wanted Micky Appleton to replace him. Instead Hemmings went for Ferguson. Accordingly many of us got behind him, myself included. Indeed he talked a good game and his ideals of wanting to play attacking football was what most of us wanted to hear. I was prepared to give him until the end of last season to sort things out and in that time I was prepared to see a few hammerings. He didn't disappoint. This scenario was not however supposed to encroach into the current campaign and I knew things were about to go wrong when he threw away £400K on the inept Morgan who has achieved the impossible i.e. he's even worse than Collins! An inbound Brown merely served to confirm my suspicions in that we had a clown in charge. Subsequent events have proven me right in that PNE are no longer a football club they have been reduced to the laughing stock of the championship and now enjoy the status of being a travelling circus. If a team has been on a bad run all they need do is look at the fixture list and they know that when PNE are served up on a plate that bad run will come to an end.
Those of you who attended the meeting with Lindsay heard my solution which was to appoint Appleton to the role of 1st team coach. This would provide the opportunity for the club to slowly but surely force Ferguson out and allow him to save face.Lindsay suggested they weren't happy with Fergy's backroom staff and talked about him raising the bar. Since then absolutely nothing has happened resulting instead with many fans heading for the bar.
That we are already down is certain, This fear was confirmed for me after enduring the 2:3 home defeat v Scunthorpe who had played us off the park. True to form that night Morgan proved that he wasn't a professional footballer but none other than Coco the Clown. There was no cohesion, no sense of purpose. It was a complete and utter shambles.
I've seen this all before and it's too painful to endure. We are already down and I've now accepted that in my lifetime I will never see PNE in the top flight. Three men have been mainly responsible for this lamentable scenario i.e. Simpson, Irvine and then Ferguson. Every last one of them incompetent. Every last one of them has undone the fine work that had been put in by Moyes and Davies over almost a decade.
Once the inevitable happens and we go down PNE will remain there for the next decade.
The game's up and there's no coming back from this one.As for Fergy ? Up until a few weeks ago he talked a superb game but ultimately he has been exposed as a fraud. One who is totally incapable of transferring his ideas on to the pitch.
The lowdown is this. From my own personal point of view when Irvine was quite correctly potted I wanted Micky Appleton to replace him. Instead Hemmings went for Ferguson. Accordingly many of us got behind him, myself included. Indeed he talked a good game and his ideals of wanting to play attacking football was what most of us wanted to hear. I was prepared to give him until the end of last season to sort things out and in that time I was prepared to see a few hammerings. He didn't disappoint. This scenario was not however supposed to encroach into the current campaign and I knew things were about to go wrong when he threw away £400K on the inept Morgan who has achieved the impossible i.e. he's even worse than Collins! An inbound Brown merely served to confirm my suspicions in that we had a clown in charge. Subsequent events have proven me right in that PNE are no longer a football club they have been reduced to the laughing stock of the championship and now enjoy the status of being a travelling circus. If a team has been on a bad run all they need do is look at the fixture list and they know that when PNE are served up on a plate that bad run will come to an end.
Those of you who attended the meeting with Lindsay heard my solution which was to appoint Appleton to the role of 1st team coach. This would provide the opportunity for the club to slowly but surely force Ferguson out and allow him to save face.Lindsay suggested they weren't happy with Fergy's backroom staff and talked about him raising the bar. Since then absolutely nothing has happened resulting instead with many fans heading for the bar.
That we are already down is certain, This fear was confirmed for me after enduring the 2:3 home defeat v Scunthorpe who had played us off the park. True to form that night Morgan proved that he wasn't a professional footballer but none other than Coco the Clown. There was no cohesion, no sense of purpose. It was a complete and utter shambles.
I've seen this all before and it's too painful to endure. We are already down and I've now accepted that in my lifetime I will never see PNE in the top flight. Three men have been mainly responsible for this lamentable scenario i.e. Simpson, Irvine and then Ferguson. Every last one of them incompetent. Every last one of them has undone the fine work that had been put in by Moyes and Davies over almost a decade.
Once the inevitable happens and we go down PNE will remain there for the next decade.
The game's up and there's no coming back from this one.As for Fergy ? Up until a few weeks ago he talked a superb game but ultimately he has been exposed as a fraud. One who is totally incapable of transferring his ideas on to the pitch.
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