I love how certian people think Shaw gets all the credit for Irvines success because he appointed him, but none of the criticism for us being 10m in debt is levelled at him which the vast majority has come as a result of rectifying simpsons mistakes, another Sahw appointment.
Yet again, it seems all the people criticising Shaky, Bennett and Preston Lad for expressing their opinions are just as one eyed and myopic as they claim those 3 are being, its just the other eye they have open. This forum is full of pricks.
My 2 cents for what its worth. Shaw has done a decent job. He backs his manager to the best of his ability, whoever it is and he gives them time to try and sort out their problems. Admirable qualities IMOand ones that possibly help towards success. But hes not perfect. Theres not a good PR or marketing bone in his body. His press statements often alienate large number of fans with their negativity and borderline defeatism. Theres no commuinication with the fans about where the clubs ambitions lie etc etc and this will always to to speculation and conjecture. The admin side of the club is fucking awful at times, how many times have any of you been to a tuesday night calrling cup gmae or reserve match and missed 10 minutes because no one has a clue about demand and no ticket offices are open and queues are round the block? How many people have a bad ticket office story in general? These are the fault of Ben Rhodes IMO, but Degsy continues to employ this man despite the fact he looks lik a true incompetent.
Those will always play second fiddle to on the field activities, and sometimes thats a justifiable argument, but the matchday experience (not just the football on show, but everything form getting your tickets to standard of catering etc etc) is fucking awful at times, and IMO DS takes some of the responsisibility for that, and its this kind of thing, that gives floating/neutrals excuses to not re attend at a time where we need every single body through the door as possible.
Just one last thought on the financial backing argument, many people will no doubt think that making the play offs now excuses not bringing anyone in in jan. Yet weve all seen the masive impact Williamson has had once hes settled. Now williamson whas brought in, effectively, in april. Imagine were we could be had he been brought in in Feb.
Its possible, we could be celebrating automatic right now! Nobody will ever know the truth because its been and gone, but noone can disprove that might be the case. If we could though, would you say DS did the right thing then?
