Re: Arthur

By BigBadSwan (Swandico)11/2/2021 10:34Thu Feb 11 10:34:53 2021In response to Re: Arthur

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I think what we are forgetting here is that without Joe we wouldn't have a football club at all. Has he made mistakes ? Absolutely, but I thank him for our existence today.

Someone was paying Paul Barnes, Someone is paying the players, someone is paying the bills so maybe we need to show a little more gratitude than to blame him for everything that has gone wrong.... Because that is far from true.

Full respect to Alan and Matthew, we had our most successful years under Alans tenure but we must remember they were not perfect either. Imagine if they had the marketing skills and foresight to have put a boost the budget in place 5-10 years ago, you never know promotion to the conference national could have been achieved. We had regular crowds of 5/600, imagine 5 quid per week from that lot. It would have added up!

The clubs fortunes started to turn in the last several years of Matthews tenure, remember it was under him we were relegated embarrassingly from the conference south after two absolutely appalling managerial appointments. But because it was Matthews money people were scared to criticize and actually felt sorry for him. People don't seem to be showing Joe the same sympathy.

Please also remember that as it stands we are second in the league... If the league had continued who knows what could have happened.