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After 53 years of season ticket this is it 18:53 - Apr 19 with 5262 views

I just cannot cope with utter shite performances, mainly from the managers, who year in year out, week in week out, for season after season make such basic bad decisions, it is unbearable. Today a case in point. Why when we played a high pressing game with massive early success on Saturday would we not do the same today. Was Eustace overthinking it?

Why would Mcclaren find a way for us to be scoring goals with 3 at the back and Smith and Wells up front (yes we lost but we played great and were unlucky ), then deviate would from that? Why would he play against a team on strike with a centre forward and two wide players who hugged the touchline and no one in midfield backing up the centre forward?

Why was Steve Palmer played in centre midfield forever? Why was Karl Henry, possibly the most
limited midfielder of all time, played for season after season?

Why has our best player Freeman been played wide and totally negated for weeks (except Leeds)?

Why do we never turn up and roll our sleeves up at Brentford or Fulham?

Why have any number of players constantly been played out of position over the years when we can all see where they should be playing?

I swear I could do a better job than the lot of them (Warnock excluded).

And whilst I am about it, why are we the only club that I know that cedes noise and support behind the goal to the oppo fans and stick our loud ones in the bloody corner? They’re always noisier than ours, through no fault of theirs. Go to villa, Everton, Liverpool, Arsenal, Norwich, Newcastle and countless other places and you’re stuck in a godforsaken low or high corner or on the side because, do you know what, it means the oppo fans can’t see and can hardly be heard. Why not stick them in the corner of ellerslie and give our fans both ends

And another 500 and odd quid for next year to be served up guaranteed shit and heartache. If I could be bothered to go on, I could be here all night.

[Post edited 20 Apr 2019 6:39]

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 15:07 - Apr 20 with 796 views

colinallcars

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 13:36 - Apr 20 by Rs_Holy
Get a Membership SevenHoop. I gave up my season ticket a few years ago but have had a membership ever since... if it’s a poor season I go 4 or 5 times, if it’s good I go about a dozen times. Going less often makes you appreciate it more when you do attend a match!

As mentioned in another thread I may give up my ST next season as I'm struggling with my dodgy knee. How much is membership and what are the benefits ? Presumably first dibs on available tickets ?
Another choice for those wavering could, if the season is going well, get a half season ST for the second half of the season. Though that would have been a nightmare this season !
Appropos of nothing, my wife asked me what a half season ticket is. I replied that you can only watch the first half of the game and go home at half time. She believed me.

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 15:25 - Apr 20 with 769 views

essextaxiboy

I will renew again. This season has been awful.but I am looking forward to seeing the young guys given a real go next year .Its going to be tough though ..

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 16:15 - Apr 20 with 718 views

TheChef

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 13:36 - Apr 20 by Rs_Holy
Get a Membership SevenHoop. I gave up my season ticket a few years ago but have had a membership ever since... if it’s a poor season I go 4 or 5 times, if it’s good I go about a dozen times. Going less often makes you appreciate it more when you do attend a match!

Ha, I did the same once kid number 2 arrived. Like you say it makes you appreciate the games more, especially on the odd occasion we win!

Yesterday was an odd one, I watched on the red button. I didn't think we were that awful, probably could have been level at half time. It was just as mentioned, the brainlessness of the goals conceded, and the inability to react after the second goal.

Ridiculously I'm still hopeful that next season with a team of committed players and less reliance on loanees, we can still compete. It's not going to be pretty, mind.

Poll:

How old is everyone on here?

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 17:34 - Apr 20 with 644 views

Rs_Holy

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 15:07 - Apr 20 by colinallcars

Just over 30 squids and you get £2 off a ticket. You get to buy 1week before general sale.
If the team is doing badly the benefits are not that great but if the teams doing well the chance to buy early is really good. Also I got really good tics for the playoff final but if I didn’t have a membership I’d have been up in the top tier.

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 17:44 - Apr 20 with 627 views

BazzaInTheLoft

53 years is impressive but I can’t believe this is the shit season that was the final straw.

If Vauxhall motors didn’t finish you off I find it hard to believe that Blackburn did.

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 17:56 - Apr 20 with 613 views

wood_hoop

After 53 years of season ticket this is it on 19:06 - Apr 19 by MelakaRanger

I feel you pain and frustration. My first season ticket was 1967 though due to now living a 6+ hr journey from Loftus Rd I can now only attend a few matches each season.

In my mind we can be proud of the 30 years up to the mid 90s. Then we sold Sir Les and the rot set in very quickly. and since then , with the odd exception our two promotion years ( I don’t count the Rednapp promotion) we have been poor, often very poor.

So much money has been waisted on crap signings. And it seems even when we have had managers appointed who should have been good, they have been crap. Houston, Wilkins, Hughes to name but a few.

The good times will return but I am not that hopeful that they will return anytime soon.

I too have been going to see games for many years, since the mid sixtiess, and the life has been sucked out of the game and the club since the 90's except for the odd season.

Football itself has been torn apart by commercial priorities and we have been sucked in and shat out like so many other clubs, but in our case with consequenses that have also ripped the heart from our club

When so called proffesional footballers are of a standard so poor that it makes me want to weep at how much they cost, in transfer fees and wages.

The game of football is no longer a sporting battle between two clubs, first priority is money money and even more money

General standards from the top to the bottom of our leagues are absolutely dire, especially our own home grown players, its why clubs are absolutely over ridden with players from all round the world.

Management is no better, you may get the odd Brit manager who's head sticks over the parapet at times and fools many into believing they have the knowledge to break through the glass ceiling that now exists at many clubs, but usually just a false dawn.

I have played, coached, managed, albiet at very amateur levels and watched this wonderful game for decades but it has been destroyed by phoneys cheats and get rich merchants since the sport has been taken over for nothing more than commercial reasons.

Yes there are still a few players that I feel have a semblance of how the game should be played but nowhere near enough to still call it the 'beautiful game'

Money is not what we need its 'footballing brains' from the directors, management coaches & scouts.

We aren't going to be able to buy our way out of this like TF had tried.

I have seen kids kicking the ball in the park that have just that inkling, spark, of just maybe being decent players, decent coaching and who knows.

We do get the odd young decent player still but not just enough of them.

Stop this merry go round of taking the same old same old dirge of poor quality rejects from other clubs, it won't happen overnight, a bit of pain as well if we drop a division or two but start with the basics, it don't need a complete Einstein just the brains &balls to coach at good levels before the kids reach puberty.

I know, living in a dreamworld, but somehow things in the game will have to change or it might just one day implode.

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