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That's my point: they 'need' them less and less (if they ever did).
Exhibit 1: The siege mentality of the 2022 Euro Cup Final in Paris. If that didn't tell you all you need to know about how the authorities regard football fans, nothing will (and if Hillsborough didn't years before).
Exhibit 2: The absolute Faustian catastrophe of handing Sky commercial jurisdiction over the domestic fixture list.
Exhibit 3: The FA supporting Manure's withdrawal from their own cup competition (for no benefit to anyone).
Exhibit 4: The support of club chairmen for Prem games abroad.
Exhibit 5: The breakway European league (led by our 'top' clubs).
Do you really need me to go on? (I'm also losing the will to live.)
Fans matter less and less to football clubs these days, especially with the increasing fiscal signficance of TV money and sponsorship etc., and it seems Nourry will be no different, and may well be worse. Thinking otherweise is just sentiment and fan idealism, sadly. It's a business, and we're basically (literally) the bystanders.
Another writer, it seems, who can't/won't read. When did I say we were 'doomed'? Or that people had to share my point of view? I'm rasing one or two concerns on a football message board, so lighten up. And learn to read!
A 'good exercise'? In finding out we can't create, break down lower league teams set up to stifle us, and (still) can't score goals - is that what you mean? Colour me stupid, but that just makes the coaching staff look like astonishingly slow learners.
It also worries me to hear Marti is sending 'messages' to the hierarchy by wilfully playing people out of position - what would be the point of doing either? It's the manager's job to improve the squad, find a way of playing that is effective and plays to everyone's strengths, and not try to pull the wool over fans' eyes. He did pretty well with what he had for the best part of last season, but has to prove himself all over again this season, and I hope he can. Right now, I think we're more likely to be in another relegation batthe than worrying the playoffs. We look like goal-shy mediocrities, frankly, with one or two promising youngsters who may break through one day.
Btw, Smyth isn't an 'enigma' - he's a likeable third rate winger with a bit of pace who lacks guile and end product.
I didn't see the game today, but the extreme polarity between the relaxed interviews with the manager and Smyth on the Offish and the verdicts of some of those on here (i.e. us fantatics, reactionaries, and non-experts posing as experts) is noteworthy to say the least.
That said, the manager's bland segue in the same breath from 'we didn't show the difference in quality' to 'we can take a lot of positives' I find faintly alarming. The whole interview looks staged to me, as if the 'upbeat' narrative were prescribed in advance. The interviewer couldn't be less probing if were a decommissioned lunar module!
It's also bizarre the way some say neither results nor performances matter a jot in these games, and it's just about getting 'minutes in the legs'. Why not just go for a run round Battersea Park with a ball for the afternoon if that's the case?
Some people might look happy, but a-clappy I am not!
Embarrassingly unprofessional edit for the official highlights, which, considering the highly 'professional' prices the club was 'rewarding' its long-standingly shat-upon fans with or these friendly, you'd really expect they'd match with this type of easy-to-get-right- product. Banal commentary too, which I guess we're stuck with now.
To be fair, on chances created and goalsocoring threat, they should have blown us away in the first 15 minutes, even though we did quite well otherwise, and I feel quite good about the game in many ways, especially with the promising performances of the likes of Lloyd and Kolli. As for Tuck, it would be just too perfect if we could also hire a midfield enforcer called Nip. (Or, failing that, Friar.)
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