BRFC v Newport Early Match Day Thread

To be honest, its the apathy and disengagement that I find worse. 

Unfortunately the soul has been ripped out of the club and I think people are finding it harder and harder to care.

A kind of learned helplessness sets in...the domestic violence circus;Maher scuttling off to Southend and Hill to wherever he ended up (I don't care); Akinde turning us down; Hughes apparently doing a press conference while drunk....a slow 'drip drip' effect that saps the will to live. 

And that's now another 3-1 defeat to a mediocre L2 team who we have made look like Brazil circa 1970.

The only upside is that Carlisle and Sc*unthorpe appear to be even worse than us - shades of Halifax in that season the team finished second from bottom?

I expect Barton to pick the team next week, but it’s last chance saloon isn’t it Bas?         

The book makers set odds on nothing other than looking and wondering what a club of this stature was doing messing around in a toilet bowl with Forest Green Rovers and Harrogate. Add to that a presumption of competence in the way that they club is managed, and of course the odds suggested we would be making fools out of Swindon, who had no money and no squad when those odds were first broadcast.

The point being though, he isn’t the owner, he’s the football man the owner takes hands off and trusts to run the football club.  That is the thing we need here.  

There was some booing, but nothing like as loud as it deserves to be!

“When Wael arrived, who would have thought for a second that almost 6 years later we would have run up record losses, would still be in the same dump of a stadium, would have one of football's most despised characters as manager, and would sit 86th out of 92 clubs.”  

If Colchester take a point off Sutton, we are basically 19th, below Colchester, Crawley, Walsall, Barrow, Rochdale. Sutton Utd.

Games on the horizon.
Tranmere, Salford, green, vale, Northampton and tea rooms. (And Oxford won’t want to lose at home to us in cup). 

Managers current record. P35 W8 D5 L22 F32 A51 win ratio 22.9%

Okay, proposed solutions then.

1.  The team need to hear a new voice as manager.  One of the telling moments on commentary was the triple change, commentator asked Rodman to pick the bones out of what it means in formation, and Rodman couldn’t.    
2.  Wael needs to hand over hands off to a proper football man to run the club as Chairman. Wielding such power properly is obviously a professional role, not game for rich kids.      
3.  Even then there is no magic wand, it’s going to take time.        

Are we on the same page Duke, for like the first time ever?       

I’m beginning to think you are not playing seriously now. Like the joker in the Dark Knight. When finally we put our foot down, and your dangling in a net, you just giggle at us - like it was all just a game  😗

Seriously, I suspect WAQ will give JB this whole season.

And just as seriously, based on what evidence?     

Based on quite a mountain of evidence, I think the rest of us now suspecting, and this is being fair not even mentioning short fuse and history of violence, Talented footballer, likely underachieved through so often acting a prat. A sense he actually enjoyed the attention being naughtiest boy in class and played up to it. Despite showing less talent for football management and coaching, he is wasting two precious opportunities in management through continuing to enjoy the media attention rather than getting it right in front camera and on field. In a few weeks a court will decide a case which could prove Joey committed ‘the’ most stupidest example of football management behaviour of all time bar none.     

“I suspect given plenty of time he can succeed at Rovers.I also suspect Wael might give Joe this season and plenty of next too.”

As his advocate, what are you seeing to support these suspicions, evidence currently invisible to the rest of us?