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Sorry for the long post (and I think I am using it as therapy session) but all I can say is that Rome wasn’t built in a day, especially when the previous Rome was all but destroyed because of the previous Emperor’s family decided to let it all fall to wrack and ruin when they couldn’t get their own way (too many instances to mention but we all history and examples).
Personally, I work in the world of I.T. where mistakes do happen, but they are reviewed and learned from so they are not made again in the future so I am looking at the current situation using that view. Even in this world updates take a while to design, develop, test and install and continuous improvement is always happening behind the scenes of the end user.
I suppose it is the adage, the proof will be in the eating. Thankfully we all have a club to support at a level where we should be one of the bigger clubs, but that will provide its own pressures so the new potential first team players should be recruited with that in mind and not only be good enough to perform at this level but also handle the pressures and expectation, not just from the other sides in the division but also the (hopefully) 3000+ home support.
But we must cut our cloth accordingly. If we can only spend what budget, we have then we only spend what we have. Gone are the days of gambling to get into the Championship at all costs, paying stupid inflated wages to crap players who should never have worn the claret and blue shirt but because we have recruited late that is all that are available and the sacking of managers left, right and centre on a whim. We need (and using another I.T. reference) a stable platform for the new update to perform successfully.
Hopefully we only spend a season in the NLN and the get into the FL as soon as we can after that. Easier said than done, if we look at Wrexham they needed (and I will quote someone else) ‘a cheat code’ to get out of the National League after 15 seasons, even then the ‘cheat code’ didn’t work in the first season it was deployed, just so long as we don’t turn into some of the obnoxiousness that some of their fanbase portray (they should be scoring 100+ goals and getting 100+ points using League 1 players in the National League).
The biggest downside is that several local players won’t be able to display their talents in our academies, but would we have seen the likes of O’Malley, Beestin, Pugh, Shrimpton, Wilson, Foster and Gallimore if we were not forced into doing so to plug the gaps because the funds ran out? I would hate to think that their development as players has been harmed because of this, with luck they all have long careers at our club, I just hope that in the next decade we have another 7+ players in our teams that we can say ‘they are one of our own’.
We all have our opinions and that is what makes football great but as in our name we can all stand United and look towards a brighter future.
