If you genuinely believe luck is behind our results, will you give Karl some leeway for suggesting bad luck is what puts us where we are? Surely your point here gives legs to his argument?
You can’t have ‘luck’ meaning one thing when he says it, and another when you say it. He (the team) is either where he is on luck or on merit - think about it. Which is it? Right now I’d say we’re exactly where we deserve to be and luck has nothing to do with our season.
If Faz is here as a troubleshooter then what is there really to moan about as long as it works? Sure, we’d rather Karl leave. But that obviously isn’t what the board want - they seem to want to develop him.
Now, did we or did we not say if he wasn’t going to be removed that the next best thing would be to put somebody in there to question his decisions? I think many, many forum members argued for this. Faz is seemingly that person for now. And Karl is not some sort of special case needing his hand held - all managers have a pretty hefty entourage. In fact, Karl has surrounded himself with nobody of use and it’s time he had to hear another point of view from somebody who has enough experience and confidence in their ability to challenge his ideas.
It’s not stupid from TW if this is his doing. By throwing Faz on to the desk next to Karl, he’s designed a scenario where Karl let’s go of some of the control and becomes more accepting of help from others or he forces his own exit by refusing the regime and completely isolates himself as the problem. Choice is his, I suppose.
But all the above said, judge him by all means. But judge him fairly. Picking up on his language only to then use it for your own argument against him is daft.
If you wish to quote someone please do so correctly, rather than for your own ends. What I actually said was "we have been lucky to have played teams that haven't taken their chances,". Simply my opinion.
Again, you say I have moaned in the post, where?
"And Karl is not some sort of special case." Unfortunately there are too many people who see him as just this, which keeps him in a job.
The only judgement I make, is on his abysmal transfer dealings over 9 windows, the poor start to the season, after having had a top 4ish budget too capitalise on, how easily he throws people under the bus, blaming all bar himself, his treatment of players over his tenure, from Jodi Jones to Pekalski, poor tactical decisions, and how he crows on about social issues, for which he has no regards.
As I say at the end of last season, I felt he should go, and genuine progression within the club will come. We have achieved nothing in his time year on the field, its all become groundhog day, season after season.
I've put up with the Mark Wrights and Brian Talbots, cringed when Kemp and Patterson were in charge, enjoyed the Diaz rollercoaster, cried at the thought of the Thames Valley Royals and rattled buckets in the rain hour after hour to pay wages at the club.
Yet in 45 years of supporting the club, for the first time Saturdays now mean something else for the most part, even as a season ticket holder, rather than pretending to support a team managed by a charlatan, who seems to fool so many people and get away with it.
People make their own choices, good luck to them, and should not be criticised for it. I see the fantastic appt of Steve Kinniburgh, as a knowledgeable advocate of the game, as a first step. He has strong opinions, not being afraid to criticise robinson on air if warranted.
Who knows we might win the league, then again we might lose out on the boards aim of promotion, for this season. But the thought of the pre-recorded end of season diatribe of excuses, I'm going to avoid this season.
