by Dark Knight Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:33 am
It's not to late to turn the season round, although it is highly unlikely. As I've said elsewhere, all the evidence suggests that even if we string some results together, the next slump will be just around the corner.
Things looked so promising after pre-season too.
What's clear to me though is that we're just not geared towards success. If ever we did somehow manage to go up I just don't think we're ready for it. If you think we look amateurish at times now...imagine being in the conference!
We keep hearing what great strides the club has made off the pitch, I'm not so sure. I had a gripe last month about the club shop and an experience I had at the turnstile and a few people thought I was being harsh but thinking back to the Hastings game, I remember coming down one morning to buy two tickets. The ticket office was supposed to open at 8am, I was in a hurry to get back to do the school run and when I got down to Wetherby Road the office hadn't opened. I hung about for a bit, worrying that I'd be late back but it was the only opportunity I had to get to the ticket office in person. Eventually it opened at about 8.12. I handed over £30 cash for two tickets and waited for my change. There wasn't any. I had to wait 10 minutes whilst club staff looked around the office in various places, including what was presumably some kind of petty cash box. They got a couple of quid out of that and the rest of my change ended up coming from the wallet of the bloke who served me!
Ok that's probably not a horror story to end all horror stories but it's all these little things over the last couple of years that have given me my impression of the club. We just don't seem prepared. And so when the club keep beating a drum about how things have improved, I can only imagine how pitiful things must have been before. As I've been keen to stress, I don't believe I set the bar high, I think there are minimum expectations any football club should have and I sometimes wonder if some people are trying to take credit for simply doing what is expected or what most football clubs would consider the norm. We've clearly a long way to go before anyone should be patted on the back.
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