Trav Le Bleu Posted 15 January 2012 Posted 15 January 2012 Consistently inconsistent - different formation every other week - between a rock and a hard pace - never a settle team - rarely the same manager for the course of a whole couple of seasons - damned if you do; damned if you don't. I know the name of the demon that stalks our beloved club and it's name is Legion*. We know that individually ALL (yes, believe it or not, ALL) our players are good players at this level. At the very least we have seen glimpses of what they can do, and that merely heaps the frustration, stokes the fires of abandoned hopes. Yet setting aside their millionaire lifestyles (which sadly seems requisit even to footballers playing at a modest level.), I can actually feel sorry for them, when I compare their workplace with a more typical workplace, say an office or factory floor, maybe a shop or a warehouse. How frustrating is it for you in your job when you find out the person that you're working with today, is someone else tomorrow? And by the end of the week, it's back to the person you started to get a working relationship with earlier in the week, or even someone completely diferrent again. How frustrating is it for you when you're doing your job and you know you've not quite clicked, but you KNOW that you can do the job, given a half-decent whack, but you sense that maybe management want to replace you with someone else. How frustrating is it for you when you do everything you can for your manager, build up a good relationship, understand what he wants from you in the job; only to have him replaced with someone who wants the job done in a completely different style. Worse still, it's an old manager that you used to have, one that your last manager might have (you felt) improved on in some areas, but wants you to go back to the old ways (which you conceed were also better in other areas - but a combintation of the best of both would be nice.) And to top it off, don't you just hate it, when everyday you're at work, customers come in and moan at you. They berate you, they tell you that you're useless, that they wish someone else was doing your job. Well that's just another day at the office for LCFC. We've had two managers with quite different styles. The first, NP, almost had it, was so close, and then got the chop - nearly wasn't good enough. He had created a team of hard workers who didn't play fancy football, but it was effective football and he took us from relegation despair to within a penalty kick of the play-off finals for the Premiership. Then, via some cocking about, we got SGE, who brought flair and more attractive football to the club. He attracted players with his kudos and contatcs that maybe other managers could not. At times the games under SGE were beautiful to watch, attractive fast-flowing games, but making it work every single game proved difficult. The ambition was admirable, but then he was gone. The "good" ship LCFC had rocked again and we were back to NP. So all those players brought in... with a few exceptions; waste of time. Many, (Ball, Pantsil, Johnson, St Ledger, Fernandez) barely saw the light of day (so much so that I think I might have forgotten a good example.) NP seems to favour the old brigade rather than trying to see if there's anything to be used and improved from the previous manager. And then there's us. The ONLY consistent thing from the past 20 years or so. And what is it that we consistently do? We destroy LCFC. We do. We sit there and demand our team to win. We don't "will" it to win, we don't "encourage" it to win, we don't passionately summon all our innermost energy to "drive" our team to win. Until our team show us something, we're completely unwilling to get behind them. Fortress King Power Stadium. There's four words you'll never see in a non-ironic sentance. But remember this, "a friend in need is a friend indeed." Let's substitute the word "friend" for "supporter". At the moment we're stuck in this permanent half-way house that has been on going since MoN left, casting a very long shadow. It's frustrating, those days seem so very long ago, but think on it this way, a half-way house is half-way there, and thats better than a 1/4 or 2/5ths. Glass half full and all that. It'll take a minor miracle to get promotion this season - the way things are here right now, I can't see anyone but the desperate wanting to join us in January and desperate isn't what we need. Regardless we should get behind the team, we know they can play, we've seen it. We should get behind the manager, we know he can build a good team, we've seen it. Booing and moaning only serves to unsettle the owners (who, and I might be wrong, don't seem to have an indepth knowledge of the game.), who can unsettle the whole club on a whim. Another change of manager at the half-way house any time soon and we're not even going to be a half-way house any more. It's sad. Sad and frustrating. I know you're all feeling the same and I know not everyone boos the team or constantly shouts abuse, but let's get behind the team. Right now I'd settle for some consistent spirited performances and a top ten finish - which granted is poor given our pre-season expectations, but it's not pre-season, it's mid-season and that's the reality. Where's Blueredswed when you need him? :scarf: :scarf: *for those not familiar with the reference, it means our troubles are many.
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