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Offline dave.woodhall

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Plans, projects and performance
« on: October 18, 2022, 06:04:09 PM »

Offline Risso

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2022, 06:08:02 PM »
What I've been ranting about for days.

https://heroesandvillains.info/2022/10/18/plans-projects-and-performance/

Good article.

Liked the Joy Division suggestion, and the first line of Love Will Tear Us Apart goes "When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low" which would seem to be very apt.

Offline dicedlam

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2022, 06:17:28 PM »
Absolutely spot on.

A seventeen year project and counting...

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2022, 06:24:44 PM »
On board with all that.

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2022, 06:26:52 PM »
Good summary Dave.

Just a small typo in the sixth para, should be now not bow.

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2022, 06:31:57 PM »
Great work, the fifth and final paragraphs sum things up nicely.

Well done

Offline dave.woodhall

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2022, 06:32:12 PM »
Good summary Dave.

Just a small typo in the sixth para, should be now not bow.

Sorted, ta. I had to do it on a Chromebook so typing was a bit awkward.

Offline Rigadon

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2022, 07:18:44 PM »
I feel very much the same.  We are at another crossroads. 

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2022, 07:53:10 PM »
Starkly laid-out in miserable terms.


*We also have had an FA Cup final appearance in the last decade

Offline Jon Crofts

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2022, 07:54:04 PM »
I feel very much the same.  We are at another crossroads. 

We’ve been at this crossroads for the past 40 years.

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2022, 07:57:50 PM »
Starkly laid-out in miserable terms.


*We also have had an FA Cup final appearance in the last decade


I was thinking about the new owners but I've edited it now.
« Last Edit: October 18, 2022, 08:00:44 PM by dave.woodhall »

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2022, 08:00:28 PM »
nail on the head - exactly where I am sadly

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2022, 08:31:43 PM »
Done.

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2022, 08:42:39 PM »
Can't argue with a word of it.

If you consider that the Manager is the most important person at the club, we're not very good at appointing the right man. It doesn't help that after appointing another poor manager we wait until we have one foot in the grave before sacking him. We're then not as appealing as we should be, no half decent coach will consider the task and we end up with a shortlist of has-beens, chancers and unqualified. It's an endless cycle and so bloody predictable. Make it bloody stop.

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Re: Plans, projects and performance
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2022, 08:56:29 PM »
fair article - it's a shit show.

 


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