16-10-2021, 07:52 PM
(16-10-2021, 07:10 PM)Pangus Wrote: The root of the problem is surely that the Eisners have little or no ambition for the club, other than refurbishing the ground, much of it out of necessity that they can't avoid, and probably to make the club more saleable. In severely restricting the amount available to the Cowleys to build the squad, leaving them to deal in the bargain basement, they are signficantly putting the club at risk of relegation. Today's result brings this realisation rapidly to the fore.
There's no doubt that the Cowleys have been dealt a pretty poor hand in all this giving them no chance of avoiding a relegation battle. Its surely up to the fans groups e.g. Fans Conference to confront the Eisners with this outcome and express ouir dissatisfaction with the situation.
Difficult to disagree with your comments but, in fairness, it's a lot more complicated than that.
The Eisners are US businessman and know diddly squat about English football and it would seem don't care much either. To them it's largely about real estate. Think back to the aborted European Super League, the six English clubs involved and how many of them are owned by Americans...enough said.
Also let's stop any silly comparisons with Jackett. This man failed when we had the likes of Lowe, Clarke, Naylor, Thompson, Whatmough and Co on the books. Perhaps alerting certain players to the fact they were facing a pay cut or were about to be moved on many months ago didn't sit too comfortably with a genuine promotion push.
As I recall just a few short months ago 95% of fans wanted him (Jackett) out and almost as many many wanted the entire playing squad sacked or punished for failing to secure promotion for three years running. Due to strange decisions in the cross-Atlantic boardroom we didn't even get a fee for four or five of our best players. Didn't take other clubs long to realise they were getting a bargain though did it? Ask Wigan.
Feel a little bit sorry for Cowley but he took the job and even with modestly reduced resources it is effectively his squad. He's made an awful mess of it because he knew he needed another central defender and two strikers (Hirst is not even a footballer) minimum and failed. Now we're in the s*** because today we saw what we look like without a livewire in Curtis upfront but even worse could come if Raggett (a player regrded as a joke by fans just eighteen months ago) got injured. I'm afraid to say that while we remain in the hands of the Eisners and while Cowley stays ( the Eisners aren't going to pay him off, are they?) we're a bit of trouble, possibly quite a lot of trouble.