Demi officially caretaker manager.

[Flinty]

And yet people are clambering for Elvis to come back who was also part of the demise over the past few seasons. I don’t think it’s fair to single out individuals and in any case I thought we had cleared out the trouble makers last year

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

And yet people are clambering for Elvis to come back who was also part of the demise over the past few seasons. I don’t think it’s fair to single out individuals and in any case I thought we had cleared out the trouble makers last year

In my experience trouble makers, bullys, thieves, layabouts, all will play their "tricks" when they can get away with it.
AND, quite often, when tasked and monitored and mentored CAN be modified and motivated.
As others have posted Demi isn't trouble or any of the other negative categories; he carries injuries and age like a weight added which slows him, #endof.

 

[in the know]

SUFC's downfall has come from within, blaming the fans is a pathetic excuse and like blaming a plane crash on the witnesses on the ground. You can't be a "bit pregnant", and if we really want to breathe fresh air and life into the club, wholesale changes have to happen. Demi's performances for years have been insipid, and he risks being sent off every week with that big mouth of his. Just because someone in the calmness of a "meet the blues day" is nice as pie, it doesn't mean that he isn't a toxic influence around the club in the heat of the changing room on match day, and it is naive to take how a person is on a handful of meetings in one type of setting and use those meetings as a judge of character. I am of course speculating, but I would argue that wanting REAL change means exactly that.

How many "heroes" are there on the pitch? When was the last team that was fielded that contained a "hero"? Probably Ryan Leonard in my case. This means the management team, who have already gone, RD, who has gone back to the youth setup.

As I've said, there is nothing good about this club right now, and while we are joined to the hip with RM, we can only hope that the structure inside the club changes, and changes fast. This should also mean AR and senior players. What kind of senior player would have seen this club lurch from disaster to disaster over the past few years. We need a fresh start, and I have nothing but praise for Stan Collymore (who I notice you don't criticize him for wanting similar things) wanting to turn the club around and help.

I get that JD is probably our only option for this weekend, most of my comments have been more cynical tongue in cheek. I just hope that it is a decision borne out of acknowledgement that he is the only person qualified, and not because he is highly though of and expected to be given future roles at the club.

Finally, this is a forum. People are entitled to their views, positive or negative. It would be more helpful for you to discuss the topic at hand as opposed to sniping and trying to undermine people's opinion just because their viewpoints and the way they handle the grief of their disintegrating football club differ to that of your own.

if you know him well AND know about all his input and that is still your opinion then I respect your views. But I think calling him a cancer for trying his best playing football is distasteful, unnecessary and personally insulting to him. Plus playing football well or badly and the club's slippery past is not comparable with the horrible disease . I hope you are never unlucky enough for it to affect you in any way.
As for your name .....having read your recent posts, I just can't find anything 'super', or 'blue' about you. It's also ironic you include jd's number 24 in your name.
Good to see others on hear providing balance to your nasty nonsence.

 

[superblue24]

if you know him well AND know about all his input and that is still your opinion then I respect your views. But I think calling him a cancer for trying his best playing football is distasteful, unnecessary and personally insulting to him. Plus playing football well or badly and the club's slippery past is not comparable with the horrible disease . I hope you are never unlucky enough for it to affect you in any way.
As for your name .....having read your recent posts, I just can't find anything 'super', or 'blue' about you. It's also ironic you include jd's number 24 in your name.
Good to see others on hear providing balance to your nasty nonsence.

Another post that chooses to take a common figure of speech and try to discredit by making me the bad guy. You know nothing about me, and nothing of how cancer has impacted my life, or those around me. So I suggest you leave it there, pal. I guess if I told you that I almost had a heart attack when I got my restaurant bill the other night, I'd be lectured on heart disaease?

I suggest you step off your perch and have a day off. I'm entitled to my opinion as a supporter of the club for 30 odd years, even if you don't agree with it. I'm searching for a relevant point in your post, but it's hard to find one amongst the desperate attempts at points scoring. Feel free to block me if you're not a fan of my views.

 

[superblue24]

So your reasoning for our decline from league one to now is JD being a toxic influence on the dressing room and not Ron because we had one whole season in the Championship? You couldn’t make this stuff up. Actually, you could, because you just did.

Re-read my post. I actually cite more than JD alone. Part of the problem ,yes. Probably not the sole reason.

 

[superblue24]

Okay I understand that JD is not your cup of tea, but in the short term when we don't have a manager what is your suggestion for leading the team tomorrow?

We have all experienced the heartache of 3 poor seasons, let's try and be a little positive and get behind JD and team tomorrow and the new manager when appointed.

This is a forum and we are not all going to agree on all points but lets all try and look to the future rather than keep harping on about the past. We can change the future but not the past.

I agree with all of what you've written. I lost my **** when I first read it, but having read some useful and informative posts about him being the most qualified to lead the team for one game, I have accepted it and will back the team like I always do.

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Another post that chooses to take a common figure of speech and try to discredit by making me the bad guy. You know nothing about me, and nothing of how cancer has impacted my life, or those around me. So I suggest you leave it there, pal. I guess if I told you that I almost had a heart attack when I got my restaurant bill the other night, I'd be lectured on heart disaease?

I suggest you step off your perch and have a day off. I'm entitled to my opinion as a supporter of the club for 30 odd years, even if you don't agree with it. I'm searching for a relevant point in your post, but it's hard to find one amongst the desperate attempts at points scoring. Feel free to block me if you're not a fan of my views.

Without wishing to be on the end of a diatribe................. please give it a rest and try to get behind the team, all of them.

 

[superblue24]

My old man was working within the first team setup from 2014-2018 and always spoke highly of Demi, as many others on here have attested to. Do you honestly believe some of these guys want the club to fail?
Being a younger fan, I agree with what @Jasrod posted. The highlight of my supporting career has been the ManU win (even that's hazy) and Wembley 2015. I'd say that I hold JD in some of the highest regard of any player I've seen at the hall, and that's supported by all those who've met him.

Our club is in the ****ter, I know it, we all know it. I've grown real tired of expecting to lose every week. We are not going to get anywhere by character assassination of one of the more faithful players in recent times.

Demi has taken this responsibility on himself and that's a credit to him, with the negativity around the club atm I doubt many would put themselves in the frame for it.
The guy is 33, its no doubt his performances have dropped from his success a few seasons back. Ultimately he's trying to do his job, no ones ever seriously doubted his effort. If we could all remember that, perhaps we'll end up with some positivity around the place.
Otherwise, a shiny new stadium, or all the oil money in the world wouldn't make a difference, our club will already have succumbed to the toxic atmosphere.

Your post is another filled with a lot of irrelevant point scoring, so I've removed the noise.

Again, it's easy to be a nice guy around the club, I have no doubt about that. My point is that the guy has been a constant (along with others) throughout our decline and he needs to be moved on, most of you agree with the last part anyway. How many times have you seen him on the pitch and feared we'd be down to 10 men pretty soon? How does that behaviour help his team? He either doesn't give crap about giving his teammates a mountain to climb by reducing the numbers, or he wasn't at the front of the queue when they were giving out brains.

I just hope that we can move forward with a new management team as quickly as possible and remove the disruptive culprit (not allowed to say cancer) from our midst asap.

 

[Jai]

I’m sorry but this squad needs a clear out and younger players with potential recruited! Danny Searle is the main for the job as he has done this on a shoe string at Aldershot and 6/7 players who nobody had heard of moved on to the league/SPL etc after Searle worked with them. With the size of our Club he would work wanders if allowed to

Danny Searle is a good shout who clearly has an eye for young, talented players, but now cannot be the time for a clearout. Clearouts happen in the summer. Although there's no transfer window for the NL, that doesn't mean we are going to be able to radically change the squad - to bring someone in, they have to be available (this is what Mark Molesley suffered last year - he signed loads of players mid season but they were largely players other clubs didn't want). Whoever comes in now needs to be capable of getting the best from what we have.

 

[superblue24]

Without wishing to be on the end of a diatribe................. please give it a rest and try to get behind the team, all of them.

Noted, I am behind the team, I'm actually about as optimistic about things now than I have been in a good couple of years. As I mentioned earlier, feel free to block me, but I'm not going to have people attack my opinions with passive aggressive sniping and point scoring.

 

[RHB]

And, ladies and gentlemen, this thread is done!