Have we blown promotion already?

[r16sby]

Maybe the more commercial/industrial saying is true of football and is true of our decline,

'You have to keep moving forward, if you stop still - you start going backwards as the competition keeps up their own momentum'.

So did we stop improving and the rest have overtaken us.

It is always possible that in trying to improve by way of tinkering, you unsettle the rhythm and understanding, something that is very difficult to get back once it's gone.

So maybe Barry Fry got it right - get it going forward and upwards and then pull out because the inevitable is never too far away. The likes of Ferguson and Wenger, perhaps they have such a draw in terms of out-and-out talent that it's almost impossible to fail, but they still have to make the decisions and those two are very very good at it. Whereas the rest of them Ranieri, Benitez etc. have got the talent but not the ability to sustain it.

 

[Napster]

Maybe the more commercial/industrial saying is true of football and is true of our decline,

'You have to keep moving forward, if you stop still - you start going backwards as the competition keeps up their own momentum'.

So did we stop improving and the rest have overtaken us.

It is always possible that in trying to improve by way of tinkering, you unsettle the rhythm and understanding, something that is very difficult to get back once it's gone.

So maybe Barry Fry got it right - get it going forward and upwards and then pull out because the inevitable is never too far away. The likes of Ferguson and Wenger, perhaps they have such a draw in terms of out-and-out talent that it's almost impossible to fail, but they still have to make the decisions and those two are very very good at it. Whereas the rest of them Ranieri, Benitez etc. have got the talent but not the ability to sustain it.

But Fergie was failing miserably for ages. If Fergie was a new manager he would have been disposed of very quickly. He was given time, just like Arsene.