Quote: orangeman "Someone needs to collar Hughes at a game and spell this out to him....he has no idea of how far backwards we have gone whilst other sports clubs are doing well post covid'"
We don’t know the in and outs at our own club let alone other Championship clubs, but we do seem to have had a bad COVID which is particularly odd as we seemed to take a very risk averse approach precisely to avoid that. Our running down of back room staff, match days at Ealing (with crowds of paying attendees barely making 3 figures (in my opinion) )and fan engagement to name but 3 disappointing trends.
I agree now is the time for the club’s decision makers to offer their updated views on progress and next season. As you’ve said before where are the JC monthly updates: possibly morphed into the one minute post- match post-mortems that no one is enjoying. I’d really like to hear from the club now. I note that the likeable Illies Macani is interviewed on our Twitter feed and over a series of posts gives answers to quite difficult questions. I’m a little surprised it was him in the frame not the manager or,indeed, the club captain but he gives it a go in an engaging manner. 2 takeaways: his thoughts on going PT are quite illuminating- they don’t really gel with the ‘nothing to see’ approach the club took to the move to PT and, secondly his thoughts that youth/lack of experience was (in part) at the heart of some of the poor outcomes. I think I see what he’s getting at but if you look at the 17 for Newcastle I’m not sure how many are ‘young’ by professional sportsman standards. I make it about 3.
