Safety is absolutely not assured

Red Army · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:24 am Post subject:

To put into context how unlikely we are to go down, the bookies have us at 100/1 for relegation. I suggest the doom-*beep* put their money where their mouth is - you could make yourseleves very rich!

It's just not going to happen realistically.

Phil T · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 1:50 pm Post subject:

John The Gas · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:06 pm Post subject:

reigatered · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:33 pm Post subject:

If the best we can hope for each season is that 'we probably won't go down', or that hopefully there will always be at least two teams even worse than us, its not really a great endorsement of what is happening at our club.

I am sure most are right in that we will survive this term, but what reasons for optimism are out there?

The team we have is now worse than it was in August, is playing with little enthusiasm, and the manager seems tactically and motivationally bankrupt or at best inept.

I suspect many will vote with their feet and take their hard earned cash elsewhere next season. Let's face it the product on offer has been dire, and worst of all it has deteriorated as the season has progressed.

Red Army · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:54 pm Post subject:

Simon · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:16 pm Post subject:

Indeed, with the 4th lowest attendances in the football league in not sure what else to hope for.

I can say for sure that in the DML days under the likes of Ted Shepherd, Cliff Cant and Billy Smith I would have been delighted to be where we are.

This year was always going to be about survival under the new owners (I seem to recall we were favourites to go down) and hopefully from next year we will start to rise again. This time it will be because of good club management (a bit like Burton) and not because we are losing £6000 a day throwing money around. Any average manager (obviously excluding JG) should be able to deliver results on that type of budget.

Peter · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:02 pm Post subject:

Red Army · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:16 pm Post subject:

ant · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:28 pm Post subject:

lee 66 · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:38 pm Post subject:

Peter · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:38 pm Post subject:

thad · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:51 pm Post subject:

I think both sides of the argument have a case... we were playing decent football and getting good results earlier in the season - probably punching above our weight - but we have gone off the boil in the last two months when most fans had a reasonable expectation that we would push on ... and recent performances deserve to be criticised.

If we had done it the other way around, started badly and then run into form and attained our current points total, we would all be very happy.

Armchairfan · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:02 am Post subject:

We had two players in every position that could do a job under Francis Vines.
We have two players full stop currently.

Crawley69 · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 9:09 am Post subject:

We have been in poor form since the start of January 3 wins in 16 games or 1 win in 9 at home.

That form has relegation written all over it. But for our purple patch at home in Sept Oct Nov we would be going into the conference for sure.

I would be amazed if the owner wasn't seriously reviewing the managers position , Erin has given DD more than a fair amount of games to demonstrate he can turn it around but he hasn't shown any evidence of it. We are getting worse.There is no way the club can have faith in DD judgement after the last three and a half months performances.