A year ago we were suffering Steve Evans self promotion left right and centre. His embarrassing third person eulogies and being told to shut the eff up by Cellino after embarrassing results.
At beginning of season I said that Monk was an idiot for working for Cellino, I still stand by that, you could see the stress in Monk after just a few matches when Cellino was thinking of sacking him.
I'm glad it turned around and glad that Monk has shown what can be achieved when given time and space.
I never saw us as playoff contenders, what a great job the coach and players have done, isn't it great to be looking forward to potential promotion rather than hoping we finish 15th rather than 16th.
It's a little sad that we're excited at finishing 4th/5th but that just serves to show what scraps we've been fed on for years.
Hope that this season is the start of a genuine long term upturn in the clubs firtunes.
12 good months
posted on 23/3/17
In his own words, by his own measure, Massimo Cellino has failed.
No controversy there, he set the expectation and the conclusion if that expectation was not met.
Goodnight and good luck!
posted on 23/3/17
I don't consider the position we're currently in and the team and management we currently have to be any kind of failure.
If you are just measuring failure to be that this didn't happen last year then fair enough, but pedantic springs to mind.
posted on 23/3/17
Cellino made statements upon arrival that were naïve. I'm not going to slate him for that. Excited exuberance maybe, ignorance of the league he was buying into - probably. I don't particularly have any issue about the ground not being bought, or the promotion within 2 years bits (I'd have liked both obviously!) ............... it's the irrational and embarrassing subsequent behaviour. The behaviour of an unhinged and neurotic powder chaser.
Listening to the initial boasts were exciting, crowd pleasing stuff, to an audience starved of hope for far too long. But underneath it, especially the promotion in 2 years bit, the obvious truth is that no matter what you spend - ask plenty of clubs - there's absolutely nothing guaranteed in this league.
He's just a loon, end of.
posted on 23/3/17
When you look at the rest of this division I'd say any team still receiving parachute payments and clubs like Derby, Wolves, Forest could be seen as failures this season. Not us.
posted on 23/3/17
I don't think anyone was suggesting that the team or the club was a failure, only Cellino.
posted on 23/3/17
So how can you just conveniently forget Cellino owns Leeds Utd?
He'd be getting the blame if we were bottom of the table that's for sure.
posted on 24/3/17
Just a mere coincidence he has been invisible for the past 6 months and we are enjoying our best season in about 10 years, eh? 👍
Definitely deserves credit for staying out of the way, avoiding controversy and quietly winning some court cases.
Bellisimo, El Big C! 🍺
posted on 24/3/17
Hard for you to admit the big C has done good eh?
posted on 24/3/17
comment by Perthwhite (U12455)
posted 2 days, 6 hours ago
He's definitely keeping quiet that's for sure, but he said we'd be in the play offs and we are.
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No! He said if people bought their season tickets early he would give them some money back if we did not get in the playoffs.
It was a blatant need to plug a short term cash problem knowing full well that he probably wouldn't be around at the end of this season.
A clever move to release cash to keep the club running day to day during the close season.
That's assuming it was his idea of course
posted on 26/3/17
"He said if people bought their season tickets early he would give them some money back if we did not get in the playoffs."
Gamble that has really paid off!