When a club suffers relegation many fans fall under the belief that they were unlucky and that the core of the squad that failed will miraculously hit the ground running the next season in a lower division and secure promotion fairly easily.This rarely happens but since when did football fans have realistic expectations of their clubs ability?
This season Wolves began well results wise with many fans---me included---recognising that even though we were'nt playing well when we did eventually gain some coherent form results would get even better.Sadly the opposite has happened.Whilst our form has got even worse the results have gone South,and how...
We're now near the bottom of Division One having not won for nine games.The players are not responding to the new coaching regime,overall fitness seems to be very poor----We normally start games well,indeed we have taken the lead in many of the last nine games but fade alarmingly within sixty minutes,sometimes sooner----Confidence is at a very low level and the natives are getting restless.If this downward spiral is'nt addressed toot suite then another relegation is a very real possibility...
The truth is the rump of the squad is'nt good enough and has'nt been for a couple of seasons now.That momentous day when we saved ourselves from relegation with a last gasp goal at home to Blackburn eighteen months ago papered over a lot of cracks within the playing squad.We did'nt rebuild when we were in a position of relative strength.Since then the spiral has been down down down...
In the summer Boss Morgan and his CEO Moxey drafted in Stale Solbakken with the remit to totally change the ethos of the club's playing style from top to bottom.This is an admiral aim but takes time and also means that many of the current squad will need replacing asap.They're either not good enough or not willing to partake in the revolution.
However will Morgan & Moxey back their hunch by backing Solbakken? If so they have to make funds available for him to buy the players he needs.
Or will they crumble in front of ever increasing pressure to sack Solbakken and start all over again.If they decide to go down this route they had better act quickly and not repeat the laughable debacle of last season when sacking McCarthy a day after the transfer window closed.Then they compounded this total balls up with their badly thought out search for a replacement.We became a joke club in the eyes of many.A feeling it was hard not to argue with.
Can they be trusted to make the correct decision this time round? Only time will tell but the prognosis is'nt good...Let's hope it's only the fans who panic cos' when leaders do there's only one outcome...
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