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Relegation to league one was confirmed on Saturday as we went down 2-0 to Doncaster Rovers in what was a truly awful game of football. Neither team were up for it and there seemed to be an acceptance among the players of the inevitable relegation which was a shame as it would have been nice to end the season showing that we still had fight left in us, but it wasn’t meant to be.
The discussion that has been going on among all Skyblue fans is who is at fault is is? There have been many who have openly criticised Andy Thorn and whilst I think he has made mistakes and I’m sure he would be the first to admit to them, relegation is not his fault.
He lost the core of the team in the summer and was only allowed to bring in minimal replacements which left us with a threadbare squad and forced us into bringing the youngsters into the first team. Then January came and went with no new arrivals and our top scorer leaving without being replaced. No squad in any division can afford to lose their two best strikers and not replace them.
Some will argue we brought in Cody McDonald in the summer but he is clearly no replacement for either Marlon or Lukas. He lacked experience above league two level and was always going to take time to settle. Andy Thorn is not the man to blame as in my opinion he has done all he possibly could for this club.
Hardly any blame seems to have been attributed to the players though which surprises me a little. Whilst it is clearly hard to criticise youngsters who have been on a learning curve all season and in my opinion have done the club proud, it shouldn’t be so hard to criticise the more experienced players. The players I am referring to are Gary McSheffery, Sammy Clingan and David Bell the three players who should have been the core of our midfield.
McSheffery has disappointed throughout and at times you really wouldn’t know he was supposed to be a Coventry lad. Personally I am beginning to think his legs have gone, he doesn’t seem to be able to run anymore and on current viewing I give him two maybe three seasons max before he considers or is forced into retirement. As for Clingan, he has been poor all season and one of the mistakes I think Thorn made was making him captain. He is clearly not a captain as he lacks any sort of passion, doesn’t lead by example and isn’t vocal enough on the pitch. He is also far too negative in his play and should be called ‘sideways’ sammy, far too many times in a game he passes sideways or backwards, very rarely does he pass forward. In terms of Bell I don’t think I have to say anything other than disappointing. I used to defend Bell a lot saying he had quality but he hasn’t shown it in a long time and I am now sick of his lacklustre performances on the pitch. I personally expect and hope that all three will leave this summer.
We clearly didn’t have a good enough squad of players this season to survive and on that basis we did deserve to go down. The blame for that has to lie with the owners SISU. From the beginning SISU have been a massive burden to this football club. Administration was on the cards and SISU ‘saved us’, in hindsight administration probably would have been better for the club and I never thought I would say that. SISU have consistently thrown empty promises at us supporters, from the beginning they promised to invest in the squad to challenge for promotion and to buy the Ricoh Arena and as you guessed it they did neither.
We are now at a point when they are even refusing to pay the rent on the Ricoh Arena and rumours have surfaced about SISU’s intention to liquidate the club in order to strip it of its last remaining assets. They have over the past year clearly been asset stripping the club, the clubs best players sold and not replaced and the remortgaging of the training ground. SISU have and still are treating the club purely as a business and whilst the business part of every football club is vital that is not what a football club is all about. It is about the football itself, the supporters, the community and the city as a whole. SISU are either too stupid to realise this or more likely don’t care about it and that is what is most heartbreaking about the whole situation. I am sure that when SISU took over they had good intentions but they clearly have no idea how football clubs work and for that reason have failed and should of cut their losses along time ago.
We as supporters have made our feelings clear and now that relegation has been confirmed so have the manger and some of the playing squad. Comments have come out of the club from Tim Fisher who for me has been harshly criticised by some fans. He is not a member of SISU and I personally think he is trying to work with the clubs best interests at heart, although he probably is part of the problem to some extent. He has almost been a scapegoat for SISU, someone with a face for the fans to criticise.
For me he is another person like Thorn who is working with his hands tied and I think he like all of us has been lied to by SISU. We as a club are in for a nervy few weeks, maybe months. They have ran the club into the ground and it now looks like they are going to try to put it out of existence altogether. Relegation whilst being heartbreaking is the least of our worries and as hard as that was to take, not having a club at all is not even worth thinking about.
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