When did we become big time?
To many at Loftus road this has been a disappointing start to the season, only six points from three games and progress to the 2nd round of the Carling cup.
On the face of it, 5 more points than last year and reaching a point in the cup that some young fans will never have seen is a fairly alarming improvement. But it would appear that there’s a certain section of the fan base that will find anything less than total domination of the league unacceptable. They’ve bought into Flavio’s dream and are happily wearing the rich mans intolerance of failure.
I’m sure that to make it big in any walk of life you need to have a streak of ruthlessness, an ability to make difficult decisions quickly and to set very high standards.
The Observer has a neat little round up of Championship games; you get a quote from both managers and then one from a home supporter, probably a mate of someone on the Observer payroll or possibly a local fanzine contact.
This week, under a good report on the Doncaster game we were treated to the thoughts of one John Baker. He’s a Flavio man and he’s had enough of Dowie…I quote…
…I’ve really got no faith in Dowie-he was a bizarre appointment-and a 2-0 win over Donny isn’t going to change when Fitz Hall went off, but it’s really hard to get too excited.
I don’t think Joe’s alone, for as much as I’d like to think the general opinion would be, lets build something, lets do it carefully, correctly and with a view to ten, fifteen or even twenty years in the future, I’m afraid that there are too many Joe’s who want it all right now.
Dowie might not have been my first choice, but at least he’s prepared to work and build something. Many of the names bandied around when De Canio departed were blokes who only work when there’s money to flash around. I don’t want someone to buy everyone; I want someone who’ll buy the right players.
There was obviously mistakes made in these first games, Sheffield sounds like a mare, but this is a newish team, lots of young foreign players experiencing English football for the first time and our best two players, Buzz and Rowly were sidelined. I think 6 points is a damned decent start.
I honestly think that an ideal situation would be a good competitive year, maybe a shot at the play offs? Get used to winning and playing together. Next season I’d expect us to really push for promotion, that way, should we be successful we’ll have a good solid base to build on, a real chance of surviving up there.
Dowie might not be the man to lead us in the prem, but there’s been precious little to suggest he’s not the right man right now. So until we are ‘big time’, lets have a little perspective, lets remember where we were a year ago and enjoy the relative calm of sound financial waters.
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