I admire optimism and I wish I could see things the same way , but I see a club in NC that has ancient owners with no drive , hunger , passion or determination to propel us into the Premier League and to stay there . In fact Smith reiterated her determination to keep us a lower Championship club by staying to the guardian only the other day that if we went up we would still have no money . How bloody negative is that ? I see no hunger , drive , determination and passion in anything the woman or her husband says .
I see a club that just 4 to 5 years ago was an established Premier League with good players and an excellent manager , now I see a club that that is likely to finish in the lower half of the Championship , all driven from the totally unambitious owners and Board. I see a team of average players , many who have come from the lower German league . I see a club that will sell its best players in the summer and will NOT replace them with equal or better quality players . I am a realist and the only direction I have seen us going is from 11th in the Premier League to 12th in the Championship .We are now only a shadow of what we were not so very long ago