Fan Letters: “People need to get a grip”

Fan Letters: “People need to get a grip”

Dear Roker Report,

KLD has not found the ability to hire a coach of the high quality that we deserve. That to me indicates he’s out of his depth.

If a system is failing in any walk of life, then you can’t just stick with it. You need the vision to alter the system and admit its not working. It’s totally apparent that nobody of any quality and experience is going to take on a puppet role and allow KLD and Speakman to pull their strings.

How many more mistakes are the management team going to make?

Regards,

Stephen Owens

Ed’s Note [Chris]: At the time of writing Stephen, we still haven’t appointed anyone and they haven’t started the job, so I have no idea if they are of the high quality we deserve.

I’m just waiting to see how this plays out because I have no idea what direction they will go with this appointment.

We’re in a better place than when KLD arrived, and even though mistakes have been made, the journey to build the club back from the one that languished for four years in League One was always going to be long and tough - so to state he is out of his depth is an odd one.

Dear Roker Report,

I cannot believe the pessimism amongst my fellow Mackems. All will be well.

I have a contact who is in the know and he (pronoun preferred) has been supplied with a concrete list of three names. Simon Grayson and Lee Johnson are in serious contention but are behind the clear favourite, Michael Beale.

You couldn’t make it up, could you?

John

Ed’s Note [Chris]: Erm... aye... that is a fun shortlist John.

“What shortlist?”

Dear Roker Report,

This morning, I finally realised that I have become far more preoccupied with the SAFC head coach appointment than the general election campaign. This is honest but sad.

Should I be concerned?

p.s. do you know the odds on which of these two things will happen first - the country chooses a new Prime minister or SAFC appointing a new head coach?

Mel

Ed’s Note [Chris]: To be fair Mel, the appointment of the new head coach may have more bearing on your happiness week-to-week than the outcome of the general election, but you never know.

Dear Roker Report,

People won’t be happy until they have driven the owners out of the club and we have a William Storey in charge… the same people who probably forced the owners hands in driving Mowbray out.

KLD has no allegiance to us, he’s here because he wants to do something with his wealth and yes, run it like a business as well.

He could be off with his brother living the high life, like he is, but no, he’s took over a club that was in the shit and is slowly turning it around. He’s not a fan like us who would put their own money in.

People need to get a grip and appreciate what KLD and Speakman have done.

I’ve been watching us for 50 plus years and under him we have played the most exciting style of play I have ever seen and we have some exceptional talent… fact. Hence why the vultures are circling. Remember when we couldn’t give players away that we’d spent fortunes on? Let’s get that model back should we?

I’ve seen us win at Wembley and people are actually interested in our players. The academy is exceptional and he is now working on the stadium and commercial side after it had been run into the ground by the previous regimes.

What more does he have to do?

Let’s all stop whining like the unwashed up the road and stop believing trolls and mag journalists posting absolute shite to unsettle the fan base and let’s all be a bit more savvy around what we read and believe.

Just a suggestion...

Paul

Ed’s Note [Chris]: My head is in a fairly similar place Paul. They’ve made mistakes, but show me a club owner who hasn’t. They improved the club every season since they arrived until this one and we saw the first bump in the road, does this really mean we rip everything up and they have to leave to let someone else have a go?

The complaints at the moment are being vented without actually knowing what the club are going to do, so will their complaints turn into compliments if the club wait and they make an appointment that they are pleased with? I doubt it.

Should Mel be worried?

Dear Roker Report,

I see all of the comments about how the club is being run and having no manager in place after 115 days. I for one am not surprised.

If we all take a little step back and take time to think about who are these people in charge making the decisions Kyril Louis-Dreyfus is a young billionaire with a new baby. No previous management experience, no background in football, he didn’t complete his football sports management course see Wikipedia.

His absence toward the end of last season would appear to show little interest in his project, which I think is also highlighted by his comment that a manager is imminent then not appearing. He is clearly not close enough to the process and was being fed a view by we all know who Mr Speakman.

Mr Speakman, the person who has overseen the mismanagement of two successful managers at Sunderland one got us out of League One and the other took us to the edge of the play offs. Why would anyone want the job as manager, when that’s the person clearly pulling the strings?

Alex Neil and Tony Mowbray being told by an ex director of a football academy, who only achieved category one status two years after Sunderland had already achieved theirs. Someone who has never played professional football yet is somehow an expert on how a team should be set up and managed.

It’s not hard to see why experienced managers are thinking long and hard after talking with them before looking elsewhere. A model thought up and created from a clear lack of knowledge about football, inexperience and arrogance.

Ed Stockton

Ed’s Note [Chris]: Most clubs seem to be run in this way now. Alex Neil stated that Sunderland were no different to any club in terms of how they decide on which targets to move for and we can look at the acquisition of Dack that was clearly Mowbray’s choice.

But, you’re saying that their two previous were so badly mismanaged by the hierarchy at the club, that they achieved success at the club to the point that we almost completed back-to-back promotions? Well, that’s one way to look at it I suppose.