The pressman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:29 am
Chris Nunn appointed as the new manager of Step 5 Histon.
This should be an indication of were the club finds itself. Lost the manager to a club a step below, who are probably able to offer him a better package.
Look I've not been in ages (I've lost a lot of interest to be brutally honest) , but when I continue to read. "things will change" "results will come" "it's only fine margins". It doesn't really matter. The facts are, if you keep losing and in the end you will go down.
Good teams turning poor performances into good results and go up. Poor teams turn good performances into loses and go down (there's been plenty of that lately)
The club now faces weeks of trying to find someone who will come in and manage the club for effectively nothing, and try and recruit players with effectively no budget. Whilst looking for a manager, Tom Lorraine has to try and put a stop to the 11 match losing streak. I don't begrudge anyone the task of trying to turn this situation around.
I honestly believe that the damage done in the last 18 months by Burgess and Co etc, is that bad that the situation can't be rescued at this level.
Plenty of clubs in the Football League and higher up have to go through double relegation and do a complete rebuild. I'll use Luton and Southampton in the 2010's as an example. You have to hit rock bottom and climb back up. Being in the UCL will be the clubs rock bottom and the rebuild can begin from there.
If the most optimistic local manager couldn't rescue the situation, then perhaps the writing is on the wall. It's going to be long hard slog (again) for the fans that go this season.
I don't doubt the young sides effort, but how many of us at the ages of 19-23 would put up with losing each week playing local club football (let alone a half decent one). You'd throw the towel in and find something more enjoyable to do I'm sure.
These poor lads keep losing each week (against more experienced/ better paid opponents) and still have to turn up the following week , with all the pressure of 300 odd spectators and their confidence at rock bottom. In the end they'll want to go some where else and enjoy themselves with less pressure. (Glennon for example this week) . You could almost apply that logic to Chris Nunn. The toll it's taken on him, has caused him to seek somewhere else to go and manage.
A club can't continue to function at this level with effectively UCL infrastructure. That's in no means a dig at anyone involved currently nor in the past. The whole SOS campaign was a massive achievement by all involved.
But surely the reality is we don't have a ground, we don't get bar revenue, we have no in house catering and we have a tiny playing budget. Throw in the club continues to have uncontested board elections. For all the success over the last decade it's been punching above it's weight and for now it may have run out of steam to keep it were it is. That's on the pitch and off the pitch.