Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

The Writing is on the Wall

By Christine   Foster  ::  21/10/2011   97 Comments (»Last) Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a paradigm shift in how David Moyes is perceived by many supporters whose frustration levels have now targeted the man and his tactics ? and rightly so. But the seeds of this discontent where sown years ago; we have lived on credit for a long time, whilst our chairman and board have dined on the relative success and plaudits that Moyes has received over the years.

Now there is a distinct feeling that Moyes has had enough; body language, comments, defensive pre-empting of defeats before the game is played, no fight, desire or passion is in evidence. The writing is on the wall; David Moyes has left the building.

We are in limbo, awaiting anything, everything. Crying in desperation for a team and a manager with ambition and belief; instead, we have resignation and it frankly doesn?t sit well with many of us.

The architect for his downfall is the failure of the Board of Directors to do what is their responsibility ? ensure the future of the club, ensure good fiscal management, and provide the manager with funds to build a team. They have failed to do this in disastrous proportions for the past 20 years and finally the poor fiscal management of the business has impacted with spades on the playing staff.

We all know this... we have all seen this... we have all warned of this for the past 3 years. But nothing has been done and Moyes has had to watch as the team he built that got us out of trouble, falls apart without permanent replacements. We are listing badly and the storm shows no sign of abating; the 3 tough games ahead are the watershed for the season.

I believe Bill Kenwright will sack David Moyes before the end of the season.

Why? Because I think the relationship has ended. From Moyes's perspective, there is no future in him staying as his stock will keep falling... but, more importantly from Kenwright's viewpoint, Moyes has outlived his usefulness and he will seize an opportunity to instill life into the club by bringing in a new, fresh, cheaper but probably unknown manager who wants to make a name for himself and, in doing so, buys Kenwright and the Board more time and keeps the focus off the real problems faced by the club. Players will be sold off, debt reduced and the kids will get a game.

Self-interest and preservation in ruthless clarity; it?s actually not a bad strategy, if extremely risky... but so transparent and a means to an end for the pathetic excuse for a Board and Chairman.

The sad thing is it may be our only decent strategy left open to us.

The Writing is on the Wall for Moyes.

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