smc4761 wrote:I have just called the super score board line and spoke with Hugh and Alex Rae.
I discussed just how bad the current first team are and got the usual punching above their weight blah blah blah
It seems there are more than a few disgruntled fans out there who are looking for Cannings head.
Much as I hate to say it the only way this board may do something, is the same as any club, hit them in the pocket. Dont go to games dont buy merchandise. I appreciate that we should support through good and bad times but there comes a point when you have to say enough is enough
If you want to support the club go and see the under 17 or under 19 who can seem to play a decent standard of football
Willie Wastle wrote:Here's a fact. Supported by evidence.
Martin Canning has been a loyal servant of this club, as player and coach, for over ten years - this is his eleventh consecutive season at Accies. 8 of those 11 seasons have been spent in the top flight of Scottish football. Our average standing over the last ten years has been 11th. Teetering on the brink of the top flight, but still there (unprecedented in my lifetime).
Who else in the entire history of Hamilton Accies has a record comparable to that? I don't know, but you'd have to go back at least to the 1930s.
Ah, but he wears a v neck jumper. The quality of debate on here is farcical at times.
Yummy Fur wrote:smc4761 wrote:I have just called the super score board line and spoke with Hugh and Alex Rae.
I discussed just how bad the current first team are and got the usual punching above their weight blah blah blah
It seems there are more than a few disgruntled fans out there who are looking for Cannings head.
Much as I hate to say it the only way this board may do something, is the same as any club, hit them in the pocket. Dont go to games dont buy merchandise. I appreciate that we should support through good and bad times but there comes a point when you have to say enough is enough
If you want to support the club go and see the under 17 or under 19 who can seem to play a decent standard of football
Don't post too often on this forum but the dishonesty of someone who has by his own admission not been to games or bought merchandise for many years calling for other fans to boycott has riled me sufficiently. Additionally the suggestion that you can starve the club of funds but yet still expect to go and watch our youth teams play "a decent standard of football" is foolish and naïve.
I have no issue with supporters that vote with their feet as with any form of entertainment in life there is no obligation to attend, if you aren't enjoying it then why go but the call for a boycott is an astonishing lack of perspective. Yes, there is may come a point when enough is enough but does that point come during our 5th season in the top flight - our most successful period post war - or at a time when despite a full new squad coming in and acclimatising to Scottish football we still find ourselves outside the playoff spot. Punching above our weight may seem like blah blah blah but it is also 100% accurate, I'll put it out there again but give me another club in Europe who have established themselves in a league where they are at such a financial disadvantage compared to the other clubs in the division?
I have little issue with fans questioning Canning as I believe it is justified as we are on a bad run but talks of boycotts, "Canning out" comments every 2nd post and some of the abuse on social media towards a manager who has achieved the target he has been set for the last 3 years are simply embarrassing and met with increduility by the entire Scottish football media.Where did this sense of entitlement come from as it seems unique to Accies in Scottish football. In comparison check out the vastly positive response and appreciation directed to Alan Archibald on Twitter when PT sacked him - a manager who got a team with a sizeably larger budget relegated and now lying towards the bottom of the Championship, or look at the just shy of 6000 fans (admittedly a sizable number from Ayrshire) who are sticking with their team and watched a poor St Mirren team lose again to Kilmarnock on Saturday.
Lastly just a word about Bomber Harris's oh so lazy argument that we only stayed up due to the other teams being poor, an argument that could be used for any success in any sport. I particularly liked that it was Docherty that kept us up and nothing to do with Canning which is a great argument where any mistakes, poor play by Accies players is Canning's fault but any good play has nothing to do with him - that would be thrown out a primary school debating competition as nonsense. Incidentally for those with short memories, Accies went into those play off games against Dundee United (double / triple the budget) as the walking wounded with not one recognised central defender but kept 2 clean sheets but please that was clearly nothing to do with Canning!!!
Looking forward to Swith Frank endorsing this response :0)
Yummy Fur wrote:smc4761 wrote:I have just called the super score board line and spoke with Hugh and Alex Rae.
I discussed just how bad the current first team are and got the usual punching above their weight blah blah blah
It seems there are more than a few disgruntled fans out there who are looking for Cannings head.
Much as I hate to say it the only way this board may do something, is the same as any club, hit them in the pocket. Dont go to games dont buy merchandise. I appreciate that we should support through good and bad times but there comes a point when you have to say enough is enough
If you want to support the club go and see the under 17 or under 19 who can seem to play a decent standard of football
Don't post too often on this forum but the dishonesty of someone who has by his own admission not been to games or bought merchandise for many years calling for other fans to boycott has riled me sufficiently. Additionally the suggestion that you can starve the club of funds but yet still expect to go and watch our youth teams play "a decent standard of football" is foolish and naïve.
I have no issue with supporters that vote with their feet as with any form of entertainment in life there is no obligation to attend, if you aren't enjoying it then why go but the call for a boycott is an astonishing lack of perspective. Yes, there is may come a point when enough is enough but does that point come during our 5th season in the top flight - our most successful period post war - or at a time when despite a full new squad coming in and acclimatising to Scottish football we still find ourselves outside the playoff spot. Punching above our weight may seem like blah blah blah but it is also 100% accurate, I'll put it out there again but give me another club in Europe who have established themselves in a league where they are at such a financial disadvantage compared to the other clubs in the division?
I have little issue with fans questioning Canning as I believe it is justified as we are on a bad run but talks of boycotts, "Canning out" comments every 2nd post and some of the abuse on social media towards a manager who has achieved the target he has been set for the last 3 years are simply embarrassing and met with increduility by the entire Scottish football media.Where did this sense of entitlement come from as it seems unique to Accies in Scottish football. In comparison check out the vastly positive response and appreciation directed to Alan Archibald on Twitter when PT sacked him - a manager who got a team with a sizeably larger budget relegated and now lying towards the bottom of the Championship, or look at the just shy of 6000 fans (admittedly a sizable number from Ayrshire) who are sticking with their team and watched a poor St Mirren team lose again to Kilmarnock on Saturday.
Lastly just a word about Bomber Harris's oh so lazy argument that we only stayed up due to the other teams being poor, an argument that could be used for any success in any sport. I particularly liked that it was Docherty that kept us up and nothing to do with Canning which is a great argument where any mistakes, poor play by Accies players is Canning's fault but any good play has nothing to do with him - that would be thrown out a primary school debating competition as nonsense. Incidentally for those with short memories, Accies went into those play off games against Dundee United (double / triple the budget) as the walking wounded with not one recognised central defender but kept 2 clean sheets but please that was clearly nothing to do with Canning!!!
Looking forward to Swith Frank endorsing this response :0)
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