It’s an odd time being a POSH fan! Not because the team are challenging for promotion. Darren Ferguson regularly has his teams near the top of the league. It’s not because we’re scoring loads of goals. Even the high valuation star players keeping them at the club is pretty standard. It’s the fact that some fans still seem to be dissatisfied.
While I understand that my opinion could be viewed as one of an “outsider” because of my geography, I’ll still put it out there. After two decades of watching/listening to POSH play, I’m baffled about the things that people are complaining about. I get it. Some people have their own ax to grind about certain issues. No matter what happens, they’ll always be in the Fry out, Fergie out, etc. camp. This just seems a little different.
The most common gripe that I’ve seen is that we need to sign a striker. Not because we’re not scoring enough goals or creating enough chances but because RJJ missed a sitter. I get it! You want your striker to scores those ones that look so easy that any middle aged man with a computer screen and an opinion could hit. But they’re not that easy. These players are all young and plying their trade at the lower levels. They need the reps in those pressure situations in order to get it right. We don’t have the millions that it would cost to bring in a striker who fits our team’s style and has the Midas touch in front of goal. What we do have is a player that given the chance could be worth those millions in a year, two years. But for some reason, that gamble on him getting there is too much to bear. We need results now! Oh yeah… we’re getting them.
Not sure if it’s something inherent to POSH fans because this is the only club that I follow to this degree. But there seems to be a catastrophist streak that runs pretty deep. No matter how good things get, there’s something that just isn’t right.
- We’ve rehired Fergie again!… So what! He wins!
- Our chairman talks too much… Fans at other clubs wish they had our chairman.
- We sell our best players… Yep! And we produce or buy and develop new ones.
- And so on.
At the beginning of the season, we were promised a project that required patience. A group of young players were going to be given an opportunity to play the system that the manager put in place. They were going to stick to their principles and stick with particular players regardless of results. Now that it has gone better than expected, some fans want to abandon that project. Why not just believe in what you’ve seen so far? Enjoy it! Even the missed sitters. That’s right! If it were easy, you’d get bored. And that just wouldn’t be POSH!
UP THE POSH!
Pete
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