Regulus Arcturus Black
Full Member
It is simple. We took it for granted that Post-Fergie, the success would just continue on as normal. A lack of understanding of just how big a gap Ferguson's retirement would create.
In a nutshell, I think even most of us fans were guilty of it, but we aint the ones running a multi-billion dollar business.
So many people are implicit in our downfall, David Gill and SAF did an absolutely shocking job of preparing the club for the latter's departure. Nothing was put into place to facilitate it and the best they could come up with was David "cut from the same cloth" Moyes
Woodward and the owners have since been trying to put a band-aid on a bullet wound and only now have everyone at the club (SAF and the advisory board included) realised that another SAF is unlikely and that another way of thinking may be required that doesn't have us hitting the reset button every 1-2 years. Hopefully now, even if OGS ends up not being up to the job, the next manager will follow the same ideals and won't need to rip everything up again, only than can we truly start building towards something long-term, and by long-term I mean as a club, not a club formed around one man.