Something I have learned, when supporting the Millers, is that you need buckets full of patience.
At the moment most of my buckets are still full.
Some people talk about a glass half empty or a glass half full in relation to their current outlook.
However, after only one game into the Championship season it appears to some that all is lost and that their glass is almost empty
already.
Andy, I'm sure you weren't including me but I have repeatedly said my criticisms have nothing to do with individual results. Nor is it a case of patience or impatience. Patience is fine if you are travelling a long and hard road but not much use if you're going in the wrong direction. I just have no idea of where this club is meant to be going or how SE means to get us there. It just seems to be made up as we go along.
Something I have learned, when supporting the Millers, is that you need buckets full of patience.
At the moment most of my buckets are still full.
Some people talk about a glass half empty or a glass half full in relation to their current outlook.
However, after only one game into the Championship season it appears to some that all is lost and that their glass is almost empty
already.
Andy, I'm sure you weren't including me but I have repeatedly said my criticisms have nothing to do with individual results. Nor is it a case of patience or impatience. Patience is fine if you are travelling a long and hard road but not much use if you're going in the wrong direction. I just have no idea of where this club is meant to be going or how SE means to get us there. It just seems to be made up as we go along.
Ridgeway, I was not referring to you in the OP. I was merely saying that Millers' Supporters have endured many things over the years and I was pointing out that our path to maintain Championship status is going to be full of twists and turns. This is when I referred to patience as being a virtue. Some supporters have begun to lose patience just one game into the new season.
I spend a lot of time, as I'm sure others do, looking at the big picture.
The players on display yesterday won't cut it.
It looks like only 3 will be good enough.
The dawn is a long way off this year and SE will once again have to rely on loanees.
Lots was wrong yesterday that won't happen too n any times; SE was awful tactically, the team uninspiring, individuals awful and wayyyyy to many changes.
We are frustrated because we know it's going to be a very difficult season and we haven't moved on from the previous 3 enough to feel our patience has been rewarded.
SE has been able to bring in smallwood and Ledesma from all the very good loanees we have had. In truth the loanees have saved us the last 2 seasons and it's going to have to be the case a gain.
Can he get lucky enough again. I say lucky but I don't think it's luck but it does mean it's not moved on to do away with essentially what is fire fighting.
I'm optimistic it will improve but losing to MK and with preston coming soon these are games we cannot a ford to lose at home.
To me the way the Millers stayed up last year was fundamentally about teamwork and grit. The team spirit and work ethic was there in abundance.
The problem yesterday was that we started the season with 11 players and no team. What I would have done is started with Collin, Frecks, Green, Bowery and integrated the new players into our ethos slowly but surely. You have to build an ethos and then maintain it. In this case Steve tried to rebuild it, which was a spectacular flop.
What I will say is that everything that could go wrong did go wrong for us. Just a rotten rub of the green. The best thing to do now is forget it ever happened and look forward to the next game.
The bit that took everyone by surprise was a millers side that didn't show much effort. Most millers fans can handle a loss, but not many can handle us not trying.
