This is a football club that has gone backwards at an alarming rate. And what a waste of Mr Warnock's incredible rescue mission last term.

How have we got here? Following survival, it was fairly obvious we would need to significantly strengthen to avoid the same struggles as the season past. Warnock had left and said the same, and Stewart had even recognised it and signalled an intent to invest to take the football club to the next level. With Aston Villa and Newcastle coming down, along with local rivals Barnsley and a fantastic away trip for real ale lovers in Burton coming up, the season promised to be one of the more exciting ones in our history. Little did we know that those promises from Stewart were merely a disingenuous sales pitch (or so it seems) to drive season ticket sales.

We can't compete. RUFC fans are fair. We know we can't compete with the big teams in this division (Villa, Newcastle, Derby) . We know we can't compete with the medium teams, or the more established sides (Blackburn, Wigan, Reading). What is hard to stomach is the realisation that we can't compete with teams that have come up, Barnsley being the most recent example, but even worse than that, Burton; a club a fraction of the size of our modest club. In fact, Burton's signings have shown that you can get decent players at this level if you are prepared to invest a small amount. Lloyd Dyer, for example, is a great signing, and one I'd have loved to have seen down at NYS. And I don't buy all this agents being difficult rubbish. Agents have been in football for a long, long time and every other professional club in the league has to deal with them. We are no different.

Only a fool doesn't learn from the first kick of a mule, and next time we try the "smash the transfer record" rubbish, the fans simply won't buy it. I just don't believe anything that comes out of the club anymore. From transfer ambitions to why managers have departed or not signed a new deal to the length of injuries of players. This is human nature having felt lied to so many times previously.

I honestly believe the fans would prefer the truth even if it was disappointing. Have we no budget because we can't fill the retail units? Have previous manager's wasted it by too many comings and goings? What is it? We get four million extra from just being in the Championship this year. The drop in income would cripple us if we're saying we're struggling to cut our cloth now. Frightening. But fans will start to fear the worst if they feel they are being lied to.

Finally onto Stubbs, well the man is highly hugely arrogant or hugely incompetent; maybe both.

Don't make the horrific performances about the fans. If a performance is bad, fans will boo. All over the country. At every football club. So if we turn in six or seven in a row, don't be surprised to hear a few disgruntled voices having throwing away a sheer fluke two goal lead having had 24 per cent possession and 33 shots at your goal... AT HOME.

People are trying to dress this up in so many different ways, but the fact of the matter is, the Gods are on our sides because we should essentially have zero points, maybe one point if we were worth one against Wolves. But frankly, they hammered us second half even when going down to ten. Brentford hammered us. Bristol City hammered us. We barely gt a kick away from home. We're not just getting beat, we're getting demolished, week in, week out. 

Stubbs says we put on a performance on Saturday after the Barnsley match; is he on cloud cuckoo land? We were in fact hammered much more than against Barnsley as we at least matched Barnsley for a period. Anyone who thinks the way we're going will result in anything other than catastrophe is off their tree.

Kelly at left back. Ball in midfield. Loads of slow, insipid, physically wea players with little desire flooding the midfield. And then hardly any options up front due to bad planning.

Speaking of which, why were we ******ing around playing third rate Polish sides in July when we didn't have any professionals on the books? Surely it would've been better to actually make some decent signings rather than be lumbered with the dross we've ended up with. You always worry about Scottish managers/footballers coming down because the gulf in class is astronomical. So we've managed to pay compensation for a second division Scottish manager who has brought some equally dross footballers down with him.

And now he starts making more divisive comments saying the fans should be grateful, not criticise the team and he has big shoulders. I'd personally prefer him to have broad ideas on tactics/formation/strategy or at least setting up a team properly.

Less than eight thousand fans again on Saturday and it's only going in one direction. Newcastle could beat us by a cricket score in a few weeks.

Stubbs seems to be a dangerous mix of Redfearn's tactics and Andy Scott's arrogance. I wouldn't put it past him becoming one of the worst managers we've ever seen as the stuff w're churning out is frankly embarrassing. The return of Newell, Broadfoot and Frecklington (players we had before Stubbs got his mits on the team) could prove to be our only saving grace.