Hello everyone,
I just want to have my say and thoughts on the situation at my very dear Ramsbottom United. Now, I know that I don't come up as much as I used to and have only seen one game this season - the away match at Mossley - but I still hold the club and everyone in it, really important to me. My reasons for not coming up, with the exception of change of circumstance, is that I haven't lost interest, just lost the enthusiasm to spend 8+ hours on the road, £xx in hotels etc to watch what I have discovered is nothing better than what I used to watch when I first started watching Rammy in about 2007.
Having made the effort to come up (and because I was seeing Early Doors at The Lowry that night), what I saw at Mossley wasn't the Ramsbottom United that I have been used to, know and love in more recent times. There was a lot missing, none more so than the huge chasm in the relationship between the supporters and the manager/coaching team. The supporters have become disillusioned with what is going on from what I can gather and feel that Mark Fell is like a kid playing 'Football Manager' in his bedroom, but with a real football team in a real league. The team on the pitch don't really look like they were playing for him, they were playing their own game in front of him and no matter how much shouting he does, they don't take an awful lot of notice. To not win a game being 1-0 up against 10 men for the best part of 75 minutes is unacceptable ... and 2-0 up away at Kendal yesterday and not win ... frustrating.
Now, of course, those of us who were around in the Golden Era were spoiled supremely but those days are unlikely to return. But all that we want is to see are approachable people, working hard to improve the club, give us some hope that we can challenge at the top end of the table rather than just plodding along, satisfied with a mid-table position, the odd win here and there. That does seem to be all we are settling for right now. We are not getting the best out of what looks like a very good set of players.
Is it time for Mark Fell to go? As some have said, he does a very good job of talking an extremely good game and doing a lot behind the scenes but then so does Brent Peters at our old rivals Bacup Borough, and do we really want to be like them where the manager is completely indispensable and cannot be removed???