A New Start!

Old v. New.

Steelers heritage and history was being flushed down the pan at an alarming rate. The trouble is no one was watching it, and no was willing to do anything about it. One of the main problems is having to admit your best mate, who you have already touted as "The best coach ever to stand behind a bench in this country", isn't. This is where the size 12, extra thick blinkers came out and were worn on a daily basis.

With the above statement, the Brummie had already crucified his best mate and is more to blame for the eventual crash and burn, than Thommo himself.

In estate agents language, he could try and cover it up, or as was the case, try and shift the blame onto someone else. This obviously felt like a good plan, but when you start blame shifting to the paying audience, you are treading on very thin ice (didn't mean the pun). There will always be the bunch of gullible types that believe estate agents, there will always be a few that will jump on the bandwagon and try and escalate it, and there will always be those with the so thick, rose tinted glasses on, that they are brainwashed into thinking what ever happens with the Steelers is all well and good.

Sorry, to disillusion you, but you're living in a completely different space to the rest of the world. Anyone still out there thinking that a small (and I mean small) bunch of people who jokingly set up a resistance page are responsible for the fall from grace of the best hockey coach, this side of the moon, are sadly, not playing with a complete set, and sitting there with your pink specs on believing every word from an already proven liar will only be making your rehabilitation back into the real world, that much more difficult.

Refusing to see the obvious does not make you correct. Hearing the same lies over and over and over does not suddenly make it the truth. The Steelers have been taken on a massive backwards retreat for the past 3 years, and the upper echelons of the club have had their eyes firmly shut to what has happened.

The list of players recruited, who seemed to need all season to gel is frightening. The list of excuses even more so, but the one reason never mentioned was "I don't know what to do".

The estate agent, the Star, and even the owner are massively complicit in what was going wrong at the Steelers, but after trying to blame the fans, causing a massive rift between fans with differing feelings, causing a major rift between fans and the team, bringing masses of ridicule on themselves from all other teams in the league, and completely refusing to see where the problem lies, needed to change their own, extremely blinkered mind set.

Everything said about Thommo not being the coach the Steelers needed, right back as far as Adams being sacked has been borne out to be correct, even though the estate agent and the Star have criticised every word. Continually being told "you don't know what you are talking about" or "you know nothing" is just a blanket to cover it over. Continually bleating on about the progress being made behind the scenes, while all well and good and much needed to build a stable club, is not what the fans are paying their hard earned for. They are paying to watch an ice hockey game.

Here's a quote "The hockey is crap, the Steelers are rubbish and the games are really boring, but I am so impressed with everything that is going on behind the scenes, lets have more of this crap hockey, and keep all the secrets about what is going on behind closed doors" said NO ONE EVER. These people, who the estate agent finds it so easy to be abusive to, to blame when things go wrong and also to accuse of knowing nothing on a regular basis, all seem to know a damn site more than him, as everything said over the past couple of years has suddenly come to light as being more correct than anything he has said.

This last couple of years have been disastrous for the Steelers. It needs a massive boost to get things moving upwards, with the fans, the league, the media, the feelings, the history, pretty much every aspect. If nothing had happened this last 2 weeks, I could see the Steelers collapsing completely, as the booing (not from a vocal minority David) would only have got louder, and then eventually would have got quieter as fans decided they would find other things to spend their money on. This is one of the main areas that the estate agent seems to struggle with. They spend their money on a seat ticket, on 50-50 tickets, on shirt raffles, on being abused by the announcer. How much damage will it do if they stop spending their money?

Thommo resigning, hopefully is now going to give the Steelers a chance to start a rebuild. We have to find a coach who can be just a bit better than the best coach in the universe, and also the owner has to find a way of getting credibility back in a large portion of the fan base. Hard work, I think, as a lot of damage has been done. I shall monitor the feelings and the results over the next few weeks. I have already noticed in the Star, BW has changed his tune somewhat. Is this to try and turn the anger away from him, after spouting the propaganda given to him against the fans. We shall see.

The new coach has arrived and it sounds good. In fact, it sounds exceptional. But I'm not one for hyping things totally out of context. I'll leave that to the estate agent, he's good at it, not correct most of the time, but good at it.

Welcome to Sheffield Tom Barrasso.

Mart.