BracknellDons wrote:
I did expect a more reasonable approach to the situation from you Dan, given, you've had your own experiences of trying to drum up atmosphere and challenging the club to think differently. Not digging you out, just making an observation.
I guess that's just because of a hardening of my views over the last seven or eight years. The club always felt a bit cold and aloof and corporate, even in the KR days, but that's got ten times worse, especially since Andy Cullen left.
So many people, including myself and many other people on this forum, have tried over the years "challenging the club to think differently", which I think is a very good way of describing it.
Very few of us have ever got much further than getting the club to pay some half-arsed lip service, or getting their initiatives hijacked.
DonsAction are going through it right now: they do their own hashtag-based campaign to drum up support for the playoffs, and then the club launches its own completely different one a week or so later. The DSA under WellDon had it with the Lewington's fiasco: remember the statement when they redid it that it was "requiring further investment from the club"? The inference was clear (to me at least): we're in charge, it's our club not yours, and you should be grateful for whatever we decide to do for you.
As far as this specific issue is concerned, it seemed to take all of us in the fanbase by surprise. Which suggests to me that nobody was consulted about it - not DA, not the DSA, not the Supporters Board (if anyone has any info to the contrary, I absolutely stand to be corrected on that!). It underlines the increasing feeling that I've had over the last few years: that PW can't even be bothered to pretend to give a fuck about the fans like he used to.
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