You could well be right regarding how in tune I am. To be honest, I don't really care about how the club does or doesn't communicate right now. They're doing some OK stuff and have made mistakes too. But the intent is there to make the club better, which is really good enough for me. I disagree about the gap between what fans want and what the club gives them. We're still getting told more or less what we - and supporters of other clubs - typically get told.
To my view, I see mountains being made out of mole hills and people looking for conspiracies where there are none. Sometimes it's right to be proactive stop the mystery, sometimes it makes no difference because the 'nutters' will find something wherever they can anyway and you're effectively trying to reason with idiots...Much like the tattoos are dawn fiasco...
The truth here is that if we were top of the league, nobody would give a shit about other stuff and if someone chirped up about demanding a training ground update they'd be scoffed at for being a negative nelly.
One point though - how do you know there is 'No Plan, No Clearly Defined Ambition and No understanding'?
I'm pretty sure this years plan was to finish as high in the table as possible. Does the club need to state a position?
As for the years after that, I reckon they'll be aiming for the same.
I'm sure that we plan to do that through a combination of smart recruiting of either experienced, proven players for the level and players with the ability to develop so we get added value beyond the short-term. Some of those players will be ours, some will be loanees.
All of that is pretty clear to me, so I don't need a mission statement and quarterly updates to keep reminding me unless it changes.
The plan off the pitch is to build a training ground and a proper East stand. Both of which - naturally - carry some added complications, but given the business cycle that SS has had to work through whilst this has been happening, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that it's still at the forefront of his plans. If we're still here in 5 years time saying 'where is it?' then we can start telling him to put up or piss off.
By 'No understanding' do you mean understanding of what supporters want? I might be inclined to agree there.
Fair point re Southgate