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The simpering apologists for failure – winding each other up week after week and blaming everything on Paul Heckingbottom – are now getting what they asked for.

They always missed the point.

It was never about Heckingbottom or Wilder. (1/12)

It’s not even about attacking or defending the ownership. The truth is that it never had to be this way. I don’t think Prince Abdullah is an asset stripper. He’s never ground fans’ faces into the dirt by raising ticket prices during a cost of living crisis. (2/12)

I disagree with much, but take all the poison out of that debate, and think back to 26 Apr 2023.

We won a deserved promotion.

We had assets under contract. We had a budget, albeit a small one. We had, within our gift, the opportunity to sell those assets or keep them. (3/12)

To buy or not to buy.

And no matter the reasons behind it, the failure to build a squad comes down to sheer incompetence at EVERY level.

The facts are plain. We never had to sell Ndiaye. We never had to sell Berge. (4/12)

We never had to spend £60m on the targets we ended up with. We never had to do our business so late that it meant throwing away winnable fixtures in our opening few games.

To say otherwise is to deal in bullshit. And we’ve heard enough bullshit this season already. (5/12)

There was no reason for it to get this bad. But thanks to all involved, it has. It’s on them.

I don’t even really blame the players. They aren’t likeable, many of them, but they can only control what they can control. And only 4 or 5 can control a pass...(6/12)

...let alone a football match at this level. It’s all gunfights and water pistols.

We might be the worst team in PL history. I don’t care. I don't care if outsiders think we're an embarrassment. Don't care about what Shearer says on Match of the Day. Ultimately... (7/12)

it's about us.

And fans have got to demand change.

Stop interviewing the Prince. Start telling him he needs to make things right: if he can’t sell up, then he has to hire a leadership and recruitment team (off the pitch) who are reasonably capable. (8/12)

Because Anel Ahmedodzic aside, we’ve not made a good signing in years.

We might have signed good players, but watching Gus Hamer in this team is like watching Leon Britton under Blackwell. How has that happened?

It’s not just PA’s fault. (9/12)

There have been millions to spend, but we’ve spunked the money until it ran out. And that’s my worry.

If Chris Wilder and Prince Abdullah genuinely have a “united front” then it’s scary. (10/12)

Because it puts the fortunes of an entire club on the shoulders of its manager, and that’s plain idiotic.

It can’t go on like this. (11/12)

So to all those who gave it, "We've got our club back"...

Hope you kept the receipt, cos it's looking like we've got the basket-case club we hoped we'd left behind.

(12/12)