Trial by Television

It’s hard enough watching us play lately, but for those of a particularly masochistic bent, even more self harm can be derived from the post-match interviews on Poppies TV.

First we had Andy Leese, whose media strategy can be summarised as:

·       If we didn’t lose, it was all down to him and the clever decisions he made

·       If we lost, it was because the players hadn’t followed his instructions

·       And it wouldn’t happen again on his watch (it did)

Initially Jim was a breath of fresh air, speaking apparently from the heart and with a healthy dose of common sense.  But this miserable stretch of results has slowly sucked the life out of him, to the point where he has literally run out of ways to answer the question, why are we so shit?

For fans of the genre of trying to polish a turd, a collector’s item was the opening query after Telford, where Jim was asked if he had seen any evidence of improvement since Long Eaton.  After... a long pause... he suggested that we had kept our shape for the first 20 minutes.

Somehow, despite being demoted to ball wiper and other duties as required, Jim seems to have kept the media gig judging from the latest sorry spectacle.

Possibly the new boss is being kept away from the camera after his debut appearance almost crashed under the weight of so many obviouslys, including six in a single sentence.  

But more likely, Lav was still otherwise engaged delivering the mother of all bollockings and sent Jim out to do the honours.

Unless results improve (please God) can we make a humanitarian request.  Do the interviews have to be so long? There’s nothing to be gained from making the poor man field yet another question to which we already know the answer. Wriggling politicians get off lightly compared to the Poppies TV inquisition!