There's just nothing there

Prior to today's entirely predictable and pathetic defeat to a bottom-of-the league team which hadn't won in their last 10 (with an entirely predictable and pathetic defeat in next weekend's derby to come), I was going to say this reminds me of the Williamson, Calderwood and Fenlon spells in charge where we offered little more than mid/lower table mediocrity for months on end. However, at least under Bobby and Pat we had some cup runs, with a smattering of very promising youngsters coming to the fore under the former.

This, though, feels like a whole new level of nothingness. Nothing in terms of players to get excited by or youngsters coming through the ranks, nothing in terms of a manager you think can turn things around, nothing in terms of a discernible long-term strategy for the club and nothing in terms of atmosphere or a connection between team and fans, Nothing, in essence, that would entice you to ever go and watch this team again except for blind loyalty/force of habit.

Our two most recent relegations gave us the chance to regroup, rebuild and come back very strongly but the current nothingness feels almost more dispiriting than relegation because while we're not quite awful enough to go down, we look destined to simply muddle along like this indefinitely, irrespective of whether we change manager yet again.

A nothing team going nowhere. That's the sum of it.