Dear Calton FC & Supporters
While Thursday night’s game against an old foe was not the outcome we all hoped for, it is not doom and gloom.
Those who have plastered social media with the statements of “Sack Voss” are not the kind of supporters a club, any club, needs when their backs are to the wall. Some expect that after such a long time, a Premiership is a demand that must be fulfilled, and now! This cannot and never will be fulfilled until we insist and demand stability and a culture that includes the mindset of winning. This can and will only come when the club takes a long-term perspective that involves and encompasses all aspects of the club, including believing in the mechanisms and the workings of the club, including the senior coach. If the club keeps going down the path of sacking a coach when the going gets tough, no matter who or what you bring into the club to try and “fix it, ” it will never achieve any semblance of success.
I am a passionate and dedicated supporter of the Carlton FC and always will, no matter what transpires. However, I do want to see success in the club that has gone through so much in the past. But we cannot allow the wrongs of the past to become what the Carlton FC is seen as being defined as. If we do, then we will still be floundering at the bottom for many years to come. It might change for a while, that we reach maybe the middle of the ladder or even make it to a final once in a while, but we won’t win a Premiership. Long-term, consistent success that enables the club to raise the Premiership Cup and be a fearsome club for some time will never happen if we continue down this path of knee-jerk reactions.
So, Carlton FC and Supporters, I hear and see your anger and frustration. I understand it, but we must go the course of stabilising the club on and off the field to see the positive results that we want. We must not be so damned arrogant to insist that this happens in a timeline that comes with the carefree attitude that it must be now or never. The notion that we have waited too long is not one that has been the result of something outside of a supporter’s control but one that has been the complete control of those within the club who demand a timeline that will never happen with the consistent changing of the coach.
I want the club to be successful in all that it entails. But I want the club to do that in a way that sees our success as a long and consistent journey that puts fear into other teams that take us on. We cannot do that by saying that others will do better if one coach doesn’t work out after a few years. That is ludicrous. Dangerous for the growth of the club and downright one filled with dogmatic blindness.
So, to those ‘supporters’ who insist that Michael Voss gets sacked or that the Board needs to be swept out and a new, ‘better’ one is brought in, I say, either support the club what is now going through, or leave. Such downright negativity and the notion that the “grass is definitely greener on the other side” will not and don’t understand that what has transpired in the past thirteen years does and always will affect what is happening now.
I, for one, will stand by the club as long as it insists on and ensures stability both off and on the field. If there are bumps in that road to success, and there always will be, as long as they are acknowledged and learnt from, then we will become successful. If we continue going down the road of what has happened before, we will lose at every turn.
Sincerely, and GO BLUES!
A Massive Carlton Supporter.
#GOBLUES!
SPORTZ 