I think the time is right.
These recent events have brought about a period of rumination. Even with the /w/ business, this has still made acutely aware of my shortcomings as a manager. As much as it is disheartening to see /out/'s advancement into their second summer so swiftly reversed, I nevertheless accept the decision that's been made.
All I've done with /out/, I did for the good of the team. I made it my mission to raise them up, but evidently I focused too heavily on the team at the expense of the board, even if the recent poll has shown that ardent fans still wave /out/'s flag, as it were. Not frequently engaging with the board is one of my confessed failings as a manager, if not my biggest, and I have ended up reaping what I have sown, in that sense.
But I don't see this as a nadir, or any sort of low point - it is a new page in a book, the turning of the leaf, and accordingly all of this has made me reflect on the matter of leadership, on the team needing someone who is better, someone who is more tactically flexible and socially minded. I've done well with /out/, but I have reflected, and I'm aware of what I lack. It is time that the torch be passed on, that the team has someone better at the helm.
With this in mind, after intense deliberation, I choose to tender my resignation as /out/'s manager and transfer managerial responsibilities to Superzak for Winter or Spring '18, wherever Autumn has them end up. He's a firm supporter who has shown keen interest, and I'm confident in his ability to take /out/ further.
I know I've not been the best at this, by any means, with my inflexibility and the odd sour mood and leaving /out/ as one of the few teams to not have icons. But beyond all that, I just hope above everything else that you enjoyed watching /out/ play, even after they became a legion of placeholders. That's the essence of football, at the end of the day, beautiful games and great football - and I can only hope I brought you that.
Happy trails.