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The situation is simple - if the Board are serious about promotion he needs to go now and they need to get somebody with nous in - this is the best chance we are going to have and nice Des will never get us up
Of course the Board are not really serious about it so he will stay and we will spunk our chances under his incredibly weak leadership
This is getting pretty awful now.
The manner of the goals being conceded with increasing regularity, the lack of a visible style, the (lack of) atmosphereโฆ
Itโs bad.
I donโt think the answer is to sack him, I think the answer is to help him. We have a very inexperienced management team and we lack an assistant manager with nous and who will challenge Des and also improve him as a manager.The situation is simple - if the Board are serious about promotion he needs to go now and they need to get somebody with nous in - this is the best chance we are going to have and nice Des will never get us up
Of course the Board are not really serious about it so he will stay and we will spunk our chances under his incredibly weak leadership
Losing is hard to take, if played OK and lost, it's a choker.... But the way we played today was totally unacceptableYeah butโฆ weโre 6th and only one loss in 6???? Cheer the f*ck up yeah???
This is why people struggle to listen or reply to you because you shamelessly mis-represent stuff and go around spreading unsubstantiated stuff.We get told by the Desmond fan club.
Letโs get players back, and letโs give him the summer.
Heโs got players back, and if we give him the summer window, what makes you think that all of the sudden heโs going to have tactical nous and get a tune out of the players, and show fans he has a game plan.
20 games in heโs not shown me any of those
Why are you protecting them? That makes you as bad as them IMO.You donโt need to worry about it @Steve Gilbert you think Iโm telling porkies.
Very difficult to convey on a forum that what Iโm saying is really through gritted teeth. I never wanted Des to fail. He was my preferred candidate. So to see him arrive and be left to drown by the board gives me no pleasure whatsoever. I want nothing more than for us to win games and I think Iโve made is abundantly clear that Manning oversaw the most enjoyable period Iโve had as a fan in some time. I miss that time terribly - the buzz, the anticipation, the confidence. Itโs reaching a sad state of apathy again. Do I think Des is the whole problem? Of course not.I don't think there is any debating that we're P**s poor at the moment. Our defending in particular is awful. But there is a fair point in there about structural issues at the club.
If we did sack Buckingham (which I'm not suggesting we do) then we still have the same senior management running the show. These are the same clowns that *backed Robinson well beyond his use by date. They have been failing to effectively run the football side of the club far longer than Buckingham has been in post, and we'd have to trust them to identify the right replacement and get them the right support staff in.
I would far rather the heat was turned up on Williams and Ferguson first.
*I say they backed him. They didn't really. They hid apart from the time Grant liked something on Twitter once.
Is this you thorniley trying to get a game , browns was very good today didnโt do nothing wrongHopefully a back 4 of Stevens, Moore, Thorniley & Leigh at Portsmouth.
Long & Negru have been poor for weeks.
Brown doesnโt suit the style of passing from the back.
But DB was not doing well elsewhere, this is his first experience in the EFL.Bristol City lost to 23rd placed, 10 man Sheffield Wednesday today. Pretty poor form since Manning arrived.
This isn't a problem which will be solved by sacking the manager and replacing him with someone else who appears to be doing well elsewhere. It's a structural issue.