Originally Posted by
fatfan
Everyone loves to blame the manager. The problems at the club run a lot deeper than a manager who has kept the club in the championship with both his hands tied behind his back. He has had no budget for players and certain players have been signed without his consent and given two year contracts into the bargain, and before anyone says he has the strongest squad the club has had in years for me is crap. We have a strong defence, not to bad a midfield and absolutely nothing in the forward areas. the squad is average at best. There are no players in that squad who I would say would start for a team like Arbroath every week. We may have more in terms of numbers but that only means we have more crap than usual. Last season we had the likes of dobie and Jones who is staring most weeks for Middlesbrough, the lad at Motherwell, etc etc and I wouldn’t say that was a great squad. this year we don’t have that so for me, from what I have seen so far, it has been yet another step backwards and will be another year fighting relegation. Yes we could bring in a new manager and possibly get a reaction for a week or two with the results, but after a few weeks it will be back to the norm.
There is an apathy about the club that I don’t like. There appears to be no drive or ambition from the board all the way down the ladder to dare I say it, a lot of the support, some of whom are just happy to survive in the championship. There has been no improvement in the club for years now and teams like raith, Livingston, and even Arbroath are now in front of us in terms of quality of squads and success in leagues.
So in answer to the topic, if Johnstone is a yes man, which I suspect he has become to protect himself, to our chairman, then I hope he walks as I don’t think for one second he will get sacked any time soon as he is the easy option for a chairman who will continually interfere with team affairs. So for me yes he should walk, along with a chairman who has been pulling the wool over supporters eyes for to long. That way the club might progress the way it was under mr Blount and mr Bradford, and dare I say mr Rae who had us at hampden and in Europe