How long has Rafa got?

[occult]

Everything you say might be true but no one is answering the key question: if we're in the bottom 3 by the end of Jan, maybe in the bottom 2 or even bottom 1, do we stick or twist as regards the manager?

[TANYA_]

Everything you say might be true but no one is answering the key question: if we're in the bottom 3 by the end of Jan, maybe in the bottom 2 or even bottom 1, do we stick or twist as regards the manager?

stick, i cant believe people are blaming the manager for the situation. How many times had he said we dont have the players, how many times have we said the players arent good enough.

Do you think Michelangelo could paint that beautiful ceiling with a tin of Dulux and a toilet brush?

If we end up going down, its through lack of investment, and i dont just mean in the summer, the last decade has been
a cost cutting exercise, squeezing as much out of the club as possible, making every penny work as hard as it can.
BUT
a shoestring can only hold so much weight before it snaps, Mike has ran this on the borderline for 10 years and still hasnt learned by his mistakes, he plays everything he has on green when in reality red or black come out 99%
of the time

[occult]

No one's saying replacing Rafa would be fair but life's not fair. I think that if there's a new owner and by the end of Jan we look like being relegated, then whatever the historical reasons why the squad is poor and results are bad the owner will say, like most clubs do, I can't change the squad before the summer. The only thing I can do to try to avoid relegation is change the manager who isn't getting results from the squad. To the new owner this is a business which she, assuming it's Miss ( or is it Mrs? ) Staveley, doesn't want to fail. Lots of managers get the boot fairly or unfairly.

[TANYA_]

No one's saying replacing Rafa would be fair but life's not fair. I think that if there's a new owner and by the end of Jan we look like being relegated, then whatever the historical reasons why the squad is poor and results are bad the owner will say, like most clubs do, I can't change the squad before the summer. The only thing I can do to try to avoid relegation is change the manager who isn't getting results from the squad. To the new owner this is a business which she, assuming it's Miss ( or is it Mrs? ) Staveley, doesn't want to fail. Lots of managers get the boot fairly or unfairly.

Got nowt to do with fair mate,
the "Rafa out club" love to sing to the high heavens but fail to offer a better alternative, please tell me who is a better choice as manager under the current regime, with the current set up who could do better?
........................................mmmmm how about nobody, i hear Alan Curbishley , O'Leary and the likes would be interested.

bet they could get the club bouncing

[Jammy89]

Everything you say might be true but no one is answering the key question: if we're in the bottom 3 by the end of Jan, maybe in the bottom 2 or even bottom 1, do we stick or twist as regards the manager?

Stick.