Quote Originally Posted by Spikefaethesouth View Post
I certainly do not support the way we have to start from scratch every season at the moment but your initial post was about the good job which AJ is doing and I still say that his record does not support that statement. Yes he has a crap budget and that is another topic which has been discussed to death on this site. His record on leaving Queens is also far from good.
I was pointing out how the players are getting all the praise when the team start winning but the manager gets it in the neck when things are going south and nothing or very little is said about players. Do I think Johnstone is doing a decent job? In answer to that I have to say he's doing what's expected of him so far. Without knowing any facts, I can't see how there is any ambition to take the club into the next level and the sole expectation is to survive in the championship, which so far he has done with smaller resources than a few league 1 clubs. Now with us having such small resources, it's surely the bod job to manage that. The other point is that there seems to be this thing about maintaining full time status. Football finances have changed dramaticly in recent years and as a result there are a large number of good players who would rather remain part time cos they will make more money in a full time job accompanied with part time football. As such I think the club are possibly missing a trick there