Give the manager more time

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I'm not saying they're infallible, I'm saying they're calm and calculated. Calm and calculated people don't panic and make rash decisions. They wait patiently until they know with as much certainty as possible what the right decision is.

If they prove me wrong and sack Maynard today like people are asking for, we've got bigger problems than I realised.

I don't know when enough is enough. For me, it's not yet. It might be clearer in a month or so.

I'd agree with that.

If the owners made a snap decision now it would worry me a lot more than our current slump in form, because it would be a sign that they're moving away from the approach the has mainly worked over the past three years, and into the territory occupied by previous owners, which mainly didn't work.

The only circumstance in which a decision this soon might be justified is if the players as a group are telling the owners they can't work with Maynard, as was reportedly the case with Harry Kewell, and this would need to be genuinely evidenced within the club, not mischief-makers on message boards saying they've heard this or that or making the famous "lost the dressing room" claim.

If results over March and April proved to be diabolical then it probably would force the brothers' hand because they would need to consider whether they still trust the current Head Coach to set us up for a new season, but at this stage the only certainty is that Maynard has had a poor start results-wise. Factor in also that the team was already going out of form when he arrived, and that the performances at Newport and Wrexham were actually very good.

Maynard has inherited a defence that by common consensus isn't considered good enough, so the same problem would face any Head Coach that replaced him. Over the next few weeks if he can find a way of stopping the goals going into our net, using current resources at his disposal, then it would actually be a sign of some managerial/tactical ability.