If the season had started on Jan 1, we’d be bottom of the league. The Reedtz talk about results not being the only way to judge the manager, but there isn’t a single metric by which you could make a case for keeping SM. I suspect that the Swindon commentators’ “meaningless football” jibe will become his epitaph.

Failure has many architects, though, and the Bros and Richard Montague have made too many mistakes this season. The recruitment has been pretty disastrous, in fact, ever since the Morias signing (with the exception of Crowley and Macari, with a few positive signs from Robertson and Jatta).