Jimmy Thelin

[RED_JOHN]

At what point to we decide to ditch Thelin?

Do we give him 2 more matches and then decide he isn?t worth continuing with or do we wait until the end of the season and hope he can somehow change the disaster happening in front of our eyes.

2 more matches is more than enough and I am being extremely generous. There is nothing I see on that pitch with that squad and tactics that makes me think it?s worth waiting as things are improving. It?s the opposite as we are getting more easily beaten as the weeks go by.

[ZakkTheMakk]

At what point to we decide to ditch Thelin?

Do we give him 2 more matches and then decide he isn?t worth continuing with or do we wait until the end of the season and hope he can somehow change the disaster happening in front of our eyes.

2 more matches is more than enough and I am being extremely generous. There is nothing I see on that pitch with that squad and tactics that makes me think it?s worth waiting as things are improving. It?s the opposite as we are getting more easily beaten as the weeks go by.

For me, and I can hardly believe I'm saying this based on my thoughts on previous managers, I would keep faith as long as we don't go down as far as 11th or 12th and we avoid relegation or play off places.

We have to try for once to burst through the other side with a manager, that's not to say we were too quick to get rid of Robson or Goodwin etc, I just firmly believe that Jimmy has more about him than what came before him and he deserves a real opportunity to get HIS squad on the pitch.

I think Jimmy has been saddled with far too many sub-standard players with a weak mentality and until they get flushed out then Jimmy is pissing into the wind. To do what he did at the start of the season with this group was remarkable which was never destined to last, we are seeing now what these players are actually all about and I can only hope it is the last season we see a large portion of them.

[Mason89]

All of that is true. So why does he ask them to play triangles inside their own box at Ibrox? Not to bother to defend set pieces? There?s no doubt he?s inherited some amount of shyte, so why make it more difficult for them?

[ZakkTheMakk]

All of that is true. So why does he ask them to play triangles inside their own box at Ibrox? Not to bother to defend set pieces? There?s no doubt he?s inherited some amount of shyte, so why make it more difficult for them?

I get what you're saying about some of the patterns of play and defending etc. but maybe just maybe he has encountered a variation of this struggle with previous teams he has managed and he got through the other side without changing his philosophy for them?

Maybe he thinks that if he changes even just one part of his vision and if that goes wrong then he is admitting to himself that he isn't of strong character and weak minded etc.

You can't expect players to buy into what the manager believes to be the end product if the players see him changing things constantly and 2nd guessing himself? Just a theory.

It may ultimately be his downfall but with the level of managers we've had recently then it's worth a shot to let this guy try even with sh*t players just now as the ones he keeps after the summer will be fully versed on what exactly Jimmy expects of them which can only benefit new signings.