Sack him, save our season

[jackal2]

Must admit I was very pleasantly surprised by last night's result because I didn't see it coming in the light of recent performances, but obviously we'll grab it with both hands. I notice several Grimsby fans on their message board were worried about their best player George McEachran being unavailable, so maybe we got a bit lucky in that regard, but I suppose you can say we were missing our biggest players too, especially after Bass got injured to add to our problems.

The question now is whether we can carry last night's confidence boost into some improved performances at home, where narrow wins against the weakest teams in the league have glossed over some dire football which has seen attendances start to wobble. If we put on a convincing and entertaining show against Chesterfield on Saturday then that will be a further good sign, but there's still a lot of improvement needed before we can really start believing in promotion.

[Woodypie]

We're top of the away table at the moment..

Maynard out!!!!!

7 points from last 15? In, out, or shake it all about?

[Mud Pie]

no can say for sure, at the time of going to press, whether the the Grimsby win was a turnaround or an outlier. But it was a markedly better fighting performance, and imo that counts for a lot, maybe more than ability, at the business end of the season. Like Stall said on MC: it's about how well you do what you do. The performance/win/Didzy will have given everyone heart.

SM has 2x form for turning Notts dramatically around - after last season, and since Salford - so there's a better than average chance he can do it again no matter what you said last season or how unconvincing we've been of late - this doesn't sound 100% convincing even to me, but here we are.

Grimsby result and Didzy back (even JJ on the horizon like the Cavalry) and the rise in temperature of the whole squad incl Slocs [pray emoji], and all the other teams are undergoing the same nervous breakdown... Ready or not, we have a real chance of going up this year, only the second year back in the league/

[kill_the_drum]

Football really is a simple game.
When you have your best players playing, you?ll get better results than when you don?t.
It beggars belief that we?re one point off the autos, having spent most of the season without key players, and fans want the manager sacked.
Take the emotion out of it and it would be a crazy decision to even contemplate sacking him. Charlton are currently 4th in league 1. If someone told you they?d sacked the manager, they had a budget that put them around 7th, most of the key players had spent considerable time injured and some key players had been sold. Any rational fan would think that?s a crazy decision, because it would be.
The more vocal fans wanting him sacked, I?m guessing never gave him a chance of being one point off the autos at this stage of the season.
SM?s face will never fit for some of our fans. Every defeat will be his fault and there?s an excuse for every win.

[matt_magpie]

Football really is a simple game.
When you have your best players playing, you?ll get better results than when you don?t.
It beggars belief that we?re one point off the autos, having spent most of the season without key players, and fans want the manager sacked.
Take the emotion out of it and it would be a crazy decision to even contemplate sacking him. Charlton are currently 4th in league 1. If someone told you they?d sacked the manager, they had a budget that put them around 7th, most of the key players had spent considerable time injured and some key players had been sold. Any rational fan would think that?s a crazy decision, because it would be.
The more vocal fans wanting him sacked, I?m guessing never gave him a chance of being one point off the autos at this stage of the season.
SM?s face will never fit for some of our fans. Every defeat will be his fault and there?s an excuse for every win.

He?s never fit for some because he was a BT engineer, part time and came from Wealdstone, a bit of snobbery from some fans.
Pieman may well be right, he might not have the Xfactor to get us promoted. I?m not 100% sure but he?s not the fool some seem to make him out as.

[Boomerangpie]

Or might be silly. Or just somebodies genuine opinion.

A genuine opinion can still be silly.

Considered silly or not the genuine opinion from Poultonmagpie was thankfully proved to be incorrect after a total of two games.

Phew

[The_Pie_Man]

When all is said and done, we all want the club to do well.

Is SM the man to get us over the line? Who knows, but it'll be an interesting few weeks finding out.

[1955pie]

After the Salford defeat we were 11th, 12 points behind 1st and 6 behind 3rd.
Since then we have played 17 games and accrued 33 points. Now 7 points behind 1st and just 1 behind 3rd.
13 of those games are since the Saunders incident. So it would seem to me that SM has every chance of getting us over the line. What he and the players need is our full backing on and off the pitch - leaving any picking over the bones until after the season has finished.

[irishpete]

I wasn't impressed when he was appointed, nor the final run in last season. Predicted us to finish mid table this season, if he was kept on. So, overall he has done better than I dreamt of. Performances have been hit & miss. Some absolute dire, then some performances & passage of play unbelievable. Probably still on the fence but edging towards SM.
The recruitment is where I see the main problem, in the Jan window. In this league you can't sign players for the future, you need players who can walk into the team straight away & go for it, not bolster your squad to make the numbers up when around the top 3. That's where I think SM has been let down badly considering our injury list as well.
SM hasn'''t always helped himself either, tinkering with the team. Let the opposition worry about us, not us about them.

Think SM will still be here next season promotion or not

[Could'vebeenacontender]

After the Salford defeat we were 11th, 12 points behind 1st and 6 behind 3rd.
Since then we have played 17 games and accrued 33 points. Now 7 points behind 1st and just 1 behind 3rd.
13 of those games are since the Saunders incident. So it would seem to me that SM has every chance of getting us over the line. What he and the players need is our full backing on and off the pitch - leaving any picking over the bones until after the season has finished.

I believe the club is better off without the Saunders brothers
Our set pieces have been a lot more inventive since the goalkeeping coach took over that area
And I'd rather have a guy with Joao's calm professionalism than Matty's screaming and shouting