Is it time for a change ?

[lukcour]

It's too early to be talking in such terms, obviously the last 5 games have been disappointing and certainly not good enough with the squad we have, it's down to the management team and the players to resolve this issue. At the moment the team needs our support. We can put September right tomorrow but the month of October has become an extremely important time and results need to change. I'm hopeful that we won't need to continue this conversation come November.

I respect your posuiion but have to admit I feel the opposite. It is too late. LB and RD should have been dismissed at the end of last season. Not only were the resukts dreadul, the standard of football was apalling.

[Timmy58]

It's too early to be talking in such terms, obviously the last 5 games have been disappointing and certainly not good enough with the squad we have, it's down to the management team and the players to resolve this issue. At the moment the team needs our support. We can put September right tomorrow but the month of October has become an extremely important time and results need to change. I'm hopeful that we won't need to continue this conversation come November.

I am with you. I am of a more seasoned age than some who follow our club and I feel we live in strange times. We have a government that has been in place less than 18 months and already we have some agitating for the PM to step down because he hasn't turned round the damage done by the previous administration over a period of 14 years. And then you look at football and similar levels of patience are shown in some quarters. I get that managers are under pressure to get results and get teams promoted but the fickle nature of people disturbs me in all walks of life. Sadly I think it unlikely to change in my lifetime, if ever.

[gazan]

Half the problem, I feel, at the Alex is that in the first 4 games we got a taste of what was possible. It is knowing that the players can play like that at the same time as LB saying that he wants to get back to playing like that. So why doesn't happen. At no time since the Gillingham match have we seen a high press or players hunting in packs and snapping into tackles in order to win the ball back high up the pitch. At the Swindon game it took the majority of the crowd about 5 minutes to see that something had changed in the approach and that is how it's been since. What's frustrating is seeing LB talking about a style of play but nothing changing. Can he not see what to do? Is he running the pressing drills? Are the players just not doing what he tells them. It's these possible scenarios that undermines confidence in his ability.

[Harlzed]

I have to agree with Timmy on society being too quick to demand change. The Amazon culture of everything more or less instantly seems to also apply to all walks of life. However, in this instance I would say that it fell away in the second half of 23/24 season. The same again but more so in 24/25. Then we see the same pattern this season but sooner. Which is where Gazan?s point comes in, we have seen what might have been and that is why we question what is going on. I would be on board with the lack of consistency if I was being entertained, but it hasn?t been like that for large parts.

[MikeSB]

Its the Employers who are responsible to the fans for employing the manager(s) and to go since Christmas winning what? one game in 17 was a disaster and the Chairman should have been acting sooner to try and establish the reasons for the decline and to do something about it. Maybe if the crowd numbers went down to 500 he would have acted? No manager has the right to remain in the job after such a decline in results and employees in every job in the land would have been sacked had they performed like that.

Possibly we could get a seasoned manager in and allow LB to become the Asst Manager? And get rid of all the hangers on as they add nothing to the results. No professional player needs some bloke or coach as they call them to tell them what exactly? I mean if these knew what they were doing, they would instruct half the players to move up the pitch on corners as them all huddling together does not work and obstructs the GK from getting at the ball. You don't need a brain to work this out and why having coaches and managers for pro players needs changing but its unlikely to happen. If I was Chairman it would as the sack would be top of my list for managers keeping to something that is useless. I once asked Dario why they did that on corners and he said that is how the game is nowadays....Hmmmm.