When Hogan missed that easy header in the closing minutes of the play off final all our chickens came home to roost in one huge flock. All the waste, all the mismanagement, all the blunders, all the scandals, all the greed, all the lead swinging. The net result of all the post MON wrecking is what we now are. A mid table second division side propped up by borrowed players unable to give a decent game to most of the teams we play.There really is no alternative but to tear the whole, creaking, crumbling edifice down and build it again including new foundations.
You are not going to win games unless you compete in the middle of the park. If you keep on giving the ball away, you are inviting pressure on to you with the most likely outcome being that you concede goals. To compete in the middle of the park, you need energy and have quickness over a short distance. We do not have that and I do not see any fit players in the squad that can change that. For years, our passing has been atrocious and ball control no better. For years, we have relied on individuals, rather than playing as a team. Too much money to spend has encouraged this approach.The owners decided that the Club needed to be rebuilt on the playing side from top to bottom and looked for a coach to do this over a period of time, not a short term dash for promotion. To lose faith in that approach due to unrest from supporters wanting instant success would be a disaster for the Club and would see us remaining in the wilderness for years to come. We have a limited squad that has shown to be weak when injuries to certain positions have occurred. We need to see out this season and start again in the summer.As supporters, we should be recognising the reality of the situation, rather than ignoring things like, losing your best player through injury, spent very little on buying players in the last 18 months (the most expensive squad in this division was assembled more than 2 years ago and those players have either failed to deliver or aged), have had a constant churn of loan players over the last 2 years with no consistency etc., etc. I am not going to support change in management until this guy has been given the chance to do what he was brought in to do. I could understand the need to change Remi Garde because of the mismatch with the players and the pressure of the PL but not going the same way with Dean Smith.