A bit of Perspective

A good number of the clubs I’ve left out either came down from the Prem and went straight back up or had been there or thereabouts for quite some time.

The point I’m trying to make is that a manager who struggles one season can become a massive success the next. But only if he’s given the time to settle properly.

And there lot more who struggle the year after too

I am all for giving a manager time but the tactical incompetence of TC is a major concern.
I personally do not think TC will cut it in this league and he has had plenty of opportunities to prove otherwise. Game after game the team does not perform for 90 minutes, players played out of position and confidence is draining out of the players game after game. Why can't he see what most fans can see is costing us game after game.

It looks as though he will be given the Middlesborough game so I hope at least he has learnt that Lassoga and Grot shouldn't! be in the squad and if Ekuban is fit play him up front and do not play Roofe wide and Hernandez Saiz and Vieira are our best players so play them. Ayling is knackered so drop him and play a left sided player at left back.

Also get the players to press and close down the opposition from minute one to ninety.
If this happens against boro then fine I will give the manager credit and win lose or draw accept this season as a building season but if as I fear TC is blinkered and the team performs sluggishly and looks rudderless like it has for the last 7 or 8 games then I have no sympathy if he is sacked. Don't forget he is probably paid about 7 -10k per week and will get a handsome payoff.

For every Burnley, Huddersfield, Watford, Leicester etc there's a team that doesn't make it. Unfortunately we are that team.

I am all for giving a manager time but the tactical incompetence of TC is a major concern.
I personally do not think TC will cut it in this league and he has had plenty of opportunities to prove otherwise.
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For me that's it. Yes we need to give managers time but if the appointment was wrong in the first place we shouldn't. No need to give him time for the sake of it

What about all the other clubs that went up? What's the point in articles like this?

Just avoiding the point that we've gone backward in the last 12 months, and that this summers window has set us back, again.

Manager will be gone by Christmas and we'll be back to exactly where we were before Monk joined, nowhere.

Alright, fook it, I tried.

Let’s put ourselves back on square one for the 6th billionth time and then complain some more when the next guy has a few bad games.

And we wonder why other clubs laugh at us.

Clubs are laughing at us because we've lost 7 in 8 and absolutely imploded since September.

Absolutely agree with you, Tall

A few tweaks and this team could go on a long winning streak. Plenty of spells in games we've lost where we've had dominance and played a better class of football than standard Championship rush and crunch ( Calvin Phillips excluded ).

Tall.

Your point is well taken that in many cases clubs, that have remained calm, have gone on to achieve success with the same manager following a season in which they finished well down the second division table.