Are we really in danger of going down?

Prenton Park is a mudheap, the new signings are not up to L1 fitness and won't last 45 minutes on it. 

Come to that the energy level of the whole team has dropped since GC left. You need pace and effort in L1.

Yeah but, "We want to try to achieve wins as quickly as possible but I am not going to deviate away from that plan"

So can we expect no adaption/change to our usual tactics? And if we don't change/adapt to play on an awful pitch that struggles to support a passing game, does that make him a good or bad manager?

As I started this, I'll try to answer some of the points made by others.
Whilst using past performance as a predictor of the future is simplistic at best, there are some mitigating factors to make it perhaps more reliable here than in, for example, a sales environment. There is the fact that the transfer window is now closed so no team can bring in new talent (apart from perhaps a free agent - but if there is someone out there that can turn a poor team into a great one overnight, why are they a free agent?). Yes a new manager may be brought in and that could change things of course.
9 games is, I feel, a reasonable sample size compared to the whole season to allow performance to be gauged against a range of the other teams in the league.
Of course it isn't perfect, but it did show, that is nothing drastic changes, we will be safe, but only by one or two league positions.

The bigger risk is that our malaise, if it continues, will carry over into the new season. Therefore it is vital that the new way of playing starts to work soon with the new players playing a big role. I suspect that a playmaking central midfielder was wanted in the January window, but imagine we just couldn't find one.

I think that BG has to show at least the green shoots of a recovery in performances and results if he is to keep his job, and if he can do that I expect he will be given time and hopefully more backing to bring in some more pieces if the jigsaw to make it work over the summer. If he can find those players, and it does work, then it could be some really good football we are watching next season.

I may be giving our owners more credit than is due in the next point, but I am wondering if they thought that BG could still make a promotion push whilst changing our style to that more suited to the higher division?
Looking at the Championship table, three of the bottom four are those that went up last season. Perhaps the board thought we have a chance of getting there, but to stay up we would need to change drastically and saw GC's departure as a chance to start to make that change?

Excellent post. Absolutely bang on the money. 

Ordinarily 52pts would guarantee survival. With only three relegation places, and Bolton effectively down, we need Tranmere and Southend to continue dropping points. So we should be safe barring an astonishing turn around by one or both of them. By definition our games against these two are 6 pointers for us. But the real issue is that this is a poor league this season (I was underwhelmed by Wycombe on Saturday) and it is GC’s work that will keep us up not the apprentice BG.

Just go harries on his own at the back.
Can’t beat the 1-2-7 formation.

On second thoughts.....

I was in uproar because people were in uproar , I still can’t get my head around how so many were complaining when we were looking good for a top six.
Rovers supporters have changed.

No danger of going down but for me this is really not the point!