Message to Mr Wael

Have to agree with this, surely we can't make the same mistakes again. We absolutely NEED experienced manager with some level of success. We can't have afford another unproven appointment.

If we brought in the likes of Paul Cook, I would hope we would accept that he is fighting an up hill battle and even if the worse was to happen we would stick with him next season.

Any manager coming in now, if they manage to keep us up it will be a miracle.

Absolutely no chance we're getting Cook imo. Wasn't he linked with the City job before Ashton got it?

If that’s the case, why did they get rid of PT then??

Cook is going for championship jobs, why would he come here when he could find himself in league two next season?

It’s straight out of the mad house thinking a name suitable for a long term appointment whose stock is high (Harris, Duff, Flynn, Coleman, Cook Etc) are going to come to a basket case club who have already fired two managers this season, with useless players In the middle of a relegation battle.

The sort of realistic candidates for us have already been sacked this season, can’t get a job anywhere else and are desperate for a chance to prove himself.

In other words: a Garner or a Coughlan.

We had our chance to get a quality replacement in and Starnes got straight on the phone to Tisdale.

You said if they struggle and go down, they should remain. But that’s saying that PT isn’t to blame either then.

PT did take a team from non league, to finish 3 points outside the league 1 player’s, before losing player’s. That’s more success than we have had at this level, for over 20 years.

But PC ain’t got a job yet and whoever takes over now won’t be blamed if we are relegated,IMO I think a manager with a strong character would sort this squad out to beat the drop.

Wael if we used the money we are using for the severance pay for BG & PT to get in a couple of Marque players in the first place we wouldn't be in this situation

I think it's a case of learning by your mistakes

It seems to me the way we run the club now is by separating recruitment away, and managers essentially are just coaches. They may ask for x player but they aren’t managing a club, they are head of the first team and kind of the line manager for the players.

It’s how a lot of top clubs run these days hence we seem like we are far more likely to keep sacking managers rather that wholesale squad changes.

It’s clear Wael and the club feel there is nothing wrong with this squad and it’s mismanagement and underperformance causing the issue.

I would actually agree, to some extent that this squad are good enough to survive in league 1. We should not be where we are. We are short a striker.

I think we were actually worse under the last few games under Tis, because he clearly wants negative, percentage based football and that isn’t the best use of resource in this squad.

As for a new manager, I think it has to be someone the players will respect. A load of premier league academy players having some bloke from the lower leagues they’ve probably not really heard of telling them to play ball to the strikers early and clearly league 2 type tactics.....was doomed to failure but hey, I thought “experienced league manager” so I thought it was the right appointment.

Whomever gets the job, it does need to be someone they won’t question, someone who’s been in the game higher than league 1/2. And I don’t mean Holloway. We love him but he isn’t that respected anymore and these thoughtful, thinking technical players aren’t the type to be “fired up”. It’s not that kind of squad.

Like him or loathe him, in hindsight we should have appointed Cottrell before BG. I don’t think Ollie is the right choice but could be the motivator the players respond to and picks the club back off it’s knees