Like many I fear the blind faith AM shows in his skipper will cost him his job
The lack of positive results should already have him walking the proverbial tightrope in my book. Ignoring the skipper issue, my main gripe is AM talks a very knowledgeable game, interviews well, and to listen to him, you'd think we would be playing play-off football. He has belief in what he's doing, and how he's doing it. However, whatever strategies and tactics the current regime employ, the minute the players cross onto the pitch, they all seem to go out the window. By now the alarm bells should be ringing, even to someone with such self belief. Why are his players with his tactics continuously getting beaten?
When he took over he said he'd survive the season with players he hadn't signed himself. He did survive, but had many of his own players by the end of April, most of which were then released in the summer.
He had said during last season that when he had put together a team of his own choosing, he had the belief that we could challenge the play-off positions. Well, as promised in the summer he has gathered his own squad, excepting Smithy and Jay, but results over the first 10 games are hardly troubling the play-offs, quite the opposite.
So, he's now had 30 league matches, 20 last season, and won 6. 10 this season, and won 3. 9 wins from 30. Is this good enough? It shows no progress, irrelevant of who brought the players to the club, it's no better this year than last. Playing 4,5,6 and sometimes 7 defensive outfield players clearly isn't stopping to goals going in, so who AM has brought in can't be good enough, and this is a manager who's first thoughts are to block up at the back.
So, if the results are no better, the players are no better, can AM motivate his team to turn things around? If the skipper's example is to go by, then we may by sinking already.
The Chestnuts have stood by all the changes AM has imposed, but there's no progress. Are they happy with this? Is AM there to guide us to mid table ambiguity, make sure we don't get relegated, but also not get us promoted due to financial restraints?
I can't believe The Chestnuts are happy with the current league position, and I genuinely hope that things are not left to get worse before decisive action is taken. An embarrassing cup defeat wasn't enough to cost DG last season after a disastrous start, but maybe it should have been.