Ladies and Gents
The last thing any football club needs is to lose a manager whose performed in my view well, he's overhauled the playing style and gave the team some belief but also learnt and shown flaws at this level, this is to be expected and as a fan base as a whole we are disappointed as we expected/hoped for promotion.
To be honest i would be surprised if he is still here with us next season, i see him like Katie Price before Dwight Yorke, good to look at and aesthetically pleasing but hard to get a result with.
However we've had 4 mangers in 2 yrs, 4 fucking managers is a joke for us or any club that wants to create a culture, a pathway for younger players and execute a strategic plan.
Russell's main issue was allowing us to go into the season with a injured centre forward who i suspect ex-sunderland Mowbray most likely vouched for, which then just leads us into season 3 or 4 of not having a proper striker since ings.
Changing manager would feel like we are not addressing the issue, the current issue is having clinical forwards to execute this game plan, we had 80% of it right this season but that missing 20% has cost us this season.
We needed to win games, kill them off early and then sit back to counter or rotate the ball which will help defensively.
Something positive recently at least is that martin has been massively fucked off when we all have been fucked off so he's not completely deluded.
All i know is it always shit being a fan, our team gives us hope and more often than not its a long version of torture before abject failure.