Clarke Opinion Poll

Integrated to see if people's opinions on our head coach have changed from perhaps a few days ago.

 

Still support him. Reason I 'dont support him more after window' is because against certain teams, we still have had enough to beat them and we didn't. Hopefully he works a miracle for us...

 

Some people's support may have grown for him considering he's been let down badly

 

Not impressed, needs time. Not just based on the window but I think he has to be given time to make his mark on the team and then be judged on it. For me that means until November at least.

 

Couldn't vote, as there's not the right option for me. I'm unconvinced by him, but have become more sympathetic to the role he's doing as a consequence of the failures of the transfer window. It's a combo of the 2nd and 4th options, but neither of them in isolation.

 

Ditto.

 

Completely behind the Gilet Genius.

 

I think ‘supported him before (although he does make the odd baffling decision) and feel a bit sorry for the position he’s in after the transfer window’ would have been my choice. Tell you what though, if he gets us into a play-off position, with the players at his disposal, it will be some achievement, because nothing I’ve seen this season suggests they’re good enough.

 

I think he's got some good attributes as a manager. I think his game management is poor.

I don't think he always gets as much out of the squad as they are capable. But sometimes he does.

That's all a bit irrelevant though as the recruitment is appalling. It's just shocking. We waste money on garbage, we ship players out on loan that are better than what we bring in, as much as people complain about what we've done in the past, we've never seen anything like the shower of diarrhoea that's going on right now. It's a freak show.

 

I support him now and supported him before but that isn't mutually exclusive to the option I selected. I'm not impressed but he needs time.

The last two matches I've watched they've created one clear cut chance in 180 minutes and that was to a wing back who was never going to score.

Yet in the Bristol Rovers match they created enough chances for half a season and the players let him down. Before that an impressive winning streak, taking out some fancied teams.

So... no consistency. Players? Coach? Who knows.

At least after that window we can play with six wing backs and wingers and really confuse the opposition.

 

I've no problem what so ever will Clarke...were creating an abundance of goal scoring opportunities, I've just never known a season where we have fluffed as many chances

 

Like his candid interviews but think he'd be better managing a meat counter somewhere. Think he might be part of the reason the board haven't signed anyone of note this January. Why back someone who is about to get the Barnsley chop?

 

I’ve gone for the top option but it’s probably somewhere in between that and the second.

We all know he’s going to take the brunt of this though. If this poll is repeated at the end of March and we’ve sort of plodded along in the time period, I imagine the votes would look a bit different.

 

I've not been convinced by him from the opening minutes of the Mansfield game to be honest.

He's not been helped by recruitment in consecutive windows and I do empathise on that front. But in 7 months I'd expect an average coach to have structured a team that was organised and disciplined and had a fairly consistent style of play. I don't feel we have anything close to that. It all feels random and individual and that is a coaching issue. It's not a binary thing. Recruitment can be poor. The coach can be poor too.

 

He's far from perfect but given how unbalanced the squad is, he's done a reasonable job to be within a few points of the play off places at this point in time.

 

Gone for more time.

We can't start next season with yet another manager, who then has to work out who his players are. At which point it's November and we are cut adrift of a proper challenge, no matter what players we have.

I did a few weeks back suggest for once if we had a mediocre manager that is neither sacked or poached is likely how we get there, but I didn't expect it to be because of mediocre players.

I feel for him, but he isn't doing himself any favours at times.

I'd still give him time even if this season drifts into boredom and continues with inconsistency.

IMO the issues at the club are still hampered by board room/higher up than the head coach and the fallout from clear cashflow problems. And until that is resolved, we won't get much further than where we are.

 

I have to be honest and say I have wondered for a while now if the issue is not so much with individual roles but that there is something fundamentally wrong inside the club.
IMO there are lots of signs to suggest that.