Are we a club that is just too cosy?

It is a performance business, being in charge of a football team. It is not unreasonable that you are set targets against timescales. If you fail one, or two of those targets, it may not matter, as long as things are perceived to be improving underneath the surface. As coach/manager, you are accountable to the owner and the board, but I just wonder how rigorous is the accountability between coach and board at this club? The ethos we seem to glimpse from the outside is that of 'give him time to develop the young players' at the moment, but that needs to be coupled with some conversations with the board with a degree of gravitas about them if things are not going well. I am not convinced that this is happening at this club, although the best news I heard from yesterday (no, I wasn't there) was about Johnson losing his rag a bit, by which it does look as though some of the pain of relative failure is getting through to him. He needs to be regularly held to account by the board regarding all aspects of performance. I just wonder if a lot of the first year of the Johnson regime has been characterised by a too cosy and easy-going attitude by the board - I could be wrong, of course, but LJ needs to know that his period of tenure is not guaranteed and he will leave either as someone who achieved relative success, or relative failure. At the moment, the main demonstrable pressure on LJ is coming from the stands. It needs to be coming from the board as well on a regular basis, not just after the horse has bolted and the door was never shut properly.

 

No we're a club that sacks managers then gives their replacement the arse end of a season and one summer to turn things round. When they don't we sack the replacement and start again.

Then wonder why we are on the slide.


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This.

And I don't know how telling him that if he doesn't perform he's going to get sacked, on a weekly basis, is going to help. I think he's all too aware of that already.

 

No faith in those above him to see it through

 

Agreed. Everything's way too immediate nowadays but particularly at this football club. It's become as though if we lose 2 or 3 on the spin then winning the next game seems like merely a stay of execution. He should be backed 100%

It annoyed me that they got rid of Wilson when we were equidistant between the play offs and relegation zone in February. If they're looking for an immediate return the Championship or they give the Head Coach the boot then we'll be in this league a long long time.

What the team and Head Coach need right now is support. From the board and the "supporters".