Oh so sad! Oh so innevitable!

Usually when a manager goes the general feeling is that we have had more than enough, and we are usually looking forward to whoever is coming to replace them.

After the drama of the second half of last season, David Flitcroft and his management team captured our hearts and enthusiasm. I cant remember a manager that everyone desperately so much wanted to succeed. This feeling endured during the early poor results. But over the last few weeks it became innevitable to all that his departure was a matter of when he would go, rather than if he would go.

After the display today everyone could see that his time was sadly up. Whilst there were the innevitable boos during and after the game, there were not the usual chants for the manager to go, which is in itself was quite remarkable in the circumstanses. I for one however am extremely sad that it did not work out for a very likeable guy. Hope he succeeds somewhere else.

We now look forward to whoever will be appointed. One way or another it is going to be a long way to the end of the season.

 

Yep, agree. There surely can't have been many more universally popular choices when he got the job permanently after the Huddersfield game. In fact, there would have been some sort of riot if he hadn't got it.

It's quite unbelievable how quickly it has gone wrong - even after today his sacking was not universally wanted, but it was inevitable. After the very difficult start we were served up with, everyone's thoughts were on the run of winnable games we had coming up and how it would turn our season around. When we went through the lot without winning them, he had nowhere to go - After Millwall last week the season looked doomed to disaster, and today just confirmed it.

I have been one of the ones stating all week that a defeat today and he has to go. I voted in the poll at the top of the board for him to go. Now it's happened, I don't feel happy about it because I wished it would have worked for him. But he proved himself to be not the right man for the job, and that's all that matters. By next week we'll all have moved on and he'll be well remunerated for his efforts. Ah well....

 

Agree with every word of that

 

I don't feel sorry, Flicker along with his mate Hill was responsible for the position we were in last December, they brought sub standard players in. Flicker has had more backing than any manager I can ever remember, he demanded this and demanded that and got it. He brought in players who proved not to be good enough, fell out with the academy by all accounts. I think he believed he was better than he actually was.

 

For me, the 'what-went-wrong' klaxon should be blaring loudly at Flitcroft's ditching of Foster and his bizarre treatment of Hassell. Two key members of the Great Escape squad from last year, neither a world-beater in their own right, but integral to all that 'togetherness' thing that Flitcroft loved so much. I'll nail my colours to the mast here and say that we would not be in the position we're in if both those players had been part of his plans this season.