I’ve backed the manager until the last few weeks. Doubts came in after Rangers and I’ve been fully out for the past few games.
Because I changed my mind.
No agenda. No disliking him for being a fat cunt. Just an opinion that changed with what I was seeing.
Hopefully, I will be allowed to stay on the forum, that I’ve been a member of for longer than most of you, even though I had the temerity to have an opinion some didn’t agree with.
It would also be nice if I was allowed to continue to support the club I’ve supported for 43 years too.
I shall await the express affirmation from the forum and club bosses. The ones that were right all along.
I'm in a similar position, and admire you for posting yours. I was behind Ange in the first few months of this season when in my opinion (not to mention that of most pundits, and all objective statistical analysis) our results were not reflective of our performances, which so many on here totally failed to grasp. We deserved so many more points than what we had by mid-October.
But in the last couple of months the
performances have fallen apart, we don't seem to have any idea how to defend, where to be when our teammate looks likely to lose the ball in 3 seconds' time, we just don't look well-coached. I know there are lots of injuries, but some of this stuff is so basic, and even with so many injuries we should be able to get
some results, our club of our stature shouldn't be in a position where an injury crisis means we lose every single game for months on end. And right now it looks as though if we stay as we are, we'll not win another league game this season. Sounds a bit hyperbolic, maybe it is, but if we can't get anything from Everton or Leicester, then who are we getting points from? We won't necessarily get battered in any of the remaining games - strangely, we never do - but a loss is a loss.
One more key factor for me - others may have different opinions, which of course they are welcome to, but for me, Ange had not until very recently lost the dressing room. If anything, when you look at games like the Chelscum game, the players were trying to hard and consequently making mistakes. But today when the 7 minutes board went up (ridiculous as it should have been at least 12, but hey ho), after that point there were several instances where the players looked like they didn't care any more or thought it was impossible to score, they had no urgency or desire. And at that point, rightly or wrongly, usually it means the manager is done.
