Should Sabri Be Sacked Or Not?

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Here we go again. How confident are we that we will get a better manager who is going to get more from players chosen by Sabri. We have gone down this path a million times during the last 25 years and it weakens the club. It gets the club further into debt and more distant from the premier league. We assemble a team to play one style, chuck it away and try a new style with players brought in my previous managers. That strategy has been proven to fail. Sometimes patience gets rewarded. Ferguson at It's, O Neil at Leicester and even Cloughie. The great man arrived in Jan 1975 and we didn't get promoted until May 1977 when we finished 3rd. That was 2 and half seasons later. Sabri did alright last season let's give him a reasonable crack at this season. Surely can't be sacking a manager after two games this season.

Sanity at last. I suspect we're in the minority now.

Sanity in what respect?

Are you advocating no change for the sake of it?

What is there to suggest that this is the right course of action?

At what point, if the run continues, does supporting the current manager become insanity?

I dearly want him to succeed and have not once suggested he go but I struggle to make a coherent case to support why. 

From a personal perspective he made a number of baffling decisions last season when we were on a good run but they were ignored because the results spoke for themselves and rightly so. 

This isn’t a small run of bad games. 

This isn’t us not getting the rub of the green.

If I felt the players were playing for him then I would be confident of us turning a corner soon. I genuinely can’t see that right now. We have had two decent patches of football this season. One against QPR where Sabri had to go against his fundamental principles as to how he sets us up and today when Cardiff were two up, coasting and stopped doing some of the basics they were doing in the first half.

So you are saying Twist for the 20th time in 21 years then. Can you remind me of when that has worked?

No I dont know if Sabri can turn it around either but I do know chucking it all away and starting again at this point wont work either.