I will be there on Tuesday along with about 3000 die hards girding my loins for what is undoubtedly a relegation battle. I doubt very much if our survival matters as much to Mr Appleton as it does to me.
The calculation has to be, what stops us being totally swamped in a relegation battle, suspect Tuesday will decide it
I think that “must win” game was today, against one of the few teams below us in the table rather than against a team several places above us on Tuesday.
I’m not a trigger happy supporter. I’m normally in favour of us trying to give managers more time than a lot of our fan base, but this has gone beyond the pale now.
Feels like we're past the point of no return. A win on Tuesday will make no real difference to his long-term survival prospects so we might as well get it done for everyone's sake including his.
Another post I find myself tentatively in agreement with.
I think if Jackson, Adkins, Garner or Holden had this and the last window combined (or at least the finances from them) they would have done better than Appleton.
I suspect he has lost the dressing room. We are worse than the sum of our parts, repeatedly. I think he told a lot of the players they won't be here soon or made them feel that way. I don't really care about most of these players anyway. He gambled and messed up. Dobson, CBT and Jones look like a shell. Fwiw i think he is a great coach and I don't like sacking managers, but he will probably be out of here soon.
God knows we have been crying out for both stability of club ownership and in the team manager/coach position. But hardly any club would continue with Appleton based on the run of results we have had.
I wasn’t convinced when he was appointed. But we were would told he was “good on the grass” and worked well in developing young players. Well we have seen precious little evidence of that. And I have seen more charisma coming from a shop mannequin.
Time for the SMT and owners to bite the bullet, pull the trigger etc etc.
Think the manner was the defeat has probably put the nail in the coffin. All teams can get beat, but the second half sounded like we had run out of ideas and were never close to turning the result around. Zero idea how he survives this.
Maybe not. But he had similar issues. Struggled to win games if we conceded early towards the end of his time with us and went through a real patch where we couldn’t win. Doing alright at Wimbledon though, which is a long-term project to turnaround.
Bowyer losing faith in Sandgaard and leaving was the bigger problem.
I have just looked at pages 1,2 & 3 of this thread when Appleton was appointed back in September.
Virtually every C L poster is saying that this appointment will not end well.
Who ever thought that appointing Appleton was a good idea?
Utter madness.
They got him on the cheap, like they did the summer on the cheap. Luckily they've learnt from their mistake with the squad, won't be long before Appleton goes I hope.
If the owners give the slightest toss about keeping their investment from going even further down the tubes there is no other course of action but to say ta ta.
Like I said a fair few times over, no point giving him a window as he doesn't have a clue what's going on.
Sack him and spend what's left of the budget on a proper manager, a proper manager will get enough points out of this group to keep us up and then give that manager the transfer kitty in the summer.
Personally think we are in protest territory, we are sleepwalking into relegation places and we aren't making it clear enough collectively, as a group how unacceptable it is.
I don't even want him to get the Northampton game as there's a chance he can avoid defeat as it's at home and that may buy him more time. He should be gone in the morning.
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then sacked in April
I think if Jackson, Adkins, Garner or Holden had this and the last window combined (or at least the finances from them) they would have done better than Appleton.
Fwiw i think he is a great coach and I don't like sacking managers, but he will probably be out of here soon.
I wasn’t convinced when he was appointed. But we were would told he was “good on the grass” and worked well in developing young players. Well we have seen precious little evidence of that. And I have seen more charisma coming from a shop mannequin.
Time for the SMT and owners to bite the bullet, pull the trigger etc etc.
His body language,and the body language of some of the players speak a thousand words.
Virtually every C L poster is saying that this appointment will not end well.
Who ever thought that appointing Appleton was a good idea?
Sack him and spend what's left of the budget on a proper manager, a proper manager will get enough points out of this group to keep us up and then give that manager the transfer kitty in the summer.
Personally think we are in protest territory, we are sleepwalking into relegation places and we aren't making it clear enough collectively, as a group how unacceptable it is.
I don't even want him to get the Northampton game as there's a chance he can avoid defeat as it's at home and that may buy him more time. He should be gone in the morning.