by Snowflake Royal »
21 Jan 2018 23:57
I think we're at the point where the only arguments for not sacking him are:
1) Whether there's a viable alternative available who will be better
- It's all well and good experiencing what we've got and saying it can't be worse. It objectively could. We could have lost the last 10 games 4-0. Even in this dreadful winless run, we've still picked up the (very) occasional point.
2) We want to gamble on him doing well enough to keep us up and seeing if a new season and a new start can make a difference
- There is, after all, a proto-decent manager in there somewhere. You don't get a team that was in a slump when you arrived to 3rd without some quality. Even if it all goes to shit the next year and you're a large part of that. And Even if perhaps that good one was an unrepresentative over performance - it can't have been THAT flukey. I can see an argument for running your luck and finishing a handful of places higher than you really deserve. But not 15.
3) There's something weird going on behind the scenes disrupting everything and it isn't actually much Stam's fault.
I think you'll seriously struggle to find (m)any people who actively want him to stay and think that's a good option.
Personally, I'm resigned to him being sacked, but I can't say I'm happy about going through another period of change, uncertainty and rebuilding. I don't know I'm ready to actively call for his head and say I want him to be sacked. I'm not convinced he's taking us down like I was with Rodgers or Clarke. I'm certainly worried. I guess I'm just so resigned to how we've drifted from what I loved about the club over the last 10 years and how consistently disappointing we've been (apart from last season), I just can't dredge up the energy to call for his head.
I certainly can't see any justification for defending him staying in the job on merit.