27 shots to 7, 6 on target to 2 against the team just above us and another side with injury issues and three players making their debut. No excuses.
That’s now six defeats on the bounce and no goals for four games.
I would not just sack a manager based just on results. Alex Ferguson survived over two years without any success. I would always ask myself “Do I think we are likely to improve with this manager in charge?”
Frankly, I can’t see it. He plays our best goal poacher on the wing, employs a formation which leaves our (young) defence exposed, he leaves our top scorer last season on the bench and humiliates a young player on his debut by pulling him off just before half-time.
I’m struggling for positives. All I can come up with is that we have lost most games by a single goal and the others by only two. However, we have been outplayed in almost every game and been lucky to escape with a narrow defeat. How many games have we looked like we had a chance of winning? Barnsley was good and Harrogate was welcome, but we have been uninspiring in all the others, by all accounts.
Embarrassing though it is for the owners, this can’t go on.