Blame Johnson if you like, but if he hadn't stepped in when he did, the club would not have had the 'wonder years' and tranmere fans would not have all those great memories of Nevin, Aldridge and company ripping bigger clubs apart at Prenton Park. I firmly believe TRFC would either be out of business altogether, or playing the likes of Southport on a regular basis, probably at Shaftsbury boys club, with a supermarket sitting where Prenton Park once did.
People shouldn't bash Johnson, other than to ask him to act quicker to give Barnes to boot. It's obvious to me where the failure is.
I see us ending the season in a position of around 15th. I also see a better situation next season.
We can pull this view apart after the next 10 games have been completed.
I'm just a cock-eyed optimist
Yes you're completely cockeyed at the moment. I see us ending the season mid-table under another manager, but under Barnes the only place I see us ending is rock bottom last, and cut well adrift of the rest of the league.
We've given it the 10 games people said to hold off before passing judgement. In fact we've had 11 league matches.
We've scored 9 times in those 11 matches but let in a whopping 26.
On "average" we've lost 3-1. Millwall's "average result" is to draw 1-1 and after beating us are up to mid-table,
they stuffed us 5-0. There's no bright side, we are bottom of the pile.
Although I do think the Colchester draw was a fair result, if Colchester had finished a fraction of the chances we gave them, then we would have lost - in short we got lucky and got a draw when on another day the result could have been worse. We aren't going to get lucky 35 times to get draws for the rest of the season... so I can't see where your optimism comes from!
You must have the patience of a saint. What makes you think he can change things around? Have you seen any light at the end of the tunnel?