it's always difficult to think of a manager that can improve a club's fortunes. Who knows if his style will fit in with the current squad. I know you can say "replace some of the squad" but before we can do that, we have to get rid of the replaceable players and quite simply: who's going to take the likes of Whitmore, Wilson, Goodison and Harrison off us?
Releasing them would cost us.
I believe that a change is not always a good thing. Stats show that: overall, changing a manager mid season does not improve results.
However, I would also say that Brian is clueless and will have us playing League 2 footie next season.
I also believe that as soon as HE believes we are doomed, he will walk, and I reckon it will be around the february mark, which will leave us with little chance of bringing in fresh players.
It will then be a lottery as to whether a new manager can keep us up.
I'd actually go for Ray Matthias. Team him up with someone passionate like Ned Kelly and I believe he'd keep us up.
In Ray's last season, despite us struggling for points, we played better football than at 95% of the time since, under Brian. Remeber the game against Wrexham when they beat us with 2 scorchers? we had not been second best in that game. We had also recently outplayed Nottm Forest (who were going well in the Championship) in the cup before they beat us on penalties.
Ray's teams play good flowing, passing football. Something Brian seems incapable of coaching. Ray is Tranmere through and through and is tried and tested. We know what we'd get from him. Any other manager (regardless of their history) is a big risk. Employing Brian is proof of that.
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