I assume we have one of the best away records in the league, and whilst GB can take criticism for home defeats, he should therefore take praise for our away record by making us hard to beat.
Our away form is the third best in the League, behind Cheltenham and FGR, but only marginally better than Gateshead, Dover, Grimsby and Braintree. Our home form is the twelfth best.
I understand what Sparky says about arresting the slide after two relegations, but on many of the other targets that were set (by the board) at the start of the season Brabin simply has not performed.
Palios stated that we should be reaching the play-offs as a minimum this season, but we will almost certainly fall short. He suggested that we should play a more enterprising brand of football and significantly improve the home form. Again, I think we have fallen short. He also talked about the need to develop a squad with a blend of youth and experience and a number of players in their prime. However, a number of our most high-profile signings - McNulty (still a good player clearly), GTF, Higdon - don't meet these criteria at all, and offer little if anything to the club in the longer term, and none of them will have come cheap.
I don't think you can just brush the wage budget to one side and say 'irrespective of budgets' either. If, as has been reported, Cheltenham's and Wrexham's budgets are circa £600-700,000, we must have wasted an incredible amount of money this season. In addition to some of the signings I mentioned above, think of the number of mediocrities that have come and gone (Jackson, Blissett, Tomlinson) and senior players on big money that have been shoved out on loan or permanent deals (Sutton, Mangan). There are other players on good money who are barely featuring at the moment (Maynard, Riley, Hogan). And yet we don't have a genuine goalscorer at the club, nobody to assist Norwood. Is that really an efficient use of resources ?
The manager constantly talks about the strength of the squad, yet we seem to have stockpiled players in certain areas while having clear deficiencies in others (the lack of goals, the lack of creativity in midfield).
I still believe the failure to address the home form is a massive issue and it will be impossible for us to succeed until this problem is dealt with. If our home and away form was swapped, we would still miss out on the play-offs. The home form has to be better. Unless our play is more positive, creative, adventurous at Prenton Park, it won't change.
But despite all that, I agree with Sparky that he will still be here next season.