Genuine (but a bit long) reason

It is easy to get too worked up about short term results in football. Most football games are decided by very very small margins, most of which are outside the control of the manager (such as refereeing decisions, the bounce of a deflected ball, whether a striker puts a ball six inches inside the post or six inches outside, and - most obviously - how the opposition do since they are 50% of the game). It is easily possible for manager to do exactly the same thing in terms of tactics/team selection and get wildly different results based on a few key incidents here and there.
In general I think we have played good attractive football this season and I genuinely believe in the vast majority of cases that would have resulted in more points than we actually have. But this season we really can't seem to buy a break - struggling to remember a season when we've had so little good fortune. Football is like that - sometimes you get seasons when every bobble of the ball seems to fall your way, the opposition misses sitters, shots get deflected in etc. We had a couple of those under Lambert. Sometimes you'll get a sh*t season like this one. But it doesn't necessarily mean it is the fault of the manager (obviously it might be, that's a judgement call you have to make).
I think in the main we have played good football this year but crucial little mistakes at either end (things that the players concerned are quite capable of getting right, and would get right more times than not) at key times have cost us really badly. Therefore I want the manager to stay - I like watching good football, we seem to have a really good spirit, and don't think the bulk of things that have gone against us this season are down to him.
And to appoint a young manager and then bail at the first run of bad results seems a really crap way to run a football club.

Posted By: mr carra, Mar 2, 08:16:58