I will get accused of 'repeating myself' by the usual suspects on the match thread so want to post my thoughts on this here.
Firstly, I have no ill-will toward Des, he will get a huge payoff and I'm sure that is a comfort to him, perhaps the CFG will give him a cushy job or there's a youth team he'd enjoy managing somewhere.
But I'm sorry, this is an utter, utter farce and he's the most out of his depth manager I can ever recall. There is no excuses left. We have strengthened in January, he has players to choose from who are very, very good players at this level (Brannagan, McGuane, Ruben R, Harris, Moore, Dale, Leigh) and he gets absolutely nothing out of them.
There is no style of play. We haven't played well in one entire game once in his entire tenure.
He exudes the energy of a lost puppy, a rabbit in the headlights perhaps. Nothing he says gives me confidence. There's a lot of modern football waffle in there but the proof is on the pudding, on the pitch it's unacceptable.
I find it hard to pin the blame on a squad which had us second. It's clearly mismanaged to f--k.
Key lessons we need to learn:
- never pay compensation for a manager. Too risky at this level
- Don't get sucked in by the local boy aspect.
We dropped a huge clanger not getting rid of KR earlier, Mousinho was clearly the man but hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I'm not paying money to watch this farce any longer, yes, sacking him is expensive, but so is the cost of fans who won't bother turning up to watch this utter pish.