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All managers are inexperienced when they take their first jobs; that doesn't make all of them failures. There's no guarantee that LC or GR or anyone else would be more successful than AT, but a hopeful change is better than certain failure.

As tight as SISU are, I fancy they are savvy enough to realise what an easy bet it is to make. Paying off Thorn and bumping the salary of Rioch/Carsley/another is chump change compared to the potential returns of staying in the division. I reckon what's holding them back is either them being...

We need to switch gears. The time for defence and contrived passing has gone. The only way to get out of this mess is to score goals, lots of them. Even one win v three losses still gives us a higher points-per-game average than we have right now. All or nothing, charging from midfield, tons...

Just seen this post, and I kinda addressed it in another thread. If you get into microanalysis then yes, you can play with numbers. You can say we average 1.5 points-per-game over the last two games or whatever. But across the entire season...both halves of the season...both of the most...

I think BRR is being a tad ironic.

It really wasn't a huge game at all. It just doesn't matter - we are consistent and predictable. To focus on one game is to totally ignore the big picture, which is utterly damning (consistent point average in every section of the season; no away wins; variable performances etc). The only way...

That is ridiculous. Even if West Brom are paying the wages, it still means money coming out of Pompey if only in the form of taxis, extra laundry bills, meal costs, hotel bills etc. A joke.

On the contrary, we have been very consistent all season (see this) Our home form is as freakish as our away form. We should expect neither to continue indefinitely, but the loss of continual home wins would be far more devastating. Have the best of both: use your head to accept that AT...

It is 100% at his door. It was 100% at his door the day he took the job. I've seen many poor managers at CCFC but, to their credit, they rarely bitched about ownership or lack of resources. They'd say it was their responsibility. Now, that responsibility does not mean expecting an arbitrary...

This is one of the initial issues many (including you, I believe) had with AT. The immense performance against West Ham, in spite of a loss, raised the question of why the team wasn't putting in such performances every week. It was at that point that the "we have a terrible squad and are thus...

Nope, just checked. The last time was 1999 - 2000.

A lot of this was covered in the analysis of stats in the 'Interesting' thread. The problem here is that this loss, just like the 'give Thorn a pat on the back' stuff', is merely a smokescreen. We can get into the details of whose crosses were crap, or where the subs went wrong, or who...

Kduffy just saved me having to look it up, but it just goes to show the problems of micro-analysis. On the surface, yes, CCFC has experienced an increase in points with Nimely aboard. But you have to add commentary to raw data: we won the last game courtesy of two penalties, which is something...

As atrocious as Forest's form is, the only form that really matters for CCFC is our away form. And it's bad reading: P15 W0 D3 L12 GD -18 That's actually fewer points-per-game than Forest have averaged in their awful recent run. So let's be in no doubt about it - Forest are soft at the moment...

Average points-per-game from the last game: three. The difference in our analyses is that I am assessing the team over an entire season in much more reasonable chunks. The whole season, cut in half, cut it in half again, cut it in half again. It gives a broad view of what this team is about...

A shame. I expected better from a poster such as yourself. All I said is that CCFC are consistent to the point of being predictable when it comes to point accumulation (which this thread is about - not the merits of AT's stewardship). There is no 'surge', no great turnaround. The facts bear...

CCFC is a very, very consistent team in terms of points accumulation. Our hopes here are raised not because we're doing so well, but because others are doing so poorly at the moment. Long may it continue, but it shouldn't be banked upon.

The first 15 games of the season we averaged 0.8 points per game. After 31 games of the season we are averaging 0.8 points per game. 4 wins from 5 home games may look impressive, but five losses in the last seven (0.75 per game) looks equally unimpressive. Get behind the team by all means...

If the fireman is inept at putting out the fire, then yes. I also find it a little dubious that a forum moderator is liking posts which advocate the stifling of opinion...

I explained this the other day, but I'll take another bash at it. This is a league system, not a franchise system. If there was no threat of relegation then I would be happy to see any manager be given at least a season or two or three. He could blood the kids with no pressure, let them...