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I don't understand how you can write off Carsley - or anyone else, for that matter - but still defend AT's record?

To repeat: we will never know because CCFC never implemented the strategy correctly. The whole point of chop-and-change is to keep hold of the rare good ones; but we fired Black and Nilsson. You're correct in asserting that changing every manager every year will be ineffective, but not if we...

This is a subjective call. Some will feel that this team is beyond hope and is bound for 24th place. Others, such as myself, believe a good manager will be able to lead a legitimate fight against relegation with the available resources. No-one is right or wrong on that, but it is pigheaded to...

Once again, that is the argument of a fanatic. If you think that the majority of fans would not favour a change then you are wilfully blind to the situation.

Any personal insults against AT are unfair and ill-placed. I'd say the majority of people calling for a change in manager are sympathetic to the job that AT has taken on, and most wish him to remain at the club in another role. But truly, you'd be hard-pressed to find a manager who has kept his...

There are many ways in which football has gone in the wrong direction, but hopefully these new Financial Fair Play rules will be a step forward. Creating some parity will be a good thing; as much as people may criticise SISU for not spending, you'll find most other clubs in a similar boat within...

Interesting thread. It's clear that the dwindling pro-AT faction has gone from sympathetic to amusing to outright fanatical. I could understand the loyalty in October, November, maybe early December, but now in February? The more certain relegation becomes, the greater the hardening of...

An unfortunate comment for three reasons: 1. It implies that people will find flaw with anything AT does, i.e. irrational attacks. That is not true. 2. It uses a hypothetical situation as a defence, rather than attempting to defend the facts. 3. Even if that scenario did play out, you...

He did have players sold from under him. But he was the one who decided it would be in the best interests of a struggling team to keep the likes of Edworthy, Breen, and Aloisi on the bench. Remember Barry Quinn as fullback? Brrrrr. We saw some good times under his tenure, but his utter...

Doncaster and Forest are two points better off than us; that may not sound like much, but it's a mountain in this context. By our standards those two points are the equivalent of two and a half games, ie we may as well have played 2-3 games more than they have if we're saying our output is...

I can't believe there's even a debate about this. Have we entered the Twilight Zone? We are bottom of the table. We have not won a single away game. We lose 79% of all away games. Our average points per game is so bad that only four second-tier teams in the last 20 years have had a lower...

Have you seen our league position?! We're as good as relegated and have been for months. Things cannot get worse. What difference does it make if a new manager doesn't work out? At least the club would have tried to change things...

We're already the whipping boys of the Championship. We've been bottom of the table for two months. Any team playing at home is thinking "there's three points".

Gregor Rioch (on the payroll, success with the academy, has personal relations with and managed much of the squad). Lee Carsley, for some of the same reasons. Failing that, hold a lottery of anyone who applies and pick a winner out of a hat. At the very, very least we should be trying...

You don't need to know more or less than the players - you only need to look at the facts. 1. CCFC has been in the bottom three since October 29th 2. CCFC has been bottom of the table since December 3rd 3. Currently 8 points from safety including goal difference - nearly three full wins...

You do not know this. Unlikely to be true. A new manager would effectively be taking on AT's salary, making it just a question of severance pay, which cannot be a significant sum (and probably cushioned further by promising AT another role in the organisation). Additionally, SISU have been...

Another hypothetical scenario. That is no good as a case for the defence. Attempt to justify AT's management tonight by all means, or contextualise it by looking at previous games...but the "this would have happened" defence is lame.

Experience doesn't matter. It is not a guarantor of anything. Some may like to believe that SISU are so universally hated that no man would take the job, but the truth is that they'd be swamped with applications like they always have been whenever there has been a vacancy. Rioch, even Carsley...

This. The criticism of Thorn has been in place since November when we found ourselves bottom of the table before December. One swallow doesn't make a summer...AT would receive all due credit if he extracted the most out of this squad and matchday possibilities on a consistent basis (win OR...

Utterly hypothetical. The question is how he actually managed his substitutions and tactics tonight.