Jimmy Hill's Chin
Well-Known Member
I'd give Thorn the first five league games - Yeovil (A), Sheffield United (H), Bury (H), Crewe (A) and Stevenage (H). Any less than three wins from these five matches against teams, who with the exception of Sheffield United are hardly footballing behemoths, should see Thorn removed. We have to be ruthless and the toleration of Thorn who is a third-rater at best is damaging our club. Keeping him until Christmas if we are mid-table, which will probably see us out of the promotion reckoning and consigned to another year in this wretched division, would be a grave mistake. I think five games to plead his case is what Thorn deserves but if he fails again the excuses will have run out and it will be time for him to go and an experienced manager to be recruited, ie not Carsley or Shaw.