I really wanted to break the cycle of sacking managers, but to do that we need to have something to cling on to - some sign of progress, some reason for optimism. Outside of the young players coming through, who will be here whoever the manager is, I'm not seeing anything. Zero progress week to week, no obvious reactions to the problems, just the same old same old.
I have a lot of sympathy for the hard circumstances this year, injuries especially, but there should still be a pattern of play. Worse players perhaps, a pattern but less well executed. These players aren't so bad that the pattern should be undeterminable from the play - which leaves the only conclusion that what we are doing is by design & can't possibly build any optimism on taking this into next year, even with different players.