City fans today woke up hoping that last night’s 5-2 thrashing was all a bad dream. Unfortunately it wasn’t and the KC Stadium record books have a new terrible entry. The performance has to rank alongside the Colchester and Southampton games for ineptness, yet all the blame cannot be laid solely at the door of the players or manager Phil Brown. City are paying for their hopeless start under Phil Parkinson, which sapped their confidence right from the start.
During December and January, the TigerNation thought the corner had been turned but after Middlesbrough, City have dropped quicker than a ball-bearing into a black hole! Strangely, Birmingham and Derby, two games where City weren’t expecting much, the team showed they could play. Whether you believe it or not, the injury to Barmby, in the QPR match, has taken the heart out of the team, and they are a shadow of what they were.
All this in unlucky for Phil Brown, as he is paying the price for City’s performances. There’s not much doubt that if City DO get relegated, chairman Adam Pearson will have to seriously consider if Brown is the man for the future at City. After all, PB only has a contract until the end of the season, when the situation will be reviewed. Could it be that City end up having 4 managers in the space of about a year? The possibility cannot be ruled out after this season.
AP has not had a great deal of success in choosing his managers. He arrived with Brian Little at the helm, and Pearson now regrets sacking him rather prematurely. AP then made, in hindsight, a grave error of judgment in appointing Jan Molby, which again I feel he regrets doing. Peter Taylor saved Pearson’s reputation, yet after he left, AP plumped for Parkinson and we know the rest.
In my personal view, there’s been mistakes from top to bottom inside the club, from the very top right down to the playing staff. Come the end of May, Phil Brown could be the one to pay for his predecessor’s mistakes and yet another error of judgment within the club.
nice read, it would have been so different a season if Parkinson motivated the players a little more before games and we played football from the start. Who knows where we could be now!
Either AP has been very unlucky in his choices of manager, or he is absolutely no judge of character! Well he can’t be good at everything I suppose, because I still think he’s a shrewd operator. Plus 5 more wins would have at least seen us safe now – doesn’t seem much across the 36 games we’ve played does it? “Its a funny old game”.
i reckon 5 more wins could still save us, shame we aint in a position to get them. I’d be happy with two before the end of the season now!
time is a running out…..they need to work together and hopoefully get through this…the inquest can be held then……
I think the team is to blame and 1 week we beat Birmingahm the next we get hamered by Ipswich.we know we can play football. I think we need to all get behind the team till the end of the season and be that 12th man.Think we need to get rid of some players at the end of the season and sign some championship players not league 1.Ap needs to make sure we inviste in good players.We wasted near a million on Bridges and Marney.Selling your best player Cort aswel dont help.