Post-Doncaster- Artell: Sack or Keep?

Quoted from chaos33

The problem with this is that we should’ve been ‘digging in’ long before now. We should be now, and we aren’t. These performances are more ‘caving in’ than ‘digging in’. Sentiment and calls to arms won’t sort this. We can’t pull close now. Not after yesterday’s scenes. Surely this must be seen by the owners. I think JS is emotionally intelligent. He must surely read the room now. Wish it could be done Jason. Nobody likes or wants this. It’s bleak. It’s got to end and be replaced with something that people can actually ‘pull close and dig in’ with.

Quoted from mariner91

Isn’t that what people were saying last week? And we got bent over by an exceptionally average Donny.

Quoted from arryarryarry

I can't remember the last time there was a chorus of fans singing "you're not fit to wear the shirt" Obviously it wasn't all fans as most had drunk off home at that point.

Quoted from Balthazar Bullitt

It's six points.



Our goal difference has worsened by about 2 goals per game since the start of the year

Quoted from AncientExiledMariner

I like how you're limiting the scope to 6 games to load the question and I'm not going to play your game, because I have the memory of the full season and not the last couple of matches.

Our biggest problems were defence, full back and DM. I personally think Hume is an improvement. We have comeptition at CB so can bring our Maher or Rodgers. I'd have personally gone with Maher after seeing him refuse a pass and put Cartwright up excrement creek. Smith is young and is still bedding in. I'll personally give it time like I did with Pyke and Vernam when The Fishy wrote them both off.

He can get us to compete with Notts and Accrington. 1 goal would have won it for us, and if he can do the same in future matches, with that squad we had for Accrington and maybe Hunt also fit, I think we have reasonable chances of a result on any day. The problem with this mentally weak squad is we also have reasonable chances of a tanking. Draws ain't going to get us out of this situation. We'd probably want a good 4 wins on the board, and I think we can do that, even if there is several more losses. We do not have the squad to go much past survival right now, but I personally think DA is the best chance of that with this squad.

Oh, and on what metrics, yesterday, we had more possession, more shots, the same number of shots on target and virtually the same amount of corners. Unfortunately they had 4 shots on goal and scored 5. Hot knife through butter. I'm getting Eastwood vibes.

Quoted from Poojah

I’m not trying to play games; I referenced the last 6 games because they’re the best insight we have into the short-term future of travel. But even if you go back to include the good bits, when it was initially promising in all fairness, he still has one of if not the worst managerial record in GTFC history as things stand.

I have never known a Town side concede 21 goals in the space of 6 games, or 5 home games, however you want to look at it. Has that ever happened happened before in the club’s history? I suspect it probably hasn’t, and certainly not post-war.

Whatever you believe the manager is capable of producing in our upcoming games, is it undeniable that we are seeing managerial underperformance of historic proportions. That tends to outweigh any faith that he might have earned during his early games in charge, especially when it comes at a time when we are at real risk of an unthinkable third relegation to non-league.

Ultimately, your opinion is in direct contrast to the popular view on here and amongst Town fans more broadly, but that doesn’t necessarily make you wrong. We’ve seen throughout history that sometimes the correct or more progressive viewpoint is the unpopular one, but in this particular instance the evidence, to my mind, looks to be seriously mounting against the idea that David Artell is the man to get us out of our sizeable predicament.

Quoted from Poojah

Stockwood’s just posted this. If this is an inference that we are allowing Artell to stay on, then he’s got it catastrophically wrong imo.

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Quoted from PB

So JS is sticking with Artell for now (is he too expensive to sack?). I wonder how long he is planning on ‘digging in’? …..the rest of the season? Surely defeat by FGR would be the end.

BTW -  As a regular Grauniad writer he should know it’s not ‘your’ but ‘you’re’.