What bothers me about the latest reaction is what it says about the mindset of certain "supporters". No one is above criticism. I have issues with some of Poch's decisions, now and in the past. The away form is of concern (although last season was beset by injuries to key players in the latter part of the season). But I cannot understand how one goes from raising reasonable concerns to concluding, as some have done, that we should fire our most successful manager of recent times and hire Jose Mourinho. Even a modicum of perspective should allow a fan to realize that the grass is not always greener. Just look at Man Utd., Chelsea and Arsenal where new coaches have struggled to take a team to success. And I'm old enough to remember in my youth the end of the Nicholson era, the Terry Neil era, relegation (and rebirth). Our current malaise comes in the context of three new signings that have hardly played along with disruption from players that had wanted to leave. How can one not give Poch time to see if the new additions do the trick?
My point was that several of the more fancied teams have also suffered poor starts to the season, Wolves among them. And that short term thinking frequently leads to poor results, as our history and those of other teams has often shown. Or would you rather repeat the failures of the past by ignoring what happened then?
What can I say, I just want to run with the wolves.
Ole will be gone by Xmas. No to holding fire, because he has no managerial track record apart from abject failure at Cardiff. Ardiles and Hoddle winning the FA Cup didn't save them at Spurs. Performance as a player really should not have any influence on retention as a coach. Poch gets time to turn us around because in his period with us he has taken a Europa League side into the Champions League and kept them there.
I have seen numerous posts on different platforms by Spurs "fans" calling for his head. I'm glad you agree that makes no sense but, believe it or not, there are others who take the contrary view. My point is, and remains, that perspective can be gained by looking at the several teams that were around us last year and at how they have performed in the early part of the season. Whatever the reason, and you have cited to some, they are not doing any better than we are.
I think that you would find that supporters of the other clubs would take issue with that sentiment!!
Of course! I was responding to the previous posters comment (which may have been tongue in cheek) regarding whether Ole would get more time at Man Utd because he scored the winner in the Champions League final in 1999.
