Powell OUT

One thing I’ve never liked about Powell is his buck passing. Always has, always will be an excuse merchant. I seem to remember regular comments on here when he was in charge of Castleford regarding him playing the blame game after every loss during his interviews on Sky. Whether it be injuries, the pitch or the referee, someone else was always to blame for his or his teams failings.

I guess I’d have a little more time for him and more patience in his project, if he perhaps came out and admitted that he and his staff have perhaps got it wrong at times and there’s things they need to work harder on as well as the players. I think some culpability or humility would go a long way with us fans and perhaps the playing group also.

Instead, we’ve had players, experienced and young, thrown under the bus, culture issues within the club well broadcast and even the fans, bearing the brunt of his frustrations at his and the teams failings throughout the season.

Let’s face it, whether you’re Powell in, or Powell out - he’s got things wrong and the players can take all the blame they like, but to take a team, who were regular finishers in the top three or four, into a relegation scrap within twelve months, simply isn’t good enough.

Some managers and coaches are made for a club and made for a certain role. The players, regardless of what’s gone before, need to be willing to run through a brick wall for him and for some reason, too many of them are falling short in that department and that includes many of the players he’s brought into the club in order to allegedly help ‘change the culture.’

For me, he’s just not right for us and he’s nothing more than what Roy Hodgson was when he come to Liverpool - the wrong man, at the wrong time, at the wrong club. Great success at a lesser club such as Fulham, with lesser expectations and working on a shoe string, but just not up to the task at a bigger club which has higher expectations.

Regardless though, win or lose on Thursday, he’ll still be here come the start of next season, I’m certain of it.