Quote ccs="ccs"Maybe AP has already got a proven new coach lined up, but he's not available until the end of the season?
What does AP do until then?
Sack all the coaches now, which would cost him serious money, and suffer the unpredictable consequences?
Or continue with the status quo and ignore the flack he's getting from some sections of the "fans".'"
The problem is that there is the very real risk that by keeping the coach/coaching team in situ we continue to nose dive and with withering confidence could (not saying we will) end up in the championship which would be unbelievably devastating on many different levels.
If a coach isn't available until season end to physically be here at least get people in that that coach would trust to carry out what he would want, even if that is A>N> Other interim coach.
Of course we could come good, there is always that possibility, but you'd have to say the probability of us doing so and avoiding the middle 8s at least are not good. Yes the outcome of those games is far from predictable but I still would see us surviving and being back in SL for next year. Firstly do we want to be scrapping for SL survival and secondly do we honestly think the present coach/es are capable of getting this team to just more than survive?
Add into the equation the fans feelings and the almost near total disenfranchisment with regard to how we are playing and the perception of apathy by the owner to act then you have lost a whole raft of surporters whom no longer believe, no longer trust the owner to do the right thing, won't buy passes, won't buy shirts etc.
Economically it is a greater risk to keep LR in place than it is to dispose of him, that's the bare bones of how I and many others see it, that doesn't even come down to the fall out that is happening right now in our celebration year which is an embaressment to say the least. Weighing up the balance of what to do and when comes down to the owner, I fear he doesn't have the decision making ability to do the right thing for the club because of the hole he has dug himself. To me he is clearly entrenched and would rather save face than swallow his pride & will play things out until at least the end of the season than make the decision now to get rid.