It’s like trading - which absolutely involves luck, Copenhagen. You don’t stick to a trade because you like it, you stick to a trade because it’s working.
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If we “roll the dice” on Iroala and he goes 7 games without a win would you stick with him? What if he refused to come to us because our full backs are shit. If you’d replace the fullbacks for him why not Moyes?
Would you roll the dice on Thomas Frank? Keith Andrew’s? Keith Andrews’s set piece coach?
Would you have rolled the dice on Potter or any other managers that have been flavour of the month and poached by big 6 sides?
Amorim?
Marco Silva?
Postecoglu?
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are many. Moyes is a known quantity. He has no gamma. Why bother running the experiment again even with a few better players or at least players he’s prepared to play added? We know the result already.
We can do better. Of course we can do worse, too, but that’s the nature of risk. Do we want to progress and win things someday, or do we want to be “stable”. He achieved stability - he always does. He deserves lots of credit for that. But it’s time to roll the dice. Previous Message
This outcome next season would be unacceptable and sackable.
But at the start of this season the brief was comfortable mid table.
The fact we competed for Europe probably says more about the quality of the league than any progress, but don’t let that disappointment at missing out cloud judgment too much.
Form tailed off significantly and if we start the first 7 games next season without a win I’ll want Moyes out and admit I’m wrong to have supported him now.
But give him 3 decent signings and I’ll be more confident of a top half finish than if we sack him and start again. This is very much “small squad with key injuries running out of gas” then “he’s lost the dressing room the culture is all wrong and needs resetting”. Previous Message
in points to last than first.
Another year of the same would be such a waste of time.
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