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RLB will be gone before next season

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stewart10 said:
The talk on here is absolutely unbelievable.

We're on course for a top 10 finish, in our first season back in the Premier League and some deluded "fans" are calling for him to be sacked.

We do have areas of improvement, but to call for our manager to be sacked is embarrassing.
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Will probably need to win 4/5 out of our last nine games to achieve top 10 finish.
 

Le Bris has managed 55 games. Here is a list of managers we've had since 2000 that have managed 100 games or fewer.

Wilkinson
Ball
Quinn
Keane
Sbragia
Bruce
Black
O'Neill
Di Canio
Poyet
Advocaat
Allardyce
Moyes
Grayson
Stockdale
Coleman
Ross
Fowler
Parkinson
Taylor
Johnson
Dodds
Neil
Canning
Mowbray

I would humbly suggest that the policy of sacking managers after a downturn in form has not served us particularly well.
 
The last 2 seasons have been unmitigated successes.

If the ownership are ambitious and remain invested in the project then they will be planning for continued development next season. Stand still and you move back. It will be they that evaluate all angles for this, from the playing side through to the coaching team. That doesn’t mean RLB is leaving, but personally I suspect if we are tracking at a point a game and playing the same conservative style of football 2 or 3 months into next season then we would make a change. The first 9 games of the season are a long time ago, the reality of this season is more the 20 games that have followed that. We have something to build on and RLB deserves the chance to show he can adapt.
 
brisbanemackem said:
Talks in riddles about connections
dynamics and experiences reminiscent of Cantona and the seagulls

Any manager worth his salt would have put a rocket up them at half time but we have been papering over the cracks for a long time.

Lets face it we got lucky in the play offs, lucky at Wembley and Xhaka has been acting as de,-facto manager on and off the pitch.

Without him we are rudderless and will probably splutter our way to safety.

Ghisolfi brought in a number of quality players who dont need a great deal of " management" and yet RLB still insists on Hume in the hybrid role.

KLD has to much invested to fail and Ghisolfi will be working on a manager to take us to the next level.

Nice guy but he has to go in the name of progress.
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I am glad you are down under!
 
People forget the aim was 40 points and staying up first and foremost. We've done that with plenty games to spare, there will be the occassional fuck up, yesterday was one of them but i think context is required and this is only RLB's 2nd proper management job and i bet he is learning as much as most of our players on performing consistently in the prem and on other fronts.
Think now we have 40 points we might see a few tweaks in how we play over the last few games, probably after the mags game, at least i hope we do.
We'll be better next season but we obviously do need reinforcements in the squad attacking wise.
 
Dredd said:
I think the reaction here has been a bit ott but the only thing I'd say is I wouldn't be surprised if the board are looking at the summer and wondering if we're needing a change
Doesnt mean I'm RLB out for anything but Kld was very close to sacking Mowbray after the Luton semi final. Wouldn't shocked he'd get a replacement in of the rest of the seasons ends in a damp squib
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This. KLD doesn't seem to type to muck about if he feels we're stagnating between now and the end of the season. Not advocating getting rid of RLB btw.
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
Think you’re doing him a disservice. He’s achieved exactly what they wanted from him, promotion followed by safety, and should be lauded for it.

I think there’s a very real chance they replace him in the summer, but it won’t be because he’s failed. It’ll be because they think someone else is better.
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Looks to be following the exact same pattern as Roy Keane.

Promotion in his first season.

Top flight safety in his second season.

Third season sacked in December after a poor start ?
 
Yesterday was shite, really poor.

But for people to completely dismiss the 78 league games we’ve had under RLB where we’ve been promoted, and then achieved 40 points (when a lot suggested we’d struggled to achieve half that) as being “lucky” is utter bollocks.

We’re in a fight for a top half finish. Just because we lost in a shit manner yesterday doesn’t mean RLB is a shit manager.

I do think that if the club identify someone they see as an improvement he may go, but to suggest he should be sacked this morning for losing yesterday is laughable.
 
brisbanemackem said:
RLB has not done a cracking job but Xhaka has.

With Xhaka: 1.48 points per game.
Without Xhaka: 0.50 points per game. and relegated
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Damn it... we should have played him when injured and potentially ended his career. "mate"
Charles Eats Grass said:
Most mental take on this season I’ve seen so far, fair play.
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It's a corker. :cool:
darius said:
Im struggling to find anything in the opening post which is true, and not the knee jerk reaction to one defeat by a spoiled child😁
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He has form.
I think it's the same poster who has been "done" with SAFC a few times and flounced off...
 
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Outside of yesterday’s performance, we’re in our first season and the remit clearly been about being hard to beat etc. He will need to evolve as a manager as we progress and if he doesn’t he’ll be replaced. Squad depth is the issue and we’ll get more quality next season. However the attack needs to improve.
 
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