Give him a new contract.

All managers make occasional errors – even at the height of his pomp Sir Alex had the occasional run of shocking games – usually prompting the move fickle of the united support to phone 6-0-6 and demand his immediate removal.

Compare their respective records, and remember the ‘one game to save his job’ debacle with Sir Alex (I think he had been in the job five years, and won nothing at the time). At that time it could be argued that Sir Alex had inherited a better squad of players (most supportable), and been backed better in the transfer market (more debateable).

Hey, I could be wrong, but the ultimate proof will only be provided if BMJ is given another year or two in the job – the alternative, as has been pointed out is another couple of years of transition – with a new man coming in, taking time to evaluate the players he wants to keep, acquiring players he wants to acquire, and then, there is still no gaurantee that he will do better in three or four years time than BMJ may do in the next two.

It is a bad start – nort the end of the World! A decent lerague finsih and maybe a trophy are still possibilities. 5th again and a final/trophy would be definite progress – and the young team could carry that into the next year, and be, amazingly enough, a year older.

ger orf ‘is back!

Dissecting his player selection is crazy, I think it unlikely that he moved for Bent knowing what a problem 4 starting strikers would give him and he did not get the left sided midfielder he wanted (probably Schjeider).

There are still things to fix at WHL but stability would be something this club has lacked for a long, long time and given our squad, its youth and its potential, it is the single best thing the Board could provide to allow the growth and development we need.