Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Getting the right manager is crucial. More so than acting instantly.
We can afford to burn a bit more of the season yet. But we can’t afford to get this decision wrong.
I just want some sign that we’re actively pursuing the right candidates.
I know your point and of course more time may give us a chance to get the next decision right and ideally it is a decision we just cant afford to not get right.
However im afraid i just have to disagree as I think more time for this board is unlikely to make the situation better and very likely to make it only much worse, we are poor enough now to enter a vicious circle of poor results lowering confidence, producing further even worse results and making us far less attractive to virtually anyone. The task will only get harder and harder and the candidates prepared to come even if asked fewer and fewer.
Ideally more time would be perfect, unfortunately we just don't have it, the board have scrambled around for long enough and I've no confidence that even given more time would produce anything better.
We need to act now and be extremely pragmatic, looking far more short term and by that i mean just rescuing us this season, than ideally would be the case.
We really are in a perilous position and delaying rather than as it was previously to these last few weeks, being the sensible choice is now for me not a choice at all. I'm afraid the danger is that real and the solution even if not a perfect, total or an ideal one, needs to be now.