Tomorrow's fish and chip wrappings

Ignore what the meeja is saying. In my profeshnial life I've frequently been involved in events that got reported by the meeja. Not once did they have the collective or individual knowledge to get the story even broadly right. Decisions lambasted as "ludicrous" turned out to be the right ones.

A newspaper's job is, well, to sell newspapers. Not to tell you the news. Don't ever get confused that you're reading The Truth - you're not, you're reading what they think will induce you to part with your pennies to get another copy tomorrow.

With CH in charge we were going down, as night follows day. With NA in charge we may still go down. Or we may get the dead cat bounce for just one game. Even a draw at Fulham gives us some hope, but a win would be massive. If we lose there anyway, well honestly we'd have lost there without making the change.

In short this is a decision with no - zero - obvious downside, and a multi-million possible upside. Should he have gone earlier? Yes. But he didn't, we are where we are, and the board had a decision to take and in my view made the right call.

I'd be very surprised if NA has more than these five games in the first instance. But it may be enough to coax something we otherwise wouldn't see out of the squad. Of course it may not be - we know that on average changing the manager doesn't actually affect things, but that's on average and sometimes it does. If it isn't, as I say, we've actually lost nothing because we're where we would have been anyway.

Posted By: Old Man, Apr 7, 10:05:21