I am a season card holder who doesn’t go to away games so I have been spared the worst performances this season.
I am not one for changing managers at the drop of a hat but for what its worth my opinion is that Speakman needs to be ruthless. When Johnson was appointed he said that, rather than play safe, he is happy to win games or lose games trying to win them, we were also warned about his history of streaky results. We are the league’s leading scorers with 53 goals for, but our goals against (39) is shameful for a club with our aspirations, you have to go down to Cambridge in 10th before you find a worse goals against, which seems to reflect his managerial acumen.
We need to get out of this division and despite yesterdays result, still have a chance of automatic promotion, but I don’t think Johnson is the manager to get us over the line. His substitutions are questionable at best and his game management is very poor, he regularly gets outfoxed by opposition managers. Yesterday he changed to a flat back four against a team playing three at the back, leaving Stewart up against their two centre backs with little or no support and our two centre backs up against two forwards down the middle with wingbacks getting at us down the flanks.
Against Lincoln at home, they sat deep inviting us on and we couldn’t break through their two lines of five and four then they murdered us on the break.
In a way hope I am wrong, but I believe it is time to change the manager before it’s too late. We can’t settle for the normal journeyman as his replacement and need someone who knows the league, can organise defenders but maintain our attacking threat and toughen up our soft underbelly.
