I honestly think that half the problem could be the huge amount of change that the club has seen I’ve the last 2 years. New owners, new sporting director, new manager, entirely new coaching team, almost a brand new squad barring 4 or 5 players. All with little experience at senior level or in England, we now need patience and a period of stability. I believe/hope (and it is very much just hope at this point) that Manning will turn things and build a team this season, providing we can keep a team of players fit.
I suspect time is not on Manning's side now that flights from the US have been booked. It's a long time since I can remember circumstances where fans are so pissed off and calling for multiple heads to go. It's like a perfect storm of our team playing crap football, with a rudderless coach, an incompetent SD all combined with tone death decisions off the pitch just to throw petrol on the fire.
Your endless optimism does you credit but most of us have not seen any sign of Manning turning things round. In fact, in my eyes, the match performances have gone from poor to bad to f*****g abysmal.
I don't think Manning himself is the person to turn things around. It's Kvistgaarden and Mahovo. Those two have the chops to play in positions we are struggling (apart from centre mid) If we still had Nunez and those 2 we'd be top six. Schwartau, and Kvistgaarden behind Sargent (or some kind of version of this) is the key.....but I dont see it working enough for promotion before Sargent leaves. The signings of Mattsson and Toplc have severely damaged this team in short term. Mattsson in particular offers nothing but poor 1st touch and weakness.
