I imagine the results of this will be skewed by the fact we lost a few hours ago. A poll later in the week might be fairer...but I wanted to judge the mood right now.
I for one think it's madness to even entertain the idea of getting rid of a manager at this stage in the season. Harry knows the club, he knows the players. A new appointment would improve nothing, and would lessen the likelihood of us going up (which is so essential). BAE + Kranjcar are only here for Redknapp, and I doubt they're alone. Are all our superstar loans going to immediately respect someone new? For the "Go" crowd: Why would a new manager improve anything? Who's available? Why would they come to us? Is the side we played today on paper actually any 'better' than our current league position?
There should be another option saying "I want him to have one more chance to change things for the better."
Stay 100% totally behind him He finishes the job and sod the excuses he has given the tools he wanted Other factors need sorting This set of players are good enough by a mile it has to turn great squad needs to become a team The answer Goals and points Today is a dreadful result and not acceptable it had to be a win Stupid to think we can get a new man in to do this He works harder They work harder To get the results we need
As ever, the wording of a poll on here is done poorly (no offence Grift) so the results won't be able to be interpreted in any meaningful way. I'm sure there's plenty of people that would prefer to see him go but know that its financially unviable as well as not practical at this particular moment in time, instead of in three months. Which one of the two options to those folk pick? Does picking "stay" mean that you want him to stay for another season, just until the Summer, what?
We will be quite an attractive prospect for an ambitious manager in the summer, as they get to build a new squad virtually from scratch. But I struggle to see who would want to come now if the expectation is promotion, with this inherited, short term squad. H to stay until play offs impossible, which would take a stunningly poor next 2 months. Still 45 points on the table.
Fair play Oslo, thanks for the detailed response. We have 15 games to salvage this crucial season though, is a new manager going to have time to impose their tactical style? They're not going to know their best starting 11 either, and won't have time to experiment. Jenas, Carrol, BAE, Kranjcar, Morrison are probably all only here because harry is. Warnock won't harness this group of "superstars" at all, they won't respect him. And Malky must feel he can get the next PL job that comes up, I wouldn't touch QPR with a bargepole if I were him.
No offence taken swords. I did initially consider additional options, but want this to simple be a "harry in/harry out" poll. That means what people want right now. If you want him to go in the summer, then right now you'd select "stay". If you think it's financially unviable to sack him now, then you want him to stay as well. The poll is a response to the number of posters I've seen this evening suggesting they want Harry to leave this second. I wanted to check that this surely isn't the prevailing view?
Actually any tactical style will probably be better than the confusion we have with Arry - do we have any tactical style now? These players are here for the rest of the season. The replacement Manager does not have to be given more than a contract to the end of this season, so can't see why either of these 2 should have any problem with trying to get us up. Colin's record in this League ought to command respect - and if these players want PL football they need to respect their Boss, whoever he is.
Our chances of going up with him are slim. Imo we are going to struggle to even finish in the playoffs - zero attempts on target yet again today - injuries or no injuries that isn't good enough. If we don't go up Harry will leave at the end of the season - why not make that decision now - let the new man decide which of our 18 out of contract players he wants to keep.
If Redknapp stays we may not even reach the play-offs. Even if we did, he couldn't put out a side to win them. A new man might just give us the lift needed.
