bonaire wrote:It wont change until Smith goes.
I really cant believe how far Smith has taken us backwards.
If there is anyone out there that supports Smith and can tell me one positive to team performance since he has been here let us all know
I tried to stay positive for as long as possible, hoping that we would see some indications of hope and progress to come (however minor those signs were to be) but my patience finally snapped completely at half-time in the Leigh debacle.
The only conclusion I can come to, for Smith still being in post, is that Pearson still believes in the work that Smith is putting in behind the scenes during the week (this so-called 'culture' change that keeps being trotted out after each weekly humiliation!) and he is of the opinion that in the years to come this work will bear fruit and provide the foundation stones for all future success! Unfortunately, none of that is feeding through to the fanbase who can only see hopeless capitulation re-occurring each week. We can hardly applaud what we can't even see!
The only other reason for Smith still being head coach, that I can see, is that Pearson simply has no idea of where to go or who to turn to if he were to sack Smith and therefore has left himself with no option but to stick with a plan which clearly is no longer working (if indeed it ever was!). Pearson has dug a hole for himself so deep that he now can't scramble back out of it. The worst part is, he's dragged the entire club along with all of its supporters down into the hole with him!
On Smith's appointment, I honestly believed we had made a step in the right direction, that at the very least Smith would have the club pointing in the right direction, laying down a solid base for possibly someone else, further down the line, to build on, putting back in a position to once more challenge at the top of the game. If that is indeed still the scenario then it has become nigh on impossible for any of us to see the vision, even if you have 20/20 eyesight (which at my age I don't!).
Like I said, I tried to remain positive, tried to see some indication of progress but, under Smith, we are going so far backwards, and at such a rate, I am starting to worry that what has happened under his tenure may already have become irreversible. Changing the club's philosophy, attitude and mentality is a very laudable concept and would, undoubtedly, lay the foundations for more successful times, but for the life of me I fail to see how taking 50 point hammerings every week can assist that process, and those hammerings have to be laid at Smith's office door (that is if we actually can afford the rent on an office for him!).
If this is allowed to go on for much longer, it may possibly kill the club permanently.
