We are dropping like a stone, so yes, the hope is we turn it around, but the deeper depths we plumb the more we'd have to put together a hell of a run to resolve.
We are a third of the way through the season. Our performances for many months have been getting worse and worse. Occasionally we seem to get ourselves up for the right opposition and for a big game. The vast majority of the time we are shit, and the trajectory is that we are more and more shit. We were better in the first third of last season than the second, the second than the third, the third than the beginning of this.
So while I don't think we should be cunts about wanting him out, if someone does want him out, and isn't a cunt about it, my mind doesn't exactly boggle.
There was a part of me that was furious about how we played against Madrid, like, everthing about how professionally we approached that game hasn't been in evidence for a while.
The way we approached this fixture last year I found defeatist. The way we approached PSG was defeatist. The way that we threw the Carling cup away was a resignation to defeat. We need to win 4 of the next 6 or better, and if I'd have shown you the fixtures 6 weeks ago, or a year ago, or two years ago, or most of the last decade, you'd have told me we'd have won all of them, and you'd have mostly been right.
If we instead continue as we have, despite some poor opposition, and you still say we should keep him, then that's fine, but it isn't based on anything. I'm guessing the people who do make the decision will indeed be basing it on something.