Saturday, 3 September 2011

Project Non Park Hits the Buffers

No matter the upbeat spin Morrell comes out with after our latest defeat, he must be starting to feel the heat.  Yes, the team produced a bit of a fightback in the second half.  Yes, we have injuries in the squad.  Yes, players take time to gel.  Yes, Cunnington's blend of obstinate bumping around and blonde highlights helped raise the interest.

But the bottom line is he is the Manager of a team in freefall, well ensconced within the relegation zone, playing rather one-dimensional football, and no amount of bubbly positive guff from the gaffer will be able to disguise this.  I guess we will soon find out if Morrell's mooted influence behind the scenes at Non Park is true or not.  We will soon see if his supposed selling of a handful of corporate boxes is sufficient to keep him as Manager of the football team.  Certainly on the evidence so far, his footballing prowess certainly won't keep him within the ranks of the gainfully employed for much longer.  Even the much vaunted Morrell style of playing has evaporated into a bit of uninspired kick and rush. 

Seven games into the season and the ground is echoing to chants demanding Morrell's removal.  This is without precedent for the Poppies.  It took several weeks of Peter Morris losing grimness for the most moderate of anti-managerial reaction.  Even Gary Johnson's months and months of 10-0 defeats barely raised a terrace grumble.  But with Morrell, his head is being demanded with September only 3 days old.

We just wish he was half as good a Manager as he thinks he is - we'd be play-off material!


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