Really sad to say that I've had to vote "out". He did well last season and regardless of our budget (which I suspect isn't as bad as he makes out - I'm sure it's not near the top four, but am equally sure it's not near the bottom four either). He's pretty much got his team/squad and has assembled a poor one. We are defensively generally sounds, but have little idea going forward and most games are playing for a 0-0. Some games, like today, we'll play an equally poor side, have one slip up/bit of bad luck and concede and that's game over. The only way we pick up points are from 0-0s, the odd 1-1 and a couple of wins where we've kept it tight and sneaked one against awful teams. This is not what we're about and what we should be happy with.
I can't stress what a poor division this is and, even with our budget, we should be looking at the playoffs. We've played 16 games now and I've not been impressed with one opponent, bar Harrogate, who impressed me by over-achieving on the day and clearly getting the best out of their limited resources (far more limited than us). We've seen 5 of the top 7 now - the O's are walking it and were very very average. We matched them, but they just had two bits of quality finishing, couple with our slack defending and two shots on target and a 2-0 win for them in a match where there was little between the team (fair play to them, they are smashing it with an average team and pretty average players). Stevenage were also poor and played the terrible brand of football you'd expect from Evans. Swindon played dull passing sideways football and rarely threatened us for over 80s minutes against 10 men, Barrow and Carlisle are awful (and I'd be surprised if they had better resources than us) and are in 4th and 7th respectively. Today's opponents Donny are just two points off of the playoffs and are absolute gash. Created no more than us today and, as ever with us, one bit of slack defending, one bit of bad luck and it's game over.
This is an awful division and we are fourth from bottom and just two points above the bottom. Hess was sacked for not making the playoffs in this division and, whilst he may have had a bit more at his disposal than Harris, the division was nowhere near as bad as this.
Previously, I was very much of the view that however bad Harris was, we couldn't do better, but now, sorry, we can - even a caretaker like SL or Hess, probably clueless, would at least get a bit more passion in the team - at the very least, at least bloody kick someone when things aren't going well!
