The case for not changing the manager is that it doesn't work though. Either at Forest or in this league.
Statistically if you bring a manager in mid season in The Championship, you are writing the rest of it off.
I wrote an article about it a year or two back, I found that history has shown that statistically it takes 15 months (can't remember exactly sorry) or so to build a team to get out of this league. There are obviously exceptions but it generally ruins your season - you're basically starting again from scratch.
And in my experience these statistics make sense - when your coach changes you are starting fresh and it takes months to be able to work efficiently as a team.
We're only a few points off the top of the league, lets give Karanka a chance to fail instead of bottling it every year.
We bottle it, as a club, as players and as fans every year as soon as adversity shows it's head. We've not allowed a manager to see out a season since 2010/11.
Only on 4 occasions have we managed not to panic - we've finished 6th, 3rd, 2nd & 4th.
How are we meant to build for the future if we're changing the whole ethos of the club mid way through every season? Unless we're bottom of the league these guys should be doing 18 months minimum.
We need to take some responsibility for the atmoshpere of quick fix ourselves and get behind the managers.
We've had several occasions in our recent history where we've had the chance to build something special atthis club - had managers who have cared about the club and were building for the future, while at the same time although not at the top of the league we were competative in the division.
SOD - 5 months in the job - 8th.
Davies II - 13 months - 7th.
Pearce - 8 months - 12th.
Warburton - 10 months - 14th.
All of the above had something to offer, along with their drawbacks, but the oth thing in common was that by sacking them mid season our season was derailed, and with SOD, Pearce and Warburton their plans for the club long term were ruined too. Davies was not building for the futurein the same manner but was the better coach with the better chance of all to get us promoted, and was only just outside the play-offs, but we couldn't even hang on a couple of months before presing the panic button then.
Lets face it, nobody knows where any of the above would have finished in those seasons in this crazy division. What we do know is that we forfeited the chance to find out.
Now we've got another one, Karanka, lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater again. Lets not bottle it again. Lets see what he can do.