I'm losing confidence in RN.
Sorry for a serious post

When Ali makes a serious post about a manager you know the guy's time is coming to an end

When Ali makes a serious post about anything, you know he is rattled !

Seriously (there's a theme developing), we have the makings of a good team. But I fear Mr Neilson is not the man to help it flower.

Ince in. You know it makes sense.

He’ll get at least this season and into next and (despite appearances to the contrary) I genuinely believe he’ll get the important stuff like winning games right at some point, but make no mistake this was not ear-marked by the board as a preparatory season. With the resources available he should be making a much better fist of it than he has. Six league defeats by mid October is barely even mid-table form, and things will need to improve massively from here on in.

The biggest issue for me is that even in the wins we’ve had we’ve barely had more than a couple of twenty minute periods where we’ve looked fully in control of the game and not under any sort pressure. If the desire is to soak up pressure and hit on the counter when we go a goal up, then it simply isn’t working. The urgency, passing and creativity is missing from the middle of the park and it is going long far too often.

The defensive game he plays has to change, we don't need two defensive midfielders, let's go with just the one and start attacking teams, the next two games we just have to win, sitting back and defending at home is not an option.