An Insight into Ainsworth's 8 months

[topperharley]

Every single one of our managers that i can recall have had nose dives.

The difference with GA was that the approach and playing style had no future for us, it was all a bit yeah man lets have a crack.

Works lower down but not when looking higher up the leagues. He'll always be loved at the club.

I really hope Marti stays on because we've for far too long chopped and changed coaches without developing the squad with them, rather than by them as Redknapp did. He's for sure good enough at this level and if given time i think at the very least we'll keep as solid mid/upper mid table championship team, and hopefully build a sustainable footing for next few years. I don't think that was ever possible under GA.

[SheepRanger]

Sorry Sheep but he just didn't do it for us. If you aggregate his spell then over a season we would have got around 31 points.

If you put him at the right club with the right group of players at the right time I am sure he could do well. Nobody lasts 10 years in a job in the modern game which he managed with Wycombe. Hopefully his move to Gillingham will work out and he can do similarly well there.

Outside of that the last three seasons have been extremes. In Warburton's last season great start to season and awful second half. Similar last season. This season we were 24th in form table followed by 1st and then dropping back again. I know all teams have ups and downs but was rather hoping we might get to the stage of being a little more settled!

Sorry, I think we're discussing two separate things.

I'm referring to him seeing us over the line in 22/23 and the 3W and 2D helped us get there from the slide that started during Beale's tenure. The return was poor but the squad was on its #### before he got there. He got some sort of a tune out of us to maintain our championship status. I also remember some criminal individual player errors that cost us a huge amount of points during that run in.

Of course, when you aggregate over both seasons it's an awful look and he had to go.

But I think he was always a cheap short term appointment to get some kind of spirit into the squad for 22/23 survival. They gave him a chance the following season and he fell short.

But I will always be grateful to him for getting the points it did for keeping us up that season and I don't think that was done despite his efforts.