Dear Nigel,
I have always backed you as our manager and will continue to do so as long as you are in the so called hot seat.
However, I, along with a vast majority of fans are getting frustrated at our performances this season. I accept that we do not see what goes on in the training sessions and behind the scenes but we do see what goes on for 90 minutes every Saturday and it is hard for us to understand what is happening sometimes.
Last season, our record breaking Championship winning season was built on consistency – something that has gone out of the window it seems this term. Our team is being changed on a weekly basis. Yesterday’s game proved that players cannot pass effectively when the understanding that comes through regularly playing with the same team members does not exist.
I was at Southampton on Thursday for the Leicester City U18’s cup game (we won 2-0). Whilst it was a pleasure to see a City team finally win, what was better was seeing a Leicester team do the simple things like pass to each other and shoot when they are in front of goal and actually hit the target!
We as fans, do not understand the weekly changing of starting line-up.
Whist we accept your argument that Mark Schwarzer was brought in for ‘Premier League experience’, so was Marc Albrighton who, despite several man of the match performances, fails to hold down a place in your team.Yet Ben Hamer, who had appeared to do nothing wrong, was dropped upon Schwarzer’s arrival.
We also had £9m worth of striking talent in the form of Andrej Kramaric sat on the bench on Saturday. Surely this guy needs time on the pitch if he is going to get used to the English game?
Please do not take a prolific goal scorer and ruin him much as you seem to have done with Chris Wood. In a previous game we had our two most expensive strikers, ever, in Leonardo Ulloa and Kramaric on the bench. Instead you started with two strikers with less than five goals between them all season.
Many years ago then England manager Glenn Hoddle failed to pick Manchester United’s top striker Andrew Cole, famously stating ‘he needs 10 shots on goal to score one’. Even as early as last season I was saying that this more than applied to David Nugent. Back then I was shot down as he was our top goal scorer.
Nugent said himself at the start of the season he needed to prove himself as a top tier striker, I am sorry but he has failed to do this!
Then take Jeff Schlupp. Yes he has moments of brilliance and scores the odd goal but he is so inconsistent. The one thing he has going for him is his speed, but that alone is not enough to be a starter in the top division, not when as said before we a proven winger with experience of this division in Albrighton.
The season is not yet over, you have the time to save us, but that time is running out. Unfortunately so is many fans patience.
We believe you are the man to take this great club forward. Change at this time of the season would be futile and I want you to be the man in charge whichever division we are in next season. But now is the time for you to prove it to all the supporters of this club. Prove the doubters wrong or I am afraid to say their numbers will grow.
Kind regards,
Chris
