Lennie Lawrence must go

Last updated : 13 December 2004 By Michael Morris
Not only is the team heading down but with atendances dropping the financial income of the club is dropping as well. Not being able to afford to sack Lawrence should not be an option.

We should have had 17,000 at Ninian Park last Saturday, we had 12,500, fans are voting with their feet. Fed up of the unimaginative uninspiring football being orchestrated by an unimaginative uninspiring manager.

Lawrence's record of late is awful, this season 8 home games without scoring, 4 home wins from 12 games, 1 win in the last 6 league games, of the other 5 games 4 were defeats.

The only small piece of good fortune City can gain from the weekend was that all 12 teams who sit in positions 13 - 24 of this division failed to win.

We are exactly half way through the season. Our only hope is that Rotherham, Gillingham and Forest continue to be worse than us.

Lennie's record is P23, W5, D7, L11 - 22pts. Walsall were relegated on 51 points last time, that means we need to find at least 27 - 28 points to be thinking about surviving.

Lawrence has lost the support of the fans, his team are obviously not performing for him. He laid it on the line earlier in the season when he said "judge me after 12 games", well we were terrible after 12 games and he completely overlooked his previous comments, now after 23 we are embedded in a releagtion battle

He slagged off Dave Kitson the day before he scored the winner against us for Reading. He told QPR they were all round a poorer team than we were on the day before they beat us.

I'm sorry to say that I have lost faith in the manager, me and many thousands of others. If Lennie had any pride he'd resign and if Sam wants to see us survive and get the passion and the fans back he needs to sack him. One way or the other the feeling amongst fans is loud and clear, Lawrence must go.

There was more atmosphere on the moon than at Ninian Park last Saturday, it's not going to get any better until there is a change of manager. The club cannot be allowed to slip back a division.

This weekend 12 months ago we were 8th in the table on 35 points. Now where are we?

The Western Mail are thinking along the same lines click here.