Ally Robertson: Big rebuilding job faces new boss
Speaking to Albion fans recently, many can't believe a club of our size could get rid of a manager and wait so long to get the next man in.
When Darren Moore was dismissed, whoever the board wanted should have been waiting and willing.
You would have thought they would have somebody lined up.
Leaving it so long to appoint a new man makes you wonder whether now it's worth waiting until the end of the season?
Mind you, after back-to-back defeats, perhaps something does need changing.
I'm amazed we gave away that goal less than two minutes into the game at Bristol City.
Once again, we've been caught out playing out from the back.
Why did Sam Johnstone not just boot that down the middle?
It’s obviously been drilled into them this season to play that way, but we were always brought up and told, in the first 10 or 15 minutes away from home, you give nothing away and take no chances.
Slowly but surely you get the home crowd nervy.
It’s concerning that James Shan said he told them to play no risk football. Does that mean the players are not listening to what he’s saying?
If that is the case, perhaps we do need a new manager.
There's been a lot of speculation in the press about Alex Neil coming in from Preston North End.
Whoever it is, we've all got to back him. There are four games left after today, and we need to go into the play-offs with some momentum.
In many ways, it's two jobs. There's the short-term aims of this season and then the long-term aims of next season.
If we don't go up, it'll be a big rebuilding job in the summer.
We've got a lot of players coming out of contract, a lot of loanees, and some who could be sold on top of that.
Whether the new man gets the money to complete that rebuild is another matter.
It can be done on a budget with shrewd recruitment, Norwich City have proved that this season.
But it does help to have a reasonable amount of money backing you.
The other option is to promote from within, and there are some promising youngsters coming through.
But the gap between reserve team football and first team football is much bigger than it used to be.
How many of them will be ready to step up next season?
Whoever is appointed, they've got a big job on their hands.
