Megson is as good a manager as we could get. All we can hope for is that he will make us a more attractive proposition (Mid table?) for our next manager, and maybe a higher quality of player
I Don't believe we have seen the best of what megson can get out of this squad yet. Once he's found his best team, worked with that and added a couple of players, i think he is capable of producing a mid table team here.
Hopefully come the end of the season we will be in a better posistion to recruit the required personnel.
I said this to my dad at the weekend, whilst I am underwhelmed by Megsons appointment and the players we got under Allen, we haven't made ourselves an attractive club over the past few seasons so we need to build our way up. Get players to take us mid-table and next summer we will be in a better position to pick better players and maybe even a better manager. Right now we are on par with QPR and Barnsley in my opinion with regards attracting players. We can't even use the "throw money at them" argument, because we are not the only club with a bit of money to band a bout.
These mediocre appointments are a direct result of the prior abismal performaces that were started long before Mandaric and Megson.
The players Allen bought seem in the main to be poor, but maybe that was the height of what we could attract. I very much doubt if Mandaric thought we could get better that he would have let Allen say no, which makes me believe JFH was probably the first "bigger" name we had a chance with.
Mandaric has only been here 8 months, Megson only 1, to expect them to turn around nearly 4 years of mis-management at all levels is un-realistic, and I honestly feel that despite the boring performances on the pitch lately we are in a much better position now both on and off the pitch.
Whilst we still aren't scoring tonnes of goals (which we haven't done for a long long time, Watford would probably have ended up being another Sheff Utd this season under Allen, but we'll never know) this cannot be attributed to Megson. He hasn't suddenly changed to a position that has stopped us scoring, we were'nt doing that before. But what he has done is stopped us conceding so many, which is a great start, if it continues. We obviously don't know what Allens record would have been in defence, but it certainly started well, so he deserves some credit there also.
Once the defense is shored up we can start working on the midfield, I genuinly don't think we will be a relegation risk this season, and I think with a strong defence (which we have) and a few creative players further forward we will make the top 10.
