Butchered!

As you may have worked out from some previous posts I am not Terry Butcher’s biggest admirer. I know he did well at Motherwell and he’s a “big English name” which is what all Aussie football fans like....*cough* but to be honest he hasn’t done a good job with both the style of football and results here in Sydney. HOWEVER I don’t think he deserves the sack…yet.

I know I always talk about how well we played in pre-season at Wollongong but I’m going to bring it up again. That was when he had our full squad at his disposal. From game 1 onwards he has had only the bare minimum to work with, including short term rubbish signings like Bingley! You know you are scraping the bottom of the barrel when your reserve goalkeeper in Pasfield has to be found an outfield uniform just in case the coach needs to make his full compliment of substitutions in a match!

Butcher has to be given until the end of the season to show develop and then do exactly what he wants with the team. Sacking a coach on 10 matches is crazy, especially considering we are still fourth on the ladder and still well on track for a finals berth. There is an argument that our reserves and squad members should all be up to first team standard but common sense says that of course they are not. I just want to see how we play with our full compliment of players before the board makes any rash decisions.

As a longtime fan on the Cronulla Sharks rugby league team (hangs head in shame J) I know about how hard chopping and changing the coaching staff can be on both on field performances as well as the final bank balance! They were still paying Chris Andersons contract while also paying Stuart Raper. They also had to pay a compensation fee to Anderson. Now Raper has also been given the sack they have to pay both Raper as well as new coach Ricky Stuart for next year. How confusing is that! It’s just ridiculous!

I am not a supporter of Butcher but I am defiantly not a hater. Give the bloke more time and a full compliment of players before making any stupid decisions and sacking him!

DANE