A crisis of Blues’ own making: It’s the brutal reality of sacking Rowett...
them dearly dumped’.
Those jealous pangs when the eyelids of your sweetheart are fluttered are surely preferential to the alternative reality which, right now where Blues are concerned, amounts to sitting at home alone in your pants eating cold Supernoodles out of a saucepan – and reminiscing about that 3-0 victory at Pride Park.
Why did the Blues board think it made sense to enter a popularity contest with a guy, who at that stage, was the darling of B9?
It’s backfired. And then some.
And if their reservations about the Bromsgrove Mourinho before saying ‘you’re were so deep-rooted then why did they make such a mess of replacing him? If you know the manager’s P45 is waiting in the printer queue, then do your due diligence on his successor. Get a boss proven and capable of working with the squad of players at his disposal. They got Zola, then sacked him. Then got Harry, and sacked him too. Now it’s Steve Cotterill’s turn. It’s not the impossible job. He is replacing Zola and Redknapp rather than Rowett, but it is a bloomin’ difficult one. Whereas Rowett’s Blues were built around an all-for-one, onefor-all mentality, whose whole was greater than the sum of its parts, Cotterill must deal with a very different proposition. It is his job to bring together different elements of a squad that has had a few quid thrown at it but doesn’t boast the kind of togetherness Rowett could rely on. He already ing is feelthe strain, as he seeks a quick fix to correct an alarming decline that has been a year in the making, and last Saturday’s desperate 2-1 defeat to fellow strugglers QPR at St Andrew’s will not have helped his cause in the slightest.
Cotterill has been plunged into a salvage mission, a clean-up operation, a rescue act and is being asked to guide Blues to safety through the post-Rowett wreckage.
Whether he can do that – or is given the time to do that – remains to be seen.
By now, Blues fans are probably sick of being reminded about when it all started to slide, especially as they were part of the collective ‘ We told you so’ from the footballing world a year ago.
Gary’s gone, the Man with a Plan is no more.
Time will tell whether Cotterill the man now.
Until then, an indication from the Blues’ powers-that-be, any indication whatsoever, that there is even the semblance of a plan to right the needless wrong that was the catalyst for this chaos, would be very much appreciated by disenchanted Bluenoses. is