Experiencing a bit of deja vu here...
Firstly, they won't get the sack anytime soon, mainly because David Newton is not absolutely mental. Tommy Taylor had until mid November, and that was in a team that was actually garbage, as opposed to this seemingly average one (which I'll come to in a minute). On top of that, Lee and Canners have credit from doing a very proficient job at the end of last season (we got better after S/H's departure).
We currently have 11 points from our fist 8 games. In Scott and Hurst's first season the young managerial duo had garnered 14 from the first 10 - on course to be identical. After that tenth league game, we were knocked out the Cup at Lowestoft and people declared our season to be over (we were three points off the play-offs at the time). We were yet to win at home in the league, the crowd was constantly getting on players' backs and we were very close to a sub 1000 gate against Retford.
So almost exactly the same situation as this year, except at a lower level and with a budget that was actually bigger than the current one. An example of even the oft-quoted '10 games' figure being ridiculously early to judge a manager...
It's just exasperating and tiresome when people call for managers to be sacked at this point in the year merely because their team is three points off the play-offs target.
Also, a quick point of order on the budget. Yes, I'm sure that the cut was only very light. But last season we had Pearson and Church - arguably the two best players in the entire league - playing for much less than the highest wages in the league. Their inevitable departure means that the budget was, in effect, always going to be quite a lot less.
