Too many people still talk as though this is Gerrard’s first season and he hasn’t had a couple of bites at the cherry already and sufficient time to right some basic wrongs.
He keeps picking the same players though so I don’t know what he expects really. It’s not the first time I’ve seen Goldson’s head go after a big gaff, and that’s one of his captains, even more worryingly his primary captain is often culpable too.
What is "the cherry" though?
Win the league? Run them close? Domestic trophy?
We've definitely had success in Europe.
We are definitely improving the quality of the squad and had last season not be ended early we would have ended with more points that previous.
If we are going to have a shot at getting to CL next season either way then I'd kind of want Gerrard to be there for that.
The problem, I think, is that we are stuck in between "still improving" and "league champions".
We're getting better all the time but not getting better fast enough.
Let's say we managed to take this season to the 2nd last game.
Or even heading into the final OF game needing a win to go ahead but losing the match and the league.
If that happened then personally I would want Gerrard to stay on the basis of needing just one more season of improvements to finally get there.
It's a bit repetitive on FF to say "well who would replace him if he leaves" but that would be a genuine concern for me. We ARE improving under Gerrard and I'm not convinced someone else would see us improving faster.
With the way they seem to very, very rarely drop points I would be genuinely worried that we end up in a cycle of "the manager NEEDS to win the league" and then when it looks like we won't "the manager needs to go".
It's not his first season, no.
The position the club is in though means that maybe we do need to give a manager a bit more leeway?
Maybe focus a bit more on the positives.
Definitely demand improvement but at the same time I feel like we need to be patient.
Once this season is done the "10 in a row" nonsense gets put to bed one way or the other.
IF we don't win the league then as a support we need to be able to deal with that and keep focusing on the future.
I think we can show patience as long as we are seeing improvement.
Last season was better than the season before and this season was shaping up really well until we got hit by injuries.