The_Gaffer
Well-Known Member
My instinct post match yesterday was to laugh off and borderline ridicule anyone calling for him to go and I still think that is a ludicrous stance but does he deserve some criticism? Is it masking all manner of sins to just keep telling ourselves this will be better after the summer?
We were a shapeless mess under GVB, he wasn't getting a tune out the players anymore and the away record in the league during his time here was abject. Beale has got a level of consistency out of the players in the last 5 months which is quite impressive, performances at Tynecastle and Easter Road in particular were very good.
There's a general mood among the fans that most of these players have let us down time and time again which I don't disagree with, we're sick of them Heart & Hand said yesterday which I think is fair comment - having said that what are the realistic expectations of Beale with this group when he's been able to bring in 2 players? It's a group we all largely want rid of yet in the meantime he's to win both cups with them and cut the points on Celtic - how do those 2 stances compute? Has he not done about as much as he really could (up until yesterday).
However, a bit of the old school - if he can't beat Celtic, is he any use to us? Now this may change in the coming weeks but there is a worrying trend against them this season that doesn't look like changing, we miss chances and they take theirs, can he really absorb a record of Played 5, Won 0 come the end of the season?
Then there's the media stuff, Ferguson said some managers make the mistake of thinking you always have to say something interesting but then, we complained GVB was like a robot, a complete bore - are a lot of the comments him trying to reassure the support, maybe clumsily, that change is coming?
For me Beale has to absolutely get the whole of next season but I think he's case and point for why a lot of managers do not take jobs mid season, criticism of him should be measured but I find it really difficult to judge just how much at fault he really is for a lot of things.
We were a shapeless mess under GVB, he wasn't getting a tune out the players anymore and the away record in the league during his time here was abject. Beale has got a level of consistency out of the players in the last 5 months which is quite impressive, performances at Tynecastle and Easter Road in particular were very good.
There's a general mood among the fans that most of these players have let us down time and time again which I don't disagree with, we're sick of them Heart & Hand said yesterday which I think is fair comment - having said that what are the realistic expectations of Beale with this group when he's been able to bring in 2 players? It's a group we all largely want rid of yet in the meantime he's to win both cups with them and cut the points on Celtic - how do those 2 stances compute? Has he not done about as much as he really could (up until yesterday).
However, a bit of the old school - if he can't beat Celtic, is he any use to us? Now this may change in the coming weeks but there is a worrying trend against them this season that doesn't look like changing, we miss chances and they take theirs, can he really absorb a record of Played 5, Won 0 come the end of the season?
Then there's the media stuff, Ferguson said some managers make the mistake of thinking you always have to say something interesting but then, we complained GVB was like a robot, a complete bore - are a lot of the comments him trying to reassure the support, maybe clumsily, that change is coming?
For me Beale has to absolutely get the whole of next season but I think he's case and point for why a lot of managers do not take jobs mid season, criticism of him should be measured but I find it really difficult to judge just how much at fault he really is for a lot of things.