A little surprised, but not dismayed, to see the departure of Kevin Blackwell from SUFC after only two league games of the new season. Managing the club in the current climate is not easy, but Blackwell’s tactical acumen was, to use a technical term, pants! However, I have downgraded “stupidly optimistic” re: the season to a more realistic “mid table mediocrity”, especially if we take the easy (and cheap) option and put Speed in charge.
I sincerely hope that even this depressing prediction isn’t courting danger, especially as there were media claims today that “Blackwell had been labouring under a shrinking budget in the face of company debts of nearly £50million..“. Where’s that come from?