Unless we completely collapse in the final nine games - which doesn't seem that likely as we have been set up a bit better post-Brentford - then I think you can forget the club making a clean break in the summer, as much as I think they should. They haven't been moved by calamatious results peppered across the last few months or the poor football throughout, we've always been relatively comfortable in terms of avoiding relegation, we'll end up finishing somewhere between 10th and 14th in all likelihood and as no-one on the board is especially clued up on football they'll just look at that in bald, statistical, league position terms and conclude it's been a transitional season when we've had a lot of injuries and upheaval.
We don't have anyone with the vision to see that the manager isn't progressing us and increasingly plays in a needlessly conservative way, neutering what threat we have. They'll take the view that he's kept us relatively safe, we've got loads of injured players coming back, he deserves another go at it - again because we don't have anyone who understands the game they'll work on inaccurate parallels with Mick getting a third year (ignoring that Mick also had us running at top two form in the final third of our second season and looked like he'd recognised his own faults and was already fixing them ahead of Year 3 before Year 2 had even finished).
The club have been content to leave the club meandering along since we've been up for sale, they don't appear to have any particular wish to rock the boat and make a change that might see us punch above our weight, they seem happy enough that we remain as a mid-table club and just wait it out for a buyer. Needless to say I disagree with that strategy but that's neither here nor there.
There have been two games where I thought Ken might be done this season - as in, I thought the club might have said enough is enough, even given their mindset of accepting mediocrity - Sheffield Wednesday and Brentford away, neither came to pass. So I think you're going to have to wait for us to start next season and be in the bottom six or worse come October if seeing the manager gone is primary amongst your wishes. We're fortunate in a way that our best players are either long term injured (Dicko and Graham) or haven't had a very good season (Iorfa) so we'll probably not have a great deal of interest in them in the summer, sadly I don't have any faith in the club showing any resilience to any halfway decent bids.
