Perhaps Im being naive but if Nigel Adkins can survive November then perhaps Saints can stay up.
Bringing in a new manager usually signifies arrivals on the playing front, but at the moment Saints cant bring anyone new in till January, some two months and ten games away, it therefore at this present time doesnt make too much sense to rock the boat by sacking the manager and having a period of instability right in the middle of a very crucial month.
I feel it would be far better to give Nigel Adkins this month to try and salvage something from the situation, undoubtably Adkins needs to start picking up more points, but perhaps he will, with nothing to lose perhaps he will start to pick the right team for the situation which he clearly isnt doing at present according to some supporters who point to the continued use of Guly as an indication that Adkins has to play certain players.
Nigel Adkins is probably well aware that he is in last chance saloon, that being the case we might just see what he is made of, certainly his reputation is at stake here if he goes down with a whimper then many in football will question his integrity, but if he does thinks his way and gets results then even if the sack is the end result, there will be a queue of clubs wanting his talents.
From a Saints point of view it would be madness to sack a manager unless his replacement is signed sealed and ready to start work, when Pardew went this wasnt the case and a long delay before Adkins arrival saw two disastrous defeats against teams we really should have picked points up of, which made our task that so much harder come the end of the season.
If November is a disaster than I am afraid that we do have to consider that Adkins is really not up to the task, that he has had his chance, indeed more than a fair crack at the whip and that now is the time to go, in DEcember a new man will have time to make plans ready for the opening of the transfer window and can hit the ground running in January, so that makes sense.
Nigel Adkins has escaped the sack this week so far, it serves no real purpose to de stabilise the squad now, Im not one that cares for Chairmans votes of confidence or even set time scales to pick up, but I hope that in this alleged meeting between manager and Chairman that the reason Adkins is still here is that they reached real agreement on what is needed to see Saints through the next few weeks and that Adkins wont find himself sacked within days if a replacement is landed.