If it's a straight either/or choice then I'd change the manager as I think pound for pound he's the worst performing manager in the Championship this season, quite comfortably too. Injuries or not, there is no excuse for the way we play and the evidence against him is damning, he's very fortunate we've had another extremely weak bottom three this year - leaving aside inherent pessimism, as soon as we reached 40 points we were very close to safety in reality, let alone 50.
I do think we need quite a lot of work on the squad, there are some glaringly weak areas and unless they're fixed it's hard to see anyone doing much better than say, Cardiff/Blues/Ipswich have done - though I'd take that in the current off field circumstances after this year's shitshow, providing of course the entertainment value was there along the way. The very minimum we should ever aspire to in this division is a semi-coherent challenge for the playoffs, those three have fallen short but they have at least been in with a shout until the final 2-3 weeks - we haven't been anywhere near at any point since August. And as I say - putting together such a challenge should be a mandatory requirement of whoever manages this club, two of those three are in a very poor off field state, Blues' squad is not very good at all and Ipswich have barely spent a penny since Mick came in, so it shows you can manage it in straitened circumstances, the fact that we have comprehensively failed to match that is just dreadful, it isn't even very hard to do. We're below basket cases such as Leeds and QPR FFS.
We badly need at least one new keeper, a left back, a right back if Iorfa goes or moves permanently to centre half, probably two central midfielders (just for novelty value, let's sign a couple that can control the ball, eh?), at least one wide player and possibly two depending on how Graham's recovery is going and at least one striker with the important stipulation that whoever it is must be able to semi-convincingly do what Dicko does given his role is quite clearly central to everything we do. That's pretty major surgery.
