Chris Sutton leaves.

Well after 14 wins out of 51 games played, Chris Sutton and his number two Ian Pearce walked away from Lincoln this week for Personal reasons. The Imps are 20th in the table, the same place they were when Sutton took charge a year and a day ago. Since then he has totally rebuilt the squad so this is very much his team.
Over the past few months results and more worryingly performances have been dreadful. We haven't been conceding a vast amount of goals but have only scored 5 ourselves.
In the past i have tried to defend Sutton. I was willing to put up with poor football last season and hope to see us moving forward this. I wasn't expecting us to storm the league or even make the playoffs. I did think however we should be looking for a top half finish and an improvement in performances. Alas this hasn't happened.
On the plus side the table is still very tight so its not as if the incoming manager will inherit a side 8 points adrift and getting 4 or 5 goals slammed past them each week. Our defensive record isn't too bad, its just that because we are struggling to score, any goal we let in is fatal to our chances of getting a point or three.
I will give credit to Sutton for walking, as i am sorry to say if he had stayed you could only see one outcome. The loan market saved us last season but not being able to get a decent striker in this season has cost us. We do have wingers who can create chances and get at defenders but there is just nothing on the end of the chances they create.

Sutton struggled with his PR but i must say in the one chat we had with him at Bishop Storford in pre season, he came across very well and to his credit it was he who started the conversation. After Jacko we were always going to get somebody who was a little bit more reserved but i feel that the board could have helped him with his PR.
So who next? What let Sutton down in my view is that i don't feel he really knew what it takes to succeed at league two level. Or what players at league two are capable of. We need somebody who knows what league two is all about and have a bit of non league knowledge as well. Any takers?