Fair play to both Luton and Coventry who have achieved a lot on limited resources similar to ours.
What is this down to? The Managers or the recruitment/ general backroom set up?
Luton Town
Nathan Jones (twice) & Rob Edwards , are they the reason for the success
Coventry City
Mark Robins , is he the reason for success?
PNE
Alex Neil, Frankie McEvoy*, Ryan Lowe , are they the reasons for our lack of success?
Or is it the backroom staff / recruitment staff/ general setup around the club?
* Frankie McEvoy didn't really have long enough in the hot seat and was also classed as a Head Coach rather than manager.
IMO, we are still feeling a bit of fallout from the last days of AN, there was obviously a lack of harmony somewhere, with the refusal to play Gordon, the offloading of Dolan and other bizarre happenings around that time (not got a scooby doo who the best team is etc) .
Frankie was a makeweight.
Ryan Lowe has his critics but overall has done a decent job this season, made his mistakes sure but he's a young manager finding his way and TBF he seems to have generally learned from his mistakes. Another thing to his credit is that he isn't constantly whinging about having no money to spend, he accepts his budget and gets on with it.
Big season for RL coming up, the end results will show if he's Championship/Prem standard , I would like him to prove that he is.