When the players are not performing week in week out, the Manager usually gets the blame and ultimately, the sack.However who chooses the manager? Who goes public and says that the manager they have appointed to great publicity and aplomb is the right one for the club and for the future?
Yes, it's the board of Directors, although in Lincoln's case you could perhaps use the direction term a little too loosely because it appears the club is lost in the Brayford without a paddle with this lot steering.
Perhaps now it's time for the shareholders of the club, and I'm not talking about the "critical friend" shareholders of the Trust, but the common a garden ones, to start asking the board - those people who are there looking after the interests of the shareholders and surely not themselves - if it's time that they offer their resignations or like John Major once did in parliament, ask for a vote of confidence.
Don't also forget the common or garden fans who have voted with their feet and stayed away because they are fed up with a lack of direction and a lack of transparency from the club board and it's staff.
To lose by 5 or more goals at home once a season is a disgrace, twice it's worth an inquiry, three times, it's simply DEFCON FIVE time.