Poll: Should he stay or should he go?

Still think Dykes to Rangers is a done deal

Chair will go to Palace with Eze

Or Brentford imho

I'll wait till we've played our first game next season!

Absolutely deserves a chance to show what he can do with a squad of players he's selected and had a pre-season with.

Worries me a bit how many fans are on his back already though. Yes, it hasn't been pretty but make no mistake, we were on our way to league one without his intervention.

Clearly we won't be playing a particularly expansive style of football with him at the helm, but perhaps it's what we need. Personally I think we've persevered long enough trying to play silky football with the standard of players at our disposal. I think Ainsworth will find the right balance in terms of finding a way to be relatively successful with the calibre of players we can afford.

As Uncle Albert said, its basically an old skool 4-4-2. End of. Non diamond so very little tactical flexibility.

It has worked for us, its a simple system, and its done the job under the circs, but there's only so far you can go with that, because of the pressure it invites.

Saturday is a dead rubber, perfect chance to develop it. 

go to Everton then😀

You’ve got to give the guy a chance, would be very unfair not to and he may rise to the job. If we buy Div 1 lumps in the summer I’d start to worry and if he’s struggling come Nov get rid in time for a new man to assess what we need on Jan. There maybe NO money spent of course. At the moment keep Ainsworth and get rid of the Duff.

I wouldn’t have brought him, but now he’s here, absolutely give him a chance.

No real idea what to expect, other than bringing in the ‘right’ sort. And persuading the existing players he’d like to keep of his methods. And getting rid of those who don’t want to be here, those who Gaz doesn’t want to be here - and cashing in on any high value bids we might receive for one or two.

Not expecting fluent, attacking football, but to get rid of him and appoint yet another manager would be ludicrous and damaging to the club’s already dodgy reputation - making it increasingly difficult to attract quality manager and players.

What, despite Mr Loyalty and Integrity’s public assertion he won’t raid his former club for players?

How could you POSSIBLY doubt his word?

Not so sure about that, I think we’ll sell anyone to anyone if the money is right. If I was a player I would think twice about joining GR if the attraction is playing for Michael. He won’t be there long.

he absolutely has done enough to be given a real shot next season.
we all know how dreadful the past 27 or so games have been, i'm still gobsmacked that we stayed up tbh.
gaz was brought in for 2 things, to keep us up and to galvanise the players. yeah his methods might seem bizzare but they worked.

i'm not expecting much next season but i'd be happy with a top half finish and more importantly for our football to be a bit better than it has over the past few games.
i support the reasons why we played so negatively but no way could i put up with it for 46 games next year lol. i didn't even vote for a MOTM yesterday as despite the important of the game i genuinely fell asleep 20 mins in, partly due to being ill but also because the game was boring as fuck.

A couple of comments. We needed two wins. It didn't matter how we got them.
To me good defending is to keep opposing team out of the scoring situations. Three goal line clearances isn't brilliant defending but Stoke were kept out of chances.
How do you define winning football? If we get 50 points next season with 20 % possession and stay up, would it be winning football?
If we don't lose our final game it would give GA good starting points to build a new season.

We’ll my expectation is that we’ll be pretty shit next season, so happy to change that…

Give the bloke a chance FFS. Turning around that squad, plummeting towards League 1 like a lead balloon, was a near miracle. I'd written us off; relegation was a certainty.

To expect him to achieve that playing fancy football is frankly ludicrous. To even expect a dramatic change v Brizzle City is faintly absurd. And to write him off because of the way he achieved it is equally absurd. With an entire pre-season and more or less a clean slate, I expect to see a different style of football under GA, with the qualities of grit and intensity retained, but with the deadwood removed and a more fluid approach to tactics that will play to the players strengths - players that he believes in, who buy into his philosophy.

Of course there are caveats: no one can predict what set of circumstances will occur whilst the current non-playing staff are in place. Ferdinand has to go along with a lot of the other backroom dross. If that is achieved, then yet another rebuild will be taking place, and Ainsworth will need time and, yes, patience from the fans. Football, and this league in particular, is an unpredictable beast, but GA has undoubtedly earned his chance.

I would sadly get rid.

His style of football is grotesque.
No half decent player would want to sign up to this type of football, and also, because of the way we play, giving up 80% possession of the ball per match, the players we currently have will be devalued.
There is no progress to be made here.
I’m sorry ainsworth but thanks for keeping us up.