To get the players onside. Ensure that there isn’t a faction that undermine him, give a new chance to all the players who have been on the fringes and motivate those that have been playing, often badly, better. I guess the likes of Bamba, Morrison, Tomlin, Hoilett, Madine and Murphy amongst others need special attention.

To decide the tactical approach. He has the pressure of needing an improvement without the time to evolve the style of play that could deliver that improvement. We also need to be less predicable,

To start winning games home and away. To do that amongst other things we need to start scoring goals. How?

Some will say that getting fans on board is a key objective. Yes it is, but results will be the biggest influence on that.

He has approx 6 weeks to decide who he wants to keep or lose.

I am sure that most of the players will be disappointed to have seen NW go, will to a degree blame themselves but will also understand that as a team they have underperformed and that something had to change. I just hope they see this as a fresh start.