Sons sacking, that's life!

31/10/12: JJ - ""You can never take anything for granted when things are going well ...

Due to a poor start to life in the First Division, Dumbarton parted company with manager Alan Adamson on 22nd October, with Jack Ross taking over temporary charge. Pars gaffer Jim Jefferies claims that is just the world that football managers live in.

"You can never take anything for granted when things are going well; you are flavour of the month but it shows you how a man can take his team to promotion in the play offs - they move up a division but then you know that it is going to be hard for them. They have done fantastically well to come up through the play offs and he deserves a lot of credit for that."

Nine games into the new season in a tough league where finances did not allow Adamson to improve his side, the axe fell. Jefferies has every sympathy since he acknowledged that he has been fortunate with the new signings he was able to attract to East End Park:-

"We managed to pick up one or two boys from other divisions; boys who were main players for the teams down there. They are relishing the challenge but when a team comes up and they fall that bit short it is always going to be a tough season.

"His job should probably have been just to try and keep them in the league like any manager. To judge him after nine games because they have not been happy with results?  Where are they going to get the results? They gave us a hard game down there but these are tough games for them in the First Division.

"After all the plaudits and adulation that goes with getting a team promoted like that, he is then suddenly kicked in the teeth due to going into a division where he has not had much chance to improve it for that division."

Drawing a parallel with all the recent discussions about the manager's position at the national team level, Jefferies reminded:-

"It's a results driven business; if the results are not there I'm afraid we are all in the same boat and we have to suffer the consequences."