SO IT seems that Graham Westley lives to fight another day (or two).

It’s no surprise that the Newport County AFC board of directors reportedly called an emergency meeting to discuss his position following the horror show that was Saturday’s 4-0 home defeat to crisis-club Leyton Orient.

That was the kind of result and, more importantly, the kind of performance that gets a manager the sack.

It was reminiscent of, and arguably worse than, the 2-1 home defeat to bottom club Cambridge United under Warren Feeney and the 3-0 home reverse against Crawley Town that sealed Terry Butcher’s fate.

And it was up there with the 5-0 humiliation at Mansfield towards the end of Anthony Hudson’s reign.

Up until Saturday I’ve been supportive of Westley.

I backed his appointment and even argued that the Exiles should stick with him if they are relegated in the search for some stability.

And until Saturday I believed Westley was the man to provide that. Now I’m not so certain.

And neither are the directors if reports that he’s been given two games to save his job are to be believed.

At the time of writing there has been no official confirmation of that – or even that there was a board meeting yesterday.

Westley’s record of one win in his last 19 matches (one in 20 after Saturday’s debacle) was not good but until the Orient game there was at least the consolation that the performances had improved after his January transfer dealings.

Westley’s side was competing well and, barring a few dubious decisions from the officials, they would have been within touching distance of safety.

There was a progression and, in my view, enough signs to suggest that with a full pre-season with his own team things would improve under him next season – whatever division they found themselves in.

But after witnessing the shambles that was served up in the biggest game of the season in front of a big crowd who had turned out to see the start of the Great Escape it’s hard to defend the manager or the players.

He and they have a lot of work to do between now and the end of the season to win back the fans’ faith.

Many supporters also argue that the directors have to take some responsibility for the club’s current predicament.

Apart from the obvious need for outside investment, perhaps the board would benefit from more football experience.

Will Foley is one former player who would love to get involved, even calling up Radio Wales to argue his case after Saturday’s game.

“I haven’t been over for a long time because I’ve become very disillusioned by how the board were going about things from the minute they came in with the fans’ Trust,” he said.

“The board haven’t got anyone around them with football nous.

“They seem to get sucked in by any manager who will come in and talk the talk instead of having good football people beside them giving them advice.

“If they get a big-time manager in they get star struck instead of thinking about what they can afford.

“They’ve given Graham Westley every single thing he’s asked for and where has it got them?

“Why don’t they get people who know football from the managerial side, from the coaching side and from the structure side?”

It’s an argument that makes sense because the Exiles don’t want to go the way of York City and end up in another relegation battle in the Conference in 12 months’ time.

And that is a very real and worrying prospect if they do part company with Westley and then get the next appointment wrong.

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If you're feeling depressed about goings on at Rodney Parade let me recommend a trip to the cinema and a journey back in time to last summer.

I was lucky enough to see Don’t Take Me Home, Jonny Owen’s magnificent documentary on Wales’ Euro 2016 adventure, last week and if anything will cheer you up this is it.

We all know the story but what a story it is – 58 years of hurt, bouncing back from the tragedy of Gary Speed’s death and onto that magical summer in France that was beyond every Welsh fans’ wildest dreams.

I’ve never seen or heard people react the way they did to this film in the cinema.

There was laughter – none more so than when manager Chris Coleman was shown mouthing the words ‘Do not cross that ******* ball Christopher’ moments before Newport’s Chris Gunter crossed that ball for Sam Vokes to head home the third goal to seal victory over Belgium in Lille.

There were tears of sadness over Speed, of pride and of joy.

And there was spontaneous applause at the end and when THAT Hal Robson-Kanu goal was shown again and again.

The film is showing at Cineworld in Newport tonight, at Vue in Cwmbran tomorrow and at various venues in Cardiff until at least Thursday.

It’s also being shown at the Savoy in Monmouth on April Fool’s Day if you can wait that long.

I’m already looking forward to the DVD release – if only for the alternative ending where I assume Aaron Ramsey and Ben Davies are available for the semi-final against Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo is played off the park by Newport’s James Collins in Lyon. If only…