If the Sydney Kings are unable to win one of their two road games this weekend the club's management needs to take responsibility and drop the axe on head coach Ian Robilliard for such a poor start to the 2011/12 season.

Robilliard has walked on the edge for far too long, including a disastrous 14-game losing streak last season, and the Kings need to stop delaying the inevitable and bring in a coach that will not allow the team to be continually humiliated on its home floor.

The Daily Telegraph reports today that the Kings management held an emergency meeting on Monday night, demanding answers for the lacklustre opening to the season. But for some inexplicable reason, the Kings included Robilliard and assistant coach Tim Hudson among the group making the assessment.

It is absurd to have Robilliard (and Hudson) on a committee that is determining what may very well be his own fate.

How did the Kings management honestly expect players to be open, honest and possibly critical of Robilliard? With him there it makes the whole process pointless and more for show than anything else.

The Kings enter this weekend's road double with a 3-5 record and will attempt to upset the Melbourne Tigers and the Perth Wildcats to begin correcting what has gone wrong so far.

The Tigers, who will be without Patty Mills after he quit last Sunday, are certainly vulnerable and beatable if the Kings push the ball, knock down open shots, play defence and feed the ball inside to Julian Khazzouh. It's not rocket science.

Their Sunday date with the Perth Wildcats is obviously a little more difficult, rarely do the Wildcats lose at home and when they do it's more a case of how badly the Wildcats played (and shot the ball from outside the arc) that can take the blame. The Kings will still need to fight and hustle to keep themselves within striking distance, and pounce when the opportunity presents itself to dig a dagger into the Wildcats.

But if the Kings falter, twice, and drop to 3-7, especially if the Adelaide 36ers defeat the Gold Coast Blaze, it will send them to the basement.

And then with an upcoming home game against the Cairns Taipans, the Kings will be hard pressed to entice anyone to the game on their home floor, where they are currently 1-3 with an average losing margin of 24 points.

Making the situation worse, there are coaches available: Brendan Joyce, Darryl McDonald and Phil Smyth, to name three.

But if the Kings management are going to allow Robilliard to stay in charge, with an 11-25 record since his reign began, they will just be dealing with the same problems over and over again.