spaceman spiff wrote:
It feels like something has happened internally, no? Where did this form come from?
Feels like it to me. He came in with a pretty hard nosed attitude, which is ok, but if you lack the resume to really command respect when things turn to shit, there's always a chance you overplay your hand and the players turn on you like a pack of dogs
It was always going to be about what the next step looked like. Anyone completely convinced by him after last season - cup run included - weren't watching close enough. There were signs fairly early on, you just hoped an improvement process would.play itself out over time but it hasn't happened.
He basically has to pick the team back up from a worse state than he found it in, except this time he's overseen the decline