Quote Originally Posted by PortugueseFrank View Post
It is history that the team actually went backwards for THREE years with a lot of turgid crap on show at times.

History can tell you a lot. Just because it's a certain figure shouldn't mean it's a no go.

Had Jim and his start happened today we would have threads on here calling him a dud and calling for his head and wanting us to hire someone else. People wanted him gone back then.

Thankfully we didn't. He was given time to build his own squad.

It is a valid point.
It certainly is, people nowadays have zero patience in every aspect of their life. Football is symptomatic of this. Your point about Jim McLean is completely valid and could be said about Alex Ferguson too. Nowadays these guys would be sacked after 6 months.