Not disagreeing that from a totally personal standpoint it can be viewed as cowardly, but so can the personal dislike of someone ie Warnock .
Edit: Aucks just read that back to myself and aware of how that could be taken! It was not meant to infer cowardly on your part by disliking Warnock, it was meant as a 'personal take' upon someone in referencing against their 'abilities'. Sorry if it caused offence.
I tend to keep personal feelings out of it though;
He had a walk away deal, he had Villa experience, he may have been courted by Derby or had them in his thoughts.
Are Derby a better prospect than us? Well these pages tell their own story there.
Its a dog eat dog world Aucks , well it is up here in the Northern hemisphere.
Managers, players, foreign owners, agents, Sky etc.
That can show me as a realist or a pessimist, makes no odds, we are where we are.