selling Gms and SA showed how much of an incompetent manager jackie was, his failure to adapt for the remainder of that season showed and was heavily relied on ciftci bailing us out. then the summer he had the opportunity to replace key players and prevent the downward spiral but instead he signed inexperienced/untested players and then relied on players who werent to the same quality of the departed players (Dow, erskine, connelly etc). the team we had when he left was good enough to stay up but was nowhere near the same level of quality of the previous couple of seasons.

although Thompson takes huge blame for the starting of the downward spiral. jackie and mixu are bigger culprits imo. jackie had no plan B and had lost interest while mixu just didnt get any reaction from the players he inherited to pull us out of trouble.