I think I've posted this elsewhere, but Maynard walked into such a difficult situation. Probably a far more difficult one than he realised when he was offered the job. When he arrived, I imagine directors, players and fans alike all wanted him to address the defensive issues, and to an extent he did. We generally looked far less open and teams stopped looking like they'd score every time they countered. But unfortunately, the individual errors carried on and we continued to concede. In hindsight, our best chance of success would have been *not* to try and sort the defending out, and continue to go for all out attack. But Maynard would have been absolutely pilloried for doing that too. He couldn't really win.

To be fair to the players, I think most of them seemed to understand what he was trying to do and even during the worst part of last season it never really looked he'd lost them.