Quote Originally Posted by The_Don_ORiordan View Post
1. He was in charge for more than half a season
2. He got less points per game than one of the other managers
3. He signed a whole team in January, his team.
4. He got significantly less points than a rookie manager whose players weren’t being paid, and who could barely sign anyone.

He isn’t the whole reason we were relegated. But to ignore his part would just be daft. His negative approach and the fact the team rarely came out of the blocks firing had more to do with us dropping points in the games he was in charge than anything else.

Why is it relevant now? Which league are we in?
And if we'd sacked him at the end of that season, citing those reasons, I'd understand it. Probably not what I would do, but I'd get it. Sacking him a season later, after coming within one game of promotion, right at the beginning of a new season? Crazy talk. And yeah, I think the relegation season is much less relevant to judging his performance than last season. As I say, given three arguably decent managers ALL failed to turn it around, I suspect there was more going on than "bad manager".