Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Balti Pie View Post
Last two home games under LW we won 5-0 and 3-0. The away form was troubling us a bit but our home form was keeping us above the water. Maynard came in, made "tweaks" and both home and away from just went away, we were not playing entertaining football and it was just turgid. Yes we had problems but Maynard seemingly made them worse. I think the board were being kind when they said we were lucky in the first half of the season and unlucky in the second half, we make our own "luck".

This season he has no excuses, we have two defenders that are deemed some of the best in the division and one of the best keepers now, serving up turgid, boring and slow football will see him gone by November
True, but Maynard came in following the departure of a much-loved coach, with players and fans hurting. Morale was low. He also had a bloody hard run of fixtures, which made it hard to get a decent run going. None of these excuse the dramatic slide down the table, but they do provide some much needed context about why the season went off the rails.