"I should have got back to being a bit more boring and a bit less adventurous."
Is he messing?! Hahahaha.
He’s really trying to spin it so he can do no wrong. Hate him as our manager.
Same bloked who shushed the west ham fans when they won a game when they where giving him stick mate.
Just wait, he will end up doing the same here as well.
Everton shouting we needed him because of his rescue acts etc completely ignored his one season at Newcastle and what happened to them with him in charge (instead preferring to look at his time at Palace, Sunderland etc)
Scored 11 goals in his last 13 games in charge - only scored more than 1 goal in 2 of those games, conceded 28, 2 wins 3 draws 8 losses (so 9 points out of 13 games - 39 points available).
Included in those where a 4-1 home loss against Portsmouth, and a 6-0 away loss at Man U.
They where in such a mess after he left as well that the form continued with 3 draws and 5 losses in their next 8 games (scored 3, conceded 17)
and that is after him and Walsh had spent the summer bringing in about a dozen players into that team as well, so can't blame someone elses players - they where his ones.
Reason I'm drawing the parallel with his time there, is because his first 9 games he did well in charge, 5 wins 2 draws and 2 losses, (scored 16, conceded 11)
At all other clubs i think he has started poorly then slowly picked them up and gathered steam after a month or two in charge, with us we seem to be following the direction he took at Newcastle more so, a good early start results wise, then a alarming drop in results, performances.
another reason i think Newcastle is a better comparison is that it's by far and away the biggest job he had prior to us, the other teams he's managed also had a fan base beaten down by 3-4 years of constant struggling to stay up, so was a case of them and the players being willing to fully back anything that would save them, we don't have that record, the fans don't expect it and the players aren't ready for it