But there were calls he'd improve us and himself a bit, when did it shift back to "oh he's just here to not relegate us"? We finished about midtable last year with him, so for him to come out and say "oh this is a relegation fight" after that shows his own lack of ambition to improve. I was told on here by Neiler himself that with more stability this year would be different, other posters as well. Yet, we're at the exact same spot and look worse, and that belief from them has evaporated and we're back to these players being unable to kick a ball apparently (which has nothing to do with the coach not wanting to coach anyone obviously).
I don't understand the inconsistencies like that (not aimed at you here HC, just in general). All/most of the things people use to defend him to the death are backwards for no reason - i.e. he actually achieves a midtable points tally despite everything, "oh it's a relegation fight anyway, we're in for a tough one" to defend the prerequisite poor start, which will inevitably no longer be an argument when we win a game or two in the next few months. So we can't reasonably expect him to improve as a manager and can write all the mistakes off as he's a relegation manager? Is this how far we've actually sunk as a fanbase, to praise things like this and willfully ignore how poorly he's handled a lot of things in the actual management side, which is his job?
Also, a potential rich new owner and the current manager doesn't want to prove to everyone that he can adapt, move on from the stereotype about himself and change for the better so he can get more resources and all after the takeover is a telling sign of the type of man he is and where his ceiling is also. He's the new Fat Sam - the relegation fight specialist who only knows his one note song and that's that. It's not a bad thing but it limits himself and the team as it's always doomsday thinking and only 1 plan and idea - it was like that when he first came in too, when a stupid red card by Doucoure nearly cost us the season, as it was clearly never worked on to play without him and his chaos mode/50p feet. Last year it was sticking to the same principles as a proper relegation outfit for nearly half a season (always on the backfoot, never taking initiative, no coherent plan, always the same players, just hoof it upfield, etc.) - we woke up, again, in the last 5 games, where it seemed there was a plan to play against some of the teams we faced, but that wasn't there for a ridiculously long time.
Thanks for being the dire manager in these dire times, but this has to be his last year and hopefully we don't do an Everton and delay the next manager signing until mid-july for some reason
