I said the same above. He has appointed a well respected DoF, who he hopefully listens to if and when we need to make key decisions about the running of the club.
I also said a DoF needs time (More time than a coach/manager/whatever you want to call them) to make his mark on a club. If you look at Brands career as a DoF, he's not really the trigger happy type, most of his coaches stay with him for the contract term, sometimes longer as extensions were given. Brands and Silva arrived at the same time and inherited complete shambles.
I'm not defending our play, it's been dire. However, the league is basically the Scottish Prem this season, despite losing our past three (before yesterday) a win would have taken us 2 points off 5th. Of course, being Everton we lost and we could easily slip into the bottom 3 later today.
I'll be astounded if we don't end up top 8 or higher. Yes, even with the current management team.
As the kids might say - Vault me.