Many did when the signs were he was struggling. His passion bought him slack but I never bought into all that. It’s all a bit easy all that nonsense. Ultimately we scraped over the line. We look bottom 5 fodder this season and it will be close again.
Had we done no business in the summer I would have had sympathy for him but we've brought in 2x quality CB's, Patterson is fantastic, Onana/Gana/Iwobi are far from awful its only the forwards who are admittedly poor but a good manager gets blood from a stone look at
Moyes in the early years of his tenure.
His subs are always too late
Game management which feeds into that is poor
He loves Gordon and never drops him / same as Myko and both are not doing enough to justify getting regular game time.
Tonight McNeil should have been on the pitch putting balls in the box for a CF who thrives off crosses into the box. Instead he plays Gordon and Gray who are terrified of whipping one in.
It's poor stuff and 1 win every now and again isn't going to convince me he's the answer long term particularly looking at his Chelsea/Derby stints.