The club have been grossly negligent in continually employing such a limited and parochial search for a manager in the modern era.
Surely that will change under Brands next time round.
It is never tactics and formations that bother me so much, it's when the players sent out look almost to a man that they don't give a damn that I can't ever accept. That did for Martinez and Koeman and Silva isn't showing an ability thus far to stop that rot.
Its almost as if the players are intent on sleepwalking through games and the manager, whoever it is, being unable to stop that.
I don't think there is some knight in shining armour just waiting for a call if Silva can't get through this period though. Take the blue tinted glasses off and we are starting to look like a basket case club, and one entering another period of austerity to boot.
Silva would be foolish to think fans will accept a litany of such poor fare though. There are reasonable limits to what is acceptable under difficult circumstances and what isn't. It isn't just about getting the odd win in six or seven games to keep the wolf from the door. As it stands a bottom half finish with these dreadful non performances scattered throughout wouldn't be acceptable in my view. We have enough to do better, even if only a bit better with what we already have.