why only him? that's like saying he can put any back 5 out there he likes, if they play badly i'm going to blame him. there are so so many people to blame for this season. he's made mountains of mistakes this season, but nobody was complaining after the summer transfer business - the main reason being that that important defensive diamond of howard, jagielka, distin and barry were all brilliant last season. they've barely played 1 good game all season - i mean he can't see into the future. he simply couldn't have prepared for all that to happen - he can't take all the blame.
he should have dropped howard earlier in the season, should never have brought him back. barry shouldn't have played anywhere near as much games. jagielka should have been dropped and possibly stripped of the captaincy somewhere along the line, but that's a very big call to make and if you look at the possible captains and centre back replacements in the squad - is there really many alternatives?
should have got another striker in the summer for me - but like last season, i'll judge what he does in the summer window before judging the jan one. if he gets us relegated he deserves the chop, obviously - but that won't happen. start off next season poorly and then it's probably time to part ways. he's shown enough promise for a young manager so far to still be given the benefit of the doubt. needs to drop howard now though, we're leaking goals for fun again, we've literally reverted back to where we were at the start of the season.
