I don't know how arsed I'll be to post in this myself but don't wanna derail the gripping discussion of the next possible manager to fail to win us a trophy.
I maintain Ronald bowing out early in his second season with the team in the bottom 3 having only delivered one okay generally dull season, is worse than Robertos time at the club considering the first season he gave us and the decent cup runs which of course did end in horrible failure. Very good + poor + terrible is better than good+terrible(or too short to rate) would be my equation.
Neither of them were obviously good enough though.
I'll field your Q in here @ianefc
No. A highly enjoyable season watching us take on teams and attack like crazy at times and still be in with a good chance of top 4 at the business end of the season was a very good season to me. Organising a bunch of Prem league footballers, of whom the majority were decent but severely underperforming or just not trying and one of them a top goalscorer, to get them to finish above some pretty poor teams was....OK. Decent/Good at best. Just my opinion
I maintain Ronald bowing out early in his second season with the team in the bottom 3 having only delivered one okay generally dull season, is worse than Robertos time at the club considering the first season he gave us and the decent cup runs which of course did end in horrible failure. Very good + poor + terrible is better than good+terrible(or too short to rate) would be my equation.
Neither of them were obviously good enough though.
I'll field your Q in here @ianefc
So a season (taking a team from 6th to 5th) is V Good, yet taking a team from 11th to 7th is OK??
No. A highly enjoyable season watching us take on teams and attack like crazy at times and still be in with a good chance of top 4 at the business end of the season was a very good season to me. Organising a bunch of Prem league footballers, of whom the majority were decent but severely underperforming or just not trying and one of them a top goalscorer, to get them to finish above some pretty poor teams was....OK. Decent/Good at best. Just my opinion