I think this is where I am at. The problem is, who is better than GON who would be willing to work with the restrictions the clueless board place on the manager? I wouldn't put money on any of the candidates who might be willing to work with Shi being able to do anything better than O'Neil has done.
I think this is fair, it remains to be seen whether Gary can see the problems and work out a solution, either with different personnel and or different tactics.
I've said it before, but my Jeff Shi highlight is when my brother decided to high-5 Laurie Dalrymple and literally wiped Shi out in doing so.
Could be a trick of perspective. I didn’t see those games in the flesh. I have been at every home game and, yeah, I’m happy to stick with wretched. I’m also open to the observation he’s been setup to fail. Like DE said, the end of season body language was worse at the end of the Lage season, it it came with the comfort (half misplaced) of believing it only nailed on his departure and an obvious improvement to follow.
Absolutely. It was very Lop without the Spanish journalist.
Can’t fault the logic of that at all, but when relationships, including professional ones, get too broken logic can go out the window. He’ll also be mindful of his reputation being pretty high right now, value that will be lost if the form at the start of next season is simply the same as at the end of this. It could be, without it being his fault.
There isn't but he's being set up to fail.
In that scenario he might (maybe not) be better off owning his own narrative. Top journo’s still love him (like the not popular here Henry Winter who raves about him, and Max…) and he’ll simply be doing what Loppers did before him, so it stacks up well on the CV. Bad result always take a bit more explaining away, even if they’re not your fault.
Exactly, squad composition is a bigger reason for form dip than the coach, and out of the 3 people at the club involved in that he has the least influence but most likely to lose his job.
Because of the past god-knows how many transfer windows, culminating the farce that was last summer's window.
Sure they will make mistakes. They've also done some good business. But no credit for that or for keeping us in the Prem.
