...and a decent manager which I fear we don't have
In fairness, I can understand people's initial feeling of doubt towards Pressley because I'm not got to sugarcoat it, his record is below expectations at the minute, BUT, (and it is a big but) our main, and a lot of the time, our only source of goals got injured, which left a massive vacuum to be filled and we all knew that Cody, Philliskirk, Ball or Wilson wouldn't have adequately filled that vacuum, we knew we were going to struggle if/when he got injured, so when we struggled, I'm actually surprised at the extent of discontent directed at SP, he inherited a flawed squad, last season we were totally dependant on 3 players for goals - 2 at any given period - Baker and McG and when McG left, Baker and Clarke, and Baker scored considerably less open-play goals after December so we totally dependant on Clarke, Clarke and McG are similar in importance to the team (although McG is a superior player). In addition, he received a poor defence that struggled to keep clean sheets and Edj, Wood and Cameron are dodgy whilst Martin wasn't nothing special, a team with a poor defence minus your top goal scorer = disaster, in fact, in some of the games I saw under SP, I thought it was only a striker who could score was missing, for this, I sympathise massively with SP. To worsen the situation, we were burdened with admin, which was probably detrimental to the team because the season was effectively over from that point, and to wrap this up, SP hasn't had an opportunity to sign players that will suit his style more or to strengthen weak areas, for example, a striker and 1-2 CBs and that's without acknowledging the need to sign a winger or 2, the squad at present is very imbalanced, partly due to Thorn who spent the large bulk of players in the summer and fatally decided not to sign at least 1 winger for a 'Plan B'.
I'm reserving my judgement on SP for now, but I'm confident he'll produce a winning team and his idea on the game and how a club should be run matches my beliefs (passing football, importance of academy etc.)