Oh dear. I cba for a fight.
Thorn is the worst manager, the stats say so.
He was given very little assistance from owners and suffered because of it.
I could not say hand on heart it's THE reason we went down. It certainly was a major conributing factor.
Thorn had a really good run more recently and that only proved just where he fell short earlier in the season when just a point here and a point there ended up costing us dearly in the end. His tactical mistakes were pure negligence at times, decisions he made, lack of a plan B and substitutions. No doubt about that he failed time and again when games looked winable at best and drawable at least and we got nothing again and again.
Though it's easy to hump the blame ultimately on SISU's decisions it just can't be defended that Thorn should have got that handful more points than we did and we would still be in the championship. He was a failure unfortunately where I truly beleive a more experienced guy would have got us over the line. That stood out for me as the main reason we ended up going down.
Should he take the blame? No absolutely not.
SISU must shoulder the blame. They appointed him, they failed to support him properly and the buck stops there.
Had we survived nothing in my mind would be any different.
The manager was very poor and the owners complicit in all that has happened the last few seasons.
Looking forward to promotion! PUSB - oh can we still say that...or is there an image change coming...