But the whole point Astute ..... and this has been brought up dozens and dozens of times ....... with this squad and this inexperience in young players and this lack of money, what we didn't need was an inexperienced manager at the helm.
We all thought it was going to be tough season and we would be in the bottom half of the table and more than likely in a relegation scrap anyway, so people quite rightly were asking, could we afford a novice at the helm making many mistakes and some of them big mistakes as he was "learning his trade?"
This has always been the argument. Just astonishes me that you have posters on here saying "But to succeed he had to learn his trade. To do that he's required the experience."
To have a novice manager at the helm, learning his trade, surely you would only do so at a club where you felt that we were more than capable of holding your own in this division and finishing midtable!
If you think you are going to struggle then the last thing you need for a season of struggle is an inexperienced man holding the reins.
Surely everyone can understand that stance by so many of us? And also, as has been alluded to on many occasions, some of the mistakes he made at the start of the season were whoppers. All managers make mistakes ...... they do have some idea of how the opposition are going to play though and the tactics the opposition might deploy.
