Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
My predictions haven't been wrong at all. The timing was wrong, that's all..


I bet it's heads
*flips* Tails.
I bet it's heads
*flips* Tails.
I bet it's heads
*flips* Tails.
I bet it's heads
*flips* Heads
Told ya

You say "He should have been sacked years ago" and yet 2 years ago you backed his contract renewal on the back of the FA Cup. He was a safe pair of hands when the money wasn't as readily available. When it became available it DID make a difference in terms of a new level of signings and resultant trophies. Now it's clear that he's not able to push us further but it wasn't clear years ago because we didn't then have the money to compete as seriously. Now we do, it's made a difference but not enough of one. He deserved a couple of years to try, the FA Cup retention arguably bought him one more try but this was the last chance. He's cocked it up so yes, he has to go, but it wasn't inevitable he would. The weaknesses he has are not sudden developments, they have always been there and didn't stop us winning big trophies before.

Maybe another manager would have been better in the last 10 years but I would suggest plenty would have been worse. He's not been as poor as you make out and our failure this year wasn't inevitable.