He did well for us. To say he didn’t is bollocks. Would there be that much of a backlash if he wasn’t good? Would there fuck. Let’s get real, he raised the bar, won 7 trophy's on the trot and some of the greatest wins over the sevco’s.
If he had fixed the defence then Europe would have been better, but even then we got out of groups after Christmas.
He left in a shitty way, but let’s not let spite erase the facts.
He’s gone, he wanted to leave, he did it in a shit way, but that doesn’t erase what we have achieved.
We may never know how things were with him and the board, but after the summer fiasco we can guess.
I’m not a fan of scapegoating, I think the board are also in the dock. I think the question should be, even though it ended badly, would those who now say they despise him, never have wanted him to come?
Naw, didn’t think so.
He wanted to go and if anybody does, then I say go. But I would never delude myself that I wish he hadn’t come. We are better for him being here. That’s what I will remember. With a bit of bottle shown by the board I believe he would still be here.
Let’s look forward and hope lessons have been learned about what we need to do to become a team in Europe teams don’t have to patronise us we are a hard draw.
If we do that then the whole excercise for me at least will have been worthwhile. Over to you Peter and Dermot and hopefully Lenny.
