That performance was a disgrace. I’m not blaming anyone in particular because overall this situation is a mess. Our season is effectively over today, barring a miracle in the second half.
The players have given up. Gray was extremely lazy for their first goal. Everyone was lazy for their second. Danso just hoofs it forward when he has time on about 43 mins and it’s just ridiculous.
This breaks whatever faith in Frank I had unfortunately. I like the guy. I don’t think it’s all his fault. But this is dreadful. The season is over today, and we sacked a trophy winning manager to literally waste the next season. Whatever foundations Frank would establish long term, it simply isn’t worth the season being wasted.
My only explanation is that asking the players to learn a whole new method after forging a trophy through the fire of the circumstances faced last season was an extremely stupid decision. There’s only so much you can give as a human being psychologically, and the moment things have gotten tough here the players just have nothing left to give. They ran all the way up a mountain for someone else and achieved greatness. And were then told actually it’s going to be something new.
I can’t recall a club sacking a manager that had such obvious recent success where the players were also still enthusiastically behind the guy. I literally cannot think of another example. And I think that’s the reason we see what we see today.
It’s a mess. This season is wasted. Whatever we were hoping to achieve with Frank, whatever long term foundations he was laying. It simply was not worth wasting this whole season. This performance is a disgrace with the season on the line.
