This is all very sad. ETH is losing his dignity and a lot of standing in the football world because of this prolonging of his execution. He's clearly never faced anything like this in his career and has no idea how to handle it and is now scrambling and clawing for anything, anything at all, he believes he can use to paint himself in a positive light. He's embarrassing himself and becoming a meme before our eyes. This has gone on for far too long and seems to be our version of keeping a hostage alive like a performing monkey, knowing full well the bullet for them is already primed and the shallow grave prepared.
I said earlier in this thread that anger will breed contempt and we're deep in the throes of that now, with every desperate attempt ETH makes to save face leading to torrents of vitriol from a fanbase who have had enough of watching this man's football as well as listening to his frankly awful excuses and reasoning.
INEOS I'm now wondering whether they're keeping him to lower the price of stocks by tanking us to make the hoovering considerably cheaper for Brexit JIm - the picture may be bigger than the pitch or even this season. Tanking us and then trying to capitalise upon that is starting to feel like something that is feasible because which group of "experts" who are "best in class" allow this to happen wilfully? It's not only morale slumping; there's degrees of disgust to what they are permitting to happen, and both can and will grow more toxic the longer they preside over our downfall.
I can't stand Jose; I pitied Ole; I thought LVG would have eventually turned things around, but his tenure was not a good fit here; Moyes looked like a rabbit in the headlights, but this is the first time I've felt apathy and almost checked out of caring whether we win or lose given it counts for nothing when you know the manager is not up to snuff and the path we're on is a roundabout - the only sure thing I've felt for the last two seasons is nothing can be built with this man, but seeing how standards are being lowered, I never envisaged things getting this bad. I have lost track of the independent count on the amount of times he should have been sacked, clocking out at 6.
There comes a point where you don't need to just worry about the season you're in but in projection to the damage being done to the club as a whole and 'how many years X or Y is setting us back' we're soon to enter that territory. The man has the potential to be our Souness if we're not careful. By contrast, for as bad as Moyes was, he was not given an excessive amount of time to let rot set in.
