Indeed. [MENTION=232]Simster[/MENTION] has a point, these views should have been challenged more at the time. Instead the thread was allowed to fall down the board. It has more posts on it now than then.
The fact was that at the time we'd won one single home game in a calendar year and that our calendar years of 2019 and 2020 were not particularly stellar. There was also an article suggesting that GP didn't even get to pick the starting XI by himself (or, at least, that was how people read it). Then there were the repeated issues; poor finishing, inability to break down a low block, conceding from corners and being out thought at half time. And those stats in the OP were accurate at the time.
There were posters (not on this thread which all but disappeared) who saw that GP would change all of that eventually and fair play to them, but I'd say a good half of the board had had enough at the juncture this was posted at.
A more interesting thought would be whether lockdown football gave GP the space he needed with no fans to barrack him (remember Bloom didn't want to fire SH, that came from the fans, particularly the Millwall game) or whether, with fans in the ground, our home record would have been a whole lot better anyway and threads like this would never have started.
Well played to [MENTION=41631]Fat Boy Fat[/MENTION] and his 20/20 hindsight though. Any tips for the 2018 Grand National?
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